Case study research is increasingly important in agricultural economics as a means of
collecting data, and building and testing theory. Case study research has a prescribed set of …

In the spring of 2006, millions of Latinos across the country participated in the largest civil
rights demonstrations in American history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris …

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use
of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods …

In the preceding article (Tellis, 1997), the goals and objectives were presented and
explained in detail. In this article, the methodology to accomplish those goals and objectives …

The purpose of this article is to present a defense of the use of single case studies in
management research. The defense is necessary because this type of research has been …

We had the idea for this book when the three of us were writing a set of conference papers
on case study research in late 1997 and early 1998. In the course of this, we gained a …

This revision of a chapter in the 2000 second edition of the Handbook continues to draw
heavily from papers on What Is a Case?, edited by Charles Ragin and Howard Becker …

In this paper the authors propose a more precise and encompassing definition of case study
than is usually found. They support their definition by clarifying that case study is neither a …

By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of
migrants entered the US nightly. In response, the INS launched" Operation Gatekeeper," the …

It is commonly asserted that qualitative research in the organizational sciences lacks the
rigor and objectivity of the quantitative approach. Case studies, while commonly used for …