Core and peripheral conditions in fsQca

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Usman Shehzad

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Aug 8, 2025, 7:19:43 PM8/8/25
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Dear Neeraj Sir and group members 
Greetings
I hope you all are keeping well,
Dear Neeraj Sir, I want to ask a question regarding the confusion surrounding the FSQCA's Core and peripheral conditions. While finalizing the configurations table, what is the logic behind a condition that is core in some configurations, and the same condition is peripheral in other configurations.

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Dr. Muhammad Usman Shehzad
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Neeraj Kaushik

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Aug 10, 2025, 8:12:57 PM8/10/25
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Dear Usman,

fsQCA is designed to identify different pathways or "configurations" that can lead to a specific outcome. You can think of your variables as individual players, and a configuration as a distinct team. While traditional regression analysis assesses the importance of each individual player in isolation, fsQCA emphasizes that the same outcome can be achieved through various unique team compositions. Naturally, within each of these distinct teams, the role and importance of individual players (variables) will vary. This is why a condition might be core in one configuration (crucial to that particular "team's" success) and peripheral in another (less central to a different "team's" success).

I hope this analogy helps to explain the logic behind conditions shifting between core and peripheral roles across different configurations.

Best wishes
Neeraj


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Usman Shehzad

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Aug 11, 2025, 5:52:27 AM8/11/25
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Thank you so much, Neeraj Sir, for such a detailed response. 
It clarifies the theoretical perspective, but statistically, based on parsimonious and intermediate solution results, is there any defined criterion for a condition that is core in some configurations and the same condition is peripheral in other configurations?

Thank you
Warm regards
Dr. Muhammad Usman Shehzad
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Associate Editor: Journal of The Knowledge Economy: https://link.springer.com/journal/13132 

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