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	การสืบสวนเชิงพรรณนาแบบหลายกรณีศึกษา	การศึกษาหลายกรณี
สาขาวิชา	เชิงคุณภาพ	เชิงคุณภาพ
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000s (synthesis of Clandinin & Connelly 2000 with multiple case study design)	1980s–1990s (Yin's first edition 1984; Stake's collective case study concept 1995)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry); Robert K. Yin (multiple case logic)	Robert K. Yin (systematic replication logic); Robert E. Stake (naturalistic/collective case tradition)
ประเภท	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943523	Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	multi-case narrative inquiry, cross-case narrative research, comparative narrative inquiry, multi-site narrative inquiry	comparative case study, multi-site case study, collective case study, cross-case analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Multiple case-based narrative inquiry is a qualitative research design that applies narrative inquiry — the study of human experience through story — across two or more purposively selected cases. Each case is treated as a bounded narrative unit, enabling both within-case depth and cross-case comparison. The approach draws on Clandinin and Connelly's narrative inquiry tradition while adopting the replication logic of multiple case design to build richer, more transferable understandings of how people narrate and make meaning of their experiences.	Multiple-case study design investigates two or more bounded real-world cases using the same research protocol, then compares findings across cases to identify patterns, contrasts, and explanatory insights that a single case could not produce. Developed primarily through Robert Yin's replication logic and Robert Stake's collective case tradition, the approach is particularly powerful when a researcher needs to determine whether a phenomenon occurs under varied conditions or to test an emerging theoretical explanation against rival contexts.