The growing interest in the configurational perspective to understand causal complexity has brought the spotlight on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). However, despite that QCA was introduced more than three decades ago and predominantly has been used in the fields of political science and...

Researchers now use Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) beyond its original purposes in political and sociological sciences and apply this method of analysis in the field of management. This article offers a comprehensive and critical review of all the uses of QCA in management studies up...

Several studies have indicated that textual tones in analysts' reports, a representative qualitative output of analysts' reports, possess informational value. In this study, I clarify incremental information in the report tone. I predict a report tone as holding fundamental information that...

In recent years, research on internal audit has developed significantly. Numerous papers have discussed the importance of internal auditing (IA) as a central pillar of the corporate governance system. Through its activities, IA supports the Audit Committee and the CEO/C-Level. As an independent,...

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

The aim of this study is two-fold: It first replicates previous studies on methods used in communication research, and then textually analyses each article in the five high ranking Communication journals of the United States published in the year 2016. A total of 160 articles were analyzed for...

This study examines the on-going structural changes in the international organisation of corporate R&D and innovative (RDI) activities. Insights are mainly drawn from interviews made to innovation representatives and managers of large R&D-investing companies in 2017 in the frame of the European...

Eine grundlegende Herausforderung für Management- und Organisationsstudien besteht darin, theoretisch rigorose Forschungsergebnisse zu liefern, die gleichzeitig für Fachleute von praktischer Relevanz sind. Das Bewusstsein für die Notwendigkeit einer engeren Einbeziehung der Teilnehmer in den...

Die hier vorliegende Explorationsstudie untersucht, inwiefern sich die Befunde von der bisher betrachteten Branche der Steuerberatungsunternehmen auf andere wissensintensive Dienstleistungsbranchen (Fähnrich, 1999) übertragen lassen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Expert*inneninterviews (Helfferich,...