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Chooses article type (empirical, meta-analysis, systematic review) and confirms fit for Journal of Management submission, distinguishing JOM from AMJ and SMJ.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/journal-of-management-skills:jmgmt-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have a phenomenon but are unsure it reads as a **general-management** contribution rather than a niche subfield piece
JOM is the Southern Management Association's general-management flagship (SAGE). Its center of gravity is a theoretical contribution that travels across management — organizational behavior, HR, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and research methods, plus related I/O psychology. A paper earns its place when a reader in a different management subfield still cares about the mechanism. The desk filter is the same one AMJ uses — empirical contribution, theoretical contribution, and a phenomenon that matters — but JOM has one extra door most siblings lack: it actively publishes stand-alone reviews and meta-analyses as flagship contributions (biannual Review Issues, January and July). Choosing the right door is half of topic selection here.
| You have... | Best JOM route | What makes it work here |
|---|---|---|
| A novel mechanism + original data | Empirical paper | A priori theory, clean construct logic, design that licenses the causal claim |
| A mature literature with conflicting effect sizes | Meta-analysis | Artifact-corrected synthesis that adjudicates theory, not just averages r's; moderators tied to theory |
| A fragmented or fast-growing literature needing structure | Systematic / narrative review (Review Issue) | An organizing framework + a genuinely forward research agenda, not an annotated bibliography |
| A construct that is muddled or proliferating | Construct-clarification / conceptual paper | Definition, dimensionality, nomological net, and why the field needs it |
If you have data but the literature is too thin for a meta-analysis and too unsettled for a review, that is a signal the empirical paper must itself do the integrating — build the theory in jmgmt-theory-development.
JOM's 50-page limit includes everything — text, notes, references, tables, and figures (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). A sprawling multi-study program or a 200-effect meta-analysis must be scoped so the core contribution fits; supplementary material lives in an online appendix. Decide at topic-selection time what the paper is not about.
A team has three studies on team psychological safety: a field survey, a lab experiment, and an archival panel. Pitched as "everything we know about psychological safety," it is unfocused, over-long, and reads as parochial OB. Re-scoped at topic-selection: the cross-cutting question is whether safety's effect on performance is a within-team mechanism (OB) or a structural one that scales to the firm (strategy). Now the field survey and the experiment establish the micro mechanism, the archival panel tests whether it aggregates, and the contribution travels across subfields — a clean JOM fit that fits 50 pages with the third study's robustness in a supplement. The lesson: choose the question that makes a single-subfield study speak to general management.
Ask three questions before leaving topic-selection: (1) Could a strategy scholar and an OB scholar both see why this matters? If only one can, the contribution may be too narrow. (2) Is the literature mature enough that the right move is synthesis rather than a new study? If so, route to the meta-analysis/review door. (3) Will the core contribution survive being cut to 50 inclusive pages? If not, narrow the question now, before design.
Topic-selection should sometimes route the paper away from JOM. A pure firm-performance/competitive-advantage study with no broader management mechanism belongs at SMJ. A qualitative process study built on rich interview data, or a critical/reflexive piece, often lands better at JMS or Organization Science. A paper whose only contribution is methodological refinement with no substantive management question may fit a methods outlet (e.g., Organizational Research Methods). Naming the better home early saves a year of review; if JOM truly is the fit, say in one sentence why — usually because the contribution is general-management theory backed by quantitative evidence or synthesis.
resources/official-source-map.md or marked 待核实【Journal】Journal of Management
【Skill】jmgmt-topic-selection
【Article type】empirical / meta-analysis / systematic review / conceptual
【One-sentence question】...
【Why general-management】who outside the home subfield cares, and why
【Sibling boundary】why JOM, not AMJ / SMJ / JMS / Org Science
【Scope vs. 50pp】core in-scope; what moves to online appendix
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实
【Next skill】jmgmt-theory-development
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin journal-of-management-skillsEvaluates manuscript fit for Journal of Management (JOM, SAGE) in management, organizational behavior, HRM, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
Scopes and stress-tests whether a research question fits the Journal of Management Studies (JMS), focusing on phenomenon-grounded management-theory questions. Guides fit assessment and framing direction.
Routes manuscript workflow for Journal of Management submissions, from topic selection through rebuttal. Activates when deciding which jmgmt-* sub-skill to invoke next or sequencing JOM manuscript stages.