aos-literature-positioning
Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (aos-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The front end reviews literatures without joining any specific conversation - Reviewers could ask "why does this belong in AOS rather than a management or sociology journal?" - Citations cluster in a sibling journal's canon (JAR/TAR earnings-quality chains, AMJ theory-building chains) - You cannot name the two or three prior papers your findings push against ## Position inside AOS's own 50-year canon AOS is unusual: half a century of its own archive defines the conversations it cares about, and its editors read submissions against that archive. Locate the specific AOS thread your paper extends: | Thread (examples from the canon) | You must engage it if your paper is about… | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Roles of accounting beyond the textbook — Burchell et al. (1980); Hopwood (1983) | any claim that accounting does unexpected work | | Accounting, power and the calculable person — Miller & O'Leary (1987) | costing, performance measurement, discipline | | Accountability in everyday organizational life — Roberts
- When to trigger
- Position inside AOS's own 50-year canon
- Engage the interdisciplinary sources honestly
- Mark the delta
- Structure of a positioned front end
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aos-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.