Comparer des méthodes

	Étude de cas intégrée	Case Study
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1984–1995 (Yin's foundational editions; Stake 1995)	1984 (seminal codification)
Auteur d'origine	Robert K. Yin (systematic case study design); Robert E. Stake (naturalistic tradition)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)
Type	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research design
Source fondatrice	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
Alias	embedded single-case design, multiple-unit case study, nested case study, embedded unit analysis	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology
Apparentées	6	5
Résumé	An embedded case study is a case study design in which one or more units of analysis are nested within a single overarching case. Rather than treating the case as a single, holistic entity, the researcher deliberately examines multiple sub-units — such as departments within an organisation, classrooms within a school, or programmes within a hospital — to build a richer, more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon under study. Formalised by Robert K. Yin, the design is contrasted with the holistic single-case study and with multi-case (multiple-case) designs.	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.