抄録
Many papers claim to have used GTA, but in empirical studies of Organizational
Behaviour and Psychology, illustration of cognitive concepts and
categories, that give meaning the participant’s experience, is not a theory.
Conventionally, the different GTA versions have been conceptually classified
by descriptive researchers from the viewpoint of epistemology, but the differences
between the generated GTs have not been theoretically evaluated
from the viewpoint of social science. Therefore, this paper evaluates each
GTA version in terms of ‘social interaction’ and ‘theory’, which form the
basis of GTA, by theoretically comparing the differences between representative
GTs using conceptual diagrams. As a result, the utility of the original
version and M-GTA were found. The following criteria were obtained to
enable evaluation of papers that used GTAs: （1） Being an interpersonal interaction
that can be abstracted one-to-one and include thought, emotion and
behaviour; （2） Examining scope and parsimony in theoretical saturation. In
addition, a new criterion for theoretical saturation was proposed for ‘relationships
between main categories.’
