Abstract -- Research using quantitative methods often produces non-significant results due to a lack of statistical power stemming from a less than adequate sample size. This study addresses how a relatively new qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) method may be used to expose meaningful relationships between causal variables and a dependent outcome variable. This study uses as its baseline for analysis a 2009 quantitative study of the effect of an MBA program intervention on the attitudinal construct entrepreneurial orientation as psychometrically measured from a survey of 71 participants in an AACSB-accredited MBA program conducted in Vietnam. The hypotheses in the baseline study could not be rejected or accepted due to lack of significance thereby limiting that study’s contribution to the body of knowledge related to entrepreneurship and education. This study, based on the use of the qualitative comparative analysis method, offers insight into the question of why the baseline study failed to achieve significant results and further how the MBA program effected the entrepreneurial orientation of various subsets of participants.
------- A draft study submitted for presentation to the Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International conference editors -----
------- A draft study submitted for presentation to the Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International conference editors -----