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orgsci-theory-development
Use when building or sharpening the theory for an Organization Science manuscript — articulating the organizational mechanism, bridging micro-macro levels, and deciding between a priori deductive theorizing and inductive grounded theory building. Develops the theory; it does not frame the contribution statement (orgsci-contribution-framing) or run the analysis (orgsci-data-analysis).
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# Theory Development (orgsci-theory-development)
## When to trigger
- Your hypotheses or propositions are descriptive ("A relates to B") with no organizational mechanism
- You have rich inductive data and need to build, not test, theory
- A reviewer says "what is the theoretical engine?" or "the levels are conflated"
- You need to bridge micro behavior and macro structure explicitly
## Two legitimate modes — pick deliberately
Organization Science is **theory-driven** but methodologically eclectic, so theory can be built two ways and the journal respects both:
- **Deductive / a priori.** State the organizational construct relationships, derive the mechanism from organization theory, and articulate testable propositions or hypotheses before the data. Make the mediating mechanism and the boundary conditions explicit.