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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking193
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change152
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research126
The origins of time compression diseconomies109
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance107
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria94
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy73
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage71
The role of competitive amplification in explaining sustained performance heterogeneity67
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies67
Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts64
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors62
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change61
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?56
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets55
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Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201940
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging40
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202239
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes39
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations38
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States37
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations37
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance36
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices36
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors35
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking35
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design34
Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases34
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing33
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Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment30
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation30
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration29
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Defending knowledge abroad29
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain29
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit29
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms28
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions28
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources27
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When colleagues compete outside the firm26
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Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal26
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Hedge fund activism in family firms25
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment25
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations25
Growing pains: The effect of generational product innovation on mobile games performance24
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments23
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?23
Aspiration formation and attention rules22
Start with “Why,” but only if you have to: The strategic framing of novel ideas across different audiences22
Examining investor reactions to appointments of Black top management executives and CEOs22
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors21
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Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes21
Learning by doing and corporate diversification21
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Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal21
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act21
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing20
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms20
Retaining problems or solutions? The post‐acquisition performance implications of director retention20
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment20
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk19
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Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs19
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Strategic resource decay19
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How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs?18
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Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison18
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Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation18
The “butterfly effect” in strategic human capital: Mitigating the endogeneity concern about the relationship between turnover and performance17
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Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment17
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions17
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms17
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?17
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems17
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids16
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Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation16
How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning16
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures16
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry16
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments16
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying16
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis16
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Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects15
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The role of procedural rationality in debiasing acquisition decisions of overconfident CEOs15
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Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach14
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships14
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution14
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms14
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises14
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Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures14
The myth of the flat start‐up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start‐ups14
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Experimentation and appropriability inearly‐stageventures: Evidence from theUSsoftware industry14
Measuring the commercial potential of science14
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior13
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation13
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope13
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry13
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?13
From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters13
Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)13
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities13
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities13
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism13
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers13
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages13
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation13
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Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers12
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization12
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension12
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies12
Who deviates? Technological opportunities, career concern, and inventor's distant search12
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector12
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control11
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Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors11
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How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure11
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Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts11
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons11
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage11
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects10
The invention performance implications of coopetition: How technological, geographical, and product market overlaps shape learning and competitive tension in R&D alliances10
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions10
Alliance performance and subsequent make‐or‐ally choices: Evidence from the aircraft manufacturing industry10
Pay transparency and productivity10
Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century10
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The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices10
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry10
Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program10
Long‐tenured independent directors and firm performance10
Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending10
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization10
Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”9
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality9
Do Alliance portfolios encourage or impede new business practice adoption? Theory and evidence from the private equity industry9
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On top of the game? The double‐edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products9
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Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity9
Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms8
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization8
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research8
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?8
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Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets8
Judging foreign startups8
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms8
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs8
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies8
Using machine learning to revisit the diversification–performance relationship8
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Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment8
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry8
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Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of political connection adaptation in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks8
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Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies7
Competing or complementary labels? Estimating spillovers in Chinese green building certification7
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Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings7
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival7
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed7
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections7
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities7
When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification7
Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation7
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer7
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities7
A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals7
Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance7
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers7
Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship7
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Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance6
Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects6
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Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry6
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention6
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Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy6
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We go way back: Affiliation‐based hiring and young firm performance5
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?5
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How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
Which patents to use as loan collaterals? The role of newness of patents' external technology linkage5
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Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations5
The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing decisions: Evidence from patent prosecution services5
Disentangling the role of the institutional environment in the ownership competence framework: A comment on Foss et al. (2021)5
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Economic nationalism and the home court advantage5
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence5
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Differentiation in microenterprises5
What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research5
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Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization5
From product system to ecosystem: How firms adapt to provide an integrated value proposition4
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment4
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection4
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight4
Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization4
From perfect to practical: Partial identification methods for causal inference in strategic management research4
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers4
Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees4
Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes4
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Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from thebiopharmaceuticalindustry4
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
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience4
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