Strategic Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Strategic Management Journal is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets199
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions157
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The cue‐ball effect: How an advantaged firm's closer competitors can propagate the impact of its advantage to more distant competitors122
Innovation and profitability following antitrust intervention against a dominant platform: The wild, wild west?114
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Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids89
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The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies66
Health insurance benefits as a labor market friction: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment64
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To be in Vogue: How mere proximity to high‐status neighbors affects aspirational pricing in the U.S. fashion industry62
Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers61
Rating systems and increased heterogeneity in firm performance: Evidence from the New York City Restaurant Industry, 1994–201356
The “CEO in context” technique revisited: A replication and extension of Hambrick and Quigley (2014)54
Divestment of relational assets following acquisitions: Evidence from thebiopharmaceuticalindustry53
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures50
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy49
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The role of competitive amplification in explaining sustained performance heterogeneity45
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Knowledge seeking and anonymity in digital work settings39
Competing on freemium: Digital competition with network effects37
Light‐touch integration: A study on cross‐border acquisitions by emerging market multinationals36
Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization35
Firms' responses to changes in frictions in related human capital factor markets35
Not in‐sourced here! When does external technology sourcing yield familiar versus novel solutions?33
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research33
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The dynamics of related diversification: Evidence from the health insurance industry following the Affordable Care Act33
Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose‐driven mechanism in organizations' reference selection32
From joiners to founders: Startup employment and underrepresented entrepreneurs30
How does artificial intelligence improve human decision‐making? Evidence from the AI‐powered Go program29
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis29
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?29
How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning27
Status and consensus: Heterogeneity in audience evaluations of female‐ versus male‐lead films27
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage27
Patent remedies and technology licensing: Evidence from a supreme court decision26
Employment restrictions on resource transferability and value appropriation from employees26
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking26
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance26
Competing with the platform: Complementor positioning and cross‐platform response to entry26
Unraveling the puzzling risk–return relationship: Distinctive roles of government involvement in venture capital investment25
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The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying25
Anti‐counterfeiting strategy unfolded: A closer look to the case of a large multinational manufacturer24
Discovery, discernment, and exploitation: Entrepreneurial mechanisms at the nexus of individual and opportunity23
The role of procedural rationality in debiasing acquisition decisions of overconfident CEOs23
To commercialize inside or outside of the firm: Behavioral considerations in patent exploitation by family firms23
Institutional protection of minority employees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the LGBT Employment Non‐Discrimination Acts23
Pay and networks in organizations: Incentive redesign as a driver of network change23
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how #MeToo‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors22
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Corrections for Du, Li, & Wu (2019), “Incumbent repositioning with decision biases”22
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments20
A rivalry‐based theory of gender diversity20
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria20
Board experiential diversity and corporate radical innovation19
Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change19
The origins of time compression diseconomies19
Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation19
Using machine learning to revisit the diversification–performance relationship19
The entry‐deterring effects of synergies in complementor acquisitions: Evidence from Apple's digital platform market, the iOS app store19
Geopolitical volatility and subsidiary investments19
Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing pollution‐intensive activities in organizational hierarchies18
The Janus face of artificial intelligence feedback: Deployment versus disclosure effects on employee performance18
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Knowledge sources, innovation objectives, and their impact on innovation performance: Quasi‐replication of Leiponen and Helfat (2010)18
Peering into a crystal ball: Forecasting behavior and industry foresight18
Income or education?Community‐levelantecedents of firms'category‐spanningactivities18
Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies17
Power to the people: The benefits and limits of employee self‐selection in organizations17
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Is knowledge really the most important strategic resource? A meta‐analytic review16
Mapping a sector's scope transformation and the value of following the evolving core16
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design16
From a shareholder to stakeholder orientation: Evidence from the analyses ofCEOdismissal in large U.S. firms16
Salary transparency and gender pay inequality: Evidence from Canadian universities16
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Competing or complementary labels? Estimating spillovers in Chinese green building certification15
Integration and appropriability: A study of process and product components within a firm's innovation portfolio15
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution15
Spinning an entrepreneurial career: Motivation, attribution, and the development of organizational capabilities15
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Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–201915
Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach15
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Task bottlenecks and resource bottlenecks: A holistic examination of task systems through an organization design lens14
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices14
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging14
The long‐term consequences of entrepreneurship: Earnings trajectories of former entrepreneurs14
Degree assortativity in collaboration networks and invention performance14
Dynamic resource redeployment in global semiconductor firms14
Giant cluster formation and integrating role of bridges in social diffusion13
Optimal distinctiveness across revenue models: Performance effects of differentiation of paid and free products in a mobile app market13
Pipeline hiring's effects on the human capital and performance of new recruits13
Experimentation and appropriability inearly‐stageventures: Evidence from theUSsoftware industry13
The new needs friends: Simmelian strangers and the selection of novelty13
Cashing in on the culture wars?CEOactivism, wokewashing, and firm value13
Building greener motorhomes: How dual‐purpose technical and relational capabilities affect component and full product innovation13
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Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations11
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Informal networks and information environments11
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A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–202210
Do political connections stifle firm innovation? Natural experimental evidence from China's anti‐corruption campaigns10
Managing exploration in organizations: The effect of superior monitoring on subordinate search behavior10
Hidden in a group? Market reactions to multi‐violator corporate social irresponsibility disclosures10
Unpacking the “O” in VRIO: The role of workflow interdependence in the loss and replacement of strategic human capital10
Empirically exploring the veracity of the new stakeholder perspective in strategy: Documenting workforce rents10
Zooming in or zooming out: Entrants' product portfolios in the nascent drone industry10
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States10
Governing crowdsourcing for unconstrained innovation problems10
