jmgmt-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution-relative-to-prior-work is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — staking the gap against the right conversation and against sibling journals (AMJ, SMJ, JMS, Org Science). Positions the paper; it does not build the theory (jmgmt-theory-development) or write the discussion (jmgmt-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmgmt-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.
# Literature Positioning (jmgmt-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro reviews the literature but never names the *gap* it closes - A reviewer says the contribution is "incremental" or "we already knew this" - The paper could be read as a near-duplicate of a recent JOM/AMJ piece - You cite broadly but cannot say which *conversation* you are joining - For a review/meta-analysis: you cannot say why a synthesis is needed *now* ## Positioning to the right conversation JOM is a general-management journal, so the trap is positioning against *everything* and contributing to *nothing*. Pick the **focal conversation** — the specific stream (e.g., the abusive-supervision literature, the dynamic-capabilities debate, the entrepreneurial-orientation–performance relationship) — and stake the gap there. The strongest JOM intros use a **problematization** move: surface an assumption the literature takes for granted, show it is questionable, and position the paper as resolving the tension. A "gap-spotting" move ("no one has studied X in setting Y") is weaker and reads as incremental. ## Differentiating from the siblings (in the text) Reviewers will be drawn from JOM's neighbors and
- When to trigger
- Positioning to the right conversation
- Differentiating from the siblings (in the text)
- The meta-analysis / review positioning move
- From positioning to contribution sentences
- Worked example (illustrative)
- Positioning a synthesis against prior syntheses
- Citing across subfields without losing focus
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jmgmt-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the contribution-relative-to-prior-work is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — staking the gap against the right conversation and against sibling journals (AMJ, SMJ, JMS, Org Science). Positions the paper; it does not build the theory (jmgmt-theory-development) or write the discussion (jmgmt-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jmgmt-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.