journal-of-management-information-systems
GitHub用于判断IS管理论文是否适合JMIS期刊,提供选题匹配、理论贡献评估、方法证据标准及拒稿风险预警。辅助作者重构论文以符合期刊对管理相关性和理论贡献的要求,并提示核对官方投稿指南。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-management-information-systems -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-management-information-systems",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) or deciding whether an information-systems management \/ IT-business-value \/ IS-strategy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Management Information Systems (journal-of-management-information-systems)
Journal positioning
The Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) is a leading IS journal and a member of the AIS Senior Scholars' Basket of eight, with an emphasis on the management of information systems. It publishes broad IS research — behavioral, economic, analytical, and design-oriented — that speaks to how organizations create and capture value from IT: the business value of IT, IS strategy and governance, digital platforms and transformation, and emerging-technology management. Like the other Basket journals it requires a theoretical contribution, with a managerial-relevance orientation. The readership is the IS research and management community.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the JMIS / publisher site and the editorial submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JMIS (or the AIS Senior Scholars' Basket) as the target venue.
- An IS paper centered on the management, value, governance, or strategy of information systems needs a Basket home.
- A behavioral, economic, or design IS paper with a managerial orientation needs the right IS outlet.
- The author needs JMIS's desk-reject risks and a credible Basket / INFORMS alternative list before submitting.
Scope & topic fit
- Business value of IT, IT investment, and IT-enabled organizational performance.
- IS strategy, governance, sourcing, and the management of IT functions and digital transformation.
- Digital platforms, electronic markets, and the economics of IT-enabled business.
- Management of emerging technologies (analytics/AI, blockchain, security/privacy) in organizations, with theory and empirics.
Method & evidence bar
- A theoretical contribution to IS knowledge is required, framed for managerial relevance.
- Empirical work (survey/SEM, econometrics, experiments, secondary data) needs validated constructs or credible identification, with robustness.
- Analytical and design-oriented work needs correct, non-trivial results or rigorously evaluated artifacts and a clear managerial insight.
- The "so what for the management of IS" must be explicit.
Structure & house style
- The introduction frames a management-of-IS problem and an explicit theoretical contribution, with managerial relevance up front.
- Theory development and method are transparent; appendices carry instruments, proofs, or derivations.
- Results report and interpret magnitudes relevant to managers, not only significance.
- The discussion states contributions to IS theory and to management practice.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Management Information Systems author guidelines / submission guidelines" and follow the current publisher version.
- Re-check word/length limits, abstract format, anonymization for double-blind review, and reference style.
- Re-check the current open-science, data/code availability, and disclosure/ethics policies.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating the contribution to the management of IS and why managers/scholars should care.
- The contribution is stated as IS theory / mechanism / managerial insight, not significance or accuracy.
- Empirics use validated constructs or credible identification, with robustness.
- Results report managerially relevant magnitudes; the discussion states theory and practice contributions.
- Length, abstract, anonymization, references, and open-science policy match the current JMIS guide.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A technical or analytics paper with no IS theoretical contribution or no managerial relevance.
- A behavioral paper with weak constructs or unaddressed common-method bias.
- An econometric paper with endogeneity and no credible source of variation.
- A paper that is really CS, operations, or general management framed as management-of-IS.
Re-routing decision
- Behavioral/design-theory-led IS for the field's premier outlet →
mis-quarterly. - Quantitative/economic IS with an INFORMS audience →
information-systems-research. - Theory-rich, methodologically broad IS for the AIS flagship →
journal-of-the-association-for-information-systems. - Broad quantitative management →
management-science(IS department); computational/ML-for-OR with no IS theory →informs-journal-on-computing.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Management Information Systems
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <is there an IS contribution with managerial relevance at JMIS's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / length / blinding / open-science / data-code>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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