Dear Friends of Strategic Management Review (SMR),
Please find this message from the SMR editorial team.
Why Should I Submit to SMR……as a new assistant professor?
We get it: SMR doesn't currently "count" to translate immediately into summer support, a raise, or tenure at top schools. As a recent graduate, you have invested enormous time learning about the recent theoretical and topical literature in a research stream. You are cutting edge. You have some ideas about where this literature might go next, even if you can't empirically pursue all of these ideas with the data you have. Why not spend a few weekends writing a literature review to get these ideas out? How about teaming up with a senior colleague to develop an understanding of the implications of your knowledge for the future of the strategic management field? The SMR aims to share these new ideas with the field and to help you build your visibility and reputation as you start your research career.
Why Should I Submit to SMR……as a mid-career researcher?
As you prepare to submit your case for tenure or promotion to full professor, you will develop a research statement that discusses the positioning and contributions of your work. At this time, you are often thinking about your studies holistically. This process will frequently help you see new connections and opportunities between topics, theories, and evidence. The field would benefit from your ideas and even your opinions about these opportunities, which might not fit into a typical discrete empirical study. The SMR editorial team believes this is an opportune time to share your insights by developing an opinion piece. Such an essay may help upcoming scholars make sense of your research trajectory and help you increase your impact on the field.
Why Should I Submit to SMR……as a senior faculty member?
Senior faculty members have accumulated experience through mentoring, executive education, and consulting activities. These experiences also provide a unique perspective on strategic management and informed opinions on the distinctive contributions of the field to academia and management practice. However, this wisdom often won't fit into a cookie-cutter empirical article. Even if it might, the prospect of traversing multiple rounds of peer reviews over many years leaves some of your most exciting ideas dormant. Why not share them? Why not bring along a student or junior colleague to help them learn to do literature reviews and the craft of writing?
Why Should I Submit to SMR……as a consultant or practitioner?
Business practitioners and consultants frequently engage in both strategic and non-strategic decision-making. They can benefit from the knowledge generated by strategic management scholars and, in turn, guide scholarship by highlighting emerging issues, questioning assumptions, and focusing on discrepancies between academic predictions and practical experiences. The Strategic Management Review offers practitioners a platform to share their experiences and engage with the academic community. Our Perspective from Practice (PfP) series allows consultants and business practitioners to contribute short essays that open new avenues for strategic management research. Although these PfPs are grounded in the strategic management literature, they receive an expedited review process.
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Best,
The SMR Editorial Team