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Guides development of formal analytical models or testable hypotheses for Management Science (INFORMS) papers. Provides lane-specific instructions for assumptions, proofs, comparative statics, and mechanism derivation.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/mgsci-skills:mgsci-theory-developmentThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have an intuition but no model or no mechanism
Because Management Science is bimethodological, "theory development" means one of two disciplined things depending on your Department lane.
For Optimization and Decision Analytics, Stochastic Models and Simulation, Operations Management, Finance (theory), Business Strategy (theory), and economic-theory submissions:
For Accounting, Finance (empirical), Information Systems, Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis, Marketing, Data Science:
Whichever lane, the theory must yield a decision-relevant, cross-department insight — Management Science rewards a mechanism whose managerial implication a reader in another Department still finds informative. Formal elegance without managerial reading, or hypotheses without a mechanism, will not clear the bar.
Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the decision problem, formal or empirical engine, managerial lever, and generality claim; then test whether the manuscript addresses OR/MS reviewers who expect a generalizable decision model, credible empirical leverage, or algorithmic insight with managerial consequence.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.A platform model assumes buyers single-home and derives that the platform always raises commissions as network effects grow. In the flagship's Operations Management / Business Strategy lane, a referee asks whether the result is mechanical — driven entirely by the single-homing assumption. The fix names the mechanism (network effects raise the platform's marginal value of a seller), relaxes single-homing as a scope condition, and shows the comparative static can reverse when multi-homing is cheap (commissions fall from 15% to about 9%, illustrative). The proposition now carries a managerial reading a finance reader also grasps — take rates are not monotone in network strength — the cross-department insight the flagship rewards.
【Lane】analytical model / empirical-mechanism
【Core mechanism】...
【Assumptions or constructs】necessary? defended?
【Results】propositions/theorems OR a priori hypotheses (sign + conditions)
【Comparative statics / boundary】managerial intuition ...
【Next step】mgsci-methods
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin mgsci-skillsBuilds 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.
Guides theoretical contribution development for MIS Quarterly manuscripts across behavioral, design science, economics, and organizational traditions. Produces hypotheses, design propositions, or mechanisms before analysis.