A big pile of things can be devoted to describe the stage of writing the methodology chapter. I have deserted this home for a while and do not really want to return with that big pile of things, at least because I am not able to produce that much this time. I have been diving in the ocean of research methodology books and still unable to emerge for a relief.
I would like to put up here a piece of reading I am doing at the moment because i find it such a thrill upon first reading it. Here we go:
"Exploration" as an Analogy for an Exploratory Case Study
When Christopher Columbus went to Queen Isabella to ask for support for his "exploration" of the New World, he had to have some reasons for asking for three ships (Why not one? Why not five?), and he had some rationale for going westward (Why not south? Why not south and then east?). He also had some (mistaken) criteria for recognizing the Indies when he actually encountered it. In short, his exploration began with some rationale and direction, even if his initial assumptions might later have been proved wrong (Wilford, 1992). This same degree of rationale and direction should underlie even an exploratory case study.
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Yin, R. K. (2009). Case study research: Design and methods (4th ed. Vol. 5). California: Sage Publications, Inc.
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