Dr P.A. Alamos Concha (Priscilla)

Priscilla Alamos-Concha is Assistant Professor of Qualitative Empirical Methodology at Nijmegen School of Management. At the heart of her research is a question: what makes people, organizations, and societies change, and when does change become meaningful social transformation?

Working across social innovation, Grand Challenges, and organization studies, she examines how transformation takes shape through the interplay of multinational enterprises, communities, civil society, NGOs, and governments. Drawing on institutional, stakeholder, and social movement theories, she is interested in the combinations of actors, conditions, and processes that make change possible, durable, and consequential.

Particularly known for her work with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), she combines configurational approaches with Process Tracing and Comparative Historical Analysis to uncover causal mechanisms, pathways, and alternative routes to change. Her current research also explores concept formation and Indigenous social innovation, asking how knowledge is produced, whose knowledge counts, and what becomes possible when communities are recognized not simply as beneficiaries, but as knowledge holders and partners in defining problems, innovation, and impact.

Her work has appeared in Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Evaluation Review, Political Research Quarterly, and Quality & Quantity, among others. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Exeter and the European University Institute.

She is a founding member of MethodsNET. Alongside academia, she writes poetry—another way of exploring what moves people to think, feel, resist, act, and transform.

Languages: English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese; currently learning Dutch and Arabic.