Linganisha mbinu

	Uchanganuzi wa Ki-taasisi kwa Misingi ya Kesi Nyingi	Utafiti wa Kiutamaduni wa Taasisi unaoendelea kwa Muda Mrefu
Nyanja	Mbinu za Kimaelezo	Mbinu za Kimaelezo
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	1987 (IE foundation); multi-case application developed through 1990s–2000s	1987 (IE foundation); longitudinal applications from 1990s onward
Mwanzilishi	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); multi-site adaptation by IE practitioners	Dorothy E. Smith (institutional ethnography); longitudinal extension by subsequent IE practitioners
Aina	Qualitative multi-site research design	Qualitative longitudinal research design
Chanzo asilia	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759105690	Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. AltaMira Press. ISBN: 978-0759106598
Majina mbadala	multi-site institutional ethnography, comparative institutional ethnography, multi-case IE, multiple-site IE	longitudinal IE, time-extended institutional ethnography, longitudinal IE study, IE longitudinal design
Zinazohusiana	6	6
Muhtasari	Multiple case-based institutional ethnography combines Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography with a multi-site case structure, enabling researchers to trace how the same ruling relations, texts, and institutional processes operate across two or more distinct organizational or community settings. By holding the analytical framework constant while varying the site, this design reveals both the trans-local reach of ruling apparatus and the locally specific ways people navigate institutional coordination.	Longitudinal Institutional Ethnography (longitudinal IE) combines Dorothy Smith's sociology of standpoint — institutional ethnography — with repeated data collection over time to trace how institutional texts, relations, and ruling practices shape people's everyday lives across a temporal span. By revisiting the same participants, settings, or documents at multiple time points, it reveals how institutional coordination evolves, accumulates, or intensifies over weeks, months, or years.