Inductive Top-Down Theorizing: A Source of New Theories of Organization
基于连贯理论和实用主义传统，提出一种归纳式自上而下的理论构建模型，解释如何从初始假设出发，通过持续比较和溯因推理提炼出组织新理论。
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.