International QCA

Paper Development Workshop

4th Edition, Online

25th-26th November 2020

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Welcome!

We are very pleased to welcome you to the International QCA Paper Development Workshop 2020!

The International QCA Paper Development Workshop 2020 provides a unique platform for researchers
working on papers involving QCA to meet QCA experts, get feedback on their on-going research and learn
about the latest methodological developments in QCA. The workshop is interdisciplinary and interactive
and allows for in-depth discussions and individual feedback from internationally renowned QCA scholars.

This year the International QCA Paper Development Workshop 2020 will take place as an online event.
We arranged the program to account for the different time zone of the participants to allow for maximum
attendance from different time zones.

The core activity of the workshop is composed of parallel roundtable sessions, where participants will
receive individual feedback on their papers by QCA experts. In addition to the usual roundtable sessions,
this year we will organise the ”Face your QCA challenges” group discussions where participants will be
able to discuss with some experts further, targeted challenges they are facing when performing QCA. A
panel discussion will close the main activities of the event. For this edition, three early-career QCA
researchers will talk and discuss with the participants about how to valorise the added value of QCA in
their research and in their career.

Finally, the second edition of the “Best Paper Award” will also take place and winners will be awarded on
the second day of the workshop.

For any inquiry or information, please just contact us:

Manuel Fischer, manuel.fischer@eawag.ch

Johannes Meuer, jmeuer@ethz.ch
Sofia Pagliarin, sofia.pagliarin@uni-bamberg.de
Christian Rupietta, rupietta@wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de
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Practical information

The international QCA Paper Development Workshop (PDW) is organised online this year. On 25th
November 2020, the workshop starts at 12:30 (PM) and on 26th of November at 14:30 (2:30 PM) CET
(Central European Time, Zurich/Rome/Berlin). The Zoom access details are the following:

Meeting ID: 743 546 2266

Passcode: 682157

Link: https://uni-bamberg.zoom.us/j/7435462266

Access to the Zoom meeting is possible 30 minutes before the event starts. Please check your video and
audio settings before the event.

On 25th November, there are two sessions of roundtables. Please check the list below to see which
roundtable you have been assigned to. In a roundtable, participants can discuss their paper together with
other 2-3 papers and receive feedback from experts. We also warmly recommend participants to read the
other papers assigned to their roundtables to take part in the discussion with informed comments.

On 26th November, the “Face your QCA challenges” group discussions are organised. In these group
discussions, some experts will be available to discuss a number of topics that we selected and grouped
when looking at the three main questions and issues participants indicated when submitting their full
papers. The group discussions are meant to offer participants further feedback on specific challenges they
are experiencing in developing their research. In addition, on 26th November a panel debate will take place
where three early-career QCA researchers will talk about how QCA helped them in positioning their
research in their fields and in advancing in their careers.

During the coffee/tea breaks, the main Zoom room will remain active, and breakout rooms will be organized
to talk in small groups. Coffee/tea breaks are optional, but highly recommended to stimulate interaction
among the participants and experts. We will assign participants and experts randomly to each “coffee/tea
breakout room” and, if possible and upon request, we might do it manually. In case, participants and
experts can also autonomously organise their own coffee/tea break by leaving the main Zoom meeting and
then come back later when the event resumes.

The Zoom chat will be available to allow participants and experts to communicate with each other, also 1:1.
The full participant lists is provided at the end of this booklet, where everybody’s email is also indicated to
allow communication among the participants and experts.

Please note that some technical issues and connection problems could occur, also from the side of the co-
organisers; in that case, please be patient and we will try to resume the event or solve the issue as soon as
possible. Also, please do not hesitate to contact the co-organisers per e-mail should there be any questions
before or during the workshop.
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PROGRAM

November 25, 2020 (CET)

12:30 – 14:00 Parallel Roundtable session (1)
Each roundtable will be assigned to a separate breakout room.

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee/tea break

Main Zoom room will be active; breakout rooms are organized.

14:30 – 15:00 Welcome

Co-organisers and Benoît Rihoux and Claude Rubinson.
The PDW will be presented as well as the COMPASSS network (15 minutes).

15:00 – 16:30 Parallel Roundtable session (2)

Each roundtable will be assigned to a separate breakout room.

