The Missing Piece – Calibration of Qualitative Data for Qualitative Comparative Analyses in IS Research
- Over the last years, configurational research has become increasingly popular in the Information Systems (IS) discipline. Researchers value configurational methods like Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as their application contributes to a better understanding of complex phenomena. QCA helps to uncover interrelations of conditions that lead to an outcome, building on the principles of equifinality, conjunctural causation, and asymmetry. More recently, IS researchers have started to analyze qualitative data, like case study data, with QCA. However, there is a lack of methodological guidance on how to calibrate qualitative data into set membership values for QCA. Therefore, this paper structures methodological steps and the associated options to calibrate qualitative data from an interdisciplinary perspective and critically reviews the observed methodological choices in IS research. This paper also gives recommendations for calibrating qualitative data to support informed methodological choices for future research.
Author: | Christoph Brosig, Katja Bley, Susanne Strahringer, Markus WestnerORCiDGND |
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URL / DOI: | https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2022_rp/37/ |
Parent Title (English): | Thirtieth European Conference on Information Systems, New Horizons in Digitally United Societies (ECIS 2022): 18. - 24.06.2022, Timisoara, Romania |
Publisher: | Association for Information Systems |
Document Type: | conference proceeding (article) |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Release Date: | 2022/07/24 |
Tag: | Data Calibration; Methodology; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Qualitative Data |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 16 |
Andere Schriftenreihe: | ECIS 2022 Research Papers ; 37 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Regensburg Strategic IT Management (ReSITM) | |
Begutachtungsstatus: | peer-reviewed |
research focus: | Digitalisierung |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG |