Jan Dul

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Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Jan Dul is a professor of Technology and Human Factors at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on work environments for human performance and well-being. He is strongly interested in empirical research methodology. Jan Dul has written more than 150 publications. His methodological publications include a book on Case Study Methodology in Business Research (Routledge), and a book on Conducting Necessary Condition Analysis (Sage). He is the founder of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), and has published about the method in methodological journals such as Organizational Research Methods and Sociological Methods & Research. He received several international awards including the “2013 Liberty Mutual Award”, the “International Ergonomics Association Distinguished Service Award” (2015), the “Hal W. Hendrick Distinguished International Colleague Award” (2015), and the 2020 best empirical paper award of the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

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Necessary Conditions Analysis: Theory and Applications

NCA is a rather new method, with several methodological publications that have appeared in high ranked journals. It has been applied in a variety of research fields in the social, medical and technical sciences with a rapidly increasing number of publications. It has the potential “to change how organizational researchers approach testing for cause and effect relationships” (according to an editor of a top journal). Participants of earlier workshops appreciated the method because it is “intuitively easy to understand”, “a new way of thinking and therefore it may lead to many interesting insights, just re-analyzing an old dataset”, and “insights are very relevant for practice”. The course is primarily open to PhD candidates and junior faculty, but also to other researchers (including master students and senior faculty) who are interested in this novel approach.

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