Join the Research Methods Community Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium's online session on best practices in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)!
Speakers: Anne Jacqueminet, Santi Furnari & Thomas Greckhamer
In this session, experts will present insights on important QCA best practices to master when embarking on a QCA project as a junior scholar. Doctoral students and junior scholars will have a chance to ask their questions to our panelists in an interactive Q&A session.
When: 29 September 2025, 10-12 CDT
Where: online (register here + more information: Best Practices in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - SMS) ; free for SMS members; $19 for Non-Members.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Alison Holm and Joseph Harrison
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Anne Jacqueminet is Associate Professor of Sustainability at ESSEC Business School. She received her PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris and has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University. In her research, she investigates firms' heterogenous approaches to the strategic implementation of sustainability practices, with a focus on complex organizations. She also looks at firm-stakeholder interactions as well as stakeholders' reactions to firms' social and environmental behavior and disclosure. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others. She received the AIB Peter Buckley and Mark Casson Best Dissertation Award in 2016 and the AIB Alan Rugman Young Scholar Award in 2021. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS). Prior to joining academia, Anne worked as a consultant in climate change and sustainability for EY.
Santi Furnari is a Professor of Strategy at Bayes Business School in London, a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University in Chicago, and a Senior Editor at the journal Organization Studies. Recently, he was a 2023-24 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and previously served as Associate Dean for Executive Education at Bayes. He held visiting faculty positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at Bocconi University, where he also obtained an MSc cum laude. His primary research interests are the emergence of novelty and how organizational configurations shape outcomes such as innovation and the adoption of climate change practices. Prof. Furnari is a multi-disciplinary researcher combining insights from sociology with organization studies, and using qualitative and mixed methods (including fuzzy-set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis or fs/QCA).
Thomas Greckhamer is Department Chair, the William W. Rucks IV Endowed Chair and Professor of Management at Louisiana State University. He earned his PhD in Management from the University of Florida. His research focuses on configurational and discourse-oriented approaches to answer fundamental questions of strategic and international management as well as on the advancement of research methods in these fields, particularly qualitative research approaches and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA).
Event Organizers: Research Methods Community at SMS
Joseph Harrison (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Alison Holm (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Elena Plaksenkova (Ohio State University)
Sheryl Smith (BI Norwegian Business School)
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Alison Holm
Nova School of Business and Economics
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