orgstud-literature-positioning
Use when staking the contribution of an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript against the specific theoretical conversation it joins — what the field knows, what it misses, and the precise gap this paper closes. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory (see orgstud-theory-development) or run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-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 (orgstud-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The theory exists (from `orgstud-theory-development`) but the paper does not say *whose conversation* it advances or *what it changes* - The literature review is a catalogue ("X did A, Y did B, Z did C") with no argument - A reviewer says "this is well-known," "you're not engaging the right literature," or "what's new relative to [canonical OS work]?" - The framing claims to advance institutional/process/practice theory but cites it only in passing ## Positioning is an argument, not a survey At OS, the literature section is where you **earn the right to make a theoretical claim**. It is not a neutral map of prior work; it is a constructed account of a *specific conversation* that sets up exactly the gap your theory fills. OS reviewers — often the very scholars who built these conversations — judge whether you have (1) identified the *right* interlocutors, (2) read them accurately and generously, and (3) located a gap that is real, non-trivial, and closable with your evidence. The standard OS move: **synthesize the conversation into a tension or unresolved problem**, then show that existing accounts canno
- When to trigger
- Positioning is an argument, not a survey
- Locate the conversation precisely
- Differentiate from sibling outlets in the framing
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette: from gap-spotting to tension (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the orgstud-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking the contribution of an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript against the specific theoretical conversation it joins — what the field knows, what it misses, and the precise gap this paper closes. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory (see orgstud-theory-development) or run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-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.