Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Configurational Thinking in Management Studies
Author
Conrad Schulze-Bentrop
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) has emerged as a new methodological tool in management studies which is ideally suited to test configurational theories. In this work, the peculiarities of QCA in large-N designs are comprehensively analysed for the first time. Additionally, an illustrative study using the fuzzy set version of QCA is conducted.