Strategic Management Journal

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Firm growth and stagnation in the United States: Key trends and new data opportunities	173
Fast learning and sustained exploration: The role of timely performance feedback	111
Performance feedback and change in R&D alliance portfolio breadth: The moderating role of economic conditions	107
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy	89
Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation	82
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets	80
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking	76
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in	72
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance	66
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies	61
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage	60
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases	54
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Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations	52
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures	52
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking	51
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance	48
Flying high or crashing down: Pre‐entry knowledge, post‐entry learning, and the distribution of startup performance	48
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes	46
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–2022	46

How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design	45
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging	45
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States	43
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos	42
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit	42
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On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation	41
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Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?	37
Are boards reluctant to remove poorly performing successors to interim CEOs?	37
Persuasion in the political marketplace: How firms snitch on rivals to encourage regulatory enforcement	36
Defending knowledge abroad	36
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The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms	34
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment	34
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms	33
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration	33
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions	33
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources	33
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The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	31
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Hedge fund activism in family firms	31
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Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal	30
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations	29
When colleagues compete outside the firm	29
Bottom‐up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees	29
Families in venture capital	28
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Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?	27
TRIPS and knowledge diffusion from low‐ and middle‐income countries	27
Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs ' knowledge creation in a host country	27
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors	27
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act	26
Information‐seeking lobbying and strategic stockpiling under trade policy uncertainty	25
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence	25
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing	25
Beyond coal: When can outsider stakeholders drive transformative change?	25
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal	25
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk	25
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data	25
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment	25
Local regulatory anticipation and GHG emissions	25
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs	24
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms	24
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Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations	23
Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)	23
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms	22
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?	22
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems	22
Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge	22
Ethnic integration and the value of innovation	22
Business is personal: How CEO personality influences agency costs	22
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures	21
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Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation	21
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How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?	21
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison	21
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The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying	20
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Regulated versus unregulated competition: How drug shortages boost illegal pharmacy sales	20
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids	20
Putting a price on mission: Social responsibility orientation and startup employment	19
Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs	19
Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools	19
How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning	19
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions	19
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments	19
Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr	19
Social comparison and the value of performance trajectory information: A field experiment in the workplace	18
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution	18
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Beyond feasibility filters: How expertise heterogeneity enables innovation recognition	18
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures	18
Patent regime shift and firm innovation strategy: Evidence from the Second Amendment to China's Patent Law	17
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation	17
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises	17
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Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation	17
Measuring the commercial potential of science	17
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Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers	17
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms	17
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers	16
Unwind the clock? Temporal distance and user interactions on a digital platform	16
Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices	16
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities	16
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism	16
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector	16
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships	15
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A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension	15
AI orchestrator: How recommendation algorithms shape complementor strategy and market equality	15
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization	15
When do firms learn by hiring? How complexity moderates the value of new knowledge	15
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies	15
Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors	15
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons	15
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope	15
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control	14
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Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts	14
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When mimicry leads to divergence: Interdependence asymmetries and selective imitation among competitors	14
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Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century	14
Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program	13
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects	13
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions	13
When do nice guys finish last? Prosociality and the psychological model of CEO ‐firm matching	13
Pay transparency and productivity	13
The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem	12
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry	12
Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce	12
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality	12
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization	12
Location choice in global patent litigation: Does the landscape matter?	12
High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above‐aspiration performance with risky organizational change	11

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The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices	11
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Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity	11
Label claims and category work: The appropriation of the “digital” label in the IT services industry	11
Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay	10
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The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections	10
Platform competition and strategic trade‐offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform	10
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization	10
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities	10
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?	10
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Judging foreign startups	10
How to grow new applications out of old research? Evidence from firm cumulative investments in deep learning	10
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities	10
Curious and analytical: How analysts evaluate and respond to executive communications about firm strategy	10
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms	10
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The role of CEO integrity in M&A decision‐making	10
Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms	10
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies	10
Unlocking novel knowledge recombinations: The effect of artificial intelligence on inventive activity	10
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When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification	9
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings	9
Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kaggle	9
Mapping the landscape of research findings: Generalization across contexts in strategic management research	9
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Political alignment in entrepreneurial teams: Homophily in venture formation and associations with startup success	9
Activism risk and corporate self‐regulation: Investigating how anti‐ SLAPP laws impact firms' institutional corporate social performance	9
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival	8
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer	8
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Deskilling technology affords work amenity, increases labor supply	8
Deepening the real options debate: Real options as dynamic optimization	8
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Throwing curveballs: A language‐based model of curveball questions in quarterly earnings calls uncovers their consequences and antecedents	8
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers	8
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Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry	8
Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects	7
Stick together or break apart? Stigmatizing adverse events, media vilification, and unplanned alliance dissolution	7
Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy	7
Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities	7
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Disentangling contract and law: Legal specificity and contractual governance in public–private partnerships	7
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention	7
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?	6
What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research	6
We go way back: Affiliation ‐based hiring and young firm performance	6
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Differentiation in microenterprises	6
Inter‐platform ecosystems	6
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Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations	6
Disentangling the role of the institutional environment in the ownership competence framework: A comment on Foss et al. (2021)	6
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Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain	5
Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization	5
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience	5
Economic nationalism and the home court advantage	5
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Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes	5
Hiring at the tip of the funnel: Externalizing the work of integrating and coordinating diverse human capital	4
From joiners to founders: Startup employment and underrepresented entrepreneurs	4
Incentive alignment in ecosystems: The role of complementarity types and multi‐sided bargaining	4
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment	4
Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments	4
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Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization	4
Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry	4
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection	4
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight	4
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers	4
Die now of hunger or later of thirst: Understanding climate change adaptation decisions in vulnerable contexts	4
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A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence	4
ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance	4
Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from the biopharmaceutical industry	4
Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings	4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees	4
The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act	4
Renewing the resource‐based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods	4