orgstud-theory-development
Use when building the theoretical engine for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — the mechanism, process model, or conceptual move that constitutes the contribution. Builds the argument; it does not select methods or run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-theory-development --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.
# Theory Development (orgstud-theory-development) ## When to trigger - You have a rich phenomenon (from `orgstud-topic-selection`) but no theoretical machinery that *organizes* it - Your "theory" is a set of labeled themes or a box-and-arrow diagram with no generative mechanism - A reviewer says the theory is "thin," "descriptive," "a relabeling of the data," or "doesn't engage the literature it claims to advance" - You must decide whether the contribution is a new construct, a process model, a reconceptualization, or a boundary condition ## Theory is the deliverable at OS This is the load-bearing skill in the pack. At OS the **theory itself is the contribution** — more so than the dataset or the estimator. The journal's European, sociologically-rooted tradition means process and interpretive theorizing are fully legitimate as the *main* claim (a different default from variance-template journals). Your job is to produce a **generative theoretical move** readers elsewhere can pick up and use. State the **mechanism / process logic**, not just constructs: - Name the **actors** and what they are *doing* (sensemaking, justifying, translating, resisting, categorizing, accounting, coordin
- When to trigger
- Theory is the deliverable at OS
- Branch by contribution type
- For inductive / grounded work
- For deductive / quantitative work
- Engaging social theory
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the orgstud-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the theoretical engine for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — the mechanism, process model, or conceptual move that constitutes the contribution. Builds the argument; it does not select methods or run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-theory-development --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.