Knowledge building has been the evaluative standard for qualitative methods for decades. This paper analyzes how qualitative techniques succeed in knowledge building. Social action research explains that effective social analysis sometimes require involvement. Critical action research demands...

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...

This report focuses on set-analytic approaches that use algorithms and computer software for parts of their analysis, particularly Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). We concentrate on transparency concerning the "analytic moment" that stretches from assigning membership scores of cases in...