Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis for a finer-grained understanding of entrepreneurship

Douglas, Evan J.; Shepherd, Dean A.; Prentice, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.105970

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“…This is an important property of fsQCA, which make it an appropriate tool to study the relationships which causality is complex, and the traditional net effect approach is not able to accommodate such interdependencies and constrains theory development. Second, fsQCA also has the advantage over the traditional symmetric analysis methods as it is not restricted to any given probability distribution of the data (e.g., normal distribution) and accommodates asymmetric relationships across cases (Douglas et al 2020;Fiss 2011). While symmetric analysis methods provide only a net-effects model based on the majority of samples and subsume minority cases, fsQCA captures the asymmetry of data relationships and, hence, serves as a good method for identifying these differences (Douglas et al 2020).…”

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“…Second, fsQCA also has the advantage over the traditional symmetric analysis methods as it is not restricted to any given probability distribution of the data (e.g., normal distribution) and accommodates asymmetric relationships across cases (Douglas et al 2020;Fiss 2011). While symmetric analysis methods provide only a net-effects model based on the majority of samples and subsume minority cases, fsQCA captures the asymmetry of data relationships and, hence, serves as a good method for identifying these differences (Douglas et al 2020). Third, fsQCA utilizes an inductive research method based on the principle of equifinality, assuming that multiple paths to a desired outcome can co-exist (i.e., more than one solution to the problem) (Fiss 2007).…”

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Designing Global Sourcing Strategy for Cost Savings and Innovation: A Configurational Approach

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2020

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Despite the well-acknowledged benefits of global sourcing (e.g., location specific advantage) in the international business literature, research driven mainly by the transaction cost economics and resource based view has cautioned about its potential negative effects (e.g., hidden costs, hollowing out effect) which might offset its potential gain, leading to a failure to achieve expected outcome and capture the value created in global sourcing activities. We argue that this issue is primarily explained by the misalignment between a firm's global sourcing strategy and value expected from its global sourcing activities. This study examines the role of global sourcing strategy on financial and innovation performance of global sourcing activities. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis on 235 firms engaging in global sourcing of business service activities, we identify configurations of global sourcing strategy-concerning (1) disaggregation, (2) dispersion of activities and (3) governance structure-that lead to high financial and innovation performance. The findings suggest that global sourcing strategy leading to high financial performance differs largely from global sourcing strategy leading to high innovation. While most studies selectively focus on one or two components of global sourcing strategy, our study highlights the need for firms to jointly consider the combined effect of degree of disaggregation, degree of dispersion of business service activities and governance structure as well as taking into account the expected outcome when crafting their global sourcing strategy.

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Designing Global Sourcing Strategy for Cost Savings and Innovation: A Configurational Approach

Lin

2020

Manag Int Rev

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“…To uncover such complexities, we used nonlinear methods, specifically artificial neural networks. Our study builds on recent arguments that traditional symmetric data analysis methods are not enough to understand the complexity of entrepreneurship (Douglas et al, 2020) and resolves prior inconsistencies about the affective experiences during the early stage of entrepreneurship (e.g. García et al, 2015;Fodor and Pintea, 2017).…”

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“…These methods assume symmetric central tendency and require data normally distributed around its mean, such that the relations between variables can be interpreted as linear dependencies (e.g. Douglas et al, 2020). Beyond the prospective linearity in some aspects, the entrepreneurial journey is about turbulence, uncertainty, change, and unstable leaps.…”

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Uncovering the affective turmoil during opportunity recognition and exploitation: A nonlinear approach

Santos

Caetano

Costa

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Journal of Business Venturing Insights

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This study explores the affective turmoil experienced by nascent entrepreneurs during opportunity recognition and exploitation. Based on the affect circumplex model, we employed nonlinear methods to identify configurations of affect that emerge during these early stages of the entrepreneurial journey. We analyzed data from 50 nascent entrepreneurs using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) trained with twenty affect dimensions as input variables and opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation as outcomes. Results show that nascent entrepreneurs experience different affect configurations during opportunity recognition and exploitation. While four configurations of affect emerged associated with opportunity recognition and exploitation, their nature and importance to the experienced event are significantly different. Specifically, "active screening" is the most important configuration of affect during opportunity recognition, while "vigilant" is the most important during opportunity exploitation. We posit that nonlinear methods can help to uncover the affective turmoil experienced by entrepreneurs during a particular event. These findings provide new insights on how affect associates differently with cognition during the early stages of entrepreneurship. "(…) a startup puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You flip rapidly from day-todayone where you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over. (…)" Marc Andreessen-Netscape, A16Z 1. Introduction Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster of affect, subjecting the entrepreneur to a broad range of subjective feeling states, moods and

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“…Such comparative analysis is often informed by triangulating interview and archival data. Beyond established comparative case methods, we point to the potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for analyzing sets of cases and comparing them along different dimensions (Douglas et al, 2020).…”

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Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact

Burg

Cornelissen

Stam

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that qualitative research is uniquely placed to address. In studying these characteristics, we urge researchers to leverage the plurality of different qualitative approaches, including less conventional methods. Second, to help researchers develop high-level theoretical contributions, we point to multiple possible contributions, and highlight how such contributions can be developed through qualitative methods. Thus, we aim to broaden the types of contributions and forms that qualitative entrepreneurship research takes, in ways that move beyond prototypical inductive theory-building.

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Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis for a finer-grained understanding of entrepreneurship

Cited by 344 publications

References 82 publications

Designing Global Sourcing Strategy for Cost Savings and Innovation: A Configurational Approach

Designing Global Sourcing Strategy for Cost Savings and Innovation: A Configurational Approach

Uncovering the affective turmoil during opportunity recognition and exploitation: A nonlinear approach

Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact

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