aos-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social, organizational, behavioral or institutional life of accounting, and picking the intellectual tradition the question demands. Screens fit; it does not build the theory (aos-theory-development).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection & AOS Fit (aos-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a phenomenon, a field site, or a dataset but no question AOS would recognize as its own - You cannot decide between AOS and a sibling outlet (JAR, JAE, TAR, CAR, MAR, AAAJ, CPA) - A coauthor asks "isn't this really a capital-markets paper?" - You are choosing between studying an accounting practice in the field, in the lab, or in the archive ## What AOS was built to publish Anthony Hopwood launched AOS in 1976 precisely because the leading journals of the day treated accounting as a technical input to markets. AOS instead asks how accounting **shapes and is shaped by** human behavior, organizational processes, and social and political institutions. Its home turf: how budgets exercise power inside organizations (Covaleski & Dirsmith 1986); how costing regimes construct "governable persons" (Miller & O'Leary 1987); how accounting gains roles no textbook assigned it (Burchell et al. 1980); how preparers, auditors and investors actually judge and decide (Libby, Bloomfield & Nelson 2002); how audit and risk practices order social life (Power 2009). The core fit test: **would the paper still matter if securit
- When to trigger
- What AOS was built to publish
- The desk-reject genre — know it before you submit
- Pick the tradition the question demands
- Sharpen the question
- Sibling-venue triage
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aos-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social, organizational, behavioral or institutional life of accounting, and picking the intellectual tradition the question demands. Screens fit; it does not build the theory (aos-theory-development).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-topic-selection --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.