News

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.

The EURAM conference is just around the corner. If you are attending it, you can join us for a Webinar on NCA on Saturday 5th December from 11:30 until 13:00.
We will cover a basic introduction of NCA and will offer a more in-depth discussion about the methodology. To attend the webinar, you will find all information on your EURAM account.

As the use of the Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) has been growing over the past few months, so has the amount of papers suggesting NCA for future research. Those suggestions occur in various fields such as Strategy, Psychology or International Business Management, among other.

As we find this is an encouraging step forward for the method, we have decided to list those papers on the NCA website.

From now on, you can find papers suggesting NCA for future research on our website, under Substantive publications: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/publications/substantive-publications/

Have you read the first newsletter of this academic year?
Among others, we discussed about our specialized webinars, our new book chapter in creativity research as well as how to get involved in the NCA community.


You can find this newsletter as well as the other other past ones here: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/about-nca/members/newsletter/old-newsletters/

You can also register to receive our upcoming NCA newsletters and stay informed about our last updates (link in the title of this news).

On Thursday 12th November, we will host a webinar of introduction to Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA).
This webinar will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?
To facilitate participants from different time zones, the webinar will be offered twice. Each session will last one hour followed by thirty minutes of (voluntary) discussion. This webinar will be free of charge and will be hosted by Jan Dul, the founder of the NCA method.

You can register by clicking on the title of this news.

We are happy to announce that we will host a 2-hour asynchronous Professional Development Workshop (session #490) on Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) as part of this year’s virtual AOM Annual Meeting.

The workshop will provide an introduction to NCA and presents recent applications of NCA. You can watch video clips explaining the methodology, read background materials (available until August 31), and use the chat function to ask questions.

Please note that registration to the AOM Annual Meeting is required to participate in this workshop.
You can register by clicking on the title of this news.

More information is available on the NCA website: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/events-and-training/

If you have any questions about the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers.

Although the Sunbelt Paris 2020 has been (physically) cancelled, most of the Workshops have been rescheduled.

Stefan Breet will therefore give an online NCA workshop on the 24th June for the 40th annual SUNBELT Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).

The workshop will help participants to become the first users of NCA in their field, with hands-on instructions about how to build necessity theories, and how to analyze data for testing such theories using the NCA R software.

More information and registration can be found here: https://www.insna.org/events/introduction-to-necessary-condition-analysis.
The number of participants is limited to 15.

CALL FOR PAPERS – NCA as a complementary method
Nicole Franziska Richter and Sven Hauff, two ambassadors of the NCA development team, will guest edit a focused issue in Management International Review (in cooperation with Christian Ringle and Siggi Gudergan).

This focused issue encourages authors to submit articles in International Management that use PLS-SEM with complementary methods such as NCA.
The submission deadline is March 30, 2021.

You can find more information here: https://www.springer.com/journal/11575/updates/18019998

If you have any question regarding the submission of papers using NCA as a complementary method of PLS-SEM, please contact Nicole Franziska Richter: nicole@sam.sdu.dk

A working paper was published in which NCA is applied to recent data from the 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish Flu') about the effects of social distancing policies on recovery of the economy after the pandemic.