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jms-theory-development

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Use when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — building a mechanism and deriving hypotheses a priori, OR abstracting grounded constructs and propositions from qualitative data. Constructs the theory both deductively and inductively; it does not run the analysis (jms-data-analysis) or write the final contribution paragraph (jms-contribution-framing).

When to use

• building a mechanism and deriving hypotheses a priori
• abstracting grounded constructs and propositions from qualitative data
• constructing theory deductively
• constructing theory inductively
• engaging rival explanations
• fixing deductive hypotheses before analysis
• tracing inductive constructs to data

When not to use

• running the analysis
• writing the final contribution paragraph

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