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Direct linkBaumgartner, Michael; Thiem, Alrik – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
For many years, sociologists, political scientists, and management scholars have readily relied on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for the purpose of configurational causal modeling. However, this article reveals that a severe problem in the application of QCA has gone unnoticed so far: model ambiguities. These arise when multiple causal…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Causal Models, Ambiguity (Context)
