Necessary Condition Analysis

NCA Webinars - April 2021
We would like to draw your attention to a series of NCA webinars that will be organized on the 21st and 22nd of April.
- "Introduction to NCA" is a webinar that will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?.
- The “Software demonstration” is for participants who know about NCA (e.g. after attending the 'Introduction to NCA' webinar) and who want to run NCA with the NCA software. Knowledge of the programming language R is not required, but helpful.
The webinars are free of charge. You can register for one or both webinars here: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cF3mRfePCo2A06

We just finished a series of well attended NCA webinars on “Introduction to NCA” (130 registrations), “NCA in Practice” (65) and ”NCA and QCA” (105). Each webinar was given twice to facilitate different time zones. The webinars were highly valued (4.9/5).
In particular, we liked this comment: “the hosts were knowledgable, approachable, inspired and inspiring”.
Thanks to the hosts Henk van Rhee, Wangoo Lee, Wilfred Knol, Zsófia Tóth and Claude Rubinson who joined professor Jan Dul to deliver these webinars. We plan to have new webinars later this year.
Keep an eye on our events page https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/events-and-training/ or write an email to nca.communication@erim.eur.nl.

In their paper, Delgosha, Saheb and Hajiheydary used NCA to analyze the levels of digitalisation factors that are necessary for (but do not guarantee) realizing the different levels of sustainable competitiveness. Their analysis showed that “although digitalisation factors are not critical to low levels of Global Sustainable Competitiveness, their presence is important [and even essential according to NCA] to reach moderate and high levels of sustainable competitiveness” (p13).

Their study is one of the first which attempts to simultaneously use NCA and fsQCA methods in information systems.