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Papers

(The median citation count of Strategic Organization is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	95
Toward an attention-based view of crises	62
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	46
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	40
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	35
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	32
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	28
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	27
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	24
What’s the purpose? Meaning making, sensemaking, and the (mis)appropriation of purpose beyond profit	24
EXPRESS: AI-Human Learning Systems: Investigating the Strategic Role of AI for Organizational Learning	24
Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages	21
Reputation belongs in more strategic decision models (and some data to measure it)	21
On the absence of conservative sociopolitical activism by CEOs: Explanations and implications	18
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	17
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	17
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	16
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	15
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	15
Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	14
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	14
Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	13
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	13
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	13
Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	11

“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	11
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	11
Coauthoring collaborative strategy when voices are many and authority is ambiguous	10
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	10
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	10
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	10
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	10
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	10
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	9
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	9
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	9
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	9
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	9
Addressing racism and Islamophobia under the rules of colorblindness: When social movements engage in category work to reform the meanings of regulatory categories	7
Themed issue: Top management matters	7
Conflict or alignment? The role of return-oriented foreign shareholders and domestic relational shareholders in mitigating earnings management	7
Call for papers: Special issue of Strategic Organization: Impact Driven Strategy Research for Grand Challenges	7
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	7
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	7
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	6
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	6
The logic of strategic entrepreneurship	6
Organization and management scholars’ technological conservatism: Could we free ourselves from the shackles of paper-bound logic?	6
Special issue of Strategic Organization: “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	6
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	6
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	6
The best broths are cooked in the oldest pans: An empirical test of the practice-based view in the wine industry	5
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	5
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	5
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	5
EXPRESS: Demystifying serendipity: How mundane practices enable the identification and pursuit of extraordinary discoveries	5
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	5
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	5
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	5
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	5
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	5
The governance of learning: Carrots, sticks, and stones in acquisition capability development	5
The short history and long future of research on market categories	5
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	5
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	5
The effects of local community characteristics on the relationship between negative performance feedback and downsizing announcements	5
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	4
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	4
A business model pattern arrives … and then? A translation perspective on business model innovation in established firms	4
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	4
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	4
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	4
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	4
An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	4

Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	4
“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers’ political ideologies on the efficacy of top management team vertical pay disparities	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
A Bayesian approach to nested data analysis: A primer for strategic management research	3
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	3