The loyalty of Community members – using the Multiple Case Study in research

In my study about the Kibbutzim's changes, twenty years ago, published as "The New Managers – the Kibbutz changes his way" I used the Multiple Case Study system of informants from 34 kibbutzim. They would report monthly, for the duration of two years, about the most intense debate regarding a specific change in their kibbutz at the time of the report. We confronted serious problems regarding the mission with some of the informants, and have applied a few solutions to those problems. The problems, and the causes of them happening, seem to be a sub-theme of research, and we published that research under the name "The loyalty of the informants". The understanding of this system, enabled the actual use of the same Multiple Case Study system of informants in a new study about the Kibbutz's identity, and can help in the design of research in communities.