Strategic Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Strategic Management Journal is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility188
Platform ecosystems as meta‐organizations: Implications for platform strategies170
Shareholder activism and firms' voluntary disclosure of climate change risks164
Strategic responses to crisis133
From necessity to opportunity: Scaling bricolage across resource‐constrained environments98
Liminal movement by digital platform‐based sharing economy ventures: The case of Uber Technologies94
Machine learning and human capital complementarities: Experimental evidence on bias mitigation92
Reliance on science: Worldwide front‐page patent citations to scientific articles89
CEO early‐life disaster experience and corporate social performance87
The Janus face of artificial intelligence feedback: Deployment versus disclosure effects on employee performance82
A database of CEO turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–201881
Stakeholder engagement strategies, national institutions, and firm performance: A configurational perspective80
Charting a path between firm‐specific incentives and human capital‐based competitive advantage74
Mutualism and the dynamics of new platform creation: A study of Cisco and fog computing74
Platform governance matters: How platform gatekeeping affects knowledge sharing among complementors70
Machine learning for pattern discovery in management research68
Strategic management during the financial crisis: How firms adjust their strategic investments in response to credit market disruptions67
Risk management and corporate social responsibility66
CEO cognitive flexibility, information search, and organizational ambidexterity65
Ownership competence64
User preferences and strategic interactions in platform ecosystems63
Out of character: CEO political ideology, peer influence, and adoption of CSR executive position by Fortune 500 firms63
Corporate directors' implicit theories of the roles and duties of boards61
How media coverage of corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility influences cross‐border acquisitions60
How do strategic leaders engage with social media? A theoretical framework for research and practice56
From proprietary to collective governance: How do platform participation strategies evolve?56
Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses56
CEO emotions and firm valuation in initial coin offerings: An artificial emotional intelligence approach56
Decision weaving: Forming novel, complex strategy in entrepreneurial settings54
Generalist versus specialist CEOs and acquisitions: Two‐sided matching and the impact of CEO characteristics on firm outcomes48
Resource re‐allocation capabilities in internal capital markets: The value of overcoming inertia48
How incumbents respond to competition from innovative disruptors in the sharing economy—The impact of Airbnb on hotel performance46
Optimal distinctiveness in platform markets: Leveraging complementors as legitimacy buffers42
Do university entrepreneurship programs promote entrepreneurship?42
Innovation, short‐termism, and the cost of strong corporate governance42
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage41
The evolution of cooperation in the face of conflict: Evidence from the innovation ecosystem for mobile telecom standards development40
Start with “Why,” but only if you have to: The strategic framing of novel ideas across different audiences39
Follow the smoke: The pollution haven effect on global sourcing39
Platform diffusion at temporary gatherings: Social coordination and ecosystem emergence39
Organizational change and the dynamics of innovation: Formal R&D structure and intrafirm inventor networks39
Exploration and exploitation in complex search tasks: How feedback influences whether and where human agents search38
What do multiple objectives really mean for performance? Empirical evidence from the French manufacturing sector38
CEO dismissal: Consequences for the strategic risk taking of competitor CEOs38
The myth of the flat start‐up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start‐ups38
Hyperspecialization and hyperscaling: A resource‐based theory of the digital firm37
Platform governance and the rural–urban divide: Sellers' responses to design change36
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing35
Investigating the mix of strategic choices and performance of transaction platforms: Evidence from the crowdfunding setting34
How do pre‐entrants to the industry incubation stage choose between alliances and acquisitions for technical capabilities and specialized complementary assets?33
Experience base, strategy‐by‐doing and new product performance33
From product system to ecosystem: How firms adapt to provide an integrated value proposition33
Location matters: Valuing firm‐specific nonmarket risk in the global mining industry32
Standing out from the crowd: Dedicated institutional investors and strategy uniqueness32
Using machine learning to revisit the diversification–performance relationship31
Social capital and entrepreneur resilience: Entrepreneur performance during violent protests in Togo30
Do R&D investments in weak IPR countries destroy market value? The role of internal linkages30
Portfolio configuration and foreign entry decisions: A juxtaposition of real options and risk diversification theories30
Binned scatterplots: A simple tool to make research easier and better30
The crisis‐response match: An empirical investigation29
The liabilities of foreign institutional ownership: Managing political dependence through corporate political spending28
