Causal complexity is a key aspect shaping our experiences. Organizations and individuals have to negotiate complex realities where multiple causes combine in complicated ways, often with more than one path to a desired outcome.

Much of my current work focuses on how to deal with this complexity conceptually, empirically, and methodologically, primarily by means of set-analytics and fuzzy set QCA. Empirically, I study for instance the complex configurations used by firms to achieve outcomes such as high performance, agility, and strategic change. I am also interested in how market categories structure competition and how social categories like race and gender combine to affect life outcomes such as avoiding poverty or getting promoted.

Finally, I have long been interested in how firms make sense of and give meaning to this complex experience, for instance by their strategic use of language and analogy toward audiences.  

For examples of this work, please see my publications. I publish in book form and in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization, among others.

My work has been covered in outlets such as ABC News, CFO, Business Insider, HBR.org, Moneyish, the New York Times, the Pacific Standard, and TheStreet.

You can access my Google Scholar page here.