Lorsch and Lawrence; Hannan and Freeman; Oliver WilliamsonGoffman; Garfinkel, Schutz; Van Maanen, David Silverman Uncover truth and facts as quantitatively specified relations among variablesDescribe meanings, understand members’ definitions of the situation, examine how objective realities are produced
The intrinsic case study, where no attempt is made to generalize beyond the single case or even to build theories. 2. The instrumental case study, where a case is examined to provide insight into an issue or to revise a generalization. 3. The collective case study, where several cases are studied with the purpose of investigating some general phenomenon. On the other hand, Richardson and his colleagues (1995) indicated several limitations of case study as a research strategy. Firstly, this is a descriptive method, not an explanatory one, which means conclusions