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Using Content Analysis to Elaborate Adolescent Theories of Organization

University of Manitoba

Karen Golden-Biddle

Boston University

This article shows how content analysis of textual archival data facilitates elaboration of adolescent theories. Drawing on the framework of a well-developed theory offered by Bacharach, the authors explain how specific protocols in content analysis can facilitate elaboration of three theoretical elements underdeveloped in adolescent theories: scientific robustness, relationship identification, and boundary establishment. Using an empirical example from a health care study, they illustrate the use of content analysis protocols to elaborate some theoretical elements of the attention-based view of the firm. The article contributes to content analysis and more generally to research methodology by specifying closer linkages between theory elaboration and content analysis.

Key Words: content analysis • theorizing • archival records • attention

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 11, No. 4, 795-814 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106297804


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