TY  - CHAP
AB  - The notion of configuration – that the whole is best understood from a systemic perspective and should be viewed as a constellation of interconnected elements – is arguably one of the central ideas of organization studies. Yet, this idea also remains one of the field’s least understood aspects. In this volume and its introduction, we outline a new perspective for understanding configuration. Our starting point is the emergence of set theoretic configurational methods, and especially Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which provides novel ways for analyzing configurations. Our volume goes beyond introducing a new method to the fields of management and organization, as these methods furthermore offer an opportunity to rethink our understanding of the field and to develop different ways of theorizing the rich complexity of relationships that characterize organizational life. In this introduction, we introduce some of the key themes that differentiate the approach taken here from previous work on organizational configurations and provide evidence for the emerging renaissance of the configurational approach in organizational theory and research.
VL  - 38
SN  - 978-1-78190-778-8, 978-1-78190-779-5/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0000038005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0000038005
AU  - Fiss Peer C.
AU  - Marx Axel
AU  - Cambré Bart
ED  - Peer C. Fiss
ED  - Bart Cambré
ED  - Axel Marx
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Chapter 1 Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research: Introduction
T2  - Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 22
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -