Events and Training

Title:  'Introduction to NCA' webinar
Date: 10 February 2022. To facilitate participants from different time zones the webinar will be offered twice. The webinar is open to anyone interested in NCA. 

- Thursday 10th of February from 09:00am to 10:30am (UTC+1 = CET, Rotterdam time)

- Thursday 10th of February from 17:00pm to 18:30pm (UTC+1 = CET, Rotterdam time)

Place:  online via Zoom
Description: The 'Introduction to NCA' webinar will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?
Fees: Free of charge
Panellists: Jan Dul and Caroline Witte, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands 

This webinar is endorsed by MethodsNet.

Type: Paper Development Workshop (PDW)
Date: 10th of October 2021
Place: online via Zoom
Description: In this Paper Development Workshop participants will be provided with feedbacks and advice that will help them to write a convincing manuscript that makes a valuable contribution to the scientific literature. The manuscript must be using NCA as the primary or secondary analytical technique.
Fees: Free of charge
Format: This PDW will be composed of discussions with NCA experts in a plenary session followed by roundtable discussions. Also a presentation on NCA will be provided by Steve Gove.
Instructor:  Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands; Stefan Breet, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands and other members of the NCA development team

Note that the number of participants is limited to 12.

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA).
Type: Professional Development workshop at the 35th annual conference of the British Academy of Management
Date: 31st August - 3rd September 2021 (exact time of the PDW to be confirmed, draft schedule here)
Place: online
Description: The logic of NCA, The data analysis approach of NCA, and How to publish papers with NCA.
Fees: part of British Academy of Management Annual Conference
Instructors: Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University); Tatiana Andreeva (School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland)
Website: British Academy of Management annual conference

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). Logic, Theory, Methodology, and New Applications
Type: Live-stream Professional Development Workshop at the 81st AoM Annual conference 2021
Date: 3rd August 2021 , 8:00AM - 9:30AM. Eastern (New York time) (UTC-4).
Place: online https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting 
Description: In this workshop you will learn how to conduct Necessary Condition Analysis. Part 1 is a general introduction discussing the importance of necessary conditions, illustrated with examples from different fields. Part 2 helps participants to become the first users of NCA in their field, with a practical demonstration about the application of NCA on how to build necessity theories, and how to analyze data for testing such theories using the NCA software.
Fees: Part of the AoM membership fee
Presenters: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands); Stefan Breet, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands); Sven Hauff, Helmut Schmidt University (Germany); Wangoo Lee, Temple University (United States)
Website: AoM 2021

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) – an introduction
Type: 90-minute Workshop at the EurOMA2021 conference (Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times)
Date: 5th July 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Place: (held online)
Description: This workshop will provide an introduction to NCA. It will focus on the fundamentals of NCA and show how to conduct NCA on an empirical dataset.
Fees: part of the EurOMA conference fee.
Instructors: Wilfred Knol (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen); Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management)

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis. (NCA) – Theory and Practice
Type: Online Summer Course
Date: 21st - 25th June 2021 
Host: ERIM, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Description: In this week-long course you will gain an understanding of the logic of necessary conditions, and why these are important for social science and practice. This course will consist of four 'mandatory discussions' and 'voluntary Q&A' session (writing a paper with online support) is voluntary (one week).
ECTS: 1 ECTS
Fee: 250€ 
Instructor:  Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands; together with other NCA experts
Application: registration closed.
Please note the application works on a 'first come, first serve' basis. The number of participants is limited to 12 per group (two groups).

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis. Method and Applications
Type: Symposium at the EURAM conference 2021
Date: 16-18 June 2021 
Place: Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
Description: Symposium with presentation of papers or paper ideas and discussions. This symposium is part of the SIG 12 - RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice.
Fees: EURAM conference fee
Symposium organizers: Florence Allard-Poesi, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne; Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management; Nicole Franziska Richter, University of Southern Denmark.
Website: EURAM 2021
Registration: here.

