This week I felt I had a better understanding of qualitative methods compared to the case study prior to the seminar. Since we had discussed quantitative methods in one of the previous weeks, we also compared it to qualitative methods, so this concept was not so new to me.
During the seminar a lot of my questions where answered about the case study research method. For example, do you have to combine both qualitative and quantitative methods when conducting a case study research? My initial answer would have been yes, but now I know it doesn't have to be that way. I also felt I got a better grasp on the actual steps when doing a case study, and also that the ideal number of cases is 4-10 (and the reason why it has to be 4 and not 3, was also kind of funny).
To summarize, I felt I got an overall better grasp of what a case study actually is, and what strengths and weaknesses it has.
Hi,
SvaraRaderaIt's still sort of confusing for me what defines a case study, but I believe that it is the "problem" being studied that is important for it to be a case study or not. In the seminar I attended, Leif said that in a case study, the case that is studied should already exist. In other words, I understood it as you cannot create a problem yourself and call the research that studies it a case study.
In my seminar group we didn't talk about the ideal number of cases. Why does it have to be at least four, and not three? Just curious because it sounds interesting!