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 …

Contrasting insights that can be gained from large-N QCA and econometric analysis, we
outline two novel ways to integrate both modes of inquiry. The first introduces QCA solutions …

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 …

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

Theoretical literature on customer experience (CX) agrees that the effects of customer
experience on customer behavior depend on different combinations of its dimensions. In …

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 …

Freshwater scarcity has been cited as the major crisis of the 21st century, but it is
surprisingly hard to describe the nature of the global water crisis. We conducted a meta …

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 …

Purpose Understanding the impact of project complexity on the mega construction project
success will help improve the efficiency of project management. However, the influencing …

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