| name | jbv-tables-figures |
| description | Use when building or cleaning the exhibits for a Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) manuscript — venture descriptive/correlation tables, survival curves, interaction plots, process models, and qualitative data structures in Elsevier house style. Late-stage polish; do not invoke while the entrepreneurial mechanism or identification is still unsettled (use jbv-theory-development / jbv-data-analysis first). |
Tables & Figures (jbv-tables-figures)
When to trigger
- Tables/figures are cluttered, redundant, or not self-explanatory
- You need the standard exhibit set for an entrepreneurship empirical paper
- A reviewer says an exhibit is "not interpretable" or "off house style"
- You are presenting survival, interaction, or qualitative-process results
JBV exhibit conventions
JBV publishes via Elsevier/ScienceDirect, so prepare figures for both print and online, with self-contained captions and references that can be reconciled to the journal's numbered style. Each exhibit must stand alone: a reader should grasp it without the text.
The standard exhibit set (match to your design)
- Table 1 — Descriptives & correlations: venture-level means, SDs, and correlations; note the sampling frame (e.g., Crunchbase/PSED) and the time window. Flag survivorship in the note if the sample conditions on survival.
- Table 2+ — Main models: nested model columns; report coefficients with SEs, the SE-clustering level (cohort/region/industry), and fit. For survival models report hazard ratios with a clear baseline and the risk set; for selection models show both the selection and outcome equations.
- Interaction plots: when you theorize moderation by an entrepreneurial condition (uncertainty, resource scarcity, ecosystem support), plot simple slopes with a clear region of significance — do not leave the interaction to a coefficient alone.
- Survival/Kaplan-Meier curves: for time-to-IPO/exit/failure, show curves by key group with at-risk counts.
- Process model / framework figure: a boxes-and-arrows model of the entrepreneurial mechanism (opportunity → action → outcome) — earns its place only if it adds beyond the text.
- Qualitative data structure: for inductive work, a Gioia-style figure (first-order codes → second-order themes → aggregate dimensions) plus a power-quote table.
Quality bar
- Every table note defines abbreviations, significance stars, SE type, and N (and venture-level vs. event-level units).
- Figures are legible in grayscale; lines/markers distinguishable without color.
- No exhibit duplicates the text; no number in a table contradicts the prose.
- Units and scales are stated (e.g., USD funding, log employees, months-to-exit).
Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
Generate exhibits from the fitted result, not by retyping numbers (the usual source of
body-vs-appendix drift). Full map: execution-with-mcp. JBV studies founders and ventures where selection / survivorship threatens every claim; lead with identification and selection-correction tooling.
- Tables:
etable (multi-model columns) or did_summary_to_latex straight from the
result_id.
- Figures:
plot_from_result / enhanced_event_study_plot / event_study_table —
axis units and the SE/clustering note baked in.
- Every note names the estimator + clustering and states the effect size in
interpretable units.
See a full fitted-result → exhibit chain in the JF execution walkthrough.
Checklist
Anti-patterns
- Coefficient-only moderation with no simple-slope plot.
- Mega-table dumping every model and control with no narrative.
- Color-only figures that collapse in print.
- Decorative framework figure that merely restates the abstract.
Exhibit pass for Journal of Business Venturing
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the entrepreneurial mechanism, level of analysis, evidence design, and boundary conditions for ventures; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: entrepreneurship reviewers who ask whether the paper advances venture formation, opportunity, founder, or ecosystem theory.
- Do the pass: For every table or figure, state the estimand or object, sample or case base, uncertainty display, and one sentence the exhibit proves for the venue audience.
- Return a ledger: give
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.
- Sibling guard: compare against Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice for broader entrepreneurship, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal for strategy interface, AMJ for general management; if a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing format.
- Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until the pack's
resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.
Output format
【Exhibit list】T1 descriptives; T2.. models; F1 interaction; F2 survival; F3 model ...
【Survival/selection reporting】HRs / two equations shown? ...
【Moderation】simple-slope plot present? ...
【Qual】Gioia data structure + quotes? ...
【House-style fixes】captions, grayscale, units ...
【Next step】jbv-writing-style
