Course overview
- Course codeFTME014
- ECTS credits3
- DepartmentTECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
- Starts2025-09-10
- Ends2025-12-17
- LanguageEnglish
- Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
- ApplicationContact doktfofu.tme@chalmers.se
Course coordinator
- Ceren Altuntas Vural
- Associate Professor, Supply and Operations Management, Technology Management and Economics
About the course
Prerequisites and registration
The course is limited to 10 participants who have completed minimum 2 years of active PhD studies. Having completed RTME and Qualitative Methods courses is a must. Priority is given in the following order
1. doctoral candidates from the department of Technology Management and Economics, and
2. doctoral candidates from Chalmers University of Technology.
3. Participants from the SNABS network
4. Other participants
For registration, please contact doktfofu.tme@chalmers.se
Background and aim
The course is designed as a series of seminars that will go on during the fall term. The purpose of the course is to provide a discussion forum to the participants on the different components of case study research design. The course will build on the relevant content from RTME and Qualitative Methods PhD courses and will focus on in-depth discussions on different applications of case studies.
Learning objectives
After completing the seminar series the participants should be able to;
1. Evaluate different research studies according to their use of case study design.
2. Analyse methodological and scientific aspects of case studies
3. Discuss the fundemantal issues related to case study research design
4. Critically and systematically assess the different components of case study research design
Learning activities:
The teaching and learning activities comprises of seminars and discussions:
Seminars involve discussion and presentations on various approaches, decisions and applications of case studies
Discussion sessions will focus on the reading list and participants own experience with case studies
Assessment:
In order to pass the course the participants are required to:
1. Contribute actively to the variety of learning activities and tasks assigned (individual); participants are expected to attend all sessions
2. Study literature that uses case studies and discuss and present in-class (group);
3. Write a draft method section which corresponds to either a Licentiate thesis Kappa, PhD thesis Kappa or a work-in-progress article that is using case study research design (individual).
The final submission will be graded on a pass/fail scale.
Course overview:
The seminar series include 4 sessions. Dates and times are provided below. In-person participation is required.
10 Sep 9-12 Session I: Case study (fundamentals, different scientific perspectives), Discussion
Ida Gremyr, TME Avenyn
22 Oct 9-12 Session II: Case study analysis, systematic combining, Discussion
Anna Dubois, TME Avenyn
18 Nov 9-12 Session III: Casing as a process, embedded, single, multiple case study, Discussion
Kajsa Hulthén, TME Avenyn
17 Dec 9-12 Session IV: Hand-ins of draft method section and discussion of questions, Discussion/workshop
Altogether, TME Avenyn
More information
Ceren Altuntas Vural
Lecturer
Teachers:
Ida Gremyr, IRDM: Case study from different scientific perspectives
Anna Dubois, SOM: Systematic combining
Kajsa Hulthén, SOM: Casing, embedded/single/multiple cases
Examiner:
Ceren Altuntas Vural, SOM