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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	147
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	65
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	55
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	55
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	51
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	49
Toward an attention-based view of crises	43
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	40
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	36
AI-human learning systems: Investigating the strategic role of AI for organizational learning	36
Generative AI and cognitive biases in strategic decision-making	33
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	33
On the absence of conservative sociopolitical activism by CEOs: Explanations and implications	26
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	24
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	23
EXPRESS: Tools-in-Process: How Material Transitions Reconstitute Knowledge in Strategy Work	23
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	22
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	18
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	18
Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	18
Cross-border organizational strategies for knowledge appropriation: Codified and complex technologies	18
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	18
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	18
Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	17

Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	16
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	16
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	15
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	14
“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	14
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	14
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	13
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	13
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	12
Open strategy and traditional workplace democracy: Bridging breadth and depth of inclusion	12
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	11
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	10
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	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
Themed issue: Top management matters	9
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	9
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	9
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	8
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	8
The business case for human-centric organizing: Implications for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption ¹	8
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	8
Strategic Organization special issue: Strategy and aesthetics call for papers (Deadline: 1 December 2026)	8
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	8
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	8
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	8
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	8
Interpretive orchestration: An essay exploring the epistemic intersection of human intuition and machine intelligence	8
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	7
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	7
Special issue of Strategic Organization : “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	7
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	7
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	7
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	7
The effects of local community characteristics on the relationship between negative performance feedback and downsizing announcements	6
The short history and long future of research on market categories	6
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	6
Navigating strategic shifts: Imitative and preventative responses to rivals’ disruptive change in strategy	6
Demystifying serendipity: How mundane practices enable the identification and pursuit of extraordinary discoveries	6
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	6
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	5
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	5
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	5
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	5
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	5
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	5
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4
Paradox enactment: A power-performative view	4
Windfall gains, loss aversion, and the price of a deal: Target CEO equity risk-bearing and acquisition premiums	4
An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	4
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	4

2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	4
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	4
“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	4
Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers’ political ideologies on the efficacy of top management team vertical pay disparities	4
Network diversity, institutional intermediaries, and new venture performance in an entrepreneurial ecosystem of China	3
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	3
The individual makes the difference: How mobile personnel affects organizational status of hiring firms	3
Predictive data science as an epistemic stance: Benefits, risks, and opportunities for knowledge pursuit in organizations	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3
The burden of being atypical: The impact of (A)typicality in leader profiles on organizational reputation	3
Generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven scholars addressing grand challenges	3
Themed issue: Performance beyond performance	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
Themed issue: Political strategy in and by organizations	3
Steven W. Floyd: His legacy as a scholar and academic community builder	3
Choosing between alliances and acquisitions: A knowledge recombination perspective	3