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Use when building the novel integrative framework that an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review must deliver — the theory-advancing "new way of seeing the field" that is the acceptance bar, not a catalog of papers. Designs the spine; it does not gather the literature (amann-literature-synthesis) or appraise evidence balance (amann-evidence-standards).

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# Organizing Framework — the Acceptance Bar (amann-organizing-framework)

## When to trigger

- The coding matrix is built but the draft would read like a list of papers
- Sections are named after sub-topics ("Antecedents", "Outcomes") rather than ideas
- You cannot state in one sentence the *new way of seeing the field* the review delivers
- A reader could not predict why streams are grouped as they are, or what the review *argues*

## Why the framework is the whole game at Annals

Annals is "reviews with an attitude": it does not reward accurate summary, it rewards **theory advancement through synthesis**. The acceptance bar is whether the review **imposes an organizing logic the field did not have** — a typology, a process model, an integrating construct, a reconciliation of rival camps — that makes scattered work legible and generates a research agenda. The framework *is* the contribution; the citations are the evidence. This is what separates Annals from a descriptive review and from its sibling AMR, where new theory stands alone rather than emerging from a literature. Choose the spine deliberately:

| Spine type | Organizes the field by | Best when |
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