From smj-skills
Structures the framing and gap for an SMJ manuscript by identifying the live scholarly conversation and showing where it is stuck or unresolved.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/smj-skills:smj-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- Your literature review is a chronological list of "X found… Y found…"
SMJ papers do not survey a field — they enter a specific scholarly conversation and move it forward. Your job is to identify the live debate (e.g., the boundary conditions of dynamic capabilities; whether alliance experience helps or hurts; the performance effects of board independence) and show precisely where it is stuck or unresolved.
| Gap type | SMJ reception |
|---|---|
| Empirical-context gap ("not studied in setting Z") | Weak — reads as incremental |
| Measurement / replication gap | Weak unless the prior measure was wrong in a consequential way |
| Inconsistent-findings gap (reconcile A vs. B) | Solid if you explain why they differ |
| Unexamined-mechanism gap | Strong — opens the black box |
| Unresolved-tension / counter-prediction gap | Strongest — reframes the debate |
Aim for the bottom two rows.
【Conversation】stream + central question
【State of play】what the field believes / where it disagrees
【Gap type】context | measurement | inconsistency | mechanism | tension (aim for mechanism/tension)
【Closest papers + differentiation】[paper → how we differ] ×2–3
【Our move (one sentence)】...
【Missing-citation risk】checked / to verify
【Next step】smj-methods
../../resources/official-source-map.md — SMJ scope, SMS journal family (SMJ/SEJ/GSJ), and verified landmark papers for anchoringnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin smj-skillsFrames the contribution claim of an SMJ manuscript to land as a contribution to strategy theory. Helps answer 'so what?' for theory and practice.
Positions a JOM manuscript by staking the gap against the right conversation and differentiating from sibling journals (AMJ, SMJ, JMS, Org Science).
Positions a JMS manuscript against the literature by naming the theoretical conversation and showing what the paper adds. Use when the literature review lacks argument or reviewers question the contribution.