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Contribution Framing: What Is New, and So What (amr-contribution-framing) · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

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Contribution Framing: What Is New, and So What (amr-contribution-framing)

brycewang-stanford/amr-contribution-framing

Source brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills ↗License MIT

Use when articulating and differentiating the theoretical contribution of an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — showing precisely what is NEW versus prior theory and why it matters. Frames the contribution; it does NOT build the theory (amr-theory-development) or check its internal logic (amr-data-analysis).

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Last verified 8/15/2026

What it changes

Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 14 of 22 without it.

Without skill64%

With skill86%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Includes the header tag 【Implications】.
Output contains the header tag 【What's new】.
Includes the header tag 【Contribution type】.

and 7 more in the full report

5 fixed14 passed either way3 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +23 pp
Tokens: +20%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -30%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill

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Prompt

After completing a contribution framing analysis for an AMR paper on organizational identity shifts, what specific skill or workflow step should be recommended next to build on this theoretical foundation?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Recommends amr-tables-figures as the next step.	Missed	Passed

case-20 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

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SKILL.md103 linessingle file

Contribution Framing: What Is New, and So What (amr-contribution-framing)

When to trigger

The theory is built and logic-checked, but the "contribution" is vague
A reviewer would write "I don't see what's new here"
Your contribution paragraph restates the propositions instead of differentiating them
You cannot say, in one sentence, what scholars can now explain that they could not

The AMR contribution bar

AMR seeks "novel, insightful, and carefully crafted conceptual articles that challenge conventional wisdom." Whetten's classic AMR editorial, "What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?" (1989, DOI 10.5465/amr.1989.4308371), is the rubric: a complete contribution specifies the What (constructs), How (relationships), Why (the underlying logic), and Who/Where/When (boundary conditions). The Why is the centerpiece — it is what separates theory from description. AMR's scope frames the four legitimate contribution paths: develop new theory; significantly challenge or clarify existing theory; synthesize advances into fresh theory; or identify and delineate a novel theoretical problem.

The two questions AMR contributions must answer

What is new? Not "we studied X" — AMR has no studies. What theoretical machinery did not exist before this paper? A new construct, a new mechanism, a new process model, a re-specified relationship, a dissolved debate.
So what? Why does the new machinery matter to the conversation? What does it let scholars do, see, or explain that the prior theory did not?

A contribution claim that cannot be stated as "Before this paper, theory could not X; after it, theory can X" is not yet a contribution.

Differentiation: contribution vs. prior work

The single most common AMR rejection reason is "contribution not differentiated from prior work." Defend against it explicitly:

Name the closest prior theory and state, concretely, how yours differs — not "we go further" but in what specific respect.
Distinguish from relabeling: if a reviewer could map your construct one-to-one onto an existing one, you have a synonym, not a contribution (cf. Suddaby on construct clarity,

Track record

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License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1

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Contribution Framing: What Is New, and So What (amr-contribution-framing)

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The two questions AMR contributions must answer

Differentiation: contribution vs. prior work

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