In recent years a great deal of time and effort has been expended toward the development of qualitative methods which retain the advantages of case study and small-n methods, but which ameliorate the various problems (lack of transparency, excessive subjectivity, etc.) Qualitative Comparative...

This paper introduces and assesses Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as a complexity-informed framework for evaluating complex infrastructure projects coupled with area development. This is done in four steps. First, the properties of infrastructure and area development are discussed. When...

Qualitative methodologies provide more in-depth and contextual information about a research problem, however qualitative methodologies are far less frequently utilized in research studies published in acclaimed business journals. Instead, primary survey-based data collection and subsequent...

Publishing in top journals is difficult. Common challenges undermine authors' attempts to explain and influence their discipline's understanding and practice. We identify and describe these roadblocks to publishing success. We also benchmark best practice in management, marketing, and supply...

The article presents an example of a text analysis and interpretation based on a qualitative research. In the first part we focus on the theoretical definition of analytical tools and characteristics of the text analysis and interpretation within the frame of qualitative research. We continue...

We consider a new copula method for mixed marginals of discrete and continuous random variables. Unlike the Bayesian methods in the literature, we use maximum likelihood estimation based on closed-form copula functions. We show with a simulation that our methodology performs similar to the...