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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Firm growth and stagnation in the United States: Key trends and new data opportunities319
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies257
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage177
Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation152
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how # MeToo ‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of p142
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Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets97
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Performance feedback and change in R&D alliance portfolio breadth: The moderating role of economic conditions81
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking71
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance71
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in 70
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?61
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy57
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202253
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance53
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices52
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States50
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases46
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What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking40
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures40
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations39
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging38
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors37
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201936
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design36
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes36
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing35
Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?35
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Defending knowledge abroad33
How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos33
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Are boards reluctant to remove poorly performing successors to interim CEOs?33
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation33
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Decision authority and the returns to algorithms31
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources31
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit30
The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms28
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions28
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration28
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain27
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment27
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments26
Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal26
When colleagues compete outside the firm26
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Hedge fund activism in family firms25
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence24
Aspiration formation and attention rules24
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?24
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations24
Bottom‐up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees24
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Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs' knowledge creation in a host country24
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment24
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk23
Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes23
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs23
Learning by doing and corporate diversification23
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When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment22
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
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms22
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act22
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing22
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data22
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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
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‐experiment20
Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge19
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison19
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?19
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The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems18
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Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?18
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Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation18
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The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments17
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying17
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures17
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Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids17
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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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Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation16
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures16
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Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis16
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior15
Measuring the commercial potential of science15
Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach15
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector15
Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr15
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms15
When do firms learn by hiring? How complexity moderates the value of new knowledge15
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities15
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution15
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises15
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers15
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism14
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation14
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation14
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships14
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The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope14
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages14
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies14
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A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension14
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons14
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?14
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The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities14
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers14
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Coaxing corporations: Enriching the conceptualization of governments as strategic actors13
Kindred spirits: Cognitive frame similarity and good faith provisions in strategic alliance contracts13
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization13
When mimicry leads to divergence: Interdependence asymmetries and selective imitation among competitors13
Transportation networks and competition in the market for corporate control13
How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on the threat of worker departure13
Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage13
Who captures the state? Evidence from irregular awards in a public innovation grant program12
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Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century12
Pay transparency and productivity12
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When do nice guys finish last? Prosociality and the psychological model of CEO ‐firm matching12
Managing ecosystem emergence and evolution: Strategies for ecosystem architects11
Alliance performance and subsequent make‐or‐ally choices: Evidence from the aircraft manufacturing industry11
The competitive dynamics of strategic risk‐taking, unethical behavior, and entry11
Behavioral agency and the efficacy of analysts as external monitors: Examining the moderating role of CEO personality11
Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions11
High flying adored: How CEO narcissism influences firms' responses to above‐aspiration performance with risky organizational change11
Shifting perspectives: How scrutiny shapes the relationship between CEO gender and acquisition activity11
Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending11
Firm growth and the job satisfaction of the startup workforce11
Location choice in global patent litigation: Does the landscape matter?11
The theory‐based view: Entrepreneurial microfoundations, resources, and choices11
Do Alliance portfolios encourage or impede new business practice adoption? Theory and evidence from the private equity industry10
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Self‐regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay10
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The emergence and evolution of innovation ecosystems: Evidence from the solar PV ecosystem10
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Community influence on microfinance loan defaults under crisis conditions: Evidence from Indian demonetization10
Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”10
Label claims and category work: The appropriation of the “digital” label in the IT services industry10
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?10
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities9
Judging foreign startups9
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment9
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization9
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies9
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms9
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Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance9
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities9
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies9
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Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms9
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections8
Activism risk and corporate self‐regulation: Investigating how anti‐ SLAPP laws impact firms' institutional corporate social performance8
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry8
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Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival8
The role of CEO integrity in M&A decision‐making8
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Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer7
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
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Fitting innovations into existing categories: Evidence from mortgage‐backed securities7
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Political alignment in entrepreneurial teams: Homophily in venture formation and associations with startup success7
Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed7
Deskilling technology affords work amenity, increases labor supply7
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Physical climate change exposure and firms' adaptation strategy7
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers7
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings7
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Are accelerators akin to breweries or wineries? A Bayesian variance decomposition of accelerator and cohort effects7
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention7
Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance6
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Differentiation in microenterprises6
Trade‐offs to using standardized tools: Innovation enablers or creativity constraints?6
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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
We go way back: Affiliation ‐based hiring and young firm performance6
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Product digitization and differentiation strategy change: Evidence from the book publishing industry6
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Stick together or break apart? Stigmatizing adverse events, media vilification, and unplanned alliance dissolution6
What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy‐as‐practice research6
Cooperation and punishment in managing social performance: Labor standards in the Gap Inc. supply chain6
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Finding the right path to the top: How past interorganizational moves impact executive selection outcomes5
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test5
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ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance5
Economic nationalism and the home court advantage5
Renewing the resource‐based view: New contexts, new concepts, and new methods5
A cognitive perspective on real options investment: CEO overconfidence5
Changing tracks: How status affects category shifts in the Korean popular music industry5
Hitting reset: Industry evolution, generational technology cycles, and the dynamic value of firm experience5
Academic stars and licensing experience in university technology commercialization5
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 proposition5
From wells to windmills: Resource redeployment and new technology investment in the energy sector4
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment4
When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective4
Correction to “Making business model decisions like scientists: Strategic commitment, uncertainty, and economic performance”4
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees4
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight4
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers4
From joiners to founders: Startup employment and underrepresented entrepreneurs4
Die now of hunger or later of thirst: Understanding climate change adaptation decisions in vulnerable contexts4
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