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orgsci-writing-style

Use when polishing the prose of an Organization Science manuscript — front-loading the organizational argument and contribution, writing for an interdisciplinary micro-to-macro audience, and conforming to INFORMS author-date house style. Late-stage polish; do not invoke while the theoretical contribution is still unsettled.

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# Writing Style (orgsci-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The prose buries the argument or the contribution
- The paper reads to only one audience (pure micro or pure macro) when it should reach both
- Citations and formatting are not in INFORMS author-date style
- You are doing a final polish before submission

## Write for an interdisciplinary, micro-to-macro audience

Organization Science readers come from organization theory, strategy, sociology, economics, and psychology, and work at every level from individual to population. Write so that a macro reader follows a micro paper and vice versa: define constructs on first use, name the level of analysis explicitly, and translate discipline-specific jargon into organizational terms. The opening pages must make the **organizational phenomenon, the conversation joined, and the contribution** unmistakable — front-load the argument rather than withholding it until the discussion.

## INFORMS house style
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