orgsci-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Organization Science manuscript — testing whether it is a theory-driven question about organizations spanning micro to macro, and whether Organization Science (rather than ASQ, AMJ, Management Science, or a field journal) is the right venue.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgsci-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.
# Topic Selection & Venue Fit (orgsci-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a phenomenon, dataset, or field access but no sharpened question - You are unsure whether the idea belongs in Organization Science vs. a sibling venue - A colleague asks "what is the organizational theory here?" ## What Organization Science wants Organization Science publishes **theory-driven** research about organizations — their processes, structures, technologies, identities, capabilities, forms, and performance — and is deliberately **interdisciplinary**, drawing on organization theory, strategy, sociology, economics, and psychology. A strong topic lives where an organizational phenomenon meets a theoretical conversation, and it can sit at **any level**: individual/team (micro), the organization (meso), or fields/populations (macro). Cross-level questions — how micro behavior aggregates to organizational outcomes, or how macro structures shape micro action — are especially welcome. The bar is **overall contribution**, not novelty for its own sake: "theoretical novelty is neither necessary nor sufficient." A good question promises a contribution from at least one credible source — new theory, ne
- When to trigger
- What Organization Science wants
- Fit test (run before you invest)
- Venue routing
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Organization Science
- Output format
What does the orgsci-topic-selection skill do?
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Organization Science manuscript — testing whether it is a theory-driven question about organizations spanning micro to macro, and whether Organization Science (rather than ASQ, AMJ, Management Science, or a field journal) is the right venue.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgsci-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.