From entrepreneurship-theory-and-practice-skills
Decides whether a research question fits Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (ETP) vs. sibling journals, using a three-test filter (substitution, conversation, practice).
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/entrepreneurship-theory-and-practice-skills:etp-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have a result or a dataset but the *question* it answers is not obviously about entrepreneurship
ETP is the theory-and-practice flagship of entrepreneurship (SAGE for Baylor; official journal of USASBE). A topic clears the ETP bar when it is about the distinctively entrepreneurial — the creation of new economic activity under uncertainty — and it promises to move a theory conversation while saying something a practitioner (founder, investor, family-firm owner, policymaker, educator) could act on. ETP's historical roots in small business and its USASBE affiliation mean it takes practice seriously; its current identity is high-theory. A good ETP topic lives at that intersection.
Entrepreneurship-central phenomena ETP publishes: new-venture creation and the opportunity process (recognition/discovery vs. creation), effectuation and entrepreneurial decision logic, bricolage and resourcefulness under constraint, entrepreneurial identity and cognition, family business (a core ETP franchise), social and sustainable entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance (VC, angels, crowdfunding), ecosystems, and entrepreneurship education. If your question does not touch one of these, it is probably a management/strategy/finance question wearing a startup costume.
| If the core of the paper is… | Aim at | Why not ETP |
|---|---|---|
| Entrepreneurship theory + practice implication | ETP | — |
| A wide-lens / narrative / multidisciplinary venturing study | JBV | JBV tolerates a broader method/narrative range; ETP wants tighter theory + practice |
| The strategy of entrepreneurial firms (advantage, scaling) | SEJ | SEJ sits at the strategy–entrepreneurship interface |
| A general management phenomenon with a startup sample | AMJ | If entrepreneurship is the setting, not the theory, AMJ fits better |
| Innovation-systems / R&D / policy with firms incidental | Research Policy | Not founder/venture-centric theory |
Strong ETP topics rarely start from a method or a dataset; they start from a puzzle in entrepreneurial reality. Productive sources to mine before committing:
A topic sourced this way usually clears the substitution and conversation tests by construction, because it begins from the entrepreneurial primitive rather than retrofitting one.
A team has Crunchbase data showing that startups with a CFO hire earlier raise larger Series A rounds. As stated, this is a corporate-finance result — apply the substitution test: "firms with a CFO raise more capital" is true of established firms too, so the question is not yet entrepreneurial. The fix is to find the venture primitive: reframe around legitimacy under the liability of newness — an early CFO is a costly signal that a young, unproven venture is investment-ready, and the conversation becomes signaling/legitimacy in entrepreneurial finance (not generic capital structure). Now the substitution breaks (a 30-year-old firm needs no such legitimacy signal), the named conversation is concrete, and the practice implication is sharp: founders facing investor skepticism can use a senior-finance hire as a legitimacy signal, but only before the liability of newness fades. The same data, re-questioned, becomes an ETP paper.
【Journal】Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
【Question (one sentence)】...
【Substitution test】breaks because: <entrepreneurial primitive> / FAILS (reroute)
【Named conversation】<specific debate, e.g. discovery vs. creation>
【Practice implication】what a founder/investor/policymaker does differently
【Outlet check】ETP > JBV/SEJ/AMJ because ...
【Verdict】proceed / sharpen / reroute to <venue>
【Next skill】etp-theory-development
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin entrepreneurship-theory-and-practice-skillsEncodes ETP's fit, framing, method/evidence bar, house style, and desk-reject heuristics for theory-driven entrepreneurship manuscripts.
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