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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	128
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	57
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	47
Toward an attention-based view of crises	46
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	38
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	37
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	36
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	33
AI-human learning systems: Investigating the strategic role of AI for organizational learning	32
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	32
On the absence of conservative sociopolitical activism by CEOs: Explanations and implications	31
What’s the purpose? Meaning making, sensemaking, and the (mis)appropriation of purpose beyond profit	26
Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages	23
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	21
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	20
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	19
Cross-border organizational strategies for knowledge appropriation: Codified and complex technologies	19
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	18
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	17
Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	17
Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	17
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	17
Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	16
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	15
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	13

“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	13
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	13
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	12
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	12
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	12
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	12
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	11
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	11
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	11
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	11
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	11
Themed issue: Top management matters	10
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	10
Addressing racism and Islamophobia under the rules of colorblindness: When social movements engage in category work to reform the meanings of regulatory categories	9
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	9
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	8
Strategic Organization special issue: Strategy and aesthetics call for papers (Deadline: 1 December 2026)	8
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	8
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	8
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	7
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	7
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	7
EXPRESS: Interpretive Orchestration: An Essay Exploring the Epistemic Intersection of Human Intuition and Machine Intelligence	7
The business case for human-centric organizing: Implications for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption ¹	7
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	7
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	7
Demystifying serendipity: How mundane practices enable the identification and pursuit of extraordinary discoveries	6
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	6
The short history and long future of research on market categories	6
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	6
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	6
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	6
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	6
Special issue of Strategic Organization: “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	6
The effects of local community characteristics on the relationship between negative performance feedback and downsizing announcements	6
A business model pattern arrives … and then? A translation perspective on business model innovation in established firms	6
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	6
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	6
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	5
Paradox enactment: A power-performative view	5
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	5
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	5
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	5
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	5
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	5
An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	5
Network diversity, institutional intermediaries, and new venture performance in an entrepreneurial ecosystem of China	4
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4
A Bayesian approach to nested data analysis: A primer for strategic management research	4
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	4

“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
Themed issue: Performance beyond performance	3
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	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
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
Steven W. Floyd: His legacy as a scholar and academic community builder	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
Windfall gains, loss aversion, and the price of a deal: Target CEO equity risk-bearing and acquisition premiums	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3
A tale of two ventures: How founder experiences shape search in tech-anchored and market-anchored ventures	3