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orgsci-topic-selection
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Organization Science manuscript — testing whether it is a theory-driven question about organizations spanning micro to macro, and whether Organization Science (rather than ASQ, AMJ, Management Science, or a field journal) is the right venue.
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# Topic Selection & Venue Fit (orgsci-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have a phenomenon, dataset, or field access but no sharpened question
- You are unsure whether the idea belongs in Organization Science vs. a sibling venue
- A colleague asks "what is the organizational theory here?"
## What Organization Science wants
Organization Science publishes **theory-driven** research about organizations — their processes, structures, technologies, identities, capabilities, forms, and performance — and is deliberately **interdisciplinary**, drawing on organization theory, strategy, sociology, economics, and psychology. A strong topic lives where an organizational phenomenon meets a theoretical conversation, and it can sit at **any level**: individual/team (micro), the organization (meso), or fields/populations (macro). Cross-level questions — how micro behavior aggregates to organizational outcomes, or how macro structures shape micro action — are especially welcome.
The bar is **overall contribution**, not novelty for its own sake: "theoretical novelty is neither necessary nor sufficient." A good question promises a contribution from at least one credible source — new theory, new data, methodological insight, a new setting that tests generalizability, a clearer mechanism, or relevance to a social problem or grand challenge.
