[AISWorld] Call for Paper for the 6th Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) workshop at AMCIS

[YoungKi Park]

*Call for Paper for the 6th Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) workshop
at AMCIS *



The 6th Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) workshop for IS research
will be held at AMCIS 2024 on 15th August (Thursday) from 7:30 am to 11:30
am. We call for papers to be presented and discussed at the workshop.



Information and digital technologies have become tightly interconnected
with organizational and environmental elements, together making complex
digital phenomena that often exhibit nonlinear, discontinuous change. In
digital disruption and transformation, adjustment/development of IT systems
can trigger drastic changes where the whole socio-technical system can
change radically and possibly shift to new equilibriums.

In such complex dynamics, the role of digital technology can be better
understood as an element of the whole system rather than as a separate
independent variable. While the variance perspective has been dominant in
IS research, interest has recently resurged in the systems perspective to
model this complexity. A systems perspective focuses on wholes comprising
parts and the conjunctions among conditions in making outcomes of interest.

Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a research approach to building a
configuration theory, has been increasingly adopted by IS researchers in
investigating complex digital phenomena from a systems theory perspective.
QCA integrates the strengths of both case-oriented qualitative methods and
variable-oriented quantitative methods.

This is the 6th QCA workshop at AMCIS that intends to foster discussion
about how QCA can help IS researchers build novel theories, right ways to
apply QCA, and new techniques that can help IS scholars apply QCA to
diverse research topics.



The overall structure of the workshop consists of two sessions as follows:

*Session 1 (2 hours)*

·       An Introduction to QCA, Set Theoretic Methods

·       Introduction of Different Types of Causality for IS Research

·       Multiplicity and Causal Recipes with QCA

·       When and How to Use QCA for IS Research



*Session 2 (1.5 hours)*

·       Round-Table Paper Presentation and Discussion

·       The second session of the workshop is about paper development,
which will encourage selected scholars to bring their work for discussion
in a collaborative and constructive setting.



We call for papers that use QCA and can be presented and discussed in the
second session. We prefer a full paper that includes empirical results,
although we are open to papers in any development stages.



If you want to submit a working paper for the round-table discussion, send
it to ykpark at gwu.edu.

Submission Deadline: August 4, 2024



For the participants who register for this workshop, we will offer a list
of recommended pre-readings and QCA resources via email.



We hope many IS scholars who have been using QCA for their research attend
this workshop and help us make the workshop more productive and useful for
participants.



If you have any questions, please contact via ykpark at gwu.edu



We hope to see you in person at the workshop.




YoungKi Park, George Washington University

One-Ki (Daniel) Lee, UMass Boston