How job design explains business analyst recruitment challenges

Ransome Epie Bawack (), Oteng Ntsweng and Emilie Bonhoure ()
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Ransome Epie Bawack: Audencia Business School
Emilie Bonhoure: Audencia Business School

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Abstract: Business Analysts (BAs) are increasingly central to digital transformation, yet organizations continue to struggleto recruit them. This study examines how BA roles are communicated in job postings and the extent to whichthese representations reflect the task, social, and contextual characteristics emphasized in job design research.Using topic modeling and qualitative coding, we analyze 7,654 LinkedIn postings for BA roles. This studycontributes to job design research by showing that BA job postings disproportionately emphasize work- andworker-task characteristics over social and contextual characteristics central to contemporary job designframeworks.

Keywords: Knowledgeintensive work; Business Analyst; Business Analyst Job design Job postings Recruitment signaling Knowledgeintensive work Topic modeling; Topic modeling; Knowledge-intensive work; Recruitment signaling; Job postings; Job design; Business analyst (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-09
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Published in Journal of Business Research, 2026, 214, pp.116268. ⟨10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116268⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116268

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