16:30 – 16:40 See you tomorrow!

Closing of first day and possible questions.

November 26, 2020 (CET)

14:30 – 14:45 Best QCA Paper Award
Announcement of winners. Moderator: Claudius Wagemann

14:45 – 15:45 Group discussions “Face your QCA challenges”

Moderated group discussions on targeted challenges in QCA based on the
participants’ papers.

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee/tea break

Main Zoom room will be active; breakout rooms are organized.

16:15 – 17:00 Panel debate “QCA&me: The added value of QCA in my research field and
in my professional life”
Panelists: Giulia Bazzan, Ryan Rumble, Katrin Pakizer

17:00 – 17:15 Goodbye!

Closing of the event.
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Roundtable session 1
25th November 2020

12:30 (PM) – 14:00 (2PM), CET Berlin/Zurich/Rome

Roundtable 1.1 Discussants: Lasse Cronqvist, Julia Leib

To Reverse or To Continue Contracting-Out? A Configurational Approach to Political
Chen et al.
Transaction Costs in the Institutional Choice of Public Service Delivery
Research on the Relationship Between Informal Governance of Enterprise Innovation Network
Gao et al.
and Network Governance Performance
Hastings How do poor families in Australia avoid homelessness?

Roundtable 1.2 Discussants: Barbara Befani, Thomas Greckhamer

Tessaro Women on boards and gender diversity below the board - a configurational analysis
Organizational Factors and Gender Mainstreaming in German Development Cooperation – A
Heuchner/Verspohl
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Exploring the Combined Impact of Board Attributes on Corporate Social Responsibility
Bolourian
Performance
Dragonetti Changing for good: Managing hybrid projects within a multinational company

Roundtable 1.3 Discussants: Santi Furnari, Sofia Pagliarin

The Shades of Sharing and What Shaped Them? Hybrid Governance Variation and Asymmetric
Zhang et al.
Tensions of Competing Logics
Giure When intentions turn into action: pathways to a higher firm performance
Kuk et al. Decoding Q&A Signalling Effects in Equity Crowdfunding
Digital academic entrepreneurship for a resource-efficient circular economy: The conditions
Huynh/Rasmussen
for survival and commercialization

Roundtable 1.4 Discussants: Peer Fiss, Christian Rupietta

Rodighiero Job satisfaction in coworking spaces: a complexity theory approach
How employee job satisfaction, customer satisfaction and profitability are related in the
Mattson/Steiner
Finnish grocery retail industry, applying fsQCA
Cangialosi Designing innovative jobs: A fuzzy-set configurational analysis of job characteristics

Roundtable 1.5 Discussants: Valérie Pattyn, Giulia Bazzan

Chang/Gerrits What stabilizes temporary use? A qualitative comparative analysis of 40 temporary use cases
Rethinking participation in informal settlement upgrading processes: Insights from a
Wainana et al.
comparative analysis of fifteen cases in Kenya.
Schoderer/Ott Why do some conflicts escalate and others don’t? A meta study on water and mining conflicts
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Roundtable session 2
25th November 2020

15:00 (3PM) – 16:30 (4:30PM), CET Berlin/Zurich/Rome

Roundtable 2.1 Discussants: Federico Iannacci, Ioana-Elena Oana

Financial Discrimination of African Founders — A Configurational Analysis of African Fintech
Kabengele
Start-Ups
Reverse Migration and Social Entrepreneurship: The Role of Entrepreneurs from Developed
Chauhan
Nations
Technological development in extreme conditions – A configurational study of cellphone
Houtari/Juntunen
tracking software
In et al. Recipes for a Successful Exit for Clean- and Hard-tech Startups

Roundtable 2.2 Discussants: Adrian Dușa, Carsten Schneider

Rocha Learnings from QCA: Matrix of Possible States
Blagoeva et al. The influence of CEO power and personality on compensation: A configurational approach
A methodological journey through international decision-making: from formal modeling to
Ott
experimental and configurational analysis

Roundtable 2.3 Discussants: Martin Schneider, Johannes Meuer

What if the mean is not the message? Causes of effect heterogeneity of research and
Krupnik
development subsidies
Sarta Technological Prisms: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Cognition, Robo-Advice, and Adaptation
Batool Human Capital Resource Combinations and New Venture Performance

