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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).

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# Theory Development (jms-theory-development)

## When to trigger

- Hypotheses read as bald predictions ("A is positively related to B") with no mechanism
- An inductive study produces rich description but no abstracted theoretical model
- The argument leans on one borrowed citation rather than a developed logic
- A reviewer says "the theory is thin," "this is description, not theory," or "what is the contribution to theory?"
- You are unsure whether to write a priori hypotheses or emergent propositions

## The JMS theory bar

JMS exists to advance management and organization **theory**, and — unlike a US empirical journal — it treats the **deductive** and **inductive** paths as equally legitimate. The bar is the same for both: a reader must finish understanding *why* the relationship or pattern holds and *under what conditions* it changes. Pick the path the design demands; do not force a qualitative study into a hypothetico-deductive template or write post-hoc hypotheses around quantitative results.
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