Strategic Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Strategic Management Journal is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments154
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Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions116
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Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids102
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Standing out from the crowd: Dedicated institutional investors and strategy uniqueness99
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The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies63
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry58
The “CEO in context” technique revisited: A replication and extension of Hambrick and Quigley (2014)58
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation51
The cue‐ball effect: How an advantaged firm's closer competitors can propagate the impact of its advantage to more distant competitors49
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures48
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy48
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The role of competitive amplification in explaining sustained performance heterogeneity41
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How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning38
Rating systems and increased heterogeneity in firm performance: Evidence from the New York City Restaurant Industry, 1994–201337
Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings37
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight37
Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from thebiopharmaceuticalindustry36
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization36
The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act34
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research34
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection33
The Janus face of artificial intelligence feedback: Deployment versus disclosure effects on employee performance32
Light‐touch integration: A study on cross‐border acquisitions by emerging market multinationals31
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage31
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies31
Knowledge sources, innovation objectives, and their impact on innovation performance: Quasi‐replication of Leiponen and Helfat (2010)29
Income or education?Community‐levelantecedents of firms'category‐spanningactivities28
The origins of time compression diseconomies28
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment28
Status and consensus: Heterogeneity in audience evaluations of female‐ versus male‐lead films27
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees27
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking26
Competing with the platform: Complementor positioning and cross‐platform response to entry26
The entry‐deterring effects of synergies in complementor acquisitions: Evidence from Apple's digital platform market, the iOS app store26
Patent remedies and technology licensing: Evidence from a supreme court decision25
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance24
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying23
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment23
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Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change22
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change22
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers22
Anti‐counterfeiting strategy unfolded: A closer look to the case of a large multinational manufacturer22
Innovation and profitability following antitrust intervention against a dominant platform: The wild, wild west?21
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms21
Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects21
A rivalry‐based theory of gender diversity20
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria20
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis20
Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets20
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?20
Discovery, discernment, and exploitation: Entrepreneurial mechanisms at the nexus of individual and opportunity19
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors19
Board experiential diversity and corporate radical innovation19
The role of procedural rationality in debiasing acquisition decisions of overconfident CEOs19
Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts19
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Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”17
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?16
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments16
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Using machine learning to revisit the diversification–performance relationship16
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions16
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets16
Mapping a sector's scope transformation and the value of following the evolving core15
Entrepreneurial learning and strategic foresight15
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Quantum leaps or baby steps? Expertise distance, construal level, and the propensity to invest in novel technological ideas15
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Integration and appropriability: A study of process and product components within a firm's innovation portfolio15
Adopting Dr. Robot: Responses to competitor adoption of innovation15
Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance15
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises14
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging14
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Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States14
Pipeline hiring's effects on the human capital and performance of new recruits14
Political competition and the rechanneling of corporate bribery into politically connected charity donations: Evidence from South Korea13
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections13
Is knowledge really the most important strategic resource? A meta‐analytic review13
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design13
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities12
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201912
The myth of the flat start‐up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start‐ups12
The new needs friends: Simmelian strangers and the selection of novelty12
Weathering a demand shock: The impact of prior vertical scope on post‐shock firm response12
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Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms12
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Out of the trap: Conversion funnel business model, customer switching costs, and industry profitability10
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When do startups scale? Large‐scale evidence from job postings10
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations10
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs10
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors10
Experimentation and appropriability inearly‐stageventures: Evidence from theUSsoftware industry10
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies10
Degree assortativity in collaboration networks and invention performance10
Dynamic resource redeployment in global semiconductor firms10
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices10
Cashing in on the culture wars?CEOactivism, wokewashing, and firm value9
Task bottlenecks and resource bottlenecks: A holistic examination of task systems through an organization design lens9
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Managing exploration in organizations: The effect of superior monitoring on subordinate search behavior9
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Giant cluster formation and integrating role of bridges in social diffusion9
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases9
Competing or complementary labels? Estimating spillovers in Chinese green building certification9
A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals9
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations9
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities9
Top management team role structure: A vantage point for advancing upper echelons research9
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution9
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry9
Board design and governance failures at peer firms8
