Boundary activities and readiness for ... - Projekti-Instituutti

Research methodology and data
mainly during the first phase of the analysis in characterizing each case
program and creating a description of its progress. The last two phases
relied mainly on interview data. Table 10 provides an overview of the
analysis process. Next, each phase of the analysis is described in detail.
Figure 4 Description of the analysis process
3.5.1 The first phase of the analysis
The first phase of the analysis was case-specific. The analysis of each case
began by reading through all the interview transcripts and getting familiar
with the program-related documentation. Following the recommendations
of previous research (Meyer, 2001; Voss et al., 2002), a description of the
early program phases was constructed for each case and a chronology was
established to gain an understanding of how the program had emerged and
developed. Program documentation was especially useful in tracing the
history of the change programs and providing support for the statements
made by the interviewees (Meyer, 2001). For the purposes of further
analyses, the start and end points of the program initiation were defined
case-specifically.
As suggested by many authors on organizational change (Armenakis &
Bedeian, 1999; Barnett & Carroll, 1995; Pettigrew, 1987), the content,
context and process of change were all examined. However, the principle of
anonymity of the case organizations unfortunately limits the extent to
which the context of change as well as the content of change can be
described in this thesis. Even though considerable effort is made to portray
both the change context and the change content in a requisite detail, the
91