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Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure: 6
Author(s): Kenneth F. Hyde (Editor), Chris Ryan (Editor), Arch G. Woodside (Editor, Series Editor)
- Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: 26 Jun. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 590 pages
- ISBN-10: 178052742X
- ISBN-13: 9781780527420
Book Description
This field guide provides methods and studies on how-to-do case study research in natural settings. A truly international guide, this text is ideal for those studying and conducting case study research in tourism, hospitality and leisure disciplines. It provides a comprehensive and practical account of how to describe, explain and predict both individual and group case behavior, at the same time explaining behavior among a set of cases relevant to a specific context. This guide embraces and extends Herbert Simon’s (Nobel Prize in Economics recipient) insight that a decision results from the conjoining two antecedents in human behavior: cognitive processing of an individual or group and a given context or problem framing. Divided into six parts, this guide includes chapters on: analysis of texts; how-to-do executive interviews; field interviewing in international contexts; stakeholder participatory research; researching indigenous and marginal peoples; and cross-case analysis. The chapters increase skills and understanding of culture, tourism, and hospitality behavior through analysis of the four principle objectives of case study research: accomplishing accuracy; achieving generality; reporting complexity and broad coverage; and achieving impact for improving the individual condition, client, and/or society.
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