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

Contract farming is a sales arrangement between a farmer and a firm, agreed before
production begins, which provides the farmer with resources or services. Many governments …

With rising ambiguity and turbulence in global affairs, the Multiple Streams Framework
(MSF) has become a major tool to analyze the policy process in a wide variety of issue …

Purpose The literature considers the big five personality traits and entrepreneurial self-
efficacy (ESE) to be important individual-level factors that determine entrepreneurial …

Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes--instead, they typically stem
from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory …

Recent years have witnessed a host of innovations for conducting research with qualitative
comparative analysis (QCA). Concurrently, important issues surrounding its uses have been …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

This study examines management control (MC) combinations that are effective in different
strategic contexts through two related approaches–MC as a package and MC as a system …

To date, hundreds of researchers have employed the method of Qualitative Comparative
Analysis (QCA) for the purpose of causal inference. In a recent series of simulation studies …

Entrepreneurial intention plays a key role in entrepreneurship. Over the years, scholars have
explained it using personality traits, cognitive models and, to a lesser extent, the role of …