Case study in Training & Development vs Research Projects -a brief note

Sometimes, students are not familiar with how to deal with case study materials in their dissertation works. Case studies are employed in two quite different situations:

1. For Management Training and Development (also as course assignments): In this case, you are required to study a case and apply relevant management theories to address some specific tasks or assignment requirements. For that, case studies can come from journals such as Harvard Business Review. You can also find case studies in manageement textbooks. There are also academic journals on case studies for this purpose, such as Asian Journal of Management Cases, published by Sage Publications.
2. For Dissertation/ Research projects: in this case, you use case study as a research method to address certain research objectives with practical and academic values. Major references are: Yin, R.K. (1989) Case Study Research, published by Sage Publications and Gerring, J. (2007) Case Study Research: Principles and Practices, Cambridge University Press.

The purpose of doing case study differs in these two types of activities.