An innovative application of event structure analysis (ESA)

Abstract

This paper presents an innovative application of event structure analysis (ESA). The key improvements incorporated on the method are: (i) a robust system for coding events; (ii) the use of causal process tracing tests for inferring necessary connections; (iii) the combination of ESA with network analyses. Finally, we propose five types of analysis for event network models ( i.e., critical elements, critical associations, critical connections, critical specific happenings, and critical antecedents) and exemplify some of them in a causal case study about the process of capability construction for open innovation management in an Industrial Electronic Manufacturer. ESA can be combined with process-tracing tests to ground counterfactual causal inferences. ESA can be combined with network analysis to explore quantitative patterns in event structures. ESA is an outstanding method to conduct process research in management and engineering.

Vaccine innovation model: A technology transfer perspective in pandemic contexts

“…As a result, 32 stages, 22 gates, 30 innovations, and 38 events emerged from the content analysis. Then, following the counterfactual reasoning of Event Structure Analysis [23] , combined with the sufficiency of cause principle retrieved from the Theory of Constraints [24] , the case-based innovation model was built in Step 9. The building process started with selecting the stages, gates, innovations, and events that should compose the model.…”

Theoretical Notes on Action Schemes in Society

“…Event Structure Analysis, or ESA for short (Corsaro & Heise, 1990;Griffin, 1993;Griffin & Korstad, 1998;Heise, 1989;Heise & Durig, 1997;Freitas et al, 2021), was developed as a qualitative methodology for analyzing narratives in order to reduce the action schemes that are implicit in them. The methodology, implemented in a computer program called Ethno 7 , has been applied in ethnography (Corsaro & Heise, 1990;Eder & Enke, 1991;Ponti, 2010), history (Brown, 2000;Brown & Brueggemann, 1997;Brueggemann & Boswell, 1998;Brueggemann & Brown, 2003;Griffin et al, 1997;Griffin & Korstad, 1996;Isaac et al, 1994;Richardson, 2009), organizational studies (O'Neill et al, 2007;Stevenson & Greenberg, 1998, 2000Stevenson et al, 2008), and folkloristics (Heise, 1988;Uehara, 2001).…”