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amj-literature-positioning

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Use when the front end of an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript needs to engage the right literatures and stake a clear position in an ongoing theoretical conversation. Positions the paper among theories; it does not derive the hypotheses (amj-theory-development) or write the contribution paragraph (amj-contribution-framing).

When to use

• engaging the right literatures
• staking a clear position in an ongoing theoretical conversation
• positioning the paper among theories
• identifying the focal literature and supporting literatures
• naming the conversation and the tension
• placing the paper relative to the closest prior studies

When not to use

• derive the hypotheses
• write the contribution paragraph

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