aos-theory-development
Use when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory, governmentality, Bourdieu, actor-network theory, practice theory, psychological process theory) and making it generate the analysis rather than decorate it. Builds the lens; it does not collect data (aos-methods) or frame the contribution (aos-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-theory-development --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.
# Theoretical Lens & Theorizing (aos-theory-development) ## When to trigger - Field material is rich but the paper currently "describes what happened at Site X" - A theory is cited in the front end yet never reappears in the findings - An experiment predicts an effect without specifying the psychological process behind it - A reviewer writes "the theoretical framing is underdeveloped" or "the theory does no work" ## AOS is theory-first At AOS the theory is not a motivation ritual — it is the product. Empirics earn publication by extending, complicating, or overturning a way of understanding accounting's social operation. Before drafting anything else, answer: *which conversation about how accounting works in organizations and society will this paper change, and through which conceptual apparatus?* ## The working traditions of the AOS canon Choose one tradition and inhabit it; AOS referees can tell a user of a theory from a citer of one. - **Institutional theory.** Accounting as a carrier of legitimacy, myth, and isomorphic pressure; loose coupling between formal systems and practice. Entry point: Covaleski & Dirsmith (1986) on budgeting as power and politics. Theorize *which instit
- When to trigger
- AOS is theory-first
- The working traditions of the AOS canon
- Make the lens generate, not decorate
- Discipline checks by tradition
- Reading depth test
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aos-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory, governmentality, Bourdieu, actor-network theory, practice theory, psychological process theory) and making it generate the analysis rather than decorate it. Builds the lens; it does not collect data (aos-methods) or frame the contribution (aos-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-theory-development --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.