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research8
Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach8
Hidden in a group? Market reactions to multi‐violator corporate social irresponsibility disclosures8
Finding a road less traveled: Combining analysis and intuition to develop novel problem formulations8
Unpacking the “O” in VRIO: The role of workflow interdependence in the loss and replacement of strategic human capital8
Building greener motorhomes: How dual‐purpose technical and relational capabilities affect component and full product innovation8
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing8
Meta‐analysis of the corporate planning–organizational performance relationship: A research note8
From a shareholder to stakeholder orientation: Evidence from the analyses ofCEOdismissal in large U.S. firms8
Introducing machine‐learning‐based data fusion methods for analyzing multimodal data: An application of measuring trustworthiness of microenterprises8
Optimal distinctiveness across revenue models: Performance effects of differentiation of paid and free products in a mobile app market8
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Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit7
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking7
Acquired employees versus hired employees: Retained or turned over?7
Governing crowdsourcing for unconstrained innovation problems7
Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of political connection adaptation in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks7
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Social capital and entrepreneur resilience: Entrepreneur performance during violent protests in Togo7
Empirically exploring the veracity of the new stakeholder perspective in strategy: Documenting workforce rents7
Category innovation in the software industry: 1990–20027
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes7
Organizational adaptation in dynamic environments: Disentangling the effects of how much to explore versus where to explore7
Informal networks and information environments7
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Judging foreign startups7
The double‐edged sword of boundary‐spanning Corporate Social Responsibility programs7
The knowledge‐incentive tradeoff: Understanding the relationship between research and development decentralization and innovation7
The future of the web? The coordination and early‐stage growth of decentralized platforms7
David overshadows Goliath: Specializing in generality for internationalization in the global mobile money industry6
Value, rent, and profit: A stakeholder resource‐based theory6
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Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed6
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Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain6
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Categories and narratives as sources of distinctiveness: Cultural entrepreneurship within and across categories6
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Technology adoption and innovation: The establishment of airmail and aviation innovation in the United States, 1918–19356
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Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers6
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities6
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Corporate‐level influences on internal capital allocation: The role of financial analyst performance projections6
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope6
Face‐to‐face interactions and the returns to acquisitions: Evidence from smartphone geolocational data5
Cascading innovation: R&D team design and performance implications of mobility5
When the weak are mighty: A two‐sided matching approach to alliance performance5
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers5
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation5
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Stronger together: Country‐of‐origin agglomeration and multinational enterprise location choice in an adverse institutional environment5
It did not work? Unlearn and try again—Unlearning success and failure beliefs in changing environments5
Do financial market frictions hurt the performance of women‐led ventures? A meta‐analytic investigation5
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?5
Be careful what you wish for: CEO and analyst firm performance attributions and CEO dismissal5
Leveraging synergies versus resource redeployment: Sales growth and variance in product portfolios of diversified firms5
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector5
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The geography of female small business survivorship: Examining the roles of proportional representation and stakeholders5
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation5
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior5
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Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)4
From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters4
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages4
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The role of military directors in holding the CEO accountable for poor firm performance4
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment4
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies4
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry4
Can firms avoid tough patent examiners through examiner‐shopping? Strategic timing of citations in USPTO patent applications4
The choice of value‐based strategies under rivalry: Whether to enhance value creation or bargaining capabilities4
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings4
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms4
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension4
Communication frames and beneficiary engagement in corporate social initiatives: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in France4
Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship4
More effective solutions? Senior managers and non‐routine problem solving4
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: Technology search strategies and competition due to import penetration4
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships4
Gender and racial minorities on corporate boards: How board faultlines and CEO‐minority director overlap affect firm performance4
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival4
Do makerspaces affect entrepreneurship? If so, who, how, and when?3
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A blessing and a curse: How chief executive officer cognitive complexity influences firm performance under varying industry conditions3
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions3
The market value spillovers of technological acquisitions: Evidence frompatent‐textanalysis3
When do firms benefit from overconfident CEOs? The role of board expertise and power for technological breakthrough innovation3
Public enemies? The differential effects of reputation and celebrity on corporate misconduct scandalization3
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration3
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers3
When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification3
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The octopus that shrank: A historical analysis of how multinationals address policy and contractual uncertainty in a global value chain3
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer3
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources3
Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation3
Who deviates? Technological opportunities, career concern, and inventor's distant search2
Performance metrics in strategy research: A new metric and method for assessing dynamic value2
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan2
Reputations in flux: How a firm defends its multiple reputations in response to different violations2
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Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons2
Making the most of AI and machine learning in organizations and strategy research: Supervised machine learning, causal inference, and matching models2
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments2
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment2
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