From amr-skills
Guides theory-construction for Academy of Management Review manuscripts: building constructs, specifying relationships, and setting boundary conditions. For theory crafting, not empirical methods.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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> **AMR publishes NO empirical data.** There are no samples, no measures, no estimation,
AMR publishes NO empirical data. There are no samples, no measures, no estimation, and no results. "Method" here means the craft of building theory: how you construct constructs, derive relationships, ground mechanisms, and bound the theory. If your project needs data to make its point, it belongs at AMJ / ASQ / SMJ.
| Approach | When it fits | Core moves |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual elaboration | Extending a known theory to a new domain | Carry over the core logic; re-specify constructs for the new setting; add boundary conditions |
| Analogical / metaphorical transfer | A construct from another field illuminates a management phenomenon | Map source → target carefully; theorize where the analogy holds and breaks |
| Typology construction | The phenomenon has distinct, theoretically meaningful types | Derive dimensions from theory (not data); ensure types are mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive; theorize transitions (e.g., Oliver's strategic-responses typology, AMR 1991, DOI 10.5465/amr.1991.4279002) |
| Process theorizing | The phenomenon is a sequence/becoming, not a variance relationship | Specify stages, triggers, feedback loops, and timing; theorize the engine that drives movement |
| Construct re-specification | An existing construct conflates distinct phenomena | Split or merge; re-define the domain; re-derive downstream relationships |
| Cross-level theorizing | The action spans individual ↔ collective | Specify emergence (bottom-up) and top-down effects; avoid level confusion |
【Construction approach】elaboration / analogy / typology / process / re-specification / cross-level
【Constructs built】[name + how its domain was derived]
【Mechanism basis】micro-foundations / structural / cognitive / ...
【Boundary conditions】contextual / temporal / level
【Empirical apparatus present?】must be: none
【Next step】amr-data-analysis (stress-test the logic)
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin amr-skillsAssembles theoretical arguments for AMR manuscripts by defining constructs, specifying relationships, articulating mechanisms, and setting boundary conditions.
Builds theoretical mechanisms and derives testable hypotheses for AMJ manuscripts. Use when hypotheses lack a mechanism or a reviewer flags thin theory.
Builds deductive mechanism chains or inductive grounded models for Journal of Management Studies manuscripts. Use when theory is the bottleneck.