摘要：What is a case study and what is it good for? In this article, we review dominant approaches to case study research and point out their limitations. Next, we propose a new approach – the comparative case study approach – that attends simultaneously to global, national, and local dimensions of case-based research. We contend that new approaches are necessitated by conceptual shifts in the social sciences, specifically in relation to culture, context, space, place, and comparison itself.
关键词：Case Study. Research Methods. Comparison. Context.;Estudo de Caso. Métodos de Pesquisa. Comparação. Contexto.
