From asq-skills
Evaluates whether a research idea fits ASQ's standard of surprising theoretical insight about organizations. Sharpens puzzles and contribution claims without designing studies or writing theory.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/asq-skills:asq-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have an interesting phenomenon but are unsure it rises to an ASQ-level *puzzle*
ASQ publishes deep, often counterintuitive insight about organizations and the social structures around them. Since its 1956 founding (by James D. Thompson at Cornell), the journal has prized organizational ideas drawn from sociology, psychology, political science, economics, anthropology, and management — not a single home discipline. The bar is not "is this interesting?" but "does this change how we understand organizing?" A finding that merely raises firm performance (the SMJ test) or cleanly tests a hypothesis in a new sample (a common AMJ profile) is not yet an ASQ paper.
Fit test — a strong ASQ paper usually has all four:
Run the idea through these prompts before any data work:
If the best you can do is "no one has studied X in setting S," that is a gap, not a puzzle — keep digging or move to a different journal.
Decide which engine the puzzle needs — this previews asq-methods:
Do not pick method first and reverse-engineer a question. Unlike journals where the quantitative hypothesis-testing template is the default expectation, at ASQ a single deep ethnography or a historical case can be the whole paper if the insight is profound and the craft is high.
Draft the claim now, in this shape:
"We study [puzzle] in [setting]. Existing work in [conversation] expects [prior]. We show instead that [surprising insight], because [mechanism]. This reframes [construct/process] and matters for [organizational consequence]."
If you cannot fill every slot, the topic is not ready.
【Puzzle】one-sentence anomaly/tension
【ASQ fit】organizational core? (yes/no + why)
【Surprise】what prior is overturned
【Engine needed】qualitative / quantitative + why
【Contribution claim】the filled one-paragraph claim
【Next step】asq-theory-development
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin asq-skillsEvaluates manuscript fit for Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and provides framing, method-and-evidence bar, desk-reject heuristics, and alternative venue suggestions for organization-theory papers.
Sharpens research questions for Organization Science manuscripts and evaluates venue fit against ASQ, AMJ, and Management Science.
Routes to the next asq-* sub-skill for each stage of an Administrative Science Quarterly manuscript, from topic selection through rebuttal.