The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research

S Fainshmidt, MA Witt, RV Aguilera… - … business studies, 2020 - Springer
configuration – of three sets of advantages: ownership, location, and internalization. Strategy
… performance or competitive advantage are achieved by aligning strategies, structures, and …

Conditions of one-way and two-way approaches in strategic start-up communication: a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)

C Rudeloff, S Bekmeier-Feuerhahn… - Start-up and …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
… This study aims to analyze what leads to particular communication practices in start-ups. We
… paper aims to empirically explore configurations of conditions that pave the way to different …

[HTML][HTML] Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA): Guidelines for research practice in Information Systems and marketing

IO Pappas, AG Woodside - International Journal of Information …, 2021 - Elsevier
… A configuration is a specific set of causal variables with a … focuses on quantitative research
and offers a step-by-step guide, in … Typical with similar quantitative studies, first we evaluate …

Designing research with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA): Approaches, challenges, and tools

E Thomann, M Maggetti - Sociological Methods & Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… with a variety of research strategies and tools for conducting QCA, … research, QCA studies
typically involve learning about facts we … All QCA studies are configuration oriented, since they …

Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in public administration

E Thomann, J Ege - Oxford research encyclopedia of politics, 2020 - oxfordre.com
comparison, as well as strongly multilevel empirical settings. QCA as a technique allows for
context-sensitive analyses … (QCA) is increasingly establishing itself as a method for the study

Qualitative comparative analysis: discovering core combinations of conditions in political decision making

B Rihoux - Oxford research encyclopedia of politics, 2020 - oxfordre.com
… with focused case studies or with statistical analyses. … ); (e) more refined strategies for
dichotomization of crisp sets and … technically transformed into configurations containing conditions …

Often trusted but never (properly) tested: Evaluating qualitative comparative analysis

M Baumgartner, A Thiem - Sociological Methods & Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… First, we show studies that have disputed the utility of this … To summarize, QCA is designed
to compare configurations and to … of QCA’s three search strategies to all possible degrees of …

Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis for a finer-grained understanding of entrepreneurship

EJ Douglas, DA Shepherd, C Prentice - Journal of Business Venturing, 2020 - Elsevier
… -to” guide for fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA… To align the fsQCA study
with the regression study, we initially … the configurations of the activity sub-configurations of the …

[HTML][HTML] Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) in business and management research: A contemporary overview

S Kumar, S Sahoo, WM Lim, S Kraus… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
… fsQCA is to determine which configurations (ie, combinations … of prior studies using
complexity theory and fsQCA to guide … past studies employing qualitative comparative analysis (…

The combined use of symmetric and asymmetric approaches: partial least squares-structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

SM Rasoolimanesh, CM Ringle, M Sarstedt… - International Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
study aims to propose guidelines for the joint use of partial least squares structural equation
modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis … sufficient configurations