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Use when revising an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review for the house voice — authoritative, integrative, agenda-setting "reviews with an attitude," with a strong problem-first opening and a contribution-stating abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (amann-organizing-framework) or run the submission preflight (amann-submission).

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# Annals Writing Style — "Reviews with an Attitude" (amann-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The framework and evidence appraisal are settled and it is time to make the review *read* well
- The draft is descriptive and balanced but has no voice, no position, no agenda
- The opening buries the field's problem under throat-clearing or method machinery
- The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a review abstract

## The Annals voice: authoritative + integrative + has attitude

Annals is read by management and organization scholars across subfields, plus allied audiences (organizational psychology, sociology of organizations). The voice is that of a trusted, fair expert who has read the whole field and is willing to **say what it got right, what it got wrong, and what to do next**. Four qualities define it:

1. **Authoritative.** Confident judgments about what is known, contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants the author's *appraisal*, not neutrality-as-evasion — but authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted.
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