amann-workflow

Annals Workflow Router (amann-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which amann- skill to use at the current stage* of a comprehensive, integrative review article aimed at the Academy of Management Annals (Annals) — the Academy of Management's review-of-the-field journal, published with Taylor & Francis. Annals does not publish original empirical research or stand-alone new theory; it publishes authoritative, theory-advancing reviews that synthesize a management/organization literature. Its mission is "up-to-date, in-depth and integrative reviews of research advances in management," and its house identity is "reviews with an attitude": a review must take a critical, integrative stance and set an agenda, not merely catalog papers (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).

So the lifecycle is not "design → identify → estimate → defend." It is judge whether a literature is Annals-scale → write the ≤5-page proposal (the gate) → if invited, read the whole literature → impose a novel organizing framework → appraise the evidence even-handedly → build synthesis exhibits → land the Annals voice → develop the full review through the editor-only process. The single binding constraint at every step is the same: does this review create a new way of seeing the field? A review that summarizes accurately but reorganizes nothing is the canonical Annals reject.

Default assumption: unless told otherwise, treat the target as Annals and the artefact as a comprehensive review, not a primary paper. Tells that you are at Annals and not a sibling: the work synthesizes other people's research rather than reporting your own; the first deliverable is a short proposal under a twice-yearly deadline, not a full draft; there is no hypothesis test or dataset of your own — you appraise the studies you cover; the contribution is an integrative map and agenda for a field. If the user has original theory, route to AMR; original data, route to AMJ — say so.