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Writing up casestudies
Casestudies
- are written summaries or syntheses of real-life cases
based upon data and research
- require you to isolate and think through the key issues involved
against both theory and the larger comparative environment
- identify appropriate strategies for the resolution of the 'case'
- weigh the pros and cons of the remedial options/strategies
- recommend and present a rationale for the best resolution
The following is a set of guidelines/considerations developed in order
to provide you with a process to develop a casestudies:
- define the objective of the casestudy
- identify the important players within the organization, the stakeholders
- identify other target groups of the organization, whether clients or
suppliers
- state the official mission of the organization studied
- state the historical mission of the organization
- state the understood mission of the stakeholders in the organization
- scale the importance of stakeholders, whether in decision-making or
effect of consequences
- outline the formal decision-making process
- note informal decision-making processes
- identify the process of production or service delivery
- identify support mechanisms
- identify competitors
- What is the organizational context of the profession or of competitors
- state the major problem
- subsequent problems and implications
- role of management
- role of production/service providers
- identify strategic issues
- identify decisions needed to be made
- identify risk factors
- identify historical precedents
- define remedial options
- compare options as regards pros and cons, theory,
risk factors
- make recommendation and justify
- write an executive summary focusing on key elements
