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Call for Papers --- Strategy and the Institutional Environment

  • 1.  Call for Papers --- Strategy and the Institutional Environment

    Posted 10-31-2016 14:25

     

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

     

     

     

    Call for Papers

    Special Issue of Strategy Science:

    Strategy and the Institutional Environment

     

    Editors

     

    Gautam Ahuja

    Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

     

    Laurence Capron

    INSEAD

     

    Michael Lenox

    Darden School, University of Virginia

     

    Dennis Yao

    Harvard Business School, Harvard University

     

     

    Submission Deadline: January 23rd, 2017

     

     

     

     

     

    The focus of this special issue is on how firm choice and firm performance affects and is affected by formal and informal institutions in the government, legal, and social environment in which they operate. These institutions provide rules and norms that constrain and shape business strategies.

     

    Of particular interest is work that examines the mechanisms through which such institutions are of first-order importance to a firm's competitive advantage and how firms design and implement strategies with these  institutions in mind. Studies that show how firms influence or shape these institutions to their own ends, as well as work that examines the mechanisms by which such institutions shape firm activity as a result of both intended and unintended consequences, would be of interest.

     

    In addition to papers that address formal institutions such as governmental and legal institutions or business- initiated institutions (e.g. self-regulatory or standard setting organizations), we are also interested in papers that add to our understanding of the importance of social and professional institutions for strategy. Submitted papers should focus on questions regarding firm strategy rather than on questions regarding, for example, public policy or political economy.

     

    Manuscripts for the special issue are to be submitted by January 23rd, 2017. Manuscripts that do not appear to fit the topical focus of the special issue will be considered, with the authors' approval, for a regular issue of Strategy Science. Strategy Science is a quarterly journal looking to publish a small set of high-quality articles in each issue that address central topics in the field. Authors can expect rapid and high-quality reviews by appropriate leading scholars in the field and clear editorial guidance should a revision be requested. For information about the special issue and the journal please see this link: http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/stsc