Use when the marginal contribution of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked…
Use when staking a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript's contribution against the new-institutional /…
Use when staking a Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (JMCB) manuscript's contribution against the monetary, banking, and macro-finance…
Use when positioning a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a family-science contribution.
Use when the contribution-relative-to-prior-work is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management (JOM) manuscript — staking the gap against…
Use when staking a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript's contribution against the IS literature and the basket…
Use when positioning a Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) manuscript against the closest behavioral, modeling, and methods literatures so…
Use when positioning the contribution against the literature for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — locating the paper in…
Use when positioning a Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) manuscript against the I-O literature so the theoretical contribution is…
Use when positioning a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution.
Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the…
Use when positioning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript in the literature — staking a theoretically innovative, general-interest…
Use when positioning a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript against prior work — the policy-evaluation evidence…
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) manuscript against the public-administration…
Use when situating a Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M) manuscript against both the marketing-and-policy literature and the…
Use when staking a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript's contribution against the expected-utility-and-alternatives literature.
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.
Use when positioning a MIS Quarterly manuscript inside the right information-systems conversation — engaging canonical IS work, showing…
Use when positioning a Marketing Science manuscript in its literature — locating the contribution among structural and analytical modeling…
Use when situating a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript in the right interdisciplinary conversation and naming the specific gap or…
Use when positioning an Organization Science manuscript in the literature — identifying the organization-theory conversation it joins…