jibs-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — testing whether it is a genuine international-business phenomenon with country/culture as a level of analysis, and whether JIBS (vs. AMJ/SMJ/JWB) is the right venue. Locks the question; it does not build the mechanism (jibs-theory-development).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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.
# Phenomenon-Driven Topic Selection (jibs-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have an idea or a dataset but are unsure it is a real *international-business* question - Your sample is one country and you are not sure that qualifies as IB - You can describe a finding but not the cross-border phenomenon behind it - You are deciding between JIBS and an adjacent journal (AMJ, SMJ, JWB, GSJ, MIR) ## The JIBS fit test JIBS is distinctively **phenomenon-based**. Its Statement of Editorial Policy seeks "insightful and innovative" research on real-world international-business problems, and the journal explicitly discourages incremental extensions. Before anything else, your topic must pass four gates: 1. **Phenomenon gate.** Name a concrete cross-border, multi-country, or global phenomenon, problem, or puzzle (e.g., an MNE entry-mode choice, a subsidiary-HQ tension, a cross-cultural negotiation outcome, a de-globalization shock). If you can only name a "gap," you do not yet have a JIBS topic. 2. **Level-of-analysis gate.** JIBS treats **country and culture as levels of analysis**, not as control variables. State whether your effect lives at the individual, firm/subsidiary, or country l
- When to trigger
- The JIBS fit test
- Phenomenon stress test
- Venue routing
- Fit pass for Journal of International Business Studies
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the jibs-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — testing whether it is a genuine international-business phenomenon with country/culture as a level of analysis, and whether JIBS (vs. AMJ/SMJ/JWB) is the right venue. Locks the question; it does not build the mechanism (jibs-theory-development).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jibs-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 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.