jibs-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript within the international-business conversation — joining a live IB debate, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and situating the work against the JIBS canon and adjacent IB outlets. Frames the conversation; it does not state the final contribution claim (jibs-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-literature-positioning --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.
# Positioning in the IB Conversation (jibs-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Your introduction reads as "little research has examined X" (gap-spotting) - You cite general-management work but not the IB conversation your paper joins - A reviewer asks "how does this engage existing IB theory?" - You are unsure which IB debate your finding actually speaks to ## Problematize, do not gap-spot JIBS, as a phenomenon-driven journal, rewards papers that **problematize** an assumption in the IB literature rather than catalog an empty cell. Identify a tension, an anomaly, or a contested mechanism in IB scholarship and show why resolving it matters for understanding cross-border activity. "No one has studied this country" is not a contribution; "the dominant internationalization-process account predicts X, but this phenomenon shows the opposite" is. ## Join a live IB conversation Situate the work inside a recognizable, ongoing IB debate — for example: - Internalization vs. externalization and global value-chain governance - Uppsala incremental commitment vs. born-global / rapid internationalization - Institutional distance and "institutional voids" in emerging markets - Emerging-mar
- When to trigger
- Problematize, do not gap-spot
- Join a live IB conversation
- Before → after: problematizing an IB opening
- Citation architecture for the front end
- Engage the JIBS canon and route adjacent literatures
- Positioning pass for Journal of International Business Studies
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the jibs-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript within the international-business conversation — joining a live IB debate, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and situating the work against the JIBS canon and adjacent IB outlets. Frames the conversation; it does not state the final contribution claim (jibs-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-literature-positioning --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.