What is COMPASSS?
COMPASSS is a community for comparative methods for systematic cross case analysis, bringing together scholars and practitioners who share a common interest in theoretical, methodological and practical advance ments in a systematic comparative case approach to research which stresses the use of a configurational logic, the existence of multiple causality and the importance of a careful construction of research populations.
This international resource site was launched in 2003, and its management was re-organized in 2008 and 2012 to better accommodate the growing needs in the field. After many years of outstanding guidance by Claude Rubinson, there was another change in leadership in 2025.
Submitting News and Announcements
If you have news or announcements of interest to this community, such as upcoming conference panels, awards, etc, please email Julia Bartosch.
People
Management Team
The COMPASSS Management Team manages and ensures the overall coherence of the COMPASSS website.
Julia BARTOSCH (Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, The Netherlands): director
Advisory Board
The COMPASSS Advisory Board is composed of a broad set of scholars and practioners with expertise in QCA/STMs/CCMs and reflects the diversity of the methods across substantive fields, disciplines, and demographics. Members of the Advisory Board act as a sounding board for the Steering Committee and Management Team, and provide input and suggestions for further improving COMPASSS.
- Ruth V. AGUILERA (Northeastern University, USA)
- Adrian ALBALA (University of Brasilia)
- Michael BAUMGARTNER (University of Bergen, Norway)
- Barbara BEFANI (University of East Anglia, UK)
- Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
- Damien BOL (King’s College London, UK)
- Bart CAMBRE (Antwerp Management School, Belgium)
- Pablo CASTILLO ORTIZ(University of Sheffield, UK)
- Barry COOPER (Durham University, UK)
- Donal CRILLY (London Business School, UK)
- Lasse CRONQVIST (University of Trier, Germany)
- Alessia DAMONTE (University of Milan, Italy)
- Hai Phu DO (Institute of State Organizations MOHA, Vietnam)
- Yunzhou DU (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
- Jan DUL (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands)
- Adrian DUŞA (University of Bucharest, Romania)
- David FAN (University of Western Australia, Australia)
- Manuel FISCHER (EAWAG, Switzerland)
- Peer FISS (USC-Marshall School of Business, USA)
- Taisuke FUJITA (Nagasaki University, Japan)
- Santi FURNARI (Cass Business School, UK)
- Judith GLAESSER (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Gary GOERTZ (University of Notre Dame, USA)
- Thomas GRECKHAMER (Louisiana State University, USA)
- Airo HINO (Waseda University, Japan)
- Felix HÖRISCH (University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (HTW Saar), Germany)
- Ronggui HUANG (Fudan University, PR China)
- Atsushi ISHIDA (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
- Gregory JACKSON (FU Berlin, Germany)
- Bojana LOBE (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Martino MAGGETTI (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Axel MARX (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- Amy Gale MAZUR (Washington State University, USA)
- Iván MEDINA (University of Valencia, Spain)
- Patrick A. MELLO (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Johannes MEUER (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Kim Sass MIKKELSEN (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
- Vilmos MISANGYI (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Kazuto MISUMI (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Daisuke MORI (Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Thi Thuy Hang NGUYEN (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam)
- Na NI (Shenzhen University, PR China)
- Zenonas NORKUS (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Ioana-Elena (Nena) OANA (European University Institute, Italy)
- Wendy OLSEN (University of Manchester, UK)
- Sofia PAGLIARIN (University of Bamberg, Germany)
- Valérie PATTYN (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- Anibal PEREZ-LINÁN (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Charles C. RAGIN (University of California, Irvine, USA)
- Ingo ROHLFING (University of Bremen/Jacobs University, Germany)
- Claude RUBINSON (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
- Christian RUPIETTA (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
- Carsten SCHNEIDER (Central European University, Hungary)
- Martin SCHNEIDER (University of Paderborn, Germany)
- Konan Anderson SENY KAN (Emlyon Business School, France)
- Sophia SEUNG-YOON LEE (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
- Eva THOMANN (University of Konstanz, DE)
- Barbara VIS (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Alina VLADIMIROVA (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
- Claudius WAGEMANN (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
- Lesley WATSON (American Cancer Society, USA)
- Arch G. WOODSIDE (Boston College, USA)