Marketing & Growth

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a game-theory manuscript against the existing literature for Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) — staking what is new relative to known solution concepts, theorems, mechanisms, and prior experiments. Sharpens the contribution; it is not a standalone survey.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Global Environmental Change (GEC) manuscript against the relevant literatures. GEC is interdisciplinary, so the paper must engage more than one body of work — environmental social science, governance, the relevant domain literature — and speak across them. Shapes the framing and citations; it does not write the literature review.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when the inferential backbone of a Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) manuscript needs stress-testing — empirical papers via causal/econometric identification for growth, theory papers via assumptions, results, proof exposition, and generality. Forks by paper type, as a specialist growth and dynamic-macroeconomics outlet requires.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right health-econ literatures; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets. It vets the question; jim-theory-development builds the mechanism.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the closest papers under Chicago author-date citation norms, not writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not run analysis.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when the "so what for management theory and practice" is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — sharpening the one-sentence contribution and the implications. Crystallises the claim; it does not build the theory (jms-theory-development) or position against the literature (jms-literature-positioning).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when turning results into an explicit contribution statement for a Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) manuscript — clearing JMR's dual bar by stating both the substantive/theoretical insight and, where relevant, the methodological advance. Frames why marketing researchers should care because the design is credible.

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Use when the contribution of a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript needs sharpening — what the paper teaches about the economic role of government, why it matters for policy, and how it advances public-finance theory or evidence. Frames the contribution; it does not survey the literature (use jpube-literature-positioning) or run analysis.

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Use when running the final preflight for a Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M) submission — the two-file split, double-anonymization, 50-page cap, Policy Contribution Statement, abstract/keywords, and the SageTrack portal. Final checks only; it does not draft content.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when an author is deciding whether a systems, management-science, operations-research, engineering, control, or empirical manuscript genuinely fits 《系统工程学报》 (Journal of Systems Engineering, Tianjin University), or when a concrete rerouting decision is needed among Systems Engineering Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Sciences in China, Chinese Journal of Management Science, Systems Engineering and Electronics, Control and Decision, and Operations Research and Management Science.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your intervention sits. Positions the essay in the field; it does not build the synthetic argument (see phg-argument-synthesis).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript within the dynamic-economics and SED literature — mapping the quantitative-macro lineage a paper builds on, citing in author-year style, and making the marginal advance legible to the Society for Economic Dynamics readership rather than a generalist audience.

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Use when the related-work framing is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — defining the precise delta against JF/JFE/RFS and prior literature. Builds positioning, not the empirical design or the topic itself.

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Use when positioning a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to sociological social psychology. SPQ readers expect engagement with the field's own traditions and theoretical programs — symbolic interaction, social structure and personality, group processes, identity, affect — not a generic citation pile or a purely psychological framing. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Research Observer). Sharpens the gap and the boundary claims; it does not run analysis or write the intro.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when you must identify which theoretical conversation an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript enters and how it "challenges and extends" that conversation. Positions the argument within a literature; it does NOT summarize the field (AMR punishes review-essays) and does NOT build the new theory (that is amr-theory-development).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a four-field contribution. AA readers span sociocultural, archaeology, biological, and linguistic anthropology, so the paper must engage the conversations they expect and decenter a US/Anglophone-only canon. Stakes the contribution and citational politics; it does not write the lit review.

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Use when positioning an American Sociological Review (ASR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a broad sociological contribution rather than a subfield note. Stakes the contribution in a debate that travels across sociology; it does not write the literature review.

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Use when positioning an Information Systems Research (ISR) manuscript in the IS literature — naming the conversation(s) you join, bridging behavioral, economic, design-science, and organizational IS silos, and showing the intradisciplinary move that ISR prizes. Positions the work; it does not build the mechanism (isr-theory-development) or write the contribution statement (isr-contribution-framing).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) manuscript — joining a live consumer-research conversation across disciplines, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and separating the paper from JCP, JMR, JM, and disciplinary psychology/sociology outlets.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a manuscript within the corporate-finance literature for the Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF) — locating the paper in the right strand (capital structure, governance, payout, contracting, M&A, international) and stating the marginal contribution. It frames citations and gap statements; it does not draft full sections.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize. Positions; it does not invent evidence or citations.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when the marginal contribution of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior law-and-economics work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (jle-identification) or the prose (jle-writing-style).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript — situating the contribution in the economics literature with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.

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Use when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks. Language reviewers are drawn from across subfields; the positioning must engage the strongest rival accounts fairly, not build a subfield-only wall. Maps the conversation; it does not write the literature review.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when anticipating editor and reviewer expectations, framing the contribution, and positioning scope for a Review of Educational Research (RER) submission. Aligns the review with how RER is refereed; it does not run the submission preflight (revedres-submission) or draft the response to reviewers (revedres-revision).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript within the live strategy conversation. Structures the framing and gap; it does not build the mechanism (see smj-theory-development) or frame the contribution claim (see smj-contribution-framing).

brycewang-stanford Skill

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).

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when planning or reporting the analysis for an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript — multilevel/HLM and growth models, IRT/measurement, quasi-experimental estimation, or qualitative coding and thematic analysis. Analysis must meet the AERA reporting standards (warrant + transparency). Strengthens analysis reporting; it does not run models for you.

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Use when positioning an American Journal of Sociology (AJS) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current sociology. AJS reviewers are assigned by readers who locate the paper's substantive area and method, and the journal prizes engagement with live theoretical debates. Maps the conversation; it does not write the literature review.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript against the comparative-politics literature and the rival explanations it must beat. Sharpens the gap and the engaged debate; it does not build the theory or design the study.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Positioning here must establish a developmental gap (what is unknown about change, age, or mechanism) and the contribution, while distinguishing the venue from siblings such as Child Development and Developmental Science. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.

brycewang-stanford Skill

Use when targeting Journal of Economic Growth or deciding whether a growth / long-run development manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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Use when staking the computational/methodological contribution of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript against OR/MS and CS prior art. Positions the advance relative to the right baselines and the right frontier; it does not invent citations.

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Use when staking an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript's contribution against the frontier and against sibling journals (Econometrica/QE, the top-5, field journals). Sharpens the gap and the delta; it does not invent citations.