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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking180
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets174
Firm growth and stagnation in the United States: Key trends and new data opportunities133
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies104
Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation100
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in 80
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy77
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage67
Fast learning and sustained exploration: The role of timely performance feedback66
Performance feedback and change in R&D alliance portfolio breadth: The moderating role of economic conditions64
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance63
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases56
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From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures48
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States45
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging45
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design45
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes44
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations43
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202242
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance41
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking41
Flying high or crashing down: Pre‐entry knowledge, post‐entry learning, and the distribution of startup performance41
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201939
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing39
Defending knowledge abroad37
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The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources37
The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms36
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos35
Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?35
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Are boards reluctant to remove poorly performing successors to interim CEOs?34
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation34
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms34
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment34
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit34
Persuasion in the political marketplace: How firms snitch on rivals to encourage regulatory enforcement33
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The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration31
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Bottom‐up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees30
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Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions30
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The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations29
Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal29
Families in venture capital29
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment29
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Hedge fund activism in family firms28
When colleagues compete outside the firm27
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?27
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence26
Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs ' knowledge creation in a host country26
Beyond coal: When can outsider stakeholders drive transformative change?26
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Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs24
Information‐seeking lobbying and strategic stockpiling under trade policy uncertainty23
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data23
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms23
TRIPS and knowledge diffusion from low‐ and middle‐income countries23
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment23
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk23
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors23
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act23
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing23
Local regulatory anticipation and GHG emissions23
Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)22
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Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal22
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Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations22
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?21
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems21
Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a q uasi‐experiment20
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison20
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms20
Business is personal: How CEO personality influences agency costs20
Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge20
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments19
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures19
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Regulated versus unregulated competition: How drug shortages boost illegal pharmacy sales19
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation19
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Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools19
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?19
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying18
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises18
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions18
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids18
Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs18
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How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning18
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis18
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Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr17
Measuring the commercial potential of science17
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms17
Beyond feasibility filters: How expertise heterogeneity enables innovation recognition17
Social comparison and the value of performance trajectory information: A field experiment in the workplace17
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Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution17
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures17
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers16
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities16
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope16
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers16
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Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism16
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector15
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation15
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization15
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation15
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension15
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships15
When do firms learn by hiring? How complexity moderates the value of new knowledge15
Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices15
Patent regime shift and firm innovation strategy: Evidence from the Second Amendment to China's Patent Law15
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies15
Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program14
When mimicry leads to divergence: Interdependence asymmetries and selective imitation among competitors14
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Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors14
Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts14
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons14
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AI orchestrator: How recommendation algorithms shape complementor strategy and market equality14
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control14
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Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century13
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Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects12
When do nice guys finish last? Prosociality and the psychological model of CEO ‐firm matching12
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization12
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry12
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions12
High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above‐aspiration performance with risky organizational change12
Location choice in global patent litigation: Does the landscape matter?12
Pay transparency and productivity12
The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices12
Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce12
Label claims and category work: The appropriation of the “digital” label in the IT services industry11
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Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity11
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The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem11
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Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality11
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Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization10
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The role of CEO integrity in M&A decision‐making10
Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay10
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Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?10
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies10
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms10
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections9
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies9
Curious and analytical: How analysts evaluate and respond to executive communications about firm strategy9
How to grow new applications out of old research? Evidence from firm cumulative investments in deep learning9
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Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities9
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities9
Unlocking novel knowledge recombinations: The effect of artificial intelligence on inventive activity9
Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms9
Platform competition and strategic trade‐offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform9
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Mapping the landscape of research findings: Generalization across contexts in strategic management research8
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival8
Activism risk and corporate self‐regulation: Investigating how anti‐ SLAPP laws impact firms' institutional corporate social performance8
Judging foreign startups8
Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kaggle8
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings8
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers8
When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification8
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Political alignment in entrepreneurial teams: Homophily in venture formation and associations with startup success8
Throwing curveballs: A language‐based model of curveball questions in quarterly earnings calls uncovers their consequences and antecedents8
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer8
Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry7
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Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention7
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Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities7
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Deskilling technology affords work amenity, increases labor supply7
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?6
Stick together or break apart? Stigmatizing adverse events, media vilification, and unplanned alliance dissolution6
Disentangling the role of the institutional environment in the ownership competence framework: A comment on Foss et al. (2021)6
Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations6
Differentiation in microenterprises6
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Inter‐platform ecosystems6
What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research6
Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy6
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Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects6
We go way back: Affiliation ‐based hiring and young firm performance5
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Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization5
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Economic nationalism and the home court advantage5
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Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes5
Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain5
Renewing the resource‐based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods4
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence4
From perfect to practical: Partial identification methods for causal inference in strategic management research4
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Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry4
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience4
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test4
Hiring at the tip of the funnel: Externalizing the work of integrating and coordinating diverse human capital4
From joiners to founders: Startup employment and underrepresented entrepreneurs4
The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act4
Die now of hunger or later of thirst: Understanding climate change adaptation decisions in vulnerable contexts4
ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance4
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Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees4
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Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments4
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