This practical text shows readers sound principles of case study research put into practice, helping them to identify solutions to problems commonly encountered when doing case studies.

How to know whether and when to use case studies as a research method -- Designing cast studies: identifying your case(s) and establishing the logic of your case study -- Preparing to collect case study evidence: what you need to do before starting to collect case study data -- Collecting case study evidence: the principles you should follow in working with six sources of evidence -- Analyzing case study evidence: how to start your analysis, your analytic choices, and how they work -- Reporting case studies: how and what to compose.