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dc.contributor.authorStall-Meadows, Celia
dc.contributor.authorHyle, Adrienne E.
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-26T12:28:46Z
dc.date.available2013-04-26T12:28:46Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationPublished in The International Journal of Consumer Studies 34(4):412-418, 2010en_US
dc.identifier.issn1470-6423
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/11698
dc.description.abstract**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: University researchers conduct large numbers of case studies in the field of consumer studies each year and many are published in the research journals. Although illuminative and rich in description, qualitative data collected in case studies are singular and often lack generalizability. There is a need for comprehensive studies that subsume individual case studies related to consumer sciences in nutrition, apparel and clothing, consumer consumption, housing, and family studies. The purpose of this paper is to present a step-by-step methodological procedure for a qualitative meta-analysis, using components of Straus and Corbin’s (1990) grounded theory data coding technique. This research provides a systematic and rigorous research technique procedure for deriving hypothetical statements from multiple case studies in the consumer studies discipline as well as other academic disciplines. This method offers a way to overcome the limitation of individual, data-burdensome case studies bounded by context. It extracts conceptual trends across individual case study and eliminates these contextual boundaries. It fills a void in research techniques, by combining existing qualitative case study methods, grounded theory coding techniques, and meta-analysis to create generalizable hypotheses, grounded in the data. This methodology can provide testable hypotheses which contribute to the larger picture of an overall theory in the consumer studies or another academic field.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectCase studiesen_US
dc.subjectQualitative meta-analysisen_US
dc.subjectGrounded theoryen_US
dc.subjectCross-case comparisonen_US
dc.titleProcedural methodology for a grounded meta-analysis of qualitative case studiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeGrounded meta-analysis of case studies
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas at Arlington
dc.identifier.externalLinkhttps://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=2540en_US
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescription"Link to Research Profiles"en_US


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