jibs-theory-development
Use when building the theoretical mechanism and deriving hypotheses for a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — specifying cross-level (country/culture → firm/individual) logic, boundary conditions, and an explicit contribution to international-business theory. Builds the argument; it does not test it (jibs-data-analysis) or pick the design (jibs-methods).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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.
# Cross-Level IB Theory Development (jibs-theory-development) ## When to trigger - Your hypotheses read as "A relates to B" with no IB mechanism - Country or culture appears in the model but is not theorized as a level - You are unsure whether your moderator is a cross-level or same-level effect - A reviewer says "the theoretical contribution to IB is unclear" ## Theorize across levels, not just across borders JIBS's signature is that **country and culture are levels of analysis**. Strong JIBS theory makes the cross-level logic explicit: - **Name the levels.** Individual, firm/subsidiary, and country. State which level the focal construct, the cause, and the outcome each live on. - **Specify the cross-level mechanism.** How does a country/culture-level condition (institutions, cultural values, distance, political risk) shape a firm- or individual-level process? Avoid "anthropomorphizing" a country — translate the macro condition into the micro mechanism it operates through. - **Distance and asymmetry.** If you invoke "distance" (cultural, institutional, geographic, psychic), theorize its *direction* and *asymmetry* — the effect of country A on B need not equal B on A. Treat distanc
- When to trigger
- Theorize across levels, not just across borders
- Anchor in an IB theoretical tradition
- Context as theory, not as setting
- Hypotheses
- Operating pass for Journal of International Business Studies
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the jibs-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the theoretical mechanism and deriving hypotheses for a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — specifying cross-level (country/culture → firm/individual) logic, boundary conditions, and an explicit contribution to international-business theory. Builds the argument; it does not test it (jibs-data-analysis) or pick the design (jibs-methods).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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.