jbv-theory-development
Use when building the theoretical argument for a Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) manuscript — constructing a multidisciplinary mechanism (economics, psychology, sociology) for an entrepreneurial phenomenon, and choosing between hypothesis-testing and narrative/interpretive theorizing. Builds the argument; it does not pick the question (jbv-topic-selection) or run the analysis (jbv-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jbv-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 (jbv-theory-development) ## When to trigger - Your "hypotheses" are descriptive ("A relates to B in startups") with no entrepreneurial mechanism - You need to choose the disciplinary engine — agency/real-options (economics), cognition/affect (psychology), networks/legitimacy (sociology) - A handling editor or reviewer says the theory "could be about any organization, not entrepreneurship" - You are deciding whether to write a deductive model or a narrative/interpretive theory ## JBV's theory bar JBV elevates **"theories, narratives, and interpretations"** of the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of entrepreneurship. Two legitimate paths: - **Hypothetico-deductive**: derive testable hypotheses from an explicit mechanism. The mechanism must be *about the entrepreneurial phenomenon* — opportunity, judgment under Knightian uncertainty, resource assembly under resource constraints, legitimacy of the new and unknown (liability of newness), founder identity, etc. — not a generic organizational process. - **Narrative / interpretive**: build an interesting, internally coherent account or process theory of how entrepreneurial action unfolds. JBV's stance is broad
- When to trigger
- JBV's theory bar
- Pick the disciplinary engine (and combine deliberately)
- Build moderation/mediation around the phenomenon
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Theory pass for Journal of Business Venturing
- Output format
What does the jbv-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the theoretical argument for a Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) manuscript — constructing a multidisciplinary mechanism (economics, psychology, sociology) for an entrepreneurial phenomenon, and choosing between hypothesis-testing and narrative/interpretive theorizing. Builds the argument; it does not pick the question (jbv-topic-selection) or run the analysis (jbv-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jbv-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.