Agent skill

Etp Theory Development

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity…

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Install Etp Theory Development

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-theory-development -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills etp-theory-development --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Entrepreneurship-Theory-and-Practice-Skills/skills/etp-theory-development .claude/skills/etp-theory-development && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
etp-theory-development
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
733 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity…

  • Socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, ETP's theory bar, Pick the theory engine (and… and Choose and execute a…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Data analysis

What it does

Etp Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity, socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode. Builds the argument; it does not pick the question (etp-topic-selection) or run the analysis (etp-data-analysis).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data analysis. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode
  • Tasks that involve Data analysis

Example prompts

  • “/etp-theory-development”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Etp Theory Development loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 733 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 733 words, ~1,734 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/etp-theory-development/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
etp-theory-development
description
Use when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity, socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode. Builds the argument; it does not pick the question (etp-topic-selection) or run the analysis (etp-data-analysis).

Theory Development (etp-theory-development)

When to trigger

  • Your "hypotheses" are descriptive ("X relates to Y in startups") with no entrepreneurial mechanism
  • A reviewer or editor says the theory "could be about any organization, not entrepreneurship"
  • You are choosing among the entrepreneurship theory engines (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity) and don't yet have a mechanism
  • You are deciding between deductive hypotheses, an inductive grounded model, and a conceptual reconciliation
  • The "implications for practice" section is empty or generic

ETP's theory bar

ETP wants a genuine contribution to entrepreneurship theory — a new construct, a new mechanism, a boundary condition that changes what we predict, or a reconciliation of competing accounts — paired with a defensible implication for practice. The dual mandate (theory and practice, USASBE heritage) is structural, not cosmetic: an elegant model with no practitioner payoff and a useful tip with no theory both fall short. The mechanism must be about the entrepreneurial phenomenon itself — opportunity, judgment under Knightian uncertainty, resource assembly under constraint, the liability of newness, founder identity — not a generic organizational process relabeled.

Pick the theory engine (and use it deliberately)

EngineCore ideaWhen it fitsSignature constructs
OpportunityDiscovery vs. creation of new means-endsWhy/how ventures form; recognitionalertness, prior knowledge, enactment
EffectuationControl over prediction under uncertaintyFounder decision logic; pivotingaffordable loss, pre-commitments, bird-in-hand
BricolageMaking do with resources at handResource-constrained venturingresource recombination, parallel bricolage
Entrepreneurial cognition/identityHow founders think and who they arePersistence, role identity, passionself-efficacy, identity centrality, mindset
Socioemotional wealth (SEW)Non-financial family utilityFamily business behaviorfamily control, dynastic intent, FIBER
Institutional / ecosystemLegitimacy and supportive structuresContext-dependent venturinglegitimacy, embeddedness, ecosystem health

State the mechanism as a causal/process chain with a why, scope conditions, and the entrepreneurial actor or activity at its center. If you integrate two engines (e.g., effectuation × identity), justify the integration — do not staple constructs together.

Choose and execute a theorizing mode

  • Hypothetico-deductive: derive falsifiable hypotheses from the mechanism; moderators/mediators must reflect entrepreneurial context (uncertainty, novelty, resource scarcity, founder/team attributes), not generic firm covariates.
  • Inductive / grounded process theory: build an internally coherent process model (Gioia data structure, process diagram); ETP publishes strong qualitative theory, but the output must be a model, not a rich description.
  • Conceptual / reconciliation: introduce a new construct or reconcile competing accounts (e.g., discovery vs. creation); a literature review is not a theory paper.

Make the practice contribution a real contribution

The "implications for practice" section should follow from the mechanism: if effectuation logic drives the result, the implication is about how founders/investors/educators should treat predictive planning — specific, not "managers should pay attention." A throwaway practice paragraph signals to ETP reviewers that the dual mandate was not taken seriously.

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Checklist

  • The mechanism is specific to the entrepreneurial phenomenon (breaks under the established-firm substitution)
  • A named theory engine drives the argument; any integration is justified
  • Theorizing mode chosen (deductive / inductive process / conceptual) and executed consistently
  • Scope and boundary conditions of the theory are stated
  • Moderators/mediators reflect entrepreneurial context, not generic covariates
  • A tension or orthodoxy is challenged, not merely confirmed
  • The practice implication follows from the mechanism and is actionable

Anti-patterns

  • Generic-org theory in a startup costume — the mechanism reads identically for an incumbent
  • Hypothesis salad — many predictions, no unifying entrepreneurial mechanism
  • Construct import without a boundary — a psychology/sociology construct dropped in with no scope for the venture setting
  • Pretend deduction (HARKing) — hypotheses reverse-engineered from results
  • Practice as ornament — a generic "implications for managers" paragraph the mechanism does not generate
  • Description masquerading as process theory — rich qual data with no model

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft argues that "founder resilience improves venture performance." This is generic and untestable as theory. Rebuild it through an engine. Choosing entrepreneurial identity: resilience matters because, under the chronic setbacks of new-venture creation, a founder whose identity is centrally entrepreneurial reframes failure as role-consistent learning rather than personal defeat, sustaining effort — the mechanism is identity-driven persistence, not a trait. The boundary condition: this advantage is strongest early, when the venture's survival depends on the founder's effort, and weakens as the firm professionalizes and effort decentralizes. The substitution check passes — an established firm's CEO does not face identity-threatening, existential setbacks at the same frequency, so the mechanism is entrepreneurial. The practice implication follows from the mechanism: accelerators and investors coaching founders should strengthen entrepreneurial identity centrality (not generic "grit training"), and the value of doing so declines as the venture matures.

Output format

text
【Journal】Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
【Engine】opportunity / effectuation / bricolage / cognition-identity / SEW / institutional (+ integration)
【Mechanism (one chain)】the entrepreneurial why ...
【Mode】deductive H1..Hk | inductive process model | conceptual reconciliation
【Boundary conditions】...
【Tension challenged】...
【Practice implication】what follows for founders/investors/educators
【Substitution check】breaks for established firms because ...
【Next skill】etp-literature-positioning

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Entrepreneurship-Theory-and-Practice-Skills/skills/etp-theory-development of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Etp Theory Development

What does Etp Theory Development do?

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity…. Etp Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical argument for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — constructing an explicitly entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity, effectuation, bricolage, identity, socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode.

When should I use Etp Theory Development?

Etp Theory Development fits situations like: socioemotional wealth) and choosing the theorizing mode; tasks that involve Data analysis.

How do I install Etp Theory Development in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-theory-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Entrepreneurship-Theory-and-Practice-Skills/skills/etp-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/etp-theory-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Etp Theory Development in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-theory-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Entrepreneurship-Theory-and-Practice-Skills/skills/etp-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/etp-theory-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Etp Theory Development in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-theory-development -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/etp-theory-development, .gemini/skills/etp-theory-development, .github/skills/etp-theory-development and .opencode/skills/etp-theory-development in your project.

What does Etp Theory Development need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Etp Theory Development is instructions for the agent only.

Does Etp Theory Development access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Etp Theory Development safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Etp Theory Development use?

Etp Theory Development is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Etp Theory Development use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Etp Theory Development?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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