Since September 2022, the NCA website no longer provides separate news items about NCA. Major news items can be found in NCA's quarterly newsletter or on the social media pages of members of the NCA development team (LinkedIn, Facebook).
NCA can also be applied to longitudinal and time-series data. We made an animation to show that the necessity can change over time. Using Worldbank data we show that a country's economic prosperity (GDP per capita) is necessary for a country's Life expectancy (years) and that the necessity changes between 1960 and 2018. See the animation.
This Friday, Jan Dul will host a NCA Webinar as part of the first EURAM Strategy Talks.
This webinar will take place on Friday May 7th at 5pm CEST. Please, fill out this form so that we know how many participants are expected (by clicking on the title of this news)
You can connect to the webinar using this Zoom link:
https://ut-capitole-fr.zoom.us/j/7305442667
The "Strategy Talks" are an initiative from the EURAM Strategic Management SIG 13
We just finished a series of well attended NCA webinars on “Introduction to NCA” and “NCA software demonstration”. If you are interested in learning more about the NCA logic and method, the registration for our Online Summer Course is now open.
The summer course is hosted by the Erasmus Research Institute of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. It is a hands-on course consisting of mandatory readings and three lectures between 21st and 25th June. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the logic of necessary conditions, and why these are important for social science and practice. The end-result is a well-developed extended abstract that contains all main elements for a journal publication.
To register for this Online Summer Course, organized together with the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) in Rotterdam, please fill in the following form: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5u48IlGUYAin7oO (direct access in the title of this item.
More information about this event can be found on our NCA Website: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/events-and-training/
NCA SOFTWARE - 3.1.0 now available
A new version of the NCA software is now available. Quick to install and to use, it comes with a quick-start guide for those who are new to R and NCA.
In NCA 3.1.0, next to a couple of minor fixes, some larger changes are implemented.
NCA Webinars - April 2021
We would like to draw your attention to a series of NCA webinars that will be organized on the 21st and 22nd of April.
- "Introduction to NCA" is a webinar that will help participants who are completely new to NCA to get a first understanding of ‘What is NCA’?.
- The “Software demonstration” is for participants who know about NCA (e.g. after attending the 'Introduction to NCA' webinar) and who want to run NCA with the NCA software. Knowledge of the programming language R is not required, but helpful.
The webinars are free of charge. You can register for one or both webinars here: https://erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cF3mRfePCo2A06
We just finished a series of well attended NCA webinars on “Introduction to NCA” (130 registrations), “NCA in Practice” (65) and ”NCA and QCA” (105). Each webinar was given twice to facilitate different time zones. The webinars were highly valued (4.9/5).
In particular, we liked this comment: “the hosts were knowledgable, approachable, inspired and inspiring”.
Thanks to the hosts Henk van Rhee, Wangoo Lee, Wilfred Knol, Zsófia Tóth and Claude Rubinson who joined professor Jan Dul to deliver these webinars. We plan to have new webinars later this year.
Keep an eye on our events page https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/events-and-training/ or write an email to nca.communication@erim.eur.nl.
In their paper, Delgosha, Saheb and Hajiheydary used NCA to analyze the levels of digitalisation factors that are necessary for (but do not guarantee) realizing the different levels of sustainable competitiveness. Their analysis showed that “although digitalisation factors are not critical to low levels of Global Sustainable Competitiveness, their presence is important [and even essential according to NCA] to reach moderate and high levels of sustainable competitiveness” (p13).
Their study is one of the first which attempts to simultaneously use NCA and fsQCA methods in information systems.
The EURAM conference is just around the corner. If you are attending it, you can join us for a Webinar on NCA on Saturday 5th December from 11:30 until 13:00.
We will cover a basic introduction of NCA and will offer a more in-depth discussion about the methodology. To attend the webinar, you will find all information on your EURAM account.
As the use of the Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) has been growing over the past few months, so has the amount of papers suggesting NCA for future research. Those suggestions occur in various fields such as Strategy, Psychology or International Business Management, among other.
As we find this is an encouraging step forward for the method, we have decided to list those papers on the NCA website.
From now on, you can find papers suggesting NCA for future research on our website, under Substantive publications: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/publications/substantive-publications/
Have you read the first newsletter of this academic year?
Among others, we discussed about our specialized webinars, our new book chapter in creativity research as well as how to get involved in the NCA community.
You can find this newsletter as well as the other other past ones here: https://www.erim.eur.nl/necessary-condition-analysis/about-nca/members/newsletter/old-newsletters/
You can also register to receive our upcoming NCA newsletters and stay informed about our last updates (link in the title of this news).
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