During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has
been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial …

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (or QCA; Ragin 1987; Ragin and Drass 1994) and its
successor, Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA; Ragin 2000; Ragin, Drass …

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish
themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the …

Organizations that go green need their employees to perceive that sustainability is a priority
in order to increase pro-sustainability behavior. Several factors can influence how …

As a relatively new methodological tool, QCA is still a work in progress. Standards of good
practice are needed in order to enhance the quality of its applications. We present a list from …

Because of its inherently asymmetric nature, set-theoretic analysis offers many interesting
contrasts with analysis based on correlations. Until recently, however, social scientists have …

A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method,
introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis …

When Charles Ragin launched Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) both as an
approach and as a technique, it was clear that case-based knowledge was a crucial …

Abstract “Qualitative Comparative Analysis”(QCA) is an increasingly applied methodological
tool in comparative social sciences. It is well suited for the analysis of causally complex …

The purpose of this paper is to address and test two assumptions on which csQCA is based,
namely that csQCA will generate contradictions and low consistency scores if models are ill …