The 4th Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA2025) will be held April 2-4, 2025 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA. See https://compasss.org/aqca/ for the call for proposals, registration process, conference program, and complete details.
The QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA) provides a venue for the broad, cross-disciplinary community of researchers and practitioners working with configurational-comparative methods and approaches to gather together to present and receive feedback on current research projects, share theoretical and methodological developments, and discuss new directions in configurational-comparative research practices. Bringing together the diverse set of QCA empirical and methodological researchers, AQCA offers a supportive environment for the community to meet, engage in dialogue, network, learn, and collectively move forward on advancing the configurational-comparative perspective.
Wenyan Song, Yi Han and Robert Sroufe have been recognized by Emerald Publishing for their paper “Substitution and complementarity dynamics in configurations of sustainable management practices,” (International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2022). In the paper, the authors use QCA to understand the relationship between sustainable management practices and financial performance.
The third annual QCA Conference of the Americas will be held in March 2024 at Northwestern University in Chicago. Registrations fees have been posted (we’ve kept the fees the same as last year) and registration will open soon.
We’ve also posted information on traveling to Northwestern, along with the link for booking at Hyatt House Chicago/Evanston, the official conference hotel.
Charles Ragin has published a research note on dual calibration, a heretofore undocumented function in the fs/QCA software. Dual calibration applies the direct method but uses four threshold values, allowing one to construct two fuzzy sets from a single variable, simultaneously calibrating “high-X versus not-high-X” and “low-X versus not-low-X.”
Charles Ragin has published a research note on “Stepwise Consistency Analysis,” which offers a method of comparing consistency scores across truth table rows, in order to better understand the dynamics at work within the truth table as a whole. Read it on our “Tutorials, Guides, and Reports” page.
Charles Ragin’s new book Analytic Induction is now available. It is open access, so you may read it for free via UC Press and JStor. You may also purchase a print copy or download it for your Kindle at Amazon.
The 11th Annual International QCA Workshops will be held 12-14 December 2023 in Belgium. The International QCA Paper Development Workshop will be held on 12-13 December, followed by the International QCA Experts Workshop.
The 3rd Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA2024) will be held on March 20-22, 2024 at Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois, USA). The call for abstracts is now open with submissions due on November 1, 2023. Please find complete details and updates on the conference website at https://compasss.org/aqca.
The 3rd Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA2024) will be held on March 20-22, 2024 at Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois, USA). The call for abstracts is now open with submissions due on November 1, 2023. Please find complete details and updates on the conference website at https://compasss.org/aqca.
