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A team of researchers led by Mathijs van Dijk (Rotterdam School of Management) applied NCA in a study about success factors of new stock markets.

In a PhD dissertation of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, entitled “The growth of high-tech companies: theoretical framework and empirical research”, Ivan Župic (photo) used NCA to formulate “barriers to growth” as necessary-but-not-sufficient conditions that prevent the outcome (growth) to exist

A paper by Baoguo Shi et al. from Capital Normal University in Beijing, China confirmed an earlier finding by Karwowski et al. that intelligence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creativity.

Since the beginning of 2016 when the core paper on NCA was published in Organizational Research Methods, the method was applied in fields such as (industrial) psychology, operations management, information sciences, finance, strategy, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and human resource management. In published articles NCA is used in different ways:

Lester Lasrado, PhD fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, presented a paper with Ravi Vatrapu and Kim Normann Andersen about "A set theoretical approach to maturity models: guidelines and demonstration" at the ICIS 2016 conference in Dublin, Ireland.

Several experts who have published on necessary conditions have attended the 4th International QCA expert meeting in Zurich, Switserland, 7-8 December 2016 to discuss the development of QCA.

During the annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute in Austin, Texas, USA, Fabian Nullmeier presented a paper co authored with Finn Wynstra about necessary conditions in designing and managing performance-based service contracts.

A paper by Jelle de Vries et al. on safe and productive truck driving was published in Transportation Research. Part E, a top journal in this field.

The paper by Wendy van der Valk et al. on the necessity of contracts and trust for innovation in buyer-supplier relationship in now published in the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

On 20 October 2016, a new hands-on short course on NCA will be offered to PhD students at the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany. The course consists of a general introduction on NCA logic and methodology, and a clinic where the participants can analyse their own datasets. For more information and registration please contact Sven Hauff.