"… theory is a statement of concepts and their interrelationships that shows how and/or why a phenomenon occurs" (Corley and Gioia 2011: 12).
That's not a criticism of the concept, just a statement of work that must be done.
But it was just the analysis of ordinary language that led Frege to his insight that a statement of number is an assertion about a concept.
In this way, Frege analyzed a statement of number ('there are two authors of Principia Mathematica') as higher-order logical statements about concepts.
Or a statement of intent?
Prepare a Statement of Information.
Include a statement of facts.
Write a statement of purpose.
He begins with a brief statement of the concept of moral responsibility that it is sometimes appropriate to respond to an agent with praise or blame on the basis of her actions and/or dispositional traits of character (1109b30 35).
On Sunday, she projected Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's words yet again, a powerful statement of the concept which has since become trendy.
