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Jmgmt Theory Development

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

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses…

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Install Jmgmt Theory Development

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jmgmt-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/Journal-of-Management-Skills/skills/jmgmt-theory-development .claude/skills/jmgmt-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
jmgmt-theory-development
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
818 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses…

  • Works in 5 steps: Antecedent — the predictor and why it… → Mechanism — the theoretical process… → Outcome — the dependent construct,… → …
  • The theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JOM theory bar, Building a hypothesis (the… and Constructs earn their keep, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jmgmt Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses (or a review's organizing framework). Constructs the theory; it does not run the analysis (jmgmt-data-analysis) or write the contribution paragraph (jmgmt-contribution-framing).

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

  • The theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs
  • Boundary conditions
  • A priori hypotheses (or a reviews organizing framework)

Example prompts

  • “/jmgmt-theory-development”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Antecedent — the predictor and why it matters in this context.
  2. Mechanism — the theoretical process linking antecedent to outcome (social exchange, signaling, attention allocation, identity threat…
  3. Outcome — the dependent construct, defined at a stated level of analysis.
  4. Direction & form — sign, and whether linear, curvilinear, or threshold (justify a turning point with two opposing forces, not a…
  5. Boundary — the moderator(s) and the substantive reason the mechanism is stronger/weaker.

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

Jmgmt Theory Development loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 818 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
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). 818 words, ~1,711 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jmgmt-theory-development/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jmgmt-theory-development
description
Use when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses (or a review's organizing framework). Constructs the theory; it does not run the analysis (jmgmt-data-analysis) or write the contribution paragraph (jmgmt-contribution-framing).

Theory Development (jmgmt-theory-development)

When to trigger

  • Hypotheses read as bald predictions ("A is positively related to B") with no mechanism
  • You have results and are tempted to write hypotheses around them (HARKing risk)
  • The argument leans on one borrowed theory name (e.g., "social exchange") without using its logic
  • Mediators/moderators sit in the data but are not theorized
  • A meta-analysis or review needs an organizing framework, not just a coding scheme
  • A reviewer says "the theory is thin," "underdeveloped," or "why would this be true?"

The JOM theory bar

JOM publishes empirical, theoretical, and review work, but in every case the theoretical contribution is the gate. For an empirical paper, each hypothesis must be derived from an articulated mechanism, before the results are known, and a reader should finish the front end understanding why the effect occurs and under what conditions it strengthens or reverses. For a meta-analysis, the synthesis must be organized by theory so that moderators adjudicate competing accounts — JOM does not reward a coefficient census. For a systematic review (Review Issue), the deliverable is an integrative framework plus a forward agenda; a chronological catalogue is desk-rejected.

Building a hypothesis (the mechanism chain)

For each focal hypothesis, write the explicit chain — do not skip steps:

  1. Antecedent — the predictor and why it matters in this context.
  2. Mechanism — the theoretical process linking antecedent to outcome (social exchange, signaling, attention allocation, identity threat, resource dependence, conservation of resources). Name the theory and the process verb (motivates, signals, depletes, legitimates).
  3. Outcome — the dependent construct, defined at a stated level of analysis.
  4. Direction & form — sign, and whether linear, curvilinear, or threshold (justify a turning point with two opposing forces, not a significant squared term).
  5. Boundary — the moderator(s) and the substantive reason the mechanism is stronger/weaker.

State the level of analysis explicitly (individual, team, firm) and keep the theory at the level where the mechanism operates; flag cross-level mediation as such. Draw a theoretical-model figure (boxes and arrows) that maps one-to-one to the hypotheses.

Constructs earn their keep

JOM (and its sibling research-methods reviewers) is unusually alert to construct proliferation and jangle/jingle problems. Before adding a construct, show: a clear conceptual definition, its dimensionality, where it sits in the nomological net, and how it is distinct from neighboring constructs already in the literature. A new construct with no discriminant story is a liability, not a contribution.

