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Desired result

  • outline of plan for conducting case studies, including decisions on purposes, methods (case definition, sampling, analysis), and reporting results

Purpose(s) of Case Studies

  • (Forsys general) produce decision support guidelines
  • Determined by each country or a common set of goals?
  • Build on other Forsys work?
    • Build on country reports
    • Continue to implement individual country purposes chosen
    • Use some common structures for comparability (problem types)
  • types of case studies: exploratory, descriptive, explanatory
  • Role of other WGs

Reporting results

  • Possible audiences: academic, DSS developers, managers, funders
  • Formats: wiki, country reports/book, other?
  • How to collaborate across countries during development

Methods - Theory development

  • One or more existing theories vs. grounded theory
  • If purposes are different, relevant theories will be too

Methods - Case definition

  • A particular DSS
  • The application of a single DSS to a particular problem
  • The application of DSS (possibly multiple) in a problem domain (eg fire)

Methods - Selecting studies

  • How many are feasible?
  • Replication strategy
  • same DSS & same context, same DSS & different contexts, different DSS & same context, etc

Methods – Data sources & collection methods

  • six general sources: documents, archival records, interviews, direct observation, participant observation, physical artifacts