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Use for full-manuscript prose polish of an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — front-loading the argument, active voice, structure, and AOM house style. Polishes language and structure; it does not create the theoretical contribution (amj-contribution-framing) or fix the analysis (amj-data-analysis).

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# Writing Style (amj-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The argument is buried under jargon, hedging, or passive constructions
- The introduction does not make the contribution clear in its first page
- Section logic wanders; the reader cannot follow the theory → method → results → discussion arc
- Sentences are long and nominalized; the "actor doing the action" is hidden
- This is late-stage polish *after* the theory, design, and contribution are settled

## The AMJ prose standard

AMJ values prose that is **rigorous yet readable**: the theoretical argument should be visible to a reader from another division. Front-load the point — say what you argue, then support it. Write in the active voice with human/organizational actors as subjects. Hedge precisely (state what the data show), not defensively (avoid stacking "may possibly suggest"). AMJ's *From the Editors* (FTE) series has devoted whole editorials to storytelling and crafting the introduction — the journal genuinely rewards a paper that "tells a story," so treat narrative arc as a substantive standard, not decoration.
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