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The previous chapters outlined three approaches to case study research. In this chapter, we will discuss fruitful combinations of the different case study approaches. Furthermore, we show how case studies (that is, small-N studies) can be connected to large-N studies that use statistical methods to perform data analysis and medium-N studies that apply Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for this task.
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© 2012 Joachim Blatter and Markus Haverland
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Blatter, J., Haverland, M. (2012). Combining Diverse Research Approaches. In: Designing Case Studies. Research Methods Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016669_5
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