aos-methods
Use when designing the study for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — qualitative field studies (access, case logic, interviews, observation), behavioral experiments, surveys, historical/archival inquiry, or theory-laden archival designs, each with the ethics and site-anonymity groundwork done early. Designs the inquiry; it does not run the coding or estimation (aos-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-methods --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.
# Research Design & Methods (aos-methods) ## When to trigger - Choosing between field study, experiment, survey, or historical design for a settled question - Negotiating field access, case selection, or interview/observation protocols - Designing manipulations and participant pools for a behavioral experiment - Ethics approval, informed consent, or site-anonymity commitments are still open - A reviewer says the design cannot support the paper's interpretive or causal claims ## Methodological pluralism, single standard AOS accepts any method suited to studying accounting's social operation, and holds each to the rigor bar of its own tradition. The design must let the *theoretical lens* meet the *empirical material* on fair terms — enough depth for interpretation, enough control for causal process claims, enough sources for historical reconstruction. ## Qualitative field study (the modal AOS design) - **Case logic.** Justify the site theoretically: extreme, revelatory, or transparently typical for the phenomenon. "We had access" is a fact, not a rationale — convert access into an argument about what this site lets you see. - **Data plan.** Triangulate interviews, observation, and in
- When to trigger
- Methodological pluralism, single standard
- Qualitative field study (the modal AOS design)
- Behavioral experiment
- Survey and historical designs
- Ethics and anonymity (settle before collection)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aos-methods skill do?
Use when designing the study for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — qualitative field studies (access, case logic, interviews, observation), behavioral experiments, surveys, historical/archival inquiry, or theory-laden archival designs, each with the ethics and site-anonymity groundwork done early. Designs the inquiry; it does not run the coding or estimation (aos-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-methods --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.