Dear Friends of the Strategic Management Review,
We hope this note finds you well this summer and look forward to interacting with many of you at the upcoming 2023 Academy of Management or Strategic Management Society meetings.
As you may recall, we launched the Strategic Management Review in January 2020 to foster research on core questions in the strategic management field through impactful, pre-paradigmatic essays. Since that time, we have accepted over eighty articles on competitive, corporate, entrepreneurial, technology, and international strategy topics.
The SMR was designed with a very specific positioning in relation to other academic journals. We welcome submissions on all areas of strategy research, and we also very much appreciate the distributed excellence in strategy work across the world. We invite you to read further about the aims and scope of the SMR, download pre-print versions of our published and forthcoming articles, and scan some of our forthcoming events at our updated website, https://www.strategicmanagementreview.net/ Also, in an effort to further engage with the SMR Community, we have migrated to a new LinkedIn page that offers improved functionality (see here). We look forward to hearing from you and engaging with your ideas.
With this annual letter, we would like to update you on some of our recent activities and events:
- In July 2022, we published V3N2, a special issue in honor of Richard Rumelt. We would like to thank David Hoopes, Tammy Madsen, and David Teece for their help guest editing a recent issue honoring several of Professor Richard Rumelt's seminal papers. This special issue features contributions from Kathryn Harrigan (Columbia), David Hoopes (California State-Dominguez) and Tammy Madsen (Santa Clara), David Teece (Berkeley), Haifeng Wang and Russ Coff (Wisconsin), and Constance Helfat (Tuck), as well an interview of Professor Rumelt by Anne Marie Knott (WUSTL).
- In September of 2022, the SMR was pleased to see a debate published in our journal highlighted as part of the Conversations with the SMS Fellows session at the SMS conference in London. In that session, David Teece (Berkeley), Jackson Nickerson (WUSTL), and Margarethe Wiersema (UC Irvine) engaged the audience in a discussion regarding the implications of China's rise for the Fundamental Issues in Strategy and the need for theoretical advances in our field. David's original article was published in V1N1 and generated a comment in V2N1 by Peter Buckley as well as David's rejoinder.
- Also in September of 2022, the SMR co-sponsored a paper development workshop at the Shard in London with Sotirios Paroutis and Warwick Business School. Faculty members supporting the workshop included Janet Bercovitz (Colorado), Emilie Feldman (Wharton), Michael Leiblein (Ohio State), Sotirios Paroutis (Warwick), and Jeff Reuer (Colorado).
- In January of 2023, the SMR was pleased to engage with the Goff Strategic Leadership Center at the University of Utah for a special conference on the topic of strategic leadership. Our thanks to Jackson Nickerson and Todd Zenger as well as faculty participants including Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi), Teppo Felin (Utah State/Oxford), Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi), Daniel Keum (Columbia), Ravi Madhavan (Pittsburgh), Willie Ocasio (Illinois), Deepak Somaya (Illinois), and many others.
- In early 2023, we published V4N1 which includes Jay Barney (Utah), Ty Mackey (Clarkson), and Alison Mackey's (Clarkson) response to an earlier SMR article by Marvin Lieberman (UCLA) regarding challenges defining competitive advantage, and Marvin Lieberman's (UCLA) rejoinder to the Barney et al. commentary. This issue also includes contributions from Laura Poppo (Nebraska) and Hilary Schloemer (Arizona State) on the development of a socio-cognitive theory of the firm, Brian McCann (Vanderbilt) and Andreas Schwab (Iowa State) on applications of Bayesian Analysis in strategic management research, and an article by Gary Hamel (LBS) and Julian Birkinshaw (LBS) outlining ways to reimagine management research.
- We are also pleased to announce new members of our board and editorial team: Heather Berry (Georgetown), Sandip Bisui (Purdue; Engagement Editor), Teppo Felin (Utah State / Oxford), Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi), Peter Klein (Baylor), Paul Nary (Wharton), Richard Whittington (Oxford), and Todd Zenger (Utah).
- We have several events planned in the coming months, perhaps the most prominent of which is a new initiative with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and our Business Practice Advisory Board. Through this effort, we are pleased to have partnered with Martin Reeves to convene a meeting of prominent academics, Chief Executive and Chief Strategy Officers, and BCG partners to identify "untamed issues" in strategic management. Our hope is that this effort will stimulate additional interactions between academics, consultants, and practitioners and encourage more strategic management research on contemporary issues relevant to practice. We owe a debt to our founding Business Practice Advisory Board chairperson, Hugh Courtney (Northeastern), for starting this effort, and we thank Saikat Chaudhuri (Berkeley) for taking over as chair to build upon these efforts.
We hope you will continue to find the SMR to be a valuable outlet to develop and publish ideas that matter for strategic management research. We plan to be in person at the AoM and SMS and look forward to chatting with you about ways in which the Strategic Management Review might help advance the field. While we have a substantial pipeline of papers, if you know of a colleague with a paper suitable for the SMR, we'd appreciate you encouraging them to submit to our journal or referring them to us. We hope to see you in Boston or Toronto to hear any ideas you might have.
In closing, we welcome your involvement and thank you for your engagement and support these past two years.
Best,
Michael Leiblein & Jeff Reuer
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Sandip Bisui
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
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