Building Process Theory with Narrative: from Description to Explanation
利用叙事理论的概念，构建了一个分析叙事数据中结构特征的框架，帮助研究者从描述性叙事转向解释性过程理论，适用于组织过程分析。
Narrative is especially relevant to the analysis of organizational processes because people do not simply tell stories—they enact them. Narrative data have surface features that are useful for description, but explanatory process theories must be based on deeper structures that are not directly observable. To address this problem and to facilitate better process theory, in this article I use concepts from narrative theory to create a framework for analyzing structural features in narrative data.