Mediation, moderation, and rival theories

  • Mediation: theorize the process construct before testing it; a significant indirect effect is evidence for a theorized mechanism, never a substitute for the theory.
  • Moderation: "it depends" is not a theory until you say why it depends.
  • Rival explanations: name at least one competing theoretical account and explain how your design or moderators distinguish it — JOM reviewers push hard on alternatives.
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Theory for a review or meta-analysis

  • Meta-analysis: state the theoretical question the synthesis answers; pre-specify moderators that map to competing theoretical predictions, so the meta-analytic interaction is a theory test.
  • Review: build an organizing framework (a typology, a process model, an integrative 2×2) that imposes structure on the literature and surfaces the unanswered questions that become the agenda.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Consider a claim that CEO humility raises firm innovation. A bald version states the sign and cites a humility paper. A JOM-grade version writes the chain: antecedent (CEO humility) → mechanism (humility lowers status threat among the top management team, so members voice dissenting ideas — name the process: legitimates upward voice) → outcome (innovation, at the firm level) → form (positive, possibly attenuating at very high levels as decisiveness suffers) → boundary (the effect is stronger under environmental dynamism, because dissent is more valuable when the future is uncertain). Now mediation (TMT voice) and moderation (dynamism) are theorized a priori, the level shifts (individual trait → firm outcome) are explicit, and a rival account (humility is just agreeableness) can be named and addressed — the difference between a desk reject and a contribution.

Checklist

  • Every hypothesis has an explicit mechanism, not just a predicted sign
  • The driving theory is named and its logic used (not a one-line citation)
  • Level of analysis stated and consistent across argument and design
  • New constructs have a definition, dimensionality, and a discriminant-validity story
  • Mediators/moderators theorized a priori with substantive reasons
  • Hypotheses fixed before analyzing the data (no HARKing)
  • A theoretical-model figure matches the hypotheses one-to-one
  • At least one rival explanation named and engaged
  • (Review/meta) an organizing framework / theory-mapped moderators exist

Anti-patterns

  • HARKing: hypothesizing after results are known — reviewers detect it when every hypothesis is supported and none is surprising
  • Bald predictions: "A is positively related to B" with no why
  • Borrowed theory: invoking a famous theory by name without using its actual logic
  • Mechanism by mediation: claiming a process exists only because the indirect effect is significant
  • Construct proliferation: a "new" construct that is an old one relabeled, with no discriminant evidence
  • Catalogue review: a literature summary with no framework and no forward agenda

Output format

【Article type】empirical / meta-analysis / review
【Focal theory】... (process verb: ...)
【H1 (focal effect)】antecedent → mechanism → outcome; direction/form; level
【H2 (mechanism/mediation)】...
【H3+ (boundary/moderation)】reason the slope changes
【Construct check】new construct? discriminant story: ...
【Rival explanation addressed】...
【HARKing check】hypotheses fixed before analysis? yes/no
【Model figure / framework】matches hypotheses one-to-one? yes/no
【Next step】jmgmt-literature-positioning

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Management-Skills/skills/jmgmt-theory-development of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jmgmt Theory Development

What does Jmgmt Theory Development do?

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses…. Jmgmt Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs, mechanisms, boundary conditions, and a priori hypotheses (or a review's organizing framework).

When should I use Jmgmt Theory Development?

Jmgmt Theory Development fits situations like: the theoretical argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — building constructs; boundary conditions; A priori hypotheses (or a reviews organizing framework).

How do I install Jmgmt Theory Development in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jmgmt Theory Development in Codex?

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

Can I use Jmgmt 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 jmgmt-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/jmgmt-theory-development, .gemini/skills/jmgmt-theory-development, .github/skills/jmgmt-theory-development and .opencode/skills/jmgmt-theory-development in your project.

What does Jmgmt Theory Development need to run?

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

Does Jmgmt 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 Jmgmt 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 Jmgmt Theory Development use?

Jmgmt 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 Jmgmt Theory Development use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 Jmgmt Theory Development?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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