The double‐edged sword of boundary‐spanning Corporate Social Responsibility programs10
The half‐life of political capital: An examination of the temporal effects of board political connections10
Board design and governance failures at peer firms10
A foot in the door: Field experiments on entrepreneurs' network activation strategies for investor referrals10
Where the stars still shine: Some effects of star‐performers‐turned‐managers on organizational performance10
Acquired employees versus hired employees: Retained or turned over?10
Organizational adaptation in dynamic environments: Disentangling the effects of how much to explore versus where to explore9
Judging foreign startups9
Meta‐analysis of the corporate planning–organizational performance relationship: A research note9
Finding a road less traveled: Combining analysis and intuition to develop novel problem formulations9
Category innovation in the software industry: 1990–20029
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking9
Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research9
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures9
Top management team role structure: A vantage point for advancing upper echelons research9
Entrepreneurial learning and strategic foresight9
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises9
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes9
Introducing machine‐learning‐based data fusion methods for analyzing multimodal data: An application of measuring trustworthiness of microenterprises9
Adopting Dr. Robot: Responses to competitor adoption of innovation9
Out of the trap: Conversion funnel business model, customer switching costs, and industry profitability9
Political competition and the rechanneling of corporate bribery into politically connected charity donations: Evidence from South Korea8
Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of political connection adaptation in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks8
The knowledge‐incentive tradeoff: Understanding the relationship between research and development decentralization and innovation8
Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases8
Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new establishments: Role of selection and redeployability within parent firms8
Weathering a demand shock: The impact of prior vertical scope on post‐shock firm response8
When do startups scale? Large‐scale evidence from job postings8
Social capital and entrepreneur resilience: Entrepreneur performance during violent protests in Togo8
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing7
Can firms avoid tough patent examiners through examiner‐shopping? Strategic timing of citations in USPTO patent applications7
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Gender and competitiveness when earning for others: Experimental evidence and implications for sponsorship7
Gender and racial minorities on corporate boards: How board faultlines and CEO‐minority director overlap affect firm performance7
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors7
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Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed7
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior7
The myth of the flat start‐up: Reconsidering the organizational structure of start‐ups7
The future of the web? The coordination and early‐stage growth of decentralized platforms7
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From mass to motion: Conceptualizing and measuring the dynamics of industry clusters7
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers7
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Communication frames and beneficiary engagement in corporate social initiatives: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in France6
Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings6
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Cascading innovation: R&D team design and performance implications of mobility6
Thriving on contradiction: Toward a dialectical alternative to fit‐based models in strategy (and beyond)6
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Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships6
Repositioning, audience churn, and identity ambiguity: The external costs of market repositioning6
How shareholder litigation risk influences firm orientation toward stakeholders6
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Public enemies? The differential effects of reputation and celebrity on corporate misconduct scandalization6
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Navigating market entry decisions in the solar PV industry: The role of founders' pre‐entry experience across the value chain6
Do financial market frictions hurt the performance of women‐led ventures? A meta‐analytic investigation5
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms5
Stronger together: Country‐of‐origin agglomeration and multinational enterprise location choice in an adverse institutional environment5
Not in my homeland: Immigrant CEOs and the geography of corporate social irresponsibility5
The octopus that shrank: A historical analysis of how multinationals address policy and contractual uncertainty in a global value chain5
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies5
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Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation5
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Leveraging synergies versus resource redeployment: Sales growth and variance in product portfolios of diversified firms5
Defending knowledge abroad5
Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival5
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit5
The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope5
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More effective solutions? Senior managers and non‐routine problem solving5
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It did not work? Unlearn and try again—Unlearning success and failure beliefs in changing environments5
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation5
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Funding ventures similar to one of us: How status dynamics within heterogeneous groups affect venture evaluation5
The market value spillovers of technological acquisitions: Evidence frompatent‐textanalysis5
Investing in general human capital as a relational strategy: Evidence on flexible arrangements with contract workers5
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages4
Pushed into a crowd: Repositioning costs, resources, and competition in the RTE cereal industry4
The choice of value‐based strategies under rivalry: Whether to enhance value creation or bargaining capabilities4
Face‐to‐face interactions and the returns to acquisitions: Evidence from smartphone geolocational data4
A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension4
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources4
Do patent assets have a second life when startups fail? An analysis of the redeployment likelihood and mode of transfer4
When Uber Eats its own business, and its competitors' too: Resource exclusivity and oscillation following platform diversification4
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?4
The role of military directors in holding the CEO accountable for poor firm performance4
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers4
Corporate‐level influences on internal capital allocation: The role of financial analyst performance projections4
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain4
When do firms benefit from overconfident CEOs? The role of board expertise and power for technological breakthrough innovation4
Technology adoption and innovation: The establishment of airmail and aviation innovation in the United States, 1918–19354
The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities4
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities4
Be careful what you wish for: CEO and analyst firm performance attributions and CEO dismissal3
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration3
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Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage3
Balancing allocative and dynamic efficiency with redundant R&D allocation: The role of organizational proximity and centralization3
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment3
Categories and narratives as sources of distinctiveness: Cultural entrepreneurship within and across categories3
A blessing and a curse: How chief executive officer cognitive complexity influences firm performance under varying industry conditions3
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Hedge fund activism in family firms3
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?3
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector3
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions3
Value, rent, and profit: A stakeholder resource‐based theory3
Ripple effects: How collaboration reduces social movement contention3
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The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment3
Do makerspaces affect entrepreneurship? If so, who, how, and when?3
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