In one case study, researchers used time, success, and ease of use perception data with respect to benchmark goals as their focus.
Case study researchers can utilize the entire spectrum, but have to consider how the phenomenon is related to the theory continuum.
Case study researchers usually triangulate data as part of their data collection strategy, resulting in a detailed case description (Burns 2000; Dooley 2002; Eisenhardt 1989; Ridder 2016; Stake 2005: 454).
In a collective case study, researchers may choose to present the findings from individual cases separately before amalgamating across cases.
To evaluate healthcare research in case studies, researchers have defined frameworks that classify the impact of healthcare research in various dimensions, one of which is economic impact.
By extracting information about diversity and commonality[ 7] from case studies, researchers can attempt to explain complex phenomena[ 8] and determine the influence of the time, place, politics and processes of making and conducting policy[ 9].
Doolin has, for example, noted that in the context of undertaking interpretative case studies, researchers can usefully draw on a critical, reflective perspective which seeks to take into account the wider social and political environment that has shaped the case[ 11].
This paper provides a portfolio of case study research designs that enables researchers and reviewers to evaluate whether the case study arsenal has been adequately located: At an early phase of the theory continuum, case studies have their strengths in rich descriptions and investigations into new or surprising empirical phenomena and trends.
Some researchers use case study research methodology, but that depends on the existence of comparable cases by which principles can be detected and drawn.
However, in some cases, study researchers who have reported conflicting results have been unable to verify these associations [ 10, 13, 16].
Robert Yin, in his classic book, 22 notes that case study research is particularly helpful when researchers want to answer questions of how or why things work in real life contexts.