Reputations in flux: How a firm defends its multiple reputations in response to different violations27
Knowledge mobilization in the face of imitation: Microfoundations of knowledge aggregation and firm‐level innovation26
A storm is brewing: Antecedents of disaster preparation in risk prone locations26
Back to the future: The effect of returning family successions on firm performance26
Theory‐based learning and experimentation: How strategists can systematically generate knowledge at the edge between the known and the unknown25
The future of the web? The coordination and early‐stage growth of decentralized platforms25
Avoid, acquiesce … or engage? New insights from sub‐Saharan Africa on MNE strategies for managing corruption25
Organizing for innovation: A contingency view on innovative team configuration25
Converting inventions into innovations in large firms: How inventors at Xerox navigated the innovation process to commercialize their ideas25
Engineering serendipity: When does knowledge sharing lead to knowledge production?25
Being extraordinary: How CEOS' uncommon names explain strategic distinctiveness25
The invention performance implications of coopetition: How technological, geographical, and product market overlaps shape learning and competitive tension in R&D alliances24
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: Technology search strategies and competition due to import penetration24
Why do some insider CEOs make more strategic changes than others? The impact of prior board experience on new CEO insiderness24
From a shareholder to stakeholder orientation: Evidence from the analyses ofCEOdismissal in large U.S. firms24
Does nepotism run in the family? CEO pay and pay‐performance sensitivity in Indian family firms24
Product‐market competition and resource redeployment in multi‐business firms24
Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of political connection adaptation in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks23
Quantum leaps or baby steps? Expertise distance, construal level, and the propensity to invest in novel technological ideas23
Renewing the resource‐based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods22
Reexamining investor reaction to covert corporate political activity: A replication and extension of Werner (2017)22
Does piracy lead to product abandonment or stimulate new product development?: Evidence from mobile platform‐based developer firms21
Identifying internal markets for resource redeployment21
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration21
Technological choices under uncertainty: Does organizational aspiration matter?20
Hedge fund investor activism and human capital loss20
Shadow of the great firewall: The impact of Google blockade on innovation in China20
Aspiration formation and attention rules20
Resolving governance disputes in communities: A study of software license decisions20
Market exit and the potential for resource redeployment: Evidence from the global retail sector19
The corporate parenting advantage, revisited19
Value, rent, and profit: A stakeholder resource‐based theory19
Firm partisan positioning, polarization, and risk communication: Examining voluntary disclosures on COVID‐1919
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects19
Using supervised machine learning for large‐scale classification in management research: The case for identifying artificial intelligence patents19
It did not work? Unlearn and try again—Unlearning success and failure beliefs in changing environments19
How ecosystem structure affects firm performance in response to a negative shock to interdependencies19
Homing and platform responses to entry: Historical evidence from the U.S. newspaper industry19
Growth or profit? Strategic orientations and long‐term performance in China19
Who violates expectations when? How firms' growth and dividend reputations affect investors' reactions to acquisitions19
Growing pains: The effect of generational product innovation on mobile games performance18
Change gears before speeding up: The roles of Chief Executive Officer human capital and venture capitalist monitoring in Chief Executive Officer change before initial public offering18
Selling your soul to the devil? The importance of independent ownership to identity distinctiveness for oppositional categories18
Capability interactions and adaptation to demand‐side change18
From litigation to innovation: Firms' ability to litigate and technological diversification through human capital18
Analytic models in strategy, organizations, and management research: A guide for consumers17
Information frictions and entrepreneurship17
Corporate social responsibility of U.S.‐listed firms headquartered in tax havens17
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?16
Empirical inquiry without hypotheses: A question‐driven, phenomenon‐based approach to strategic management research16
Information disclosure and the market for acquiring technology companies16
The role of procedural rationality in debiasing acquisition decisions of overconfident CEOs16
Multilevel optimal distinctiveness: Examining the impact of within‐ and between‐organization distinctiveness of product design on market performance16
Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects16
Mi Casa Es Tu Casa: Immigrant Entrepreneurs as Pathways to Foreign Venture Capital Investments16
Corporate‐level influences on internal capital allocation: The role of financial analyst performance projections16
