From jmis-skills
Frames results as an explicit contribution to a JMIS manuscript by articulating the advance to IS-management/economics conversation with theoretical and managerial implications, then aligning the introduction and discussion.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jmis-skills:jmis-contribution-framingThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Results exist but the "so what for IS management" is thin or implicit
JMIS rewards a contribution to the technology–organization–economics nexus: a finding that changes what the IS field believes and what a manager, firm, platform, or policymaker should do about technology. Strong JMIS contributions:
Translate results into three sentences: what we did not know → what we now know → why it matters for IS theory and practice. Then deliberately make the claim narrower than the evidence supports — overclaiming beyond the identification/proof/evaluation is the fastest route to reviewer distrust. Name the alternative explanation you ruled out and the boundary where the effect stops.
The contribution must appear explicitly, and consistently, in two places: the introduction ("we show that…", stated for an IS reader) and the discussion, which revisits it with implications for IS theory, for managers/firms/platforms, and — where apt — for policy, plus honest boundary conditions and future work. Do not leave the contribution for the reader to reconstruct from the results section.
Return rows of claim / evidence / blocker / next edit so the manuscript can be patched directly. If the contribution depends on a fact that is volatile (a process rule, a fee), reopen resources/official-source-map.md and name the one unresolved item.
A results section supports: "the recommender redesign reduced marginal-seller retention on this marketplace over 2023–24." The discussion, though, claims "personalized ranking harms platform ecosystems." That overclaim invites a reviewer to list every boundary the paper did not test (other platforms, other periods, buyer-side gains). The JMIS-grade contribution states the narrower true claim, names what it does not establish (welfare, generalization across platform types), and converts the boundary into a managerial nuance: aggressive personalization trades short-run match quality against long-run seller supply, so the optimal intensity depends on how supply-constrained the platform is. Narrower claim, stronger paper, clearer practice implication.
JMIS prizes work that contributes to both IS theory and IS practice, and the journal's management identity means the practical side is not optional. State the theoretical contribution (what the IS field now believes) and the managerial/economic contribution (what a firm, platform, CIO, or policymaker should do) as two distinct, named payloads — not one blurred "implications" paragraph. The two should reinforce each other: the mechanism you theorized is why the managerial advice holds, and the managerial advice is the stakes that make the mechanism worth knowing. A paper that nails the theory but offers only generic practice advice, or vice versa, reads as half a JMIS contribution.
The same result earns credit differently depending on the paper's genre, and overclaiming the wrong kind of contribution invites pushback. An empirical paper's currency is a credibly identified effect plus the mechanism behind it — its contribution sentence should foreground "we identify" and "the mechanism is," not "we propose a new construct." An analytical paper's currency is a non-obvious insight or comparative static — claim the surprising result, not the existence of a model. A design-science / data-science paper's currency is an evaluated, useful artifact and the generalizable design knowledge it embodies — claim utility against credible baselines and the transferable principle, not raw accuracy. Match the verb to the genre and the contribution lands; mismatch it and a referee will say the paper "claims more than its genre delivers."
Before handing off to exhibits and prose, read the contribution as the EIC will at intake: is this an advance to an IS-management/economics conversation, or a reference-discipline result with an IS setting? If a sharp colleague could say "this is really an economics/CS/marketing paper," the framing has not yet earned its place at JMIS. Strengthen the IS-artifact dependence and the managerial payload until the contribution is unambiguously an IS contribution — that is the single most common reason a competent paper is returned.
【Contribution (3 sentences)】didn't know → now know → why it matters
【IS conversation advanced】[stream]
【IT-artifact dependence】why the technology is essential
【Managerial/economic payload】concrete action that changes
【Claim vs. evidence】narrower? alternative ruled out? boundary stated?
【Decision ledger】claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows
【Next step】jmis-tables-figures
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jmis-skillsFrames results or artifacts as explicit MIS Quarterly contributions — naming the IS knowledge produced (mechanism, design principles, effect, or process), why it matters for theory and practice, and justifying the page budget.
Sharpens the one-sentence theoretical contribution and practical implications for JMS manuscripts when the 'so what' is the bottleneck.
Positions a JMIS manuscript against IS literature to show it advances an IS-management/economics conversation rather than a reference discipline.