Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure: 6 (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 6) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178052742X ISBN 13: 9781780527420

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

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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Arch G. Woodside

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178052742X
• ISBN 13: 9781780527420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 590
• Editor: Hyde Kenneth F., Ryan Chris, Woodside Arch G.