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*Call for Proposals – QCA Workshop, AMCIS 2018 *
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), , USA
*Workshop Title: Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative
Analysis
(QCA) for IS Research *
*Time: August 16, 2018, 8:30AM – 12:00PM*
*Place: (Hyatt Regency New Orleans)*
Organizers: YoungKi Park (George Washington University), James S.
Denford
(Royal Military College of Canada)
We are pleased to offer the second QCA workshop, titled as
“Set-Theoretic
Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for IS Research”.
The
workshop is aimed at benefiting a variety of scholars ranging from
those
who have no previous exposure to QCA to those who have experience
to share
with other IS scholars.
Register at:
https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/
*No charge for registration for this workshop. *
*Workshop Description *
Information and digital technologies have become tightly
interconnected
with organizational and environmental elements. This ‘fusion’ has
created a
complex system that often exhibits nonlinear, discontinuous change
such
that a small adjustment in IT systems can trigger drastic changes
in other
elements, and eventually the whole socio-technical system can
change
radically and possibly shift to new equilibriums. In such complex
dynamics,
the role of IT can be better understood as an element of the whole
system
rather than as a separate independent variable. Notwithstanding
such an
increasing need for a holistic systemic perspective, there is
still a
paucity of IS research that investigates how information and
digital
technologies effectively work together with organizational and
environmental elements to produce the expected outcomes either at
the
individual, group, organization, or ecosystem level.
Recently, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a set-theoretic
method to
build a configurational theory, is drawing increasing attention of
researchers to its capability to investigate the complex
phenomena. QCA
developed by Charles Ragin (1987) integrates the strengths of both
case-oriented qualitative methods and variable-oriented
quantitative
methods, and can be applicable for small, medium, or large data.
This
workshop will foster discussion about how QCA can help IS
researchers build
novel, richer theories.
The workshop will be divided into two parts: a set of short
introductory
seminars and a paper development workshop. The speakers for the
seminars
all have direct experience with set theoretic methods. Dr. Park
and Dr.
Denford have been using QCA extensively in their research for
several
years, and presented papers at premier conferences such as ICIS,
AoM,
AMCIS, ASAC, and HICSS and publications appeared at journals such
as ISR,
JMIS, JAIS, JSIS, and RSO. They also have been exposed themselves
to new
advancement in the methods by co-authoring papers with leading
scholars for
this method such as Peer Fiss (USC) at the strategic management
discipline
and also attending seminars specialized for QCA.
The overall structure of the workshop is as follows:
*Part 1 (8:30AM – 10:30PM): A set of short introductory seminars *
• An Introduction to Set Theoretic Methods: by YoungKi Park and
James S
Denford
• Introduction of Crisp Set QCA: by James S. Denford
• Introduction of Fuzzy Set QCA: by YoungKi Park
• Boolean Theory Testing with QCA: by James S. Denford
• Topics for QCA –When and How to Use: by YoungKi Park
*Part 2 (10:30PM – 12:00 PM): Roundtable discussions of submitted
proposals
(proposal submission required)*
The second session of the workshop is about paper development. We
encourage
scholars to submit their work for discussion in a collaborative
and
constructive setting. Scholars with QCA expertise will help the
researchers
who do not have QCA expertise to apply it for their working
papers.
Further, IS scholars who have been using QCA for their research
will also
be invited to discuss and develop further their working papers.
To attend part 2, we request you to submit a proposal for review
by at
least *July 30*. If you need to know acceptance decision before
the date
due to some reasons like travel schedule, you can request us to
send
acceptance notice. We can review submitted proposals before the
due date in
such cases.
*Submission Guidelines: *
We recommend that your proposal may not exceed three single-spaced
pages
(excluding references). You may also add additional pages of
figures,
tables, graphs, etc. Specifically, please include the following:
(1)
Research topic and conceptual framework; (2) Key research
questions; (3)
Short description of data and methods (if applicable); (4) Key
findings (if
applicable); (5) Challenges (the area on which you would like to
focus
discussion); (6) Three keywords that describe your proposal; and
(7)
Faculty + rank or Ph.D. student + year in program.
Please send proposals via email to YoungKi Park (
ykpark@gwu.edu)
and James
S. Denford (
Jim.Denford@rmc.ca) by *July 30, 2018. *Also, feel
free to have
any questions via emails.
*Some e**xample **t**opics but not limited to: *
- Empirical studies that applies set-theoretic QCA methods
- IS theory building and/or testing with QCA
- Methodological comparison of QCA with traditional methods
- Benefits of using QCA in the IS research areas
- Limitations and challenges of set-theoretic QCA methods in
applying to IS research
- Small, medium, and large N case QCA studies
- QCA studies for multiple levels – individual, team/group,
organization, industry, country, population, field
- Investigating the holistic aspects of complex systems with QCA
- Building novel, richer IS theories with QCA
- Revealing new aspects of extant IS theories with QCA
- IT impact on organizational performance – synergetic,
complementary, substituting effects
- Multifaceted, inconsistent roles of digital technologies such as
enabling vs. inhibiting and core vs. peripheral roles
- Multiple design solutions for new IT systems depending on
organizational and environmental contexts
- Investigating the complex dynamics of new IT systems
development,
digitization with QCA
- IS relationships with organizational capabilities such as
dynamic
capability, agility, ambidexterity, and absorptive capacity.
- Design and governance aspects of IT, for example, IT
governance, enterprise
architecture design, IT outsourcing governance with QCA
- Social network analysis with QCA
- Configurational analysis for digital ecosystems, smart device
ecosystems
YoungKi Park
George Washington University
ykpark@gwu.edu
James S. Denford
Royal Military College of Canada
Jim.Denford@rmc.ca
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