Analyzing multilevel data with QCA: yet another straightforward procedure

Thiem, Alrik

doi:10.1007/s11135-014-0140-6

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“…These measures are inclusion (incl. ), which is the same as consistency (Thiem, 2016), proportional reduction in inconsistency (PRI) and coverage. Numerous authors consider consistency values that are greater than 0.8 to be acceptable (Crilly, 2011;Fiss, 2011).…”

Section: Magic Recipes: Analysis Of Sufficiencymentioning

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Life below excellence: exploring the links between top-ranked universities and regional competitiveness

García-Álvarez-Coque

Más‐Verdú

Roig‐Tierno

2019

Studies in Higher Education

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This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was conducted to assess the combined effect of the conditions. The analysis yields several noteworthy conclusions. First, no single condition is necessary for a region to be competitive. Second, R&D expenditure is important for regional competitiveness. Third, different configurations of conditions are sufficient for high competitiveness in different regional clusters. Furthermore, some of these configurations do not include the presence of top-ranked universities. A 'magic recipe' consists of the combination of a private research system, an inter-firm collaboration network and high levels of human capital. The analysis shows that university excellence is valuable. However, in terms of its contribution to regional development, it is not crucial and must always be contextualized. This conclusion is important for smart strategic planning of local knowledge systems.

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Section: Magic Recipes: Analysis Of Sufficiencymentioning

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Life below excellence: exploring the links between top-ranked universities and regional competitiveness

García-Álvarez-Coque

Más‐Verdú

Roig‐Tierno

2019

Studies in Higher Education

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“…While it is undisputed that the purpose of QCA is causal inference on the basis of regularity-theoretic relations of necessity and sufficiency (Ragin, 1987, pp. 19–33; Rihoux, 2006, p. 682; Schneider & Wagemann, 2012, p. 8), it has recently been demonstrated that the theory of causality underlying QCA and its associated Boolean-algebraic machinery have not been fully understood, with detrimental consequences for the validity of numerous results presented in applied and methodological research over the last 25 years (Baumgartner, 2015; Baumgartner & Thiem, 2015b, 2015c; Cooper & Glaesser, 2016; Thiem, 2014b, 2014c, 2016a; Thiem & Baumgartner, 2016a, 2016c; Thiem, Baumgartner, et al 2016). It is thus important to first clarify the epistemological underpinnings and the search target of QCA.…”

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Conducting Configurational Comparative Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Thiem

2016

American Journal of Evaluation

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The search for necessary and sufficient causes of some outcome of interest, referred to as configurational comparative research, has long been one of the main preoccupations of evaluation scholars and practitioners. However, only the last three decades have witnessed the evolution of a set of formal methods that are sufficiently elaborate for this purpose. In this article, I provide a hands-on tutorial for qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)-currently the most popular configurational comparative method. In drawing on a recent evaluation of patient follow-through effectiveness in Lynch syndrome tumor-screening programs, I explain the search target of QCA, introduce its core concepts, guide readers through the procedural protocol of this method, and alert them to mistakes frequently made in QCA's use. An annotated replication file for the QCApro extension package for R accompanies this tutorial.

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Design of a loop-based random access memory based on the nanoscale quantum dot cellular automata

Fam

Navimipour

2018

Photon Netw Commun

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Analyzing multilevel data with QCA: yet another straightforward procedure

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Life below excellence: exploring the links between top-ranked universities and regional competitiveness

Life below excellence: exploring the links between top-ranked universities and regional competitiveness

Conducting Configurational Comparative Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Design of a loop-based random access memory based on the nanoscale quantum dot cellular automata

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