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Use when building the theoretical engine of a Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) manuscript — an IT-business-value logic, a platform/network-effects mechanism, an economic model of IS, or a technology-specific behavioral theory. Adapts the form of "theory" to JMIS's management-and-economics-of-IS identity; it does not run the analysis (jmis-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (jmis-contribution-framing).

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# Theory Development (jmis-theory-development)

## When to trigger

- Your claims are descriptive ("IT spend correlates with performance") with no economic or behavioral mechanism
- You built an artifact or ran a regression but cannot say what *IS knowledge* it advances
- A reviewer says "the theoretical contribution is unclear" or "this is a technical/empirical exercise"
- You need hypotheses, propositions, or signed predictions derived *before* you look at results

## Theory takes a different shape in each JMIS style

JMIS spans empirical, economic-analytical, and design-oriented IS work, so "develop theory" means different things. Pick the row that matches your study; JMIS's distinctive pull is toward the **economics and management of IS**, so even behavioral papers benefit from naming the value or incentive at stake.

| Style | What "theory" means here | What you must produce |
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