Orgstud workflow

Organization Studies Workflow Router (orgstud-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which orgstud- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at Organization Studies (OS) — the flagship European organization-theory journal published by SAGE for the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), founded 1980. OS rewards papers that make a genuine theoretical contribution to organization studies — institutional theory, process and practice theory, sensemaking, power and critique, sociological and historical approaches to organizing. It is distinctively strong on qualitative, processual, and theoretically ambitious work and prizes conceptual depth over hypothesis-counting.

Operational tells that you are at OS and not a sibling: review is double-anonymized (a separate, identity-bearing title page; the manuscript itself anonymized); the cap is 13,000 words including references and appendices; the abstract is unstructured, ≤300 words; you supply 5–7 keywords, four drawn from the OS ScholarOne keyword list; submission is via ScholarOne (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies). The journal sits on the FT50 generalist-management list. Editors-in-chief are Renate Meyer and Paolo Quattrone (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the SAGE OS and EGOS pages.

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" on an OS-bound manuscript
• A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
• Work is ping-ponging between framing, fieldwork/analysis, exhibits, and the response letter
• An OS decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
• The team is weighing OS against ASQ, Organization Science, JMS, or AMR

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Phenomenon is interesting but its fit with OS's theory-first scope is unclear	orgstud-topic-selection
The theoretical engine (mechanism / process model) is thin or relabels the finding	orgstud-theory-development
Contribution vs. the conversation OS owns is fuzzy or undersold	orgstud-literature-positioning
Design and its match to the question (qualitative/process/quantitative) need work	orgstud-methods
Coding, the data structure, or estimation/robustness need execution	orgstud-data-analysis
The one-sentence theoretical contribution is not sharp	orgstud-contribution-framing
Data structures, process figures, or tables are hard to read	orgstud-tables-figures
Prose buries the argument; the European theoretical register is missing	orgstud-writing-style
Ready to submit via ScholarOne; need a preflight on anonymization/format	orgstud-submission
Want to understand the developmental review cycle / decision odds	orgstud-review-process
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy	orgstud-rebuttal

Default order

1. orgstud-topic-selection — lock the theoretically generative phenomenon
2. orgstud-theory-development — build the mechanism / process model
3. orgstud-literature-positioning — stake the contribution in OS's conversation
4. orgstud-methods — design (qualitative/process/historical/quantitative) that fits the question
5. orgstud-data-analysis — make the data-to-theory ladder visible
6. orgstud-contribution-framing — sharpen the one-sentence theoretical claim
7. orgstud-tables-figures — data structures, process models, exhibits
8. orgstud-writing-style — the discursive European register (abstract + intro last)
9. orgstud-submission — ScholarOne preflight (anonymization, word cap, keywords)
10. orgstud-review-process — calibrate the developmental cycle
11. orgstud-rebuttal — after the R&R

orgstud-writing-style is late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before theory and evidence settle. Unlike a variance-template journal, at OS the theory is the deliverable, so orgstud-theory-development and orgstud-contribution-framing are the load-bearing steps, not the methods or tables.

Routing by paper archetype

OS spans several theory-driven archetypes, and the binding constraint differs by archetype. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
inductive/process ethnography	data-to-theory transparency + process model	orgstud-theory-development → orgstud-data-analysis
institutional / field-level study	what is novel for neo-institutional theory	orgstud-literature-positioning
critical / power / reflexive	the critical theoretical contribution, not just critique	orgstud-theory-development
conceptual / essay (no new data)	a clearly novel theoretical move readers can use	orgstud-contribution-framing
quantitative organization theory	mechanism the design illuminates (not the estimator)	orgstud-theory-development → orgstud-methods

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My ethnography of a merger is rich, but a reviewer says it 'reads like a case report' and 'doesn't move institutional theory.'" That is two OS pushbacks — the data-to-theory ladder is invisible (owned by orgstud-data-analysis) and the contribution to the institutional conversation is unstated (owned by orgstud-contribution-framing with positioning in orgstud-literature-positioning). Build the Gioia-style data structure and a process model first, then name the theoretical move; only then return to orgstud-writing-style.

Anti-patterns

• Treating OS as interchangeable with ASQ (US sociology-of-organizations), Organization Science (US, multi-paradigm + modeling), JMS (pluralist), or AMR (theory-only, no data)
• Leading with a clean identification design as if the estimator were the contribution — at OS the theory is the contribution
• Polishing prose before the mechanism and evidence hierarchy are stable
• Importing a top-five-economics or US hypothesis-template structure into a European theory-first outlet
• Asserting facts (editor, word cap, fees) not in resources/official-source-map.md or not marked 检索于 2026-06

Output format

【Target】Organization Studies (SAGE / EGOS)
【Current bottleneck】fit / theory / positioning / design / evidence / framing / exhibits / style / submission / revision
【Archetype】inductive-process / institutional / critical / conceptual / quantitative
【Next skill】<one orgstud-* skill>
【Reason】why this is the binding constraint
【Source check】official facts verified or marked 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准 / 待核实