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Tony Hak (1950) was trained as a medical sociologist and psychiatric epidemiologist (MSc, Erasmus Medical Centre, 1973). He specialized in conversation analysis, discourse analysis and text sociology. In his doctoral dissertation (1988, University of Amsterdam) he developed a research methodology for sociological text analysis.

He published articles and book chapters on the methodology of discourse analysis, conversation analysis, principles of coding and coder training, survey interviewing, and cognitive interviewing. Journals in which his publications have appeared include British Medical Journal, Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Qualitative Sociology, Quality of Life Research and Survey Research Methodology.

In 2002-2003 he worked at the U.S. Census Bureau as an ASA/NSF Research Fellow, supporting the Establishment Survey staff in the development of qualitative methods for on-site data collection on the response and reporting process in establishment surveys, in particular in the Economic Census.

His main current research interests are the methodology of theory-testing, necessary condition analysis, case study methodology, and the challenges of academic business surveys.

With Jan Dul he published Case Study Methodology in Business Research (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008). Four entries on different aspects of theory-testing and theory-building with cases (co-authored with Jan Dul) have recently been published in the Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (Sage, 2010).

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