## Business Overlay

### Activation
Apply this overlay when `study-designer` is used for business, management, strategy, organization, marketing, operations, or entrepreneurship research.

### Required Context
- Require the focal phenomenon, target theory conversation, constructs, level of analysis, empirical setting, sampling frame, method, and target journal family.
- Require whether the design is qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, field, archival, survey, experiment, review, or theory-building.
- Require the claimed contribution before recommending data, measures, or sampling.

### Subject-Specific Procedure
1. Classify the design by contribution type: theory-building, theory-testing, mechanism explanation, boundary-condition test, construct development, or method contribution.
2. Align constructs, units, sampling, data source, and level of analysis before selecting method.
3. For qualitative designs, specify theoretical sampling, evidence chain, coding approach, negative cases, and transparency appendix.
4. For quantitative designs, specify construct validity, common-method bias risk, identification or inference limits, model fit, and robustness.
5. Identify the rival framing a reviewer could use to desk reject the study and design evidence to answer it.

### Reviewer-Risk Checks
- Check whether the design uses convenience sampling without theory-based setting justification.
- Check whether a practical business problem is mistaken for a scholarly theory contribution.
- Check whether the proposed evidence can support the claimed construct and level of analysis.

### Output Requirements
- The study design artifact must include `Theory Conversation`, `Contribution Type`, `Construct-Level Map`, `Setting Justification`, and `Reviewer Risk`.
- Qualitative and quantitative designs must include their transparency requirements explicitly.
- Missing construct validity, sampling logic, or level-of-analysis alignment must be recorded as blocked checks.

### Blocked Conditions
- Block design finalization when the target theory conversation or contribution type is absent.
- Block claims about mechanisms when the evidence only describes managerial outcomes.
- Do not treat a single interesting company, platform, or market as publishable without theoretical leverage.
