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Papers

(The median citation count of Strategic Organization 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	131
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	61
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	48
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	46
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	41
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	40
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	39
Toward an attention-based view of crises	33
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	33
AI-human learning systems: Investigating the strategic role of AI for organizational learning	33
On the absence of conservative sociopolitical activism by CEOs: Explanations and implications	32
What’s the purpose? Meaning making, sensemaking, and the (mis)appropriation of purpose beyond profit	29
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	23
Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages	22
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	21
EXPRESS: Generative AI and Cognitive Biases in Strategic Decision-Making	20
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	19
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	19
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	17
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	17
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	17
Cross-border organizational strategies for knowledge appropriation: Codified and complex technologies	17
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	16
Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	15
Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	15

Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	14
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	13
“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	13
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	12
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	12
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	12
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	11
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	11
EXPRESS: Open Strategy and Traditional Workplace Democracy: Bridging Breadth and Depth of Inclusion	11
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	11
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	11
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	10
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	10
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	10
Addressing racism and Islamophobia under the rules of colorblindness: When social movements engage in category work to reform the meanings of regulatory categories	9
Themed issue: Top management matters	9
Strategic Organization special issue: Strategy and aesthetics call for papers (Deadline: 1 December 2026)	8
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	8
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	8
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	8
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	8
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	7
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	7
Special issue of Strategic Organization : “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	7
Interpretive orchestration: An essay exploring the epistemic intersection of human intuition and machine intelligence	7
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	7
The short history and long future of research on market categories	7
The business case for human-centric organizing: Implications for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption ¹	7
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	7
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	6
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	6
Demystifying serendipity: How mundane practices enable the identification and pursuit of extraordinary discoveries	6
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	6
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	6
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	6
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	6
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	6
The effects of local community characteristics on the relationship between negative performance feedback and downsizing announcements	6
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	5
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	5
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	5
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	5
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	5
Paradox enactment: A power-performative view	5
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	5
Navigating strategic shifts: Imitative and preventative responses to rivals’ disruptive change in strategy	5
An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	5
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	4
“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	4
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4

Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers’ political ideologies on the efficacy of top management team vertical pay disparities	4
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	3
Themed issue: Performance beyond performance	3
The individual makes the difference: How mobile personnel affects organizational status of hiring firms	3
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	3
A Bayesian approach to nested data analysis: A primer for strategic management research	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
Choosing between alliances and acquisitions: A knowledge recombination perspective	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
Network diversity, institutional intermediaries, and new venture performance in an entrepreneurial ecosystem of China	3
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3
Themed issue: Political strategy in and by organizations	3
Windfall gains, loss aversion, and the price of a deal: Target CEO equity risk-bearing and acquisition premiums	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3