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Edited By: Rajshree Agarwal, Sendil Ethiraj, Vibha Gaba, & Brian Silverman
About the Journal
The Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish the highest quality research with questions, evidence and conclusions that are relevant to strategic management and engaging to strategic management scholars. We receive manuscripts with a diverse mix of topics, framings, and methods, and our acceptances reflect this diversity.
More specifically, the Strategic Management Journal seeks to publish papers that ask and help to answer important and interesting questions in strategic management, develop and/or test theory, replicate prior studies, explore interesting phenomena, review and synthesize existing research, and evaluate the many methodologies used in our field. SMJ also publishes studies that demonstrate a lack of statistical support in a particular sample for specific hypotheses or research propositions. We welcome a diverse range of researcher methods and are open to papers that rely on statistical inference, qualitative data, verbal theory, computational models and mathematical models.
Along with the 2-year Impact Factor, SMJ adopt a comprehensive metric based on 6 items reported at the bottom of this page
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Articles
Anti‐Counterfeiting Strategy Unfolded A Closer Look to the Case of a Large Multinational Manufacturer
-  12 May 2021
Revisiting Zuckerman's (1999) categorical imperative: An application of epistemic maps for replication
-  2 May 2021
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
A resource‐based view of the firm
-  171-180
-  April/June 1984
Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance
-  1319-1350
-  7 August 2007
Entry diversion: Deterrence by diverting submarket entry
- Strategic Management Journal
-  6 January 2020
Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
- Strategic Management Journal
-  509-533
-  4 December 1998
Transparency and replicability in qualitative research: The case of interviews with elite informants
- Strategic Management Journal
-  1291-1315
-  6 March 2019
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- Highly cited: In 2018, scholars in academic journals cited SMJ articles 34,978 times - #4/127 in the "Management" list, #3/147 in the "Business" list.
- High broad-based ranking: In 2018, across 6 key JCR scales (total citations, 2-year impact factor, 5-year impact factor, immediacy index, Eigenfactor score, article influence score), SMJ had a median ranking of #14/217 in the "Management" list and #10/147 in the "Business" list; listed as a "4*" journal ("world elite journal") in 2015 by the Association of Business Schools (UK).
- World-wide reach: During 2018, 2,799 different scholars based in 75 countries submitted a new article to SMJ.