Comments on: Kathleen Eisenhardt on Theory-Building from Case Studies 107.0

By: m beduya

m beduya — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:01:56 +0000

Hi Patrick, In the Eisenhadt approach, you start with a rich hypothesis before you conduct the case studies. The rich hypothesis are your expectations manly based from the initiql survey of literature.
In the grounded theory building approach, it is possible for findings of initial case studies to not correspond with the rich hypothesis. I think this is what she means by theory challenging the findings, i.e it is also correct to challenge the survey design base on the first findings of the survey. By definition, a case study finding is not necessarily generalizable being inductive and not statistically designed. She recommends a second round of case studies to refine the findings. Theoretically, being unfalsifiable [er Popper, even the second round of case studies is not generalizable; it only brings you closer to the truth but that view of the truth is based on the assumptions only. This is why, Elinor Ostrom cautions users of her studies to not consider her findings as metaphor for policy. At the end of the day, your research will have advanced world knowledge with rich theory but with a lot of assumptions.

By: patrick caoile

patrick caoile — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:44:13 +0000

i am doing my dissertation at the college of education of de la salle university manila for a phd degree. my disseration is about multisectoral collaboration and i chose the public high school system in mandaluyong city as the source of my data. there are only six public. the framework is eisenhardt becasue for me it is a workable framework. i am aa bit confuse with the interphase between literature and data generated. what does it really mean to challenge findings with existing literature. for me it is more the other way aroudn, meaning i am challenging literature with my findings. and it is not jsut a matter of semantics or interchanging the words.

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