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Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution of a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript — stating what the paper adds to IS knowledge, matching the contribution claim to the chosen category, and making it legible to a pluralistic, theory-forward reviewer pool. Frames and tests the contribution; it does not build the theory (jais-theory-development) or run the analysis (jais-data-analysis).

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# Contribution Framing (jais-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- Results exist but the "so what for IS theory" is thin, implicit, or generic
- A Senior Editor or reviewer says "the contribution is unclear" or "this is incremental"
- The contribution you claim does not match the category you submitted to
- You can describe what you *did* but not what the field now *knows* that it did not
- You are unsure whether the contribution is theoretical, methodological, or empirical — and JAIS prizes the first two explicitly

## What "contribution" means at JAIS

JAIS exists to publish "innovative, interesting and rigorously developed conceptual and empirical contributions" and to "encourage theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research." Two things follow. First, **theory and method are contributions in their own right** here — more than at most siblings, a paper whose payoff is a new theory, framework, or methodological advance is welcome on its own terms. Second, "interesting" is doing real work in that sentence: JAIS rewards a contribution that is generative and a little surprising, not a confirmatory increment to a settled question. State the contribution as *what the field now knows or can do that it could not before*.
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