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Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).
Passed 21 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 23 without it.
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I am drafting the introduction for a qualitative field study examining how carbon accounting metrics function as visual inscriptions during corporate decarbonization. Reviewers might question whether this is an accounting paper or general organization studies. Please frame my literature positioning for Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS). Please output the response using six structured sections: Thread, Settled view, Crack, Delta (comparing against the closest existing studies), Interdisciplinary base, and Next step.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Uses the bracketed section header tag 【Thread】 to begin the first section. | Missed | Passed |
| Sets the value of 【Next step】 to aos-methods. | Missed | Passed |
| Names specific prior literature on numbers as inscriptions or constructed reality. | Passed | Passed |
| Formulates the delta as a conceptual advance rather than literature inventory. | Passed | Passed |
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AOS is unusual: half a century of its own archive defines the conversations it cares about, and its editors read submissions against that archive. Locate the specific AOS thread your paper extends:
| Thread (examples from the canon) | You must engage it if your paper is about… |
|---|---|
| Roles of accounting beyond the textbook — Burchell et al. (1980); Hopwood (1983) | any claim that accounting does unexpected work |
| Accounting, power and the calculable person — Miller & O'Leary (1987) | costing, performance measurement, discipline |
| Accountability in everyday organizational life — Roberts & Scapens (1985) | how systems shape conduct and self-accounts |
| Budgets as political instruments — Covaleski & Dirsmith (1986) | budgeting, resource struggles, institutional pressure |
| Numbers as inscriptions and constructed reality — Hines (1988); Robson (1992); Chua (1995) | measurement, representation, expertise |
| Culture change through accounting — Dent (1991) | field studies of transformation |
| Control systems and strategy — Simons (1990) | management control design in use |
| Behavioral/JDM synthesis — Libby, Bloomfield & Nelson (2002) | experimental financial-accounting work |
| Risk and audit society — Power (2009) | risk management, auditability, regulation |
(Full verified references: resources/exemplars/library.md.)
AOS conversations run on imported theory. Cite the primary social-science sources your tradition uses (e.g., the sociology behind institutional theory; Foucault for governmentality; Latour for inscriptions; the cognitive/social psychology behind a JDM design) as they are used in accounting — showing you know both the origin and the accounting appropriation. A paper that cites only accounting journals signals thin theorizing; one that cites only sociology signals the wrong venue.
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