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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FALLS CHURCH GENERAL HOSPITAL This case is designed to give students an opportunity to consider ways that a service organization‚ specifically a hospital‚ might seem different from manufacturing because service is not as easy to measure as the dimension of a part. However‚ as students begin to think about the dimensions of a hospital’s service‚ they may see ways that service can be measured. The answers to this case are based in part on a similar case in M.A. Vonderembse and G. P. White’s
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shortage or surpluses. In this case study I have identified that there is no proper recruitment and selection procedure and there are two main issues. So I have analyzed those issues in my case study and give some suggestions to handle MR. Benjamins’ situation. Finally I recommend a sound Recruitment and selection procedure for ABC Biscuit Company. * Problem statement 1. Identify and analyze the issues involved in the case? According to this case study there are two main issues as follows
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The Saraf Foods Investment (A) Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management NBA 593 International Entrepreneurship Auke Cnosssen‚ MBA ‘04 prepared this case study under the guidance of and with Professor Melvin Goldman as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a business situation.1 The Saraf Foods Investment (A) In August 1999‚ Vishnu Varshney‚ head of Gujarat Venture Finance Ltd. (GVFL)‚ a venture capital firm in
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Case study: supply and demand The aim of this case study is to examine how the ideas and techniques for self-management you read about can be used and adapted to fit personal circumstances. In this case – the story of Asma‚ a mother of two young children returning to paid employment – you will be asked to think how the ideas might be useful to her in managing her return. You may be asking why a decision to go back to paid work is being discussed in the context of a course about management. You may
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Explain how actors manifest their training on the stage. In your answer refer to your study and exploration of the approaches to acting and performance of TWO of the practitioners and texts set for study. Approaches to acting explores not only the practitioners but also the world in which their audiences are living. Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal’s The Theatre of the Oppressed grew out of the chaos and oppression in Brazil in the 1950’s-70’s. The aesthetics of his approach to acting came
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Chapter 13 Study Questions Spring 2014 Using the Figure‚ match the following: 1) Innervates the superior oblique muscle. 2) Longest cranial nerve. 3) Damage to this nerve would cause dizziness‚ nausea‚ and loss of balance. 4) Involved in movement of the digestive tract. 5) Damage to this nerve would cause difficulty in speech and swallowing‚ but no effect on visceral organs. 6) Damage to this nerve would keep the eye from rotating inferolaterally. Using the Figure‚ identify the following
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pre-existing conditions giving more affordable health care for those who are ill or have numerous health problems. It also prevents discrimination of you gender. “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has 3 main objectives: (1) to reform the private insurance market—especially for individuals and small-group purchasers‚ (2) to expand Medicaid to the working poor with income up to 133% of the federal poverty level‚ and (3) to change the way that medical decisions are made.”(annfammed
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For each case‚ include the following: An analysis of the situation and possible causes for the subject’s behavior A preliminary diagnosis of the subject’s disorder using the symptoms he or she displays The set of therapies you suggest for helping the subject deal with his or her symptoms Case Study Number One: Karen Karen is a 30-year-old single woman. She was referred to a psychiatrist after six visits to her primary care physician complaining of headaches‚ body aches‚ sharp pains
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J.G Ms. D English 301 10/2/13 Mother Approved Amy Tan is a passionate writer of books such as “The Joy Luck Club” and other published works. Now that we have read her text read her text “Mother Tongue”‚ we learn new things about her as a writer. In my first response to Amy Tan’s passage I described her as a self-motivated author as I read what motivated her to write. She introduced readers to her mother‚ a woman who enjoys reading Forbes and listening to the Wall Street Journal talks.
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