msom-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript within the operations-management literature — engaging the canonical OM streams (inventory, queueing, supply-chain contracting, revenue management, service operations, empirical OM), selecting the target editorial Department, and stating the operational conversation the paper joins.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-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 (msom-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Your front end reads as "no one has studied X" rather than joining an OM conversation - A reviewer says the relevant operations stream is not engaged - You are unsure which of the six Departments the related work points to - You need to distinguish your contribution from close OM antecedents ## Join an operations conversation, not a generic gap M&SOM positions itself as the **premier journal for the operations management research community**. Position the paper inside the established OM streams it speaks to — e.g., inventory/supply-chain (newsvendor, base-stock, contracting and coordination), queueing and service operations, revenue management and pricing, platforms and matching, sustainable/healthcare operations, or empirical/data-driven OM. State the **operational conversation** you join and what you change in it, rather than claiming a void. ## Let the citations point to a Department The literature you engage should make your **target Department** obvious to an editor — Manufacturing & Supply Chain Operations; Services, Platforms & Revenue Management; Environment, Health & Society; Operational Innovation
- When to trigger
- Join an operations conversation, not a generic gap
- Let the citations point to a Department
- Distinguish from close antecedents on the operational lever
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue fix
- Output format
What does the msom-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript within the operations-management literature — engaging the canonical OM streams (inventory, queueing, supply-chain contracting, revenue management, service operations, empirical OM), selecting the target editorial Department, and stating the operational conversation the paper joins.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-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 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.