etp-theory-development
Use when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity, socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-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.
# Theory Development (etp-theory-development) ## When to trigger - Your "hypotheses" are descriptive ("X relates to Y in startups") with no entrepreneurial mechanism - A reviewer or editor says the theory "could be about any organization, not entrepreneurship" - You are choosing among the entrepreneurship theory engines (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity) and don't yet have a mechanism - You are deciding between deductive hypotheses, an inductive grounded model, and a conceptual reconciliation - The "implications for practice" section is empty or generic ## ETP's theory bar ETP wants a **genuine contribution to entrepreneurship theory** — a new construct, a new mechanism, a boundary condition that changes what we predict, or a reconciliation of competing accounts — paired with a **defensible implication for practice**. The dual mandate (theory *and* practice, USASBE heritage) is structural, not cosmetic: an elegant model with no practitioner payoff and a useful tip with no theory both fall short. The mechanism must be **about the entrepreneurial phenomenon itself** — opportunity, judgment under Knightian uncertainty, resource assembly under constraint, the liability of
- When to trigger
- ETP's theory bar
- Pick the theory engine (and use it deliberately)
- Choose and execute a theorizing mode
- Make the practice contribution a real contribution
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the etp-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity, socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-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 984 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.