QCA and business research: Work in progress or a consolidated agenda?

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2531-2540

  Wagemann, Claudius ^a   Buche, Jonas ^a   Siewert, Markus B ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment of applications; Fuzzy set analysis; Qualitative comparative analysis; Standards good practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951760344     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.010     Document Type: Article

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