orgsci-methods
Use when choosing and defending the research design for an Organization Science manuscript — matching one of the journal's eclectic methods (qualitative/inductive, quantitative/archival, experimental, computational/simulation, formal-analytical) to the question and level of analysis, and justifying design without requiring causal identification.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgsci-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 (orgsci-methods) ## When to trigger - You are choosing a method, or a reviewer says the method does not fit the question - A reviewer demands causal identification you cannot obtain - Your level of analysis and your data source do not line up - You are mixing methods and need to justify the combination ## Match the method to the question — the journal is pluralistic Organization Science is **methodologically eclectic**: it publishes qualitative and inductive fieldwork, quantitative and archival studies, experiments, computational/simulation models, and formal-analytical theory, and it does not privilege one. The design must **fit the theoretical contribution and the level of analysis**, not signal methodological fashion. | Theoretical goal / data structure | Design that fits | |-----------------------------------|------------------| | Build a new process or construct from the field | Inductive qualitative (grounded theory, ethnography, comparative cases) | | Test a cross-level mechanism in nested data | Multilevel / HLM with explicit composition or contextual logic | | Trace organizational founding/failure over time | Event-history / survival; panel | |
- When to trigger
- Match the method to the question — the journal is pluralistic
- Causal inference is valued but not required
- Design quality that reviewers check
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Methods pass for Organization Science
- Output format
What does the orgsci-methods skill do?
Use when choosing and defending the research design for an Organization Science manuscript — matching one of the journal's eclectic methods (qualitative/inductive, quantitative/archival, experimental, computational/simulation, formal-analytical) to the question and level of analysis, and justifying design without requiring causal identification.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgsci-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.