Jmis workflow

JMIS Workflow Router (jmis-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which jmis- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) — the Taylor & Francis (Routledge) quarterly founded in 1984 and edited since its founding by Vladimir Zwass (Fairleigh Dickinson University). JMIS is one of the IS field's "Senior Scholars' basket" top journals, but it has a distinctive center of gravity: the management and economics of information systems and technology — IS strategy and IT business value, e-commerce and digital platforms, IT economics, decision support and business analytics, the economics of security and privacy, and the managerial use of emerging technology. Methodologically it is broad: econometrics on firm/platform data, surveys, experiments, analytical/design-science modeling, and data science.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JMIS. Operational tells that you are at JMIS and not a sibling: submission is by email to the Editor-in-Chief at [email protected] (subject line "JMIS Submission"), not through a ScholarOne or Taylor & Francis portal; review is double-anonymized; references use numbered bracketed citations [9] with an alphabetized list (an IEEE-like numbering, unlike the author-date style of MISQ/ISR); the complete manuscript is capped at ≤50 pages; the abstract is ≤150 words with no citations. (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准.)

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" with a half-built JMIS manuscript
• A draft's current bottleneck — fit, mechanism, identification, exhibits, prose, submission — needs diagnosing
• Work is ping-ponging between framing, estimation/modeling, writing, and the response letter
• A JMIS decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
• The team is unsure whether the paper belongs at JMIS versus MISQ, ISR, JAIS, or Management Science

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Question not clearly an IS-management/economics problem; outlet fit uncertain	jmis-topic-selection
The IT-value / platform / economic mechanism is thin or descriptive	jmis-theory-development
Contribution vs. MISQ/ISR/JAIS and the IS literature is fuzzy	jmis-literature-positioning
Research design or construct validity does not match the claim	jmis-methods
Estimation, identification, SEM, or analytics modeling needs work	jmis-data-analysis
Results exist but the "so what for IS management" is implicit	jmis-contribution-framing
Exhibits are dense, mislabeled, or do not answer the question	jmis-tables-figures
Prose buries the argument; abstract/intro do not land	jmis-writing-style
Ready to email the EIC; need an anonymization + format preflight	jmis-submission
Want to understand the EIC-led, double-anonymized timeline / desk-reject odds	jmis-review-process
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	jmis-rebuttal

Default order

1. jmis-topic-selection — lock an IS-management/economics question with JMIS fit
2. jmis-theory-development — build the IT-value / platform / economic mechanism
3. jmis-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the basket and reference disciplines
4. jmis-methods — match design to claim (econometrics / survey / experiment / analytical / design-science)
5. jmis-data-analysis — identification, construct validity, estimation, analytics
6. jmis-contribution-framing — turn results into an explicit IS contribution
7. jmis-tables-figures — exhibits that carry the argument
8. jmis-writing-style — make the idea land (abstract + intro last)
9. jmis-submission — anonymization + ≤50pp + numbered-reference preflight, then email the EIC
10. jmis-review-process — calibrate expectations for the EIC-led process
11. jmis-rebuttal — after the R&R

jmis-tables-figures and jmis-writing-style are late-stage polish. Do not rewrite the intro before the mechanism and identification settle.

Routing by paper archetype

JMIS spans several research styles, and the binding constraint differs by style. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
IT-business-value / firm econometrics	endogeneity of IT investment; identifying variation	jmis-methods → jmis-data-analysis
digital platform / e-commerce empirics	network effects, two-sidedness, selection on platform data	jmis-theory-development → jmis-data-analysis
behavioral survey / experiment (IS adoption, security)	construct validity, common-method bias, manipulation realism	jmis-methods
analytical / economic modeling of IS	the economic mechanism and signed comparative statics	jmis-theory-development
design-science / data-science artifact	utility evaluation vs. credible baselines, managerial relevance	jmis-methods → jmis-data-analysis

Difference vs. MISQ / ISR / JAIS / Management Science

• JMIS: management and economics of IS/technology; email-to-EIC submission; double-anonymized; numbered bracketed references; ≤50pp. Distinctive economics-of-IS and e-commerce/platform emphasis (Zwass's IJEC lineage).
• MISQ: basket sibling with a stronger design-science genre identity and theory/method conventions; ScholarOne; author-date style — different house norms.
• ISR: INFORMS quarterly, sociotechnical and intradisciplinary, behavioral and analytical co-equal; ScholarOne; mandatory ~500-word contribution statement.
• JAIS: AIS flagship, broad IS theory; AIS e-Library submission.
• Management Science: INFORMS, broad management/OR (not IS-specific); charges a submission fee.

Anti-patterns

• Treating JMIS as interchangeable with MISQ or ISR — it has its own scope (economics of IS), process (email to EIC), and citation style (numbered brackets)
• Submitting through a Taylor & Francis / ScholarOne portal because the journal is T&F-published — JMIS intake is the EIC's email
• Forgetting the ≤50-page ceiling and trying to offload core claims to an online appendix
• Letting jmis-tables-figures/jmis-writing-style polish exhibits while the mechanism or identification is still moving
• Quoting an editor, fee, or limit not in resources/official-source-map.md without marking it 待核实

Output format

【Target】Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
【Current bottleneck】fit / mechanism / positioning / design / evidence / exhibits / style / submission / revision
【Archetype】IT-value / platform / behavioral / analytical / design-science
【Next skill】<one jmis-* skill>
【Reason】why this step is the binding constraint
【Source check】official facts verified or marked 待核实 (检索于 2026-06)