... a program. The preunderstanding hence becomes a necessity to understanding. My preunderstanding is like my use of contact lenses, they affect my way of seeing things, but without them I see nothing! © MCB UP Limited 2001 Research Data collection Interviews One of my biggest fears during...

... and leading to the development of a quantitative “data collection model” and the initial definition of an “explanatory model”. Even though the aforementioned project also includes qualitative elements, such as case studies, the focus of this article is nonetheless only on the common and standardised part...

... of assigning numbers as of assigning a structural property which can be expressed numerically. Semantic errors in the use of measurements can stem from the failure to respect the structural properties in different scales of measurement. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Measurement Data collection Validity...

...Petra C. de Weerd‐Nederhof Discusses methodological aspects of case study research and qualitative data collection and analysis. Discusses the choice of a research strategy and data collection and analysis methods according to theory as well as the arguments which lead to qualitative case research...