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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation284
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy222
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage155
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?138
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets129
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in 104
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how # MeToo ‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of p88
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking77
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Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance68
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator chan67
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The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies58
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance53
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Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations50
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases47
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201945
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States45
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging43
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How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design40
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202240
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking39
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Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors37
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures36
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices35
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing35
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes35
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos34
Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?33
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain33
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Decision authority and the returns to algorithms33
Defending knowledge abroad32
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources32
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit32
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment31
The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms30
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On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation28
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions28
Aspiration formation and attention rules28
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration28
When colleagues compete outside the firm27
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment27
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?27
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Hedge fund activism in family firms26
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Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal24
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments24
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations24
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data24
Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs' knowledge creation in a host country24
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence24
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment23
Strategic resource decay23
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs22
Learning by doing and corporate diversification22
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk22
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act22
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New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors22
TRIPS and knowledge diffusion from low‐ and middle‐income countries22
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing22
Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes21
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms21
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?20
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms20
Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations20
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal20
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Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)20
Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a q uasi‐experiment19
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation19
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How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?19
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems19
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Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge18
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Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions18
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Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison18
Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects17
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The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments17
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis17
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation16
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying16
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids16
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Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach16
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures16
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How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning16
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry16
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms16
Measuring the commercial potential of science15
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures15
Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr15
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Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises15
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution15
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Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector14
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension14
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies14
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities14
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers14
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior14
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?14
From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters14
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities14
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The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope13
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Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers13
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships13
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages13
Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors13
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism13
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation13
How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure13
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation13
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization12
Long‐tenured independent directors and firm performance12
Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts12
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Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program12
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control12
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage12
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Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons12
When mimicry leads to divergence: Interdependence asymmetries and selective imitation among competitors12
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Pay transparency and productivity12
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Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending11
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Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce11
High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above‐aspiration performance with risky organizational change11
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality11
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 ecosystem11
Alliance performance and subsequent make‐or‐ally choices: Evidence from the aircraft manufacturing industry11
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization11
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects11
On top of the game? The double‐edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products11
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions11
Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity10
Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay10
Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”10
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Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment10
Do Alliance portfolios encourage or impede new business practice adoption? Theory and evidence from the private equity industry10
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms10
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The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry10
Label claims and category work: The appropriation of the “digital” label in the IT services industry10
The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices10
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization10
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?10
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections9
Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets9
Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms9
Judging foreign startups9
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities9
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies9
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Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies9
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities9
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research9
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Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance9
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Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry9
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Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation8
Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship8
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed8
When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification8
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer8
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings8
The role of CEO integrity in M&A decision‐making8
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Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects7
Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy7
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Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers7
Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance7
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Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry7
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Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities7
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Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention7
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Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival7
Deskilling technology affords work amenity, increases labor supply7
What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research6
Stick together or break apart? Stigmatizing adverse events, media vilification, and unplanned alliance dissolution6
Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain6
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?6
Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations6
The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing decisions: Evidence from patent prosecution services6
Differentiation in microenterprises6
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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
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience5
Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization5
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Economic nationalism and the home court advantage5
Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization5
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How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance5
Renewing the resource‐based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods5
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers5
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Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes5
From product system to ecosystem: How firms adapt to provide an integrated value proposition5
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence5
Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments5
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Political competition and the rechanneling of corporate bribery into politically connected charity donations: Evidence from South Korea4
Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings4
From wells to windmills: Resource redeployment and new technology investment in the energy sector4
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From a shareholder to stakeholder orientation: Evidence from the analyses of CEO dismissal in large U.S. firms4
Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry4
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