The Art of Case Study Research Book

I'm a qualitative researcher but haven't conducted many case studies - I am doing a couple now. I took out Stake's book from the library as I liked the idea that it took a classic qualitative, constructivist approach to case study research; I was certainly pleased with that.

I expected the research question and report writing chapters would be the most useful to me, but I found the research question chapter to be unexpectedly, slightly befuddling. While he talks a lot about issue-based research questions, he gives very few examples of what that means (Though quite a few of examples of what it does not mean!). The report-writing chapter was solid though, and presented a few things I hadn't thought about - like including a vignette.

I thought that replacing a few key concepts (the case, issue, triangulation) with a Greek letter did nothing to help me read through the book. I would think "what was theta again?" and then have to page around and find that, oh yeah, he just meant "the case".

I was quite pleased with the chapters on the nature of qualitative research and triangulation though! I have done a good deal of qualitative research, but this lays out some of the foundations in some of the clearer way I've seen. I think the most useful chapter personally was in analysis and interpretation, which both followed through on qualitative fundamentals and also described the uniqueness of case study research.