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jms-literature-positioning
Use when positioning the contribution against the literature for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — locating the paper in a named theoretical conversation and showing what it adds. Stakes the contribution; it does not build the mechanism (jms-theory-development) or write the closing contribution paragraph (jms-contribution-framing).
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# Literature Positioning (jms-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The literature review is a "camel train" — a chronological parade of citations with no argument
- A reviewer says "I don't see what this adds" or "this conversation has moved on"
- The paper cites broadly but never names the *specific* conversation it advances
- Reviewers from two sub-fields disagree about which literature the paper belongs to
- The framing oversells ("we are the first") or undersells (buries the contribution in a sub-clause)
## The JMS positioning bar
At JMS, positioning is not a literature survey — it is an **argument about where the conversation is stuck and how your paper unsticks it**. Because JMS is pluralist and internationally oriented, you must position against the *theoretical* conversation (e.g., institutional logics, dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial ecosystems, paradox theory), not merely the empirical topic. The strongest JMS contributions do one of a few recognisable moves; name yours explicitly.
