Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building theories from case study research / Kathleen Eisenhardt -- Understanding and validity in qualitative research / Joseph Maxwell -- Ethnography and realism / Martyn Hammersly -- Real men don't collect soft data / Silvia Gherardi and Barry Turner -- The fact of fiction in organizational ethnography -- John van Maanen -- Intuitive data processing / D. Royce Sadler -- Analytic ethnography / John Lofland -- Increasing the generalizability of qualitative research / Janet Ward Schofield -- Judging the quality of case study reports / Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon gGba -- Narrative analysis / Catherine K. Riessman -- Empirical phenomenological analyses of being criminally victimized / Constance Fischer and Frederick Wertz -- Qualitative data analysis for applied policy research / Jane Ritchie and Liz Spencer -- Bounding the case within its context / Amy Stuart Wells ... [et al.] -- Interpretive interactionism / Norman K. Denzin -- Temporality and identity loss due to Alzheimer's disease / Celia J. Orona -- Reflections and advice / Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman.