TY - JOUR
T1 - Using qualitative comparative analysis in strategic management research
T2 - An examination of combinations of industry, corporate, and business-unit effects
AU - Greckhamer, Thomas
AU - Misangyi, Vilmos F.
AU - Elms, Heather
AU - Lacey, Rodney
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - The authors present qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a viable method for strategic management research. Specifically, they demonstrate its ability to examine the potential interdependence and complexity among effects through a study of how industry, corporate, and business-unit attributes combine in determining business-unit performance. They present in an accessible manner the consecutive phases of the QCA approach by analyzing a sample of 2,841 cases of business-unit performance, and they examine the insights that the QCA analysis provides for this particular stream of literature. The authors conclude with a discussion of the benefits and limitations QCA poses for strategic management research more generally, including major contingencies under which QCA or linear methods may be more appropriate for strategy research.
AB - The authors present qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a viable method for strategic management research. Specifically, they demonstrate its ability to examine the potential interdependence and complexity among effects through a study of how industry, corporate, and business-unit attributes combine in determining business-unit performance. They present in an accessible manner the consecutive phases of the QCA approach by analyzing a sample of 2,841 cases of business-unit performance, and they examine the insights that the QCA analysis provides for this particular stream of literature. The authors conclude with a discussion of the benefits and limitations QCA poses for strategic management research more generally, including major contingencies under which QCA or linear methods may be more appropriate for strategy research.
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U2 - 10.1177/1094428107302907
DO - 10.1177/1094428107302907
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:51649126475
SN - 1094-4281
VL - 11
SP - 695
EP - 726
JO - Organizational Research Methods
JF - Organizational Research Methods
IS - 4
ER -