How dynamic capabilities change ordinary capabilities: Reconnecting attention control and problem‐solving15
The strategic allocation of inventors to R&D collaborations15
David overshadows Goliath: Specializing in generality for internationalization in the global mobile money industry15
Activist hedge fund success: The role of reputation15
Political affinity and investors' response to the acquisition premium in cross‐border M&A transactions — A moderation analysis15
Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)15
Long‐tenured independent directors and firm performance15
Resource origins and search15
Examining investor reactions to appointments of Black top management executives and CEOs14
Top management team role structure: A vantage point for advancing upper echelons research14
Categories and narratives as sources of distinctiveness: Cultural entrepreneurship within and across categories14
Entrepreneurial learning and strategic foresight14
Giving a little to many or a lot to a few? The returns to variety in corporate philanthropy14
Using the SHAPLEY value approach to variance decomposition in strategy research: Diversification, internationalization, and corporate group effects on affiliate profitability14
Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts14
Which patents to use as loan collaterals? The role of newness of patents' external technology linkage13
Structural power, corporate strategy, and performance13
When the weak are mighty: A two‐sided matching approach to alliance performance12
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations12
Signaling a successor? A theoretical and empirical analysis of the executive compensation‐chief executive officer succession relationship12
A blessing and a curse: How chief executive officer cognitive complexity influences firm performance under varying industry conditions12
Are U.S. firms becoming more short‐term oriented? Evidence of shifting firm time horizons from implied discount rates, 1980–201312
Bad news for announcers, good news for rivals: Are rivals fully seizing transition‐period opportunities following announcers' top management turnovers?12
Be careful what you wish for: CEO and analyst firm performance attributions and CEO dismissal12
Institutional entry barriers and spatial technology diffusion: Evidence from the broadband industry12
Knowledge sources, innovation objectives, and their impact on innovation performance: Quasi‐replication of Leiponen and Helfat (2010)11
Idea twins: Simultaneous discoveries as a research tool11
Optimal distinctiveness across revenue models: Performance effects of differentiation of paid and free products in a mobile app market11
A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals11
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector11
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs11
Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions11
The choice of value‐based strategies under rivalry: Whether to enhance value creation or bargaining capabilities11
Acquired employees versus hired employees: Retained or turned over?11
Startup acquisitions, relocation, and employee entrepreneurship10
Corporate social counterpositioning: How attributes of social issues influence competitive response10
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors10
The “butterfly effect” in strategic human capital: Mitigating the endogeneity concern about the relationship between turnover and performance10
The effect of import competition on product diversification revisited10
Degree assortativity in collaboration networks and invention performance10
On top of the game? The double‐edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products10
Tradition as a resource: Robust and radical interpretations of operatic tradition in the Italian opera industry, 1989–201110
Strategic behavior by market intermediaries10
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change10
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence9
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation9
Face‐to‐face interactions and the returns to acquisitions: Evidence from smartphone geolocational data9
Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach9
Searching for knowledge in response to proximate and remote problem sources: Evidence from the U.S. renewable electricity industry9
Basking in reflected glory: Reverse status transfer from foreign to home markets9
Knowledge, routines, and cognitive effects in nonmarket selection environments: An examination of the regulatory review of innovations9
Out of the trap: Conversion funnel business model, customer switching costs, and industry profitability9
A recentering approach for interpreting interaction effects from logit, probit, and other nonlinear models9
Income or education?Community‐levelantecedents of firms'category‐spanningactivities9
Transparency in relational contracts9
Upper echelons and intra‐organizational learning: How executive narcissism affects knowledge transfer among business units9
From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters9
The double‐edged sword of boundary‐spanning Corporate Social Responsibility programs9
Dynamic resource redeployment in global semiconductor firms9
Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance8
Can firms avoid tough patent examiners through examiner‐shopping? Strategic timing of citations in USPTO patent applications8
The market value spillovers of technological acquisitions: Evidence from patent‐text analysis8
Hidden in a group? Market reactions to multi‐violator corporate social irresponsibility disclosures8
Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization8
Who deviates? Technological opportunities, career concern, and inventor's distant search8
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed8
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research8
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis8
Bargaining your way to success: The effect of Machiavellian chief executive officers on firm costs8
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities8
Leveraging synergies versus resource redeployment: Sales growth and variance in product portfolios of diversified firms8
The knowledge‐incentive tradeoff: Understanding the relationship between research and development decentralization and innovation8
Changes in persistence of performance over time8
The effects of board expertise‐risk misalignment and subsequent strategic board reconfiguration on firm performance7
The value of flexibility in multi‐business firms7
Economizing and strategizing: How coalitions and transaction costs shape value creation and appropriation7
Innovation and profitability following antitrust intervention against a dominant platform: The wild, wild west?7
On the origin of technological acquisition strategy: The interaction between organizational plasticity and environmental munificence7
Retaining problems or solutions? The post‐acquisition performance implications of director retention7
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages7
The origins of time compression diseconomies7
Strategic resource decay7
Internal agglomeration and productivity: Evidence from microdata7
Integration and appropriability: A study of process and product components within a firm's innovation portfolio7
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change7
Board experiential diversity and corporate radical innovation6
Venture capital exit pressure and venture exit: A board perspective6
Do ambitious entrepreneurs benefit more from training?6
Building greener motorhomes: How dual‐purpose technical and relational capabilities affect component and full product innovation6
What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study6
Revisiting Zuckerman's (1999) categorical imperative: An application of epistemic maps for replication6
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?6
Power to the outsiders: External hiring and decision authority allocation within organizations6
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–20196
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation6
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs?6
Danger from a distance: Executives' social distance and multinationals' responses to host‐country terrorist attacks6
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?6
Looking for respect? How prior TMT social comparisons affect executives' new TMT engagements6
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
Learning by doing and corporate diversification5
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?5
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers5
When suppliers shift my boundaries: Supplier employee mobility and its impact on buyer firms' sourcing strategy5
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment5
CSR decoupling within business groups and the risk of perceived greenwashing5
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal5
Does CEO emotion matter? CEO affectivity and corporate social responsibility5
How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure5
Unpacking the “O” in VRIO: The role of workflow interdependence in the loss and replacement of strategic human capital5
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight5
Competing both ways: How combining Porter's low‐cost and focus strategies hurts firm performance5
Better to have led and lost than never to have led at all? Lost leadership and effort provision in dynamic tournaments5
Are seed accelerators status springboards for startups? Or sand traps?5
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry5
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry5
Anti‐counterfeiting strategy unfolded: A closer look to the case of a large multinational manufacturer5
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors4
Communication frames and beneficiary engagement in corporate social initiatives: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in France4
Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation4
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies4
Task bottlenecks and resource bottlenecks: A holistic examination of task systems through an organization design lens4
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection4
The geography of female small business survivorship: Examining the roles of proportional representation and stakeholders4
Cascading innovation: R&D team design and performance implications of mobility4
Is the division of labor limited by the extent of the market? Opportunity cost theory with evidence from the real estate brokerage industry4
Board design and governance failures at peer firms4
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry4
Social safety nets and new venture performance: The role of employee access to paid family leave benefits4
Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship4
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices4
Cashing in on the culture wars? CEO activism, wokewashing, and firm value4
Industry competition and firm conduct: Joint determinants of risk–return relations4
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