Thomas Greckhamer

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four foundational elements that characterize this emerging neoconfigurational perspective: 1) conceptualizing cases as set theoretic configurations; 2) calibrating cases' memberships into sets; 3) viewing causality in terms of necessity and sufficiency relations between sets; and 4) conducting counterfactual analysis of unobserved configurations.

TL;DR: This article contributes toconfigurational research by articulating how to leverage qualitative comparative analysis for enriching configurational theories of strategy and organization.

TL;DR: QCA's 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 is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multilevel approach was used to both estimate the relative importance of industry, corporate, and business segment effects on firm performance, as well as to demonstrate how it enables the investigation of specific strategic factors within each class of effects.

TL;DR: The authors compare small-N and large-N QCA with respect to theoretical assumptions and objectives, processes and decisions involved in building the causal model, selecting the sample, as well as analyzing the data and interpreting the results.