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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking180
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Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets121
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research102
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy80
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change78
Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts74
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance71
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors69
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage67
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies65
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria59
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?56
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change55
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Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States45
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Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices43
Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases42
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking38
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202238
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201938
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging37
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations36
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes35
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures33
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors33
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations33
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing32
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How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design32
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance32
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain31
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On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation31
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit31
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The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources30
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions29
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms29
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration29
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment29
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Defending knowledge abroad27
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos27
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When colleagues compete outside the firm25
Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal25
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Aspiration formation and attention rules25
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments24
Hedge fund activism in family firms24
Growing pains: The effect of generational product innovation on mobile games performance24
Start with “Why,” but only if you have to: The strategic framing of novel ideas across different audiences23
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations23
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment23
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Learning by doing and corporate diversification22
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Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?22
Strategic resource decay22
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing21
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal21
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence21
Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes21
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs20
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act20
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms20
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment20
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New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors19
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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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The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems18
Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment18
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation18
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?18
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison18
The “butterfly effect” in strategic human capital: Mitigating the endogeneity concern about the relationship between turnover and performance18
Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)18
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs?18
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How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning17
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions17
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Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures17
Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms17
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying17
To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry16
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids16
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis16
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Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects16
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation16
The myth of the flat start‐up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start‐ups15
Experimentation and appropriability inearly‐stageventures: Evidence from theUSsoftware industry15
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments15
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Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach15
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Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises15
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures15
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Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution14
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry14
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities14
Measuring the commercial potential of science14
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How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?14
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope14
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms14
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The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior14
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities14
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies13
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation13
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages13
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension13
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers13
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector13
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation13
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships13
From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters13
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers13
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism13
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons12
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization12
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Who deviates? Technological opportunities, career concern, and inventor's distant search12
How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure12
Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors12
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control12
Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)12
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage11
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Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program11
Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century11
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Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts11
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The invention performance implications of coopetition: How technological, geographical, and product market overlaps shape learning and competitive tension in R&D alliances11
Long‐tenured independent directors and firm performance11
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Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects11
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality10
Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization10
On top of the game? The double‐edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products10
Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity10
Pay transparency and productivity10
The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices10
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry10
The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem10
Alliance performance and subsequent make‐or‐ally choices: Evidence from the aircraft manufacturing industry10
Do Alliance portfolios encourage or impede new business practice adoption? Theory and evidence from the private equity industry10
Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”9
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment9
Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce9
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Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies9
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions9
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Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets9
Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending9
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Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance8
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections8
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities8
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms8
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Competing or complementary labels? Estimating spillovers in Chinese green building certification8
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research8
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities8
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?8
Judging foreign startups8
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies8
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs8
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry8
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
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When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification7
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival7
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer7
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A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals7
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed7
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Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings7
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Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers7
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Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation7
Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship7
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The effect of coordination requirements on sourcing decisions: Evidence from patent prosecution services6
Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities6
Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry6
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We go way back: Affiliation‐based hiring and young firm performance6
Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance6
Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy6
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Disentangling the role of the institutional environment in the ownership competence framework: A comment on Foss et al. (2021)6
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention6
Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects6
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What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research5
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Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes5
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From product system to ecosystem: How firms adapt to provide an integrated value proposition5
Differentiation in microenterprises5
Accentuate the positive? Strategic negativity amid the hazard of high expectations5
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Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization5
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence5
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?5
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Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience5
How ecosystem structure affects firm performance in response to a negative shock to interdependencies5
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment4
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight4
Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments4
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection4
Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees4
Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry4
Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain4
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers4
Die now of hunger or later of thirst: Understanding climate change adaptation decisions in vulnerable contexts4
Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from thebiopharmaceuticalindustry4
Windows versus waves of opportunity: How reputation alters venture capital firms' resource mobilization4
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