Causal complexity has long been recognized as a ubiquitous feature underlying
organizational phenomena, yet current theories and methodologies in management are for …

Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among
multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest. Yet …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect and offer insights on how to justify
the use of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a research method for understanding …

Typologies are an important way of organizing the complex cause-effect relationships that
are key building blocks of the strategy and organization literatures. Here, I develop a novel …

Few ideas have been more persistently central in both strategy and organization research
than the concept of fit (Child, 1974; Miller, 1992; Parker and Van Witteloostuijn, 2010; Sinha …

The notion of configuration–that the whole is best understood from a systemic perspective
and should be viewed as a constellation of interconnected elements–is arguably one of the …

Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization
research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative …

For many years, sociologists, political scientists, and management scholars have readily
relied on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for the purpose of configurational causal …

This special issue originated with the 1996 Organization Science Winter Conference
(OSWC), which set out to explore the implications of the science of complexity for the field of …

One of the central questions in the April 2011 AMR special issue on new theories of
organization (Suddaby, Hardy, & Huy, 2011) concerns how such theories come into …