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Special section on "Quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis in business"

Quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis in business
Kun-Huang Huarng, Andrea Rey-Martí, María-José Miquel-Romero

Bankruptcy prediction in the agribusiness sector: Lessons from quantitative and qualitative approaches
Katarzyna Boratynska, Emilia Grzegorzewska

Domestic economic and social conditions empowering female entrepreneurship
G. Ribes-Giner, I. Moya-Clemente, R. Cervelló-Royo, M.R. Perello-Marin

Alliances of service firms and manufacturers: Relations and configurations of entrepreneurial orientation and hybrid innovation
Ricarda B. Bouncken, Martin Ratzmann, Robin Pesch, Sven M. Laudien

Analysis of factors affecting financial inclusion: Ecosystem view
Oksana Kabakova, Evgeny Plaksenkov

Antecedents to innovation performance in SMEs: A mixed methods approach
Carla Curado, Lucía Muñoz-Pascual, Jesús Galende

Backtesting an equity risk model under Solvency II
Pablo Durán Santomil, Luís Otero González, Onofre Martorell Cunill, José M. Merigó Lindahl

Can entrepreneurship channel overqualification in young university graduates in the European Union?
Fernando Crecente-Romero, Mónica Giménez-Baldazo, Luis F. Rivera-Galicia

Corporate governance and financial performance: The role of ownership and board structure
Jordi Paniagua, Rafael Rivelles, Juan Sapena

Country-based comparison of accommodation brands in social media: An fsQCA approach
Alexandru Capatina, Adrian Micu, Angela Eliza Micu, Rym Bouzaabia, Olfa Bouzaabia

Determinants of migratory flow in Europe: A fuzzy-set approach
Alfredo Juan Grau Grau, Federico Ramírez López

Dynamic capabilities, operational changes, and performance outcomes in the media industry
Ari Jantunen, Anssi Tarkiainen, Simos Chari, Pejvak Oghazi

Earnings and capital management in European banks – Combining a multivariate regression with a qualitative comparative analysis
Inês Pinto, Winnie Ng Picoto

Effectuation or causation: An fsQCA analysis of entrepreneurial passion, risk perception, and self-efficacy
Silvia Stroe, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent

Engagement in sports virtual brand communities
Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos, Francisco Rejón Guardia, Carlos Pérez Campos, Ferran Calabuig-Moreno, Yong Jae Ko

Examining relationship value in cross-border business relationships: A comparison between correlational and configurational approaches
Dionysis Skarmeas, Charalampos Saridakis, Constantinos N. Leonidou

Examining the influence of corporate website favorability on corporate image and corporate reputation: Findings from fsQCA
Elena Ageeva, T.C. Melewar, Pantea Foroudi, Charles Dennis, Zhongqi Jin

Greening the workplace through social sustainability among co-workers
Pascal Paillé, Nabil Amara, Norrin Halilem

The role of motivations and involvement in wine tourists’ intention to return: SEM and fsQCA findings
Carolina Afonso, Graça Miranda Silva, Helena Martins Gonçalves, Margarida Duarte

Imitation-related performance outcomes in social trading: A configurational approach
Elisabeth S.C. Berger, Matthias Wenzel, Veit Wohlgemuth

Business network commons and their fragilities: Emerging configurations of local organizational fields
Francesca Ricciardi, Alessandro Zardini, Cecilia Rossignoli

The role of emotions and conflicting online reviews on consumers’ purchase intentions
Carla Ruiz-Mafe, Kalliopi Chatzipanagiotou, Rafael Curras-Perez

Low-cost trends in audit fees and their impact on service quality
Salvador Climent-Serrano, Elisabeth Bustos-Contell, Gregorio Labatut-Serer, Andrea Rey-Martí

Management control systems in high-tech start-ups: An empirical investigation
António Samagaio, Nuno Fernandes Crespo, Ricardo Rodrigues

A social comparison theory approach to mothers’ and daughters’ clothing co-consumption behaviors: A cross-cultural study in France and Japan
Elodie Gentina, Kun-Huang Huarng, Mototaka Sakashita

Perceived service quality and customer satisfaction: A fuzzy set QCA approach in the railway sector
Sandra Miranda, Patrícia Tavares, Rita Queiró

