Implications for Existing Theory

Abstract

The following section depicts the implications for existing theory based on results of the empirical investigation in the last chapter and a comparison between theory and practice (next sub-section 7.1). Subsequently, in chapter 7.2, I present hypotheses to extend existing theory derived by the means of both theoretical reasoning and empirical investigation based on those comparisons. Thus, this section takes up the procedure of comparative analysis: “The elements of theory that are generated by comparative analysis are, first, conceptual categories and their conceptual properties; and second, hypotheses or generalized relations among the categories and their properties.” (Glaser & Strauss, 1967, p. 35)