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jais-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) manuscript against the IS conversation — engaging the right cross-disciplinary literatures, citing the IS canon and JAIS's own discourse, and staking the gap the theory will fill. Builds the front-end argument; it does not build the theory itself (jais-theory-development) or run the review's method (jais-methods, for Literature Review submissions).

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# Literature Positioning (jais-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- Your introduction reads as "no one has studied X" gap-spotting rather than joining a live debate
- You borrow heavily from a reference discipline but never connect to the IS conversation
- A reviewer says the paper "does not engage the relevant IS literature" or "reinvents a known result"
- You are unsure which IS sub-tradition's scholars are your reviewers, and so which canon to cite
- You cannot answer "why JAIS rather than ISR / MISQ / JMIS" from the front end alone
- You are writing a Literature Review submission and need to justify *which* literature and *why*

## What positioning is for at JAIS

Positioning is not a courtesy survey of prior work; at a theory-forward journal it is where you earn the right to make a contribution. The front end must convince a pluralistic editor of three things in quick succession: that there is a live IS conversation worth advancing, that you know it well enough to move it, and that JAIS is where this move belongs. Everything else in the paper — theory, method, evidence — is read against the stake you set here. Weak positioning is not a stylistic flaw; it is the most common reason a competent paper is desk-rejected for fit.
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