INDUCTIVE TOP-DOWN THEORIZING: A SOURCE OF NEW THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION.
- 1 April 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 36 (2), 361-380
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2011.59330952
Abstract
Building on coherence theory and a pragmatist tradition, we offer an inductive model of top-down theorizing that can be a source of new theories of organization. We explain how an initial hypothesis is refined to enhance its potential contribution (consistent with abduction). But, unlike abduction, we explain how inquiry begins-how research tensions are carved out of the flux of the vast literature-and how constant comparison facilitates an abductive process.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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