Using Content Analysis to Elaborate Adolescent Theories of Organization
展示了如何通过文本档案的内容分析来完善和发展青少年的理论，具体说明了内容分析协议如何帮助增强理论的科学稳健性、关系识别和边界建立，并以医疗研究为例进行说明。
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.