jms-methods
Use when the research design is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — matching design (qualitative case/ethnography, process/longitudinal, survey, archival, experiment, multi-method) to the theoretical question, with qualitative rigor treated as first-class. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation or trustworthiness checks (jms-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jms-methods --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.
# Research Design & Methods (jms-methods) ## When to trigger - The design may not match the theory's level, timing, or causal claim - A qualitative study's case selection, saturation, or analytic procedure is under-specified - Quantitative data are single-source, single-wave, self-reported (common-method bias risk) - The theory is causal but the design is cross-sectional/correlational - A reviewer says "the design cannot test/show this" or "the method is not rigorous enough" ## Match the design to the question — pluralism with rigor JMS welcomes **all** rigorous designs and is, distinctively, a friendly home for **qualitative and process** work — but rigor must clear a top-tier bar regardless of method. Choose the design the question demands: | Theoretical claim / question | Design that earns it | |------------------------------|----------------------| | *How/why* a phenomenon emerges or works | Inductive multi-case (Eisenhardt) or ethnography | | *How* something unfolds over time | Process / longitudinal (temporal bracketing, visual mapping) | | Causal effect of a manipulable cause | Experiment (lab / field / online) or natural experiment | | Whether & how much, with generalisatio
- When to trigger
- Match the design to the question — pluralism with rigor
- Designing qualitative rigor (first-class at JMS)
- Designing against the threats JMS reviewers cite (quantitative)
- Level-of-analysis discipline
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jms-methods skill do?
Use when the research design is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — matching design (qualitative case/ethnography, process/longitudinal, survey, archival, experiment, multi-method) to the theoretical question, with qualitative rigor treated as first-class. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation or trustworthiness checks (jms-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jms-methods --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.