From misq-skills
Matches research design to MIS Quarterly manuscript tradition: behavioral, economics-of-IS, design science, or qualitative. Plans evaluation strategies and guards against validity threats.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/misq-skills:misq-methodsThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have a theory or design propositions but no defensible way to test/evaluate them
MISQ spans four traditions, so there is no single mandated method. Pick the design that the claim requires.
| Tradition | Typical designs | The design must establish |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral | Lab/online experiment, field experiment, multi-wave survey, panel | Internal validity, construct validity, and (for surveys) procedural remedies for common-method bias |
| Design science | Build-and-evaluate of an IT artifact | That the artifact is novel and useful for a real problem — utility demonstrated, not asserted |
| Economics of IS | Natural experiment, DiD, IV, RD, structural model | A credible identification strategy for the causal/economic effect |
| Organizational | Case study, ethnography, mixed methods, longitudinal field | Trustworthiness, rich context, and a transparent path from data to constructs |
A MISQ design-science paper lives or dies on evaluation. Following Hevner et al. (2004), decide before building how you will demonstrate utility: held-out benchmarks against credible baselines, a controlled experiment or A/B field deployment, simulation, or expert evaluation — and tie each back to the design propositions. State the problem's relevance, the artifact's novelty, and the evaluation criteria so reviewers can judge rigor and relevance. "We built it and it ran" is not an evaluation.
Because supplementary materials are discouraged and the page limit counts text, tables, figures, references, and appendices, design a study whose evidence fits the chosen category. Scope the design to the page budget rather than planning to offload it to an online appendix.
【Tradition & design】experiment / survey / DiD-IV-RD / build-and-evaluate / qualitative
【Identification or evaluation】source of variation OR evaluation plan + baselines
【Validity threats handled】CMB / confounds / trustworthiness
【Fits page budget?】yes / trim
【Next step】misq-data-analysis
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin misq-skillsGuides selection and stress-testing of an Information Systems Research (ISR) manuscript's research design, matching empirical, analytical, design-science, or multimethod genres to the research question and ensuring the design supports the intended contribution.
Selects and defends JMIS-compatible research designs—IT-value econometrics, behavioral experiments, analytical models, or design-science artifacts—matching method to causal claim and page budget.
Guides selection and defense of research designs for Organization Science manuscripts, matching qualitative, quantitative, experimental, or simulation methods to the research question and level of analysis. Addresses reviewer demands for causal inference.