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mgsci-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Management Science (INFORMS) manuscript in its literature — joining the right Department's conversation, citing canonical analytical and empirical work in author-year style, and making the cross-department contribution legible so a Department Editor sees both fit and novelty. It positions; it does not state the contribution sentences (mgsci-contribution-framing).
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# Literature Positioning (mgsci-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X") rather than joining a live conversation
- You are unsure which literature (and therefore which Department) you are speaking to
- Canonical works in the focal stream are missing — a frequent reviewer and Department Editor check
- A reviewer said "this is not positioned" or "you are not engaging the relevant literature"
## Position into a Department's conversation
Management Science routes every paper into a **Department** (Accounting; Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis; Business Strategy; Data Science; Finance; Information Systems; Operations Management; Optimization and Decision Analytics; Revenue Management & Market Analytics; Stochastic Models and Simulation; Marketing/Organizations as applicable). The literature you engage **signals your Department** to the desk-screening editor. Position into the stream whose Department Editor will handle you, and cite the work that editor and their reviewers consider canonical.
- **Analytical lane:** engage the modeling lineage — the prior models you generalize, relax, or overturn. State precisely what your assumptions/results change relative to the closest model, not just "we add X."