  This paper proposes an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Grounded Theory for
management studies. We argue that this novel and rigorous approach that embeds
topic modelling will lead to the latent knowledge to be found. We illustrate
this abductive method using 51 case studies of collaborative innovation
published by Project Management Institute (PMI). Initial results are presented
and discussed that include 40 topics, 6 categories, 4 of which are core
categories, and two new theories of project collaboration.
