Development of NCA method
- Dul, J. (2016). Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA): Logic and methodology of “necessary but not sufficient” causality. Organizational Research Methods, 19(1), 10-52.
- Dul, J. (2021). Advances in Necessary Condition Analysis. online book.
- Dul, J., Hak, T., Goertz, G., & Voss, C. (2010). Necessary condition hypotheses in operations management. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 30, 1170-1190.
- Dul, J., van der Laan, E., & Kuik, R. (2020). A Statistical Significance Test for Necessary Condition Analysis. Organizational Research Methods, 23(2), 385–395.
- Goertz, G., Hak, T., & Dul, J. (2013) Ceilings and floors where are there no observations? Sociological Methods & Research, 42(1), 3-40.
Comparisons of NCA method with other methods
- Dul, J. (2016). Identifying single necessary conditions with NCA and fsQCA. Journal of Business Research, 69(4):1516-1523.
- Hak, T., Jaspers, F., & Dul, J. (2013). The analysis of temporally ordered configurations: Challenges and solutions. In Configurational theory and methods in organizational research. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Richter, N. F., Schubring, S., Hauff, S., Ringle, C. M., & Sarstedt, M. (2020). When predictors of outcomes are necessary: Guidelines for the combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA. Industrial Management & Data Systems, 120(12), 2243–2267. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-11-2019-0638
- Vis, B. & Dul, J. (2018) Analyzing relationships of necessity not just in kind but also in degree: Complementing fsQCA with NCA. Sociological Methods & Research, 47(4), 872-899.
Backgrounds and guidelines
- Dul, J. (2020) Conducting Necessary Condition Analysis. Mastering Business Research Methods series, London: Sage Publications
- Dul, J. (2023). Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and its diffusion. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
- Dul, J., Hauff S. Bouncken, R.B. (2023). Necessary condition analysis (NCA): Review of topics in recent research and suggestions for good practice. Review of Managerial Science
Editorial comments
- Bergh, D. D., Boyd, B. K., Byron, K., Gove, S., & Ketchen Jr, D. J. (2022). What Constitutes a Methodological Contribution?. Journal of Management, 01492063221088235.
- Hernaus, T., Černe, M. (2022) From the editors: The importance of data in research - Best practices regarding data collection, processing and visualization. Dynamic Relationships Management Journal, 11(2).
- Robinson, S., Muratbekova-Touron, M., Linder, C., Bouncken, R. B., Findikoglu, M. N., Garbuio, M., Hartner-Tiefenthaler, M., Thanos, I. C., Aharonson, B. S., Strobl, A., et al. (2022). 40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research. European Management Journal, 40(4), 459–466.
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