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aos-literature-positioning

Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).

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# Literature Positioning (aos-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The front end reviews literatures without joining any specific conversation
- Reviewers could ask "why does this belong in AOS rather than a management or sociology journal?"
- Citations cluster in a sibling journal's canon (JAR/TAR earnings-quality chains, AMJ theory-building chains)
- You cannot name the two or three prior papers your findings push against

## Position inside AOS's own 50-year canon

AOS is unusual: half a century of its own archive defines the conversations it cares about, and its editors read submissions against that archive. Locate the specific AOS thread your paper extends:

| Thread (examples from the canon)                                            | You must engage it if your paper is about… |
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