AOS Literature Positioning
Positions academic manuscripts within the Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) canon and relevant interdisciplinary literature.
The AOS Literature Positioning skill helps academic researchers situate their manuscripts within the 50-year canon of the Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) journal. It guides authors in connecting their research to long-running journal conversations, integrating primary interdisciplinary theory (such as sociology, organization theory, and psychology) as utilized in accounting, and articulating the precise conceptual delta against nearest prior papers. By providing a structured framework and identifying common anti-patterns like generic gap-spotting or wrong-canon drift, this skill ensures the accounting practice remains central and submissions are effectively framed for AOS editors and reviewers.