Roundtable 2.4 Discussants: Michael Baumgartner, Julia Bartosch

Civil society and corruption in democracies in the “third wave” of autocratization: A qualitative
Villanueva
comparative analysis
Political Exile and State Control: A configurational analysis of Emigrant Political Rights in Latin
Diossa-Jimenez
America
Baker/Kammerer Macro-level Drivers of Vertical Policy Harmonization in the Climate Change Regime

Roundtable 2.5 Discussants: Ingo Rohlfing, Benoît Rihoux

Universal Access to Healthcare, Human Rights and Economic Crisis: a fs-QCA of Healthcare
De Falco
Reforms in the EU.
McBee The Prestige Games: How Elite Sociology Departments Maintain Prestige over Time
Is corruption the necessary path to consolidate democracy? Exploring the causal mechanism of
Zhang
the third-wave democratic consolidation
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Group discussions
“Face your QCA challenges”

1. Consistency / coverage values: thresholds, interpretation, etc.

2. Calibration: sources, symmetry, thresholds, etc.

3. Hypotheses testing and inductive / deductive approaches.

4. QCA and other methods (both qualitative and quantitative approaches)

5. Number of cases and conditions / large-N QCA.

6. Robustness and generalization of QCA results

If you have already a preference for one group discussion, please let us know and we will assign you to
that group already.
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List of Participants
(including co-authors)

Surname Name Affiliation Country Email

Alinaghian Leila Cranfield University UK leila.alinaghian@cranfield.ac.uk
Angus Andrew Cranfield University UK a.angus@cranfield.ac.uk
Baker Jack University of Bern Switzerland jack.baker@ipw.unibe.ch
Bartosch Giulia Free University Berlin Germany Julia.Bartosch@fu-berlin.de
Batool Syeda Nimra Instituito Superior Tecnico Portugal syeda.batool@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Baumgartner Michael University of Bergen Norway michael.baumgartner@uib.no
Bazzan Giulia University of Wageningen Netherlands giulia.bazzan@wur.nl
Befani Barbara Center for Research in Social Simulation UK befani@gmail.com
Benischke Mirko Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands benischke@rsm.nl
Blagoeva Radina University of Georgia USA rblagoeva@uga.edu
Bolourian Soudabeh Cranfield School of Management UK soudabeh.bolourian@cranfield.ac.uk
Cangialosi Nicola University of Florence Italy nicola.cangialosi@unifi.it
Chang Robin Technical University of Dortmund Germany robin.chang@tu-dortmund.de>
The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Chauhan Youthika USA Youthika_Chauhan@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Hill
Chen Cheng Sun Yat-sen University China chench92@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Chen Bin Sun Yat-sen University USA bin.chen@baruch.cuny.edu
Cronqvist Lasse University of Trier Germany cronqvis@uni-trier.de
De Falco Rossella University of Padua Italy rossella.defalco@phd.unipd.it

Diossa-Jimenez Leydy J. University of California Los Angeles USA ldiossa@ucla.edu

Sorbonne Business School

Dragonetti Nicola France dragonicola@gmail.com
Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne
Dușa Adrian University of Bucharest Romania dusadrian@unibuc.ro
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences
Fischer Manuel Switzerland
and Technology-Eawag Manuel.Fischer@eawag.ch
Fiss Peer USC Marshall USA fiss@marshall.usc.edu
Furnari Santi City University of London UK Santi.Furnari.1@city.ac.uk
Public Administration School of Sichuan
Gao Jiaxin China gaojiaxin0316@sina.com
University, Chengdu
Gerrits Lasse IHS Rotterdam Netherlands gerrits@ihs.nl
Giamporcaro Stephanie Nottingham Trent University UK stephanie.giamporcaro@ntu.ac.uk
Gieure Clara Universidad Católica de Valencia Spain clara.gieure@ucv.es
Greckhamer Thomas Lousiana State University USA tgreck@lsu.edu
Chengdu Soft Innovation Intelligence
Gu Xin China gx6664@sina.com
Association, Chengdu
Hastings Catherine Macquarie University Sydney Australia catherine.hastings@hdr.mq.edu.au
German Institute for Development Evaluation
Heucher Angela Germany angela.heucher@deval.org
(DEval)
Houtari Sonja Aalto University Finland sonja.huotari@aalto.fi
Huynh Phuc Nord University Norway phuc.h.huynh@nord.no
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Iannacci Federico University of Sussex UK F.Iannacci@sussex.ac.uk

