Dear colleagues,
I would like to kindly invite you to the Professional Development Workshop "Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA): Logic, Theory, Methodology, and Publications" at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston.
The PDW will take place on Saturday August 05, from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM in room 306 of the Hynes Convention Center.
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Description
In this workshop, you will learn how to conduct Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and how to publish with NCA. This emerging method was recently published in the journal Organizational Research Methods (2016, 2020) and in the Sage book Conducting Necessary Condition Analysis (2020). NCA is now used in many fields, including International Management, HRM, Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Operations, and Entrepreneurship. NCA understands cause-effect relations as "necessary but not sufficient" and not as additive and average logic that is used in regression analysis. "Necessary" means that an outcome will not occur without the right level of the condition, independently of the rest of the causal structure (thus the condition can be a "bottleneck", "critical factor", "constraint"). In practice, the right level must be put and kept in place to avoid guaranteed failure, and to allow the outcome to exist. NCA can be used as a stand-alone tool or in combination with regression and other approaches. By adding a different logic and data analysis approach, NCA adds both rigor and relevance to theory and data analysis. This interactive session familiarizes scholars with the method and has two parts. Part 1 is a general introduction discussing the diffusing of NCA and 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 and how to report the research in journal publications.
Format
The workshop (1½ - 2 hours) consists of two parts and will be moderated by Stefan Breet.
Part 1 (60 minutes) is a general introduction to NCA. It starts with a presentation (total 45 minutes) in which we introduce NCA and its recent developments (presented by Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands, founder of NCA) and a recent application of NCA in the management literature (presented by Nicole Richter, Associate professor, University of Southern Denmark). Next in an interactive part (15-30 minutes) there are discussions (depending on the number of participants in small break out groups) where participants formulate and discuss necessary condition hypotheses in their field of research.
Part 2 (45-60 minutes) focuses on the application of NCA and how NCA can contribute to better theoretical understanding of phenomena, and that necessity theories can have a large impact on recommendations for practice. Special attention is given to personal experiences with applying NCA and publishing with NCA. These applications will be presented by Tatiana Andreeva, a researcher in Knowledge Management & Human Resource Management (School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland) who has recently started applying NCA and submitting NCA manuscripts, and by Nicole Richter, a researcher in International Business (University of Southern Denmark) who has experience with publishing with NCA in top-ranked journals.
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Stefan Breet
Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Radboud University Nijmegen
stefan.breet@ru.nl------------------------------