Peer Fiss

Peer Fiss holds the Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair in Business Administration and serves as Professor of Management and Organization and Sociology at USC's Marshall School of Business. His research advances configurational approaches to organizational phenomena using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and set-theoretic methods.

Research contributions focus on:

• Neo-configurational perspectives in management theory
• Market category dynamics and firm strategy
• Intersectional analysis of organizational inequalities
• Methodological innovation in qualitative comparative analysis

Recent work develops set-analytic approaches to intersectionality and unpacks gender gaps in technology entrepreneurship. His scholarship establishes best practices for analyzing causal complexity in organizational contexts and examines how firms strategically navigate evolving market categories.