In Soh Young Standford University USA si2131@stanford.edu
Juntunen Jouni K. Aalto University Finland jouni.juntunen@aalto.fi
Kabengele Christian University of Düsseldorf Germany christian.kabengele@hhu.de
Kammerer Marlene University of Bern Switzerland marlene.kammerer@ipw.unibe.ch
Krupnik Sweryin Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland seweryn.krupnik@uj.edu.pl
Kuk George Nottingham Trent University UK george.kuk@ntu.ac.uk
Lee Justine Standford University USA ljustine@stanford.edu
Leib Julia University of Frankfurt Germany leib@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences
Luthi Christoph Switzerland christoph.luethi@eawag.ch
and Technology-Eawag
Mattsson Carita University of Helsinki Finland carita.mattsson0@gmail.com
McBee David Kenan-Flagler School of Business USA David_McBee@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
McMeekin Andrew
Meuer Johannes ETH Zurich Switzerland jmeuer@ethz.ch
Monk Ashby Standford University USA amonk@stanford.edu
Oana Ioana-Elena Central European University Austria Oana_Ioana-Elena@phd.ceu.edu
Ott Ursula Nottingham Trent University UK ursula.ott@ntu.ac.uk
Ott Marlene Philipps University, Marburg Germany
Pagliarin Sofia University of Bamberg Germany sofia.pagliarin@uni-bamberg.de
Pakizer Katrin ETH Zurich Switzerland katrin.pakizer@usys.ethz.ch
Pattyn Valérie University of Leiden Netherlands v.e.pattyn@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Pinkse Jonatan
Rasmussen Einar Agur Nord University Norway einar.rasmussen@nord.no
Rihoux Benoît Université catholique de Louvaine Belgium benoit.rihoux@uclouvain.be
Rocha Fernando National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico fernando_rocha@politicas.unam.mx
Rodighiero Stefano University of Bologna Italy stefano.rodighiero3@unibo.it
Rohlfing Ingo University of Cologne Germany i.rohlfing@uni-koeln.de
Rubinson Claude University of Houston Downtown USA rubinsonc@uhd.edu
Rumble Ryan Jönköping University Sweden ryanmichael.rumble@ju.se
Rupietta Christian University of Wuppertal Germany rupietta@uni-wuppertal.de
Sarta Andrew Ivey Business School, Western University USA asarta.phd@ivey.ca
Schneider Carsten Central European University Austria Schneiderc@ceu.edu
Schneider Martin University of Padeborn Germany martin.schneider@upb.de
German Development Institute – Deutsches
Schoderer Mirja Germany mirja.schoderer@die-gdi.de
Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Steiner Bodo University of Helsinki Finland bodo.steiner@helsinki.fi
Mohamad
Tamin Nottingham Trent University UK mohamad.mohamedtamin2017@my.ntu.ac.uk
Hanif
Tessaro Michelle Cranfield Univeristy UK michelle.tessaro@cranfield.ac.uk
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences
Truffer Bernhard Switzerland bernhard.truffer@eawag.ch
and Technology-Eawag
German Institute for Development Evaluation
Verspohl Ida Germany ida.verspohl@deval.org
(DEval)
Prince Aian
Villanueva Corvinus University of Budapest Hungary prince.villanueva@stud.uni-corvinus.hu
G.
Wagemann Claudius University of Frankfurt Germany wagemann@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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George Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences

Wainaina Switzerland George.wainaina@eawag.ch
Kiambuthi and Technology-Eawag
Business School of Sichuan University,
Wang Tao China
Chengdu
Withers Michael Texas A&M University USA mwithers@mays.tamu.edu
Zhang Yaomin University of Manchester UK yaomin.zhang@manchester.ac.uk
Zhang Manli University of Colorado Denver USA manli.zhang@ucdenver.edu