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Single-Case Study

A single-case study is a qualitative research design that investigates one bounded instance — an organization, program, event, individual, or community — in its real-world context through multiple converging sources of evidence. Developed into a rigorous social-science method chiefly by Robert Yin and Robert Stake, it is especially powerful when the case is unique, extreme, critical, or revelatory, and when the research question begins with 'how' or 'why' rather than 'how many.'

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Single-Case Study Design

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative

Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. · ISBN 978-1506336169
Stake, R. E. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. Sage. · ISBN 978-0803957671

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