Target costing and innovation-exploratory configurations: A comparison of fsQCA, multivariate regression, and variable cluster analysis
Tiago Gonçalves, Cristina Gaio, Mariana Silva

Spotlight on customization: An analysis of necessity and sufficiency in services
Alexander Leischnig, Kati Kasper-Brauer, Sabrina C. Thornton

Implementation effects in the relationship between CRM and its performance
Ilaria Dalla Pozza, Oliver Goetz, Jean Michel Sahut

The determinants of stakeholder engagement in digital platforms
Giampaolo Viglia, Rebecca Pera, Enrique Bigné

The impact of the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework Agreement on electricity prices in MIBEL: A mixed-methods approach
João Estevão, Clara Raposo

Entrepreneurial climate and self-perceptions about entrepreneurship: a country comparison using fsQCA with dual outcomes
Malcolm J. Beynon, Paul Jones, David Pickernell

Understanding configurations of value creation functions in business relationships using a fuzzy-set QCA
Jose Novais Santos, João Mota, Cristina Sales Baptista

University or polytechnic? A fuzzy-set approach of prospective students’ choice and its implications for higher education institutions’ managers
Paulo Lopes Henriques, Pedro Verga Matos, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Pilar Mosquera, Filipa Pires da Silva, João Bacalhau

Usage intensity of mobile medical apps: A tale of two methods
José Manuel Cristóvão Veríssimo

Big Data techniques to measure credit banking risk in home equity loans
A. Pérez-Martín, A. Pérez-Torregrosa, M. Vaca

The pursuit of virtual happiness: Exploring the social media experience across generations
Orie Berezan, Anjala S. Krishen, Shaurya Agarwal, Pushkin Kachroo

Perceptional components of brand equity: Configuring the Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Paths to brand loyalty and brand purchase intention
Pantea Foroudi, Zhongqi Jin, Suraksha Gupta, Mohammad M. Foroudi, Philip J. Kitchen

Regular papers

The effects of employees’ creative self-efficacy on innovative behavior: The role of entrepreneurial leadership
Alexander Newman, Herman H.M. Tse, Gary Schwarz, Ingrid Nielsen

The moderating role of cultural intelligence in the relationship between cultural orientations and conflict management styles
Andrea Caputo, Oluremi B. Ayoko, Nii Amoo

Psychological Distress is increasing among customer-facing retail employees: Evidence from 1997 to 2015
Pankaj C. Patel, John A. Pearce, Daniel G. Bachrach

Family incivility, emotional exhaustion at work, and being a good soldier: The buffering roles of waypower and willpower
Dirk De Clercq, Inam Ul Haq, Muhammad Umer Azeem, Usman Raja

Salesperson regulatory knowledge and sales performance
Mark D. Groza, Mya Pronschinske Groza

Circular vs. angular servicescape: “Shaping” customer response to a fast service encounter pace
Stephanie Q. Liu, Vanja Bogicevic, Anna S. Mattila

Peer interaction and learning: Cross-country diffusion of solar photovoltaic technology
Hongbo Duan, Gupeng Zhang, Shouyang Wang, Ying Fan

How do political and market exposure nurture ambidexterity?
Alfredo Jiménez, Dirk Boehe

Entrepreneurs’ propensity for corruption: A vignette-based factorial survey
Petra Dickel, Peter Graeff

Institutional entrepreneur strategies in emerging economies: Creating market exclusivity for the rising affluent
Rama K. Jayanti, S. Raghunath

A measure of revenue management orientation and its mediating role in the relationship between market orientation and performance
Noureddine Selmi, Damien Chaney

Do organizations’ diversity signals threaten members of the majority group? The case of employee professional networks
Angélica S. Gutiérrez, Julian K. Saint Clair

Why the family business brand matters: Brand authenticity and the family firm trust inference
Maximilian Lude, Reinhard Prügl

Power distance belief and preference for transparency
Shalini Sarin Jain, Shailendra Pratap Jain

On big data-guided upstream business research and its knowledge management
Shastri L. Nimmagadda, Torsten Reiners, Lincoln C. Wood

How do consumers think about hybrid products? Computer wearables have an identity problem
Marzena E. Nieroda, Mona Mrad, Michael R. Solomon

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