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| Five Case Studies Models and its Selecting |
| Tang Quan,Yang Zhenhua |
| School of Public Administration，Bei Hang University, Beijing 100191,China |
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Abstract The popular mixed method gives the case investigator the new ideas to study,and thus the case investigator have more case study paradigms to choose.The existing study neither finds these paradigms and their resources out, nor tells the researchers how to choose these paradigms.Combing the relevant literature, the study shows that there have five case study research paradigms including of bibliometric paradigm, literature meta-paradigm, observation-interview's paradigm, questionnaire investigation paradigm and mixed paradigm based on the nature of methodology and the data collection methods. And then, summarizes the 12 steps for every paradigm, and explores their inner connections. At last, this study proposes the systematical process of selecting the case study paradigms at the start of the actor of case study.That is, this study suggests that the case investigators should start on considering themselves, matching the case study paradigms and limiting factors, and then uses the results of evaluating case study to promote the selection process.This study resolves two problems including of how many case study paradigms could be selected by researchers and how to select,on which makes a conference for researchers to select the normal,scientific and appropriate method.
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Received: 12 July 2016
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Corresponding Authors:
Tang Quan
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