Thomas Greckhamer

Department Chair & Professor
Rucks Department of Management

Contact
tgreck@lsu.edu
225-578-6156
2715 Business Education Complex North

Distinctions
William W. Rucks IV Endowed Chair of Management

Education

  • PhD Management, University of Florida, 2005
  • MA International Business, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 1999
  • MA Business Administration, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 1999

 

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Gur, F., & Greckhamer, T. (2026). Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors. European Management Journal, 44, 183-196.

Kohler, T., Smith, A., Greckhamer, T., & Le, Jane (2025). Feature Topic for ORM: Advanced Analytic Approaches to Theorize From Qualitative Research, Organizational Research Methods, 28, 330-334.

Cilesiz, S., & Greckhamer, T. (2022). Methodological socialization and identity in doctoral education: A bricolage study of pathways toward qualitative research. Organizational Research Methods (Feature Topic on Templates in Qualitative Research Methods, 25, 337-370. (Equal authorship).

Greckhamer, T., & Cilesiz, S. (2022). The Extension of Strategic Management Discourse into Public Education Administration: A Critical Analysis. Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, 19: 619-652.

Furnari, S., Crilly, D., Misangyi, V., Greckhamer, T., Aguilera, R., and Fiss, P. (2021). Capturing causal complexity: A configurational theorizing process. Academy of Management Review (Special issue on The Role of Theory in Management Research), 46, 778-779.

Greckhamer, T., & Gur, F. (2021). Disentangling combinations and contingencies of generic strategies: A set–theoretic configurational approach. Long Range Planning, 54: 1–18.

Gupta, K., Crilly, D., and Greckhamer, T. (2020). Stakeholder Engagement Strategies, National Institutions, and Firm Performance: A Configurational Perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 41, 1869-1900.

Greckhamer, T. and Cilesiz, S. (2020). The extension of strategic management discourse into public education administration: A critical analysis. Organization, Online First.

Cilesiz, S. and Greckhamer, T. (2020). Qualitative Comparative Analysis in education research: Its current status and future potential. Review of Research in Education, 44, 332-369.

Furnari, S., Crilly, D., Misangyi, V., Greckhamer, T., Fiss, P., and Aguilera, R. (2020). Capturing causal complexity: Heuristics for configurational theorizing. Academy of Management Review, Online First.

Greckhamer, T. and Gur, F.. Disentangling combinations and contingencies of generic strategies: A set-theoretic configurational approach. Long Range Planning, 54(2), 1-18.

Gur, F. Amil and Greckhamer, T. (2019). 'Know thy enemy': A review and agenda for research on competitor identification. Journal of Management, 45(5), 2072-2100.

Greckhamer, T., Furnari, S., Fiss, P., and Aguilera, R. (2018). Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research. Strategic Organization, 16(4), 482-495.

Misangyi, V., Greckhamer, T., Furnari, S., Fiss, P., Crilly, D., and Aguilera, R. (2017). Embracing Causal Complexity: The Emergence of a Neo-Configurational Perspective. Journal of Management, 43(1), 255-282.

Greckhamer, T. (2016). CEO compensation in relation to worker compensation across countries: The configurational impact of country-level institutions. Strategic Management Journal, 37, 793-815.

Greckhamer, T. and Cilesiz, S. (2014). Rigor, transparency, evidence, and representation in discourse analysis: Challenges and recommendations. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13, 422-443.

Greckhamer, T., Misangyi, V., and Fiss, P. (2013). The two QCAs: From a Small-N to a Large-N Set-Theoretic Approach. 58, 51-77.

Greckhamer, T. (2012). Local meanings of global discourses: A structural approach to the comparative study of institutional meaning systems. Field Methods, 24(1), 28-55.

Greckhamer, T. (2011). Cross-cultural differences in compensation level and inequality across occupations. Organization Studies, 32(1), 85-115.

Greckhamer, T. (2010). The stretch of strategic management discourse: A critical analysis. Organization Studies, 31(7), 241-271.
Greckhamer, T., Koro-Ljungberg, M., Cilesiz, S., and Hayes, S. (2008). Demystifying interdisciplinary qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry, 14(2), 307-331.

Greckhamer, T., Misangyi, V., Elms, H., and Lacey, R. (2008). Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Strategic Management Research: An examination of combinations of industry, corporate, and business-unit effects. Organizational Research Methods, 11(4), 695-726.

Misangyi, V. F, Elms, H., Greckhamer, T., and LePine, J. A (2006). A new perspective on a fundamental debate: A multi-level approach to industry, corporate, and business-unit effects. Strategic Management Journal, 27(6), 571-590.

Greckhamer, T. and Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2005). The erosion of a method: Examples from grounded theory. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 18(6), 729-750.

Koro-Ljungberg, M. and Greckhamer, T. (2005). Strategic turns labeled 'ethnography': From description to openly ideological production of cultures. Qualitative Research, 5(3), 285-306.

Tosi, H. L. and Greckhamer, T. (2004). Culture and CEO compensation. Organization Science, 15(6), 657-670.

Teaching Interests: Strategic Management, Research Methods

Research Interests: Strategic Management, Research Methods

Greckhamer, T. (2019). Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Organizational Research In Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Richard Williams and Alex Cernat (Ed.), Sage Research Methods Foundations

Greckhamer, T. (2017). Critical approaches to qualitative research In Mir, R. & Jain, S. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies (pp. 40-55). New York: Routledge.

Greckhamer, T. (2015). Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Fuzzy set applications for strategic management In Giovanni B Dagnino, Maria Cristina Cinici (Ed.), Research Methods for Strategic Management: A Research Methods Handbook (pp. 229-252).

Greckhamer, T. and Cilesiz, S. (2012). Critical and poststructural approaches to strategy research: Theoretical and methodological suggestions In Ketchen, Dave, Donald Bergh, and Katherine Wang (Ed.), Research Methodology in strategy and management (pp. 3-38).

Greckhamer, T. and Mossholder, K. W. (2011). Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Strategic Management Research: Current State and Future Prospects In Dave Ketchen & Donald Bergh (Ed.), Research Methodology in Strategy and Management (pp. 259-288).