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Is Qualitative Comparative Analysis an Emerging Method?—Structured Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis of QCA Applications in Business and Management Research

verfasst von : Elisabeth S. C. Berger

Erschienen in: Complexity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Research

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Abstract

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a powerful method originating in the fields of political science and sociology, where it is becoming a mainstream method. This article analyzes the state of QCA applications in business and management (B&M) research by conducting a structured literature review, which results in the identification of 96 studies between 1995 and 2015. Additionally, the knowledge basis of those articles is analyzed by means of a citations analysis. The 5,141 unique citations serve to also structure the research front using a bibliometric coupling analysis. The results point towards a somewhat deferred development of QCA in the discipline, which has recently undergone a quantum leap with regard to the number of publications as well as the advance of the method application. The current development is strongly determined by the originator of the method, Charles Ragin, and by the first studies applying QCA in business and management. Yet, the research front is only loosely connected, underlining that QCA remains at an early stage of adoption in business and management. The chapter gives three recommendations for future QCA studies and predicts a progressing profile formation of QCA in business and management research that can contribute to the adoption of configurational thinking within the discipline.

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Basis for this decision is a clear reference to Business or Management research in the aim and scope description of the journal especially compared to an economic focus, a precondition being that the journal is peer-reviewed and part of a journal database.
 
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Two multi-value QCA applications in 2015 are not separately disclosed, but added to the count of fsQCA articles.
 
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This article appears in the figures as an fsQCA application.
 
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In the Journal of international business studies the share was around 1.5 %, no QCA applications were published in the International Journal of Project Management in 2014.
 
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In the sample, 61 out of the 96 articles disclose which software program was used for the analysis, 85 % of those used fs/QCA (Ragin et al., 2006).
 
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References marked with an asterisk indicate studies included in the literature review.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Is Qualitative Comparative Analysis an Emerging Method?—Structured Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis of QCA Applications in Business and Management Research
verfasst von
Elisabeth S. C. Berger
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Buch
Complexity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Research

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-27106-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-27108-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27108-8_14

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