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finman-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Stakes the marginal contribution and the sibling boundary; it does not run analysis or draft the intro prose.
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# Literature Positioning (finman-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- A referee or coauthor says the contribution "isn't clear" or "feels incremental"
- The paper could plausibly have been sent to JCF, JFQA, or a top-3 journal and you cannot articulate why FM
- The intro cites everything but never says precisely what is *new* relative to the closest two or three papers
- You are tempted to claim a top-3-sized contribution that the evidence does not support
## The FM positioning bar
FM rewards a **clearly stated, honestly sized** contribution that a *general* finance reader can grasp. Because the journal is broad and explicitly values papers that "provoke and further debate," positioning at FM is less about claiming you beat the frontier on rigor and more about showing your finding **adds a debate-worthy fact, mechanism, or managerial implication** the literature is missing. The two failure modes FM editors see most are (a) **over-claiming** — dressing a solid incremental result as a paradigm shift, which the <10% acceptance bar and experienced AEs catch immediately; and (b) **mis-targeting** — a paper whose contribution is so specialist it belongs in JCF or JFQA, or so frontier-defining it belongs in JF/JFE/RFS. Your job is to land the contribution in FM's lane: broad relevance, real novelty, sized to the evidence.
## Positioning by where the paper sits relative to siblings