Compară metode

	Cercetarea de tip studiu de caz	Teoria Fundamentată	Investigație narativă
Domeniu	Calitativ	Cercetare calitativă	Cercetare calitativă
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1984 (seminal codification)	1967	2000
Autorul original	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss	D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Tip	Qualitative research design	Method	Method
Sursa seminală	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine.	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass.
Denumiri alternative	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	GT, Grounded Theory Approach	Narrative Analysis, Narrative Research, Life Story Method
Înrudite	5	3	3
Rezumat	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.	Grounded Theory (GT) is a systematic qualitative research methodology in which theory emerges directly from data through iterative analysis, rather than being imposed before data collection. Developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in 1967, GT prioritizes generating explanatory frameworks grounded in evidence.	Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research methodology that treats stories and life narratives as primary data, analyzing how individuals construct meaning and identity through storytelling. Developed by D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly (2000), narrative inquiry examines the narratives people tell about their lives, experiences, and transitions, understanding that people make sense of experience through narrative.