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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking191
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Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance128
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?113
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research89
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors80
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage73
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies68
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change67
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change62
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria60
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets58
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy56
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Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts48
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Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States43
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations41
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices41
Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases40
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202240
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201938
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging37
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design35
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes34
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations34
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking33
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance33
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures33
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing32
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Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors32
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain31
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation31
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Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit31
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources30
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos30
Defending knowledge abroad29
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration29
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions29
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment27
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Decision authority and the returns to algorithms27
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Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments26
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Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal25
When colleagues compete outside the firm25
Hedge fund activism in family firms25
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment24
Aspiration formation and attention rules24
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?24
Growing pains: The effect of generational product innovation on mobile games performance23
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations23
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing22
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence22
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act22
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms22
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Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal22
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs22
Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes22
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Learning by doing and corporate diversification22
Strategic resource decay22
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When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment20
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New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors20
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Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk20
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Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)19
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison19
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs?19
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Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?18
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions18
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation18
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems18
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms18
Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment18
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Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis17
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying17
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry17
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation17
How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning17
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures17
Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects16
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments16
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Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids16
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Experimentation and appropriability inearly‐stageventures: Evidence from theUSsoftware industry15
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises15
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Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures15
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution15
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Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach15
Measuring the commercial potential of science15
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms15
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry14
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From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters14
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation14
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities14
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Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation14
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism14
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?14
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships14
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers13
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope13
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers13
Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)13
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension13
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector13
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages13
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities13
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior12
Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors12
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control12
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization12
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies12
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons12
How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure12
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Who deviates? Technological opportunities, career concern, and inventor's distant search12
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage12
Long‐tenured independent directors and firm performance11
Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts11
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The invention performance implications of coopetition: How technological, geographical, and product market overlaps shape learning and competitive tension in R&D alliances11
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry11
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Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program11
When mimicry leads to divergence: Interdependence asymmetries and selective imitation among competitors11
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects11
Pay transparency and productivity11
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Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century11
The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem10
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization10
Alliance performance and subsequent make‐or‐ally choices: Evidence from the aircraft manufacturing industry10
High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above‐aspiration performance with risky organizational change10
On top of the game? The double‐edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products10
Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity10
Do Alliance portfolios encourage or impede new business practice adoption? Theory and evidence from the private equity industry10
Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending10
The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices9
Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”9
Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay9
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies9
Judging foreign startups9
Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce9
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality9
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Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets9
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?9
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms9
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions9
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Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization9
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment9
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A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals8
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections8
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research8
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Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms8
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities8
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Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities8
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings8
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry8
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Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies8
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs8
Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance8
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Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship7
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When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification7
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival7
Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation7
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer7
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Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers7
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed7
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Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations6
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Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance6
Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry6
Stick together or break apart? Stigmatizing adverse events, media vilification, and unplanned alliance dissolution6
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Differentiation in microenterprises6
Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy6
Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects6
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What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research6
The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing decisions: Evidence from patent prosecution services6
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?6
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Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities6
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention6
Disentangling the role of the institutional environment in the ownership competence framework: A comment on Foss et al. (2021)6
We go way back: Affiliation‐based hiring and young firm performance6
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Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization5
Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain5
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience5
Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes5
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Economic nationalism and the home court advantage5
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization5
How ecosystem structure affects firm performance in response to a negative shock to interdependencies5
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ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance5
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence5
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight4
Building greener motorhomes: How dual‐purpose technical and relational capabilities affect component and full product innovation4
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection4
Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from thebiopharmaceuticalindustry4
Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees4
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers4
Empirically exploring the veracity of the new stakeholder perspective in strategy: Documenting workforce rents4
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment4
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