orgstud-workflow

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Use when deciding which orgstud-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an Organization Studies (OS) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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Organization Studies Workflow Router (orgstud-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which orgstud- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at Organization Studies (OS) — the flagship European organization-theory journal published by SAGE for the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), founded 1980. OS rewards papers that make a genuine theoretical contribution to organization studies — institutional theory, process and practice theory, sensemaking, power and critique, sociological and historical approaches to organizing. It is distinctively strong on qualitative, processual, and theoretically ambitious work and prizes conceptual depth over hypothesis-counting.

Operational tells that you are at OS and not a sibling: review is double-anonymized (a separate, identity-bearing title page; the manuscript itself anonymized); the cap is 13,000 words including references and appendices; the abstract is unstructured, ≤300 words; you supply 5–7 keywords, four drawn from the OS ScholarOne keyword list; submission is via ScholarOne (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies). The journal sits on the FT50 generalist-management list. Editors-in-chief are Renate Meyer and Paolo Quattrone (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the SAGE OS and EGOS pages.

When to trigger

The user asks "what should I do next?" on an OS-bound manuscript
A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
Work is ping-ponging between framing, fieldwork/analysis, exhibits, and the response letter
An OS decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
The team is weighing OS against ASQ, Organization Science, JMS, or AMR

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Phenomenon is interesting but its fit with OS's theory-first scope is unclear	`orgstud-topic-selection`
The theoretical engine (mechanism / process model) is thin or relabels the finding	`orgstud-theory-development`
Contribution vs. the conversation OS owns is fuzzy or undersold	`orgstud-literature-positioning`
Design and its match to the question (qualitative/process/quantitative) need work	`orgstud-methods`
Coding, the data structure, or estimation/robustness need execution	`orgstud-data-analysis`
The one-sentence theoretical contribution is not sharp	`orgstud-contribution-framing`
Data structures, process figures, or tables are hard to read	`orgstud-tables-figures`
Prose buries the argument; the European theoretical register is missing	`orgstud-writing-style`
Ready to submit via ScholarOne; need a preflight on anonymization/format	`orgstud-submission`
Want to understand the developmental review cycle / decision odds	`orgstud-review-process`
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	`orgstud-rebuttal`

Default order

orgstud-topic-selection — lock the theoretically generative phenomenon
orgstud-theory-development — build the mechanism / process model
orgstud-literature-positioning — stake the contribution in OS's conversation
orgstud-methods — design (qualitative/process/historical/quantitative) that fits the question
orgstud-data-analysis — make the data-to-theory ladder visible
orgstud-contribution-framing — sharpen the one-sentence theoretical claim
orgstud-tables-figures — data structures, process models, exhibits
orgstud-writing-style — the discursive European register (abstract + intro last)
orgstud-submission — ScholarOne preflight (anonymization, word cap, keywords)
orgstud-review-process — calibrate the developmental cycle
orgstud-rebuttal — after the R&R

orgstud-writing-style is late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before theory and evidence settle. Unlike a variance-template journal, at OS the theory is the deliverable, so orgstud-theory-development and orgstud-contribution-framing are the load-bearing steps, not the methods or tables.

Routing by paper archetype

OS spans several theory-driven archetypes, and the binding constraint differs by archetype. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
inductive/process ethnography	data-to-theory transparency + process model	`orgstud-theory-development` → `orgstud-data-analysis`
institutional / field-level study	what is novel for neo-institutional theory	`orgstud-literature-positioning`
critical / power / reflexive	the critical theoretical contribution, not just critique	`orgstud-theory-development`
conceptual / essay (no new data)	a clearly novel theoretical move readers can use	`orgstud-contribution-framing`
quantitative organization theory	mechanism the design illuminates (not the estimator)	`orgstud-theory-development` → `orgstud-methods`

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My ethnography of a merger is rich, but a reviewer says it 'reads like a case report' and 'doesn't move institutional theory.'" That is two OS pushbacks — the data-to-theory ladder is invisible (owned by orgstud-data-analysis) and the contribution to the institutional conversation is unstated (owned by orgstud-contribution-framing with positioning in orgstud-literature-positioning). Build the Gioia-style data structure and a process model first, then name the theoretical move; only then return to orgstud-writing-style.

Anti-patterns

Treating OS as interchangeable with ASQ (US sociology-of-organizations), Organization Science (US, multi-paradigm + modeling), JMS (pluralist), or AMR (theory-only, no data)
Leading with a clean identification design as if the estimator were the contribution — at OS the theory is the contribution
Polishing prose before the mechanism and evidence hierarchy are stable
Importing a top-five-economics or US hypothesis-template structure into a European theory-first outlet
Asserting facts (editor, word cap, fees) not in resources/official-source-map.md or not marked 检索于 2026-06

Output format

【Target】Organization Studies (SAGE / EGOS)
【Current bottleneck】fit / theory / positioning / design / evidence / framing / exhibits / style / submission / revision
【Archetype】inductive-process / institutional / critical / conceptual / quantitative
【Next skill】<one orgstud-* skill>
【Reason】why this is the binding constraint
【Source check】official facts verified or marked 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准 / 待核实