Warandelaan 2
5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
15th January 2015
14.15 Begin Conference, Welcome
14.15 -15.45 Analyzing Social Inequality
Camilla Borgna:
Different systems, same inequalities? The social stratification of cognitive skills in 18 OECD countries
Ramsey Wise:
Does Market Orientation in Education Improve Performance or Increase Inequality? Developing a Conceptual Framework for Testing (Un)Intended Outcomes with Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
Charles Ragin, Peer Fiss:
Set-Theoretic Methods for the Study of Social Inequality: Test Scores, Parental Income, and Poverty
15.45 -16.00 Coffee
16.00 -18.00 Applications in Organization Studies and Political Science
Grégoire Croidieu, Charles- Clemens Rüling:
Why are exemplary and successful practices sometimes not imitated? A configurational study of Penfolds Grange and the Australian wine industry
Stefan Cloudt:
Organizational configurations and performance of Dutch social housing associations
Markus Siewert:
When do Presidents Prevail and Fail within the Legislative Arena -Evaluating President George W. Bush's Success on the Substance of Legislation
Stefan Verweij, Lasse Gerrits, Christian Kroll, Jack Meek, Daniel Schraad-Tischler:
The Relationships between Governance Capacity and Environmental Policy Performance: A Comparative Evaluation of 41 OECD and EU Countries with Fuzzy Set QCA
16th January 2015
09.15 -10.45 QCA in Mixed Methods Research
Jonas Buche, Antje Buche, Markus Siewert:
Comparing OR combining? Assessing the Small Value of Valuing fsQCA Versus Regression Analysis
Alrik Thiem, Michael Baumgartner, Damien Bol:
Still lost in translation: A correction of three misunderstandings between configurational comparativists and regressional analysis
Sho Niikawa, Andreas Corcaci:
Conceptual coordination in applied QCA-based mixed methods research: Reconsidering slippage from the analysis of consensual government formations
10.45 -11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 12.30 Modelling and Methods Issues in QCA
Michael Baumgartner, Alrik Thiem:
When there is more than meets the eye: Model ambiguities in configurational comparative research
Lakshmi Nair, Michael Gibbert:
Combining Comparative Outlier Analysis and QCA: A review of 26 years (missed) opportunities for theory building in Management and Organizational Research
Carsten Schneider, Ingo Rohlfing:
Over- and Underfitting in Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Theoretical foundations and proper simulations
12.30 -13.15 Lunch
13.15 -14.15 Validity and Criticism of QCA Analyses and Results
Alessia Damonte:
Interesting results -but are they valid?
Benoît Rihoux:
On trench warfare and hand grenades. Essay from the battlefield of critiques against QCA and set-theoretic methods
14.15 -15.00 Closing Discussion