2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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CASE STUDY #1 A Job Search Dilemma Eric‚ a second-semester senior‚ is looking for a job. Anxious about finding work in the worst economy in decades‚ he sends out scores of resumes for a wide variety of positions. The first call he gets is for a position that doesn’t really interest him‚ but he figures he should be open to every opportunity. He schedules an interview‚ which he aces. In fact‚ the recruiter offers Eric the job on the spot. He would like Eric to start as soon as possible. Should Eric
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Case study of international migration occuring between Mexico’s and America’s border. International Migration Mexicans into the U.S.A Name: Simon Bock Due date: 19.11.2012 Grade: 11 Word Count: In the following essay I will discuss‚ if migration across a country’s borders have greater negative impacts at their origin than their destination. For people who are new to this
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Case Summary: This case is about Mini Motor Homes Manufactured by Jim Ballenger in Kalamazoo‚ Michigan. According to the case‚ Jim Ballenger has a problem to make a decision to change his current inventory system to JIT system. From the current inventory system‚ Jim has spent a lot of cost on his inventory system. This is because mostly of the component used in manufactured are bought from other vendor and his company actually only manufactured very few of it component. Because of this‚ the transportation
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An overview of the case On July 20th‚ 1993 Walter Disney Corporation released a 100 year of bonds‚ with an interest value of 7.55% that is to be paid in every six months with overdue dates. Response to the deal was divided‚ even if the bonds had been there in the past‚ the level of debates on the matter raised the danger of debt payment ability of the debtors. The affiliation was viewed as a plus to Walter Disney Corporation and U.S economic system where its quest doubled up from $150 million to
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tudyChapter 1 Operations management Case study 7 can’í believe how much we have changed in a relativefy short time. From being an inward-lookíng manufacturar‚ we became a customer-focused "deslgn and mate" operaí/on. Atow we are an integrated service provider. Most of our new buslness comes from the partnerships we have formed with design houses. In effect‚ we design products jointly with specialist design houses that have a weli-known brand‚ and offer them a complete service of manufacturing
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NORTHWEST SAMAR STATE UNIVERSITY Graduate School and Training Academy Calbayog City Course: Master of Science in Information Technology Subject: Client Server Computing Professor: Mr. Donald M. Patimo‚ MPM Student: Riva A. Gatongay CASE STUDIES IN THIN CLIENT ACCEPTANCE The challenge facing the acceptance of Thin Clients is a combination of architectural design and integration strategy rather than a purely technical issue‚ and a careful selection of services to be offered over Thin
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Case study carnival cruise lines:exploiting a sea of global opportunity Background Q&A Take Home Messsage What global forces have contributed to the growth of the cruise-line industry? the change in the competitive environment brought about by the advent of transoceanic airline service increasing discretionary incomes 2\What specific steps have Carnival Cruise Lines taken to benefit from global social changes? : Carnival has adopted many measures as follows Institude very strict security
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Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing ___________________ Cisco Networking Academy Program 3 Tobi Beernaert 2ICT3 Ciske Clarysse 2ICT3 Overview and Objectives The following case study is used to illustrate the process and documentation required for a network design. This case study presents a scenario in which the XYZ Research Company has hired a Network Consultant Group to design their network. In order to help you organize this project‚ the scenario has been broken into eight
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Case Study One: Amazon.com Amazon started as an e-commerce book site and has now added music‚ toys‚ electronics‚ software‚ and home improvement equipment to its list of product offerings. The Amazon supply chain is longer than that of a bookstore chain such as Borders or Barnes and Noble because of the presence of an additional intermediary—the distributor. The distributor margins in the Amazon supply chain can also be viewed as an increase in cost. However‚ Amazon has exploited several opportunities
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