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Use when building the theoretical engine for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — the mechanism, process model, or conceptual move that constitutes the contribution. Builds the argument; it does not select methods or run analysis.

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# Theory Development (orgstud-theory-development)

## When to trigger

- You have a rich phenomenon (from `orgstud-topic-selection`) but no theoretical machinery that *organizes* it
- Your "theory" is a set of labeled themes or a box-and-arrow diagram with no generative mechanism
- A reviewer says the theory is "thin," "descriptive," "a relabeling of the data," or "doesn't engage the literature it claims to advance"
- You must decide whether the contribution is a new construct, a process model, a reconceptualization, or a boundary condition

## Theory is the deliverable at OS

This is the load-bearing skill in the pack. At OS the **theory itself is the contribution** — more so than the dataset or the estimator. The journal's European, sociologically-rooted tradition means process and interpretive theorizing are fully legitimate as the *main* claim (a different default from variance-template journals). Your job is to produce a **generative theoretical move** readers elsewhere can pick up and use.

State the **mechanism / process logic**, not just constructs:
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