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) – foundations, implications, advantages – an introduction
Type: 2-hour Workshop at the 4th Odense International Entrepreneurship (IE) Workshops
Date: 20th May 2021, 14:15 - 16:15
Place: Odense, Denmark (held online)
Description: This workshop will provide an introduction to NCA. It will focus on the foundations of the method, its application in research, and its advantages in comparison to other methods (e.g. regression-based methods). Furthermore, it offers an opportunity for discussions on the usage of the method in the field of international entrepreneurship.
Fees: there is no registration fee.
Instructors: Nicole Franziska Richter (University of Southern Denmark) 

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis. Method and Applications
Type: NCA presentation as part of the “Strategy Talks”
Date: 7 May 2021, 5pm CEST Time
Place: online
Description: NCA webinar as part of the “Strategy Talks”. The “Strategy Talks” are an initiative organized by the Strategic Management SIG 13. More information about the Special Interest Group (SIG) here.
Fees: none
Presenter: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management

Title: The Combined Use of PLS-SEM and Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA)
Type: Pre-conference workshop at PLS 2022.
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 3:00pm to 5:30pm CET (Berlin time zone)
Place: online via Zoom
Description: In this workshop, participants will learn more about  partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and necessary condition analysis (NCA). The workshop will provide insights on opportunities to combine the two methods.
Fees: no fees apply
Instructors: Nicole F. Richter (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark) and Sven Hauff (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany) 
Website: PLS2022 Website

Title: 'Introduction to NCA' webinars
Date: 21 and 22 April 2021. To facilitate participants from different time zones the webinar will be offered twice. The webinar is open to anyone interested in NCA. 
Place: online via Zoom
Description: The 'Introduction to NCA' webinar will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?
Fees: Free of charge
Proponents: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands with another NCA specialist.
Note: this form also offers you to register to the 'NCA software demonstration' webinar

Title: 'NCA software demonstration' webinars
Date: 21 and 22 April 2021. To facilitate participants from different time zones the webinar will be offered twice. The webinar is open to anyone interested in NCA (knowledge of NCA is required). 
Place: online via Zoom
Description: The 'NCA software demonstration'  webinar 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.
Fees: Free of charge
Proponents: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands with another NCA specialist.
Note: this form also offers you to register to the 'Introduction to NCA' webinar

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) specialized webinar
Dates: this webinar 'NCA and QCA' will last one hour followed by thirty minutes of (voluntary) discussion.
To facilitate participants from different time zone, the webinar will be offered twice.
> NCA and QCA 1: Tuesday 26th January 9:00 (CET, Rotterdam Time)
> NCA and QCA 2: Tuesday 26th January 17:00 (CET, Rotterdam Time)
Place: online via Zoom

Description: this webinar will provide a comparison between NCA and QCA. It will also offer suggestions for complementing QCA with NCA.
The webinar starts with a short introduction on NCA
Fees: Free of charge
Presenters: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands; Claude Rubinson, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
Registration: closed, no limitation

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) specialized webinar
Dates: this webinar 'NCA for practice' will last one hour followed by thirty minutes of (voluntary) discussion.
To facilitate participants from different time zone, the webinar will be offered twice.
> NCA for practice 1: Wednesday 20th January 9:00 (CET, Rotterdam Time)
> NCA for practice 2: Wednesday 20th January 17:00 (CET, Rotterdam Time)
Place: online via Zoom
Description: this webinar will help practitioner and researchers interested in applying NCA to understand the  added value of NCA for practice.
The webinar starts with a short introduction on NCA
Fees: Free of charge
Presenters: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands; Wilfred Knol, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem, Netherlands
Registration: closed, no limitation.

Title: Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) specialized webinars
Date: Tuesday 19th January 2021
To facilitate participants from different time zone, the webinar will be offered twice. Each session will last one hour followed by thirty minutes of (voluntary) discussion.
Place: online via Zoom
Description: This webinar will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?
Fees: Free of charge
Presenters: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands
Registration: closed, no limitation