Strategic Organization
Important phenomena do not stop at boundaries - neither the boundaries of academic disciplines nor geographical ones. That is why Strategic Organization (SO) provides an interdisciplinary, international, methodologically pluralist forum for high-quality conceptual and empirical research contributing to better understanding the interrelated dynamics of strategic and organizational processes and outcomes.
Contributions at the intersection of strategy and organization
Papers published in SO strive to make important contributions to theories of strategy and organization. We at SO firmly believe that this joint focus on strategy and organization allows for more meaningful and realistic insights on established and novel phenomena, rendering such scholarship more insightful and useful to all stakeholders in research, teaching, and practice who routinely need to deal with complex, interdisciplinary problems.
A wide range of perspectives and methodological approaches
SO welcomes manuscripts drawing on all theories that may help build a bridge between strategy and organization scholarship. For empirical submissions, SO invites work of all methods; SO has a strong tradition in attracting in particular high-caliber qualitative work, and has always featured dedicated co-editors focusing solely on helping to develop qualitative submissions. SO also invites so-called SOapbox essays - informed opinions and thoughtful reflections of current topics, methodological traditions, or new avenues in established literatures. SO is open to replications that are conceptually motivated and offer theoretical contributions. SO is also interested in papers that introduce or refine research methods for scholars in strategy and organization, including the description of original large scale datasets that authors would make available to the general public. SO does not publish literature reviews.
Developmental feedback and quick turnarounds
SO famously uses a strict one-revision-only policy (i.e., editors make final decisions based on the reviews received on the first revision). SO’s editors constructively guide authors to develop meaningful contributions without losing their voice.
By bringing together strategy and organization in a fast and constructive reviewing process, SO aims to give authors a supportive, high-speed, high-quality outlet for relevant work: Strategic Organization - fresh, interesting, and one-review only.
More resources on SO:
- Read more about publishing in SO on the submission information page.
- Learn more about strategic organization - both the history of the journal as well as the definition of the term - in this article by the founding editors published in our 20-year-anniversary special issue and on Joel Baum’s blog.
- Follow SO on LinkedIn
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Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/SO
Strategic Organization is devoted to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed, discipline-grounded conceptual and empirical research of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of strategic management and organization. The journal also aims to produce knowledge that is relevant to senior managers in government, industry, and management consulting.
Strategic Organization provides an international, interdisciplinary forum designed to improve our understanding of the interrelated dynamics of strategic and organizational processes and outcomes. Articles published in Strategic Organization should have a strong theoretical base and reflect a clear understanding of the related strategic and organizational literatures. Empirical and theoretical articles published in Strategic Organization should be soundly designed and systematically executed. The journal is method neutral and does not attach greater weight or credence to one particular methodological style.
Articles published in Strategic Organization should be clearly relevant to practice. Preferred submissions will be those that identify both a compelling practical strategic organization issue and a strong theoretical framework for addressing it. Although the journal attaches no priorities to topics for study, examples within its intended scope include:
- strategic internal structuring and boundaries of organizations
- strategic organization of production
- strategic organization of interorganizational alliances
- cross-national differences in strategic organization
- learning processes underlying strategic and organizational change
- cognitive processes underlying competitive strategies
- technology and strategic organization
- social construction of strategies and markets
- economic and social nature of interorganizational competition and cooperation performance and evolution of organizations and strategies over time
- relationships between strategies, organizations, and markets
- the impact of the state on strategic organization
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| Rebecca Bednarek | University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Hans Berends | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| David Gomulya | Singapore Management University |
| Timothy Hubbard | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Matthew Kraatz | University of Illinois, USA |
| Caterina Moschieri | IE Business School, Spain |
| Taekjin Shin | San Diego State University, USA |
| Judith Walls | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| René Wiedner | University of Warwick, UK |
| Margarethe Wiersema | University of California Irvine, USA |
| Christoph Brielmaier | University of Bamberg, Germany |
| Joel A C Baum | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Charlotte Cloutier | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Russell Coff | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Teppo Felin | University of Oxford, UK |
| Royston Greenwood | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Paula Jarzabkowski | Bayes Business School, UK and University of Queensland Business School, Australia |
| Deveraux Jennings | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Ann Langley | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Tim Rowley | Rotman School of Management, Canada |
| Lorenzo Skade | Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Germany |
| Gianmario Verona | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Albert Ahn | Hong Kong Baptist University, China |
| John Amis | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Richard Arend | University of Southern Maine, USA |
| Punit Arora | City University of New York, USA |
| Jean-Luc Arrègle | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Andrew Barron | TBS Education, France |
| Luca Berchicci | Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands |
| Janet Bercovitz | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Donald Bergh | University of Denver, USA |
| Marie-Ann Betschinger | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Alexandre Bitektine | Concordia University, Canada |
| Daniela Blettner | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Johnny Boghossian | Université Laval, Canada |
| Jean-Phillippe Bonardi | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Flore Bridoux | Erasmus University, the Netherlands |
| Gary Burke | University of Bristol, UK |
| Laure Cabantous | ESCP Buniness School, France |
| Giulia Cappellaro | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Chad Carlos | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Rafael Jorge Castro Balaguer | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| Gino Cattani | New York University, USA |
| Konstantinos Chalkias | Birkbeck Business School, UK |
| Jianhong Chen | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Theresa Cho | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea |
| Magdalena Cholakova | Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| You-Ta Chuang | York University, Canada |
| Daisy Chung | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Fanny Couture | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Donal Crilly | London Business School, UK |
| Arnaud Cudennec | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Erwin Danneels | University of South Florida, USA |
| Brice Dattée | EMLYON, France. |
| Robert David | McGill University, Canada |
| Maria Andrea de Villa | University EAFIT, Colombia |
| David Deephouse | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Fleur Deken | VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Rodrigo DeMello | Bentley College, USA |
| Malay Desai | Nottingham University, UK |
| Giada Di Stefano | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Glen W.S. Dowell | Cornell University, USA |
| Nilanjana Dutt | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Bernadine Dykes | Shenandoah University, USA |
| Mark Ebers | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Valentina Fani | VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Moshe Farjoun | York University, Canada |
| Peer Fiss | University of Southern California, USA |
| Bernard Forgues | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Johann Fortwengel | King’s College London, USA |
| Russell Fralich | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Hans Frankort | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Martin Friesl | Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany |
| Raghu Garud | Penn State Smeal College of Business, USA |
| Richard Gentry | University of Mississippi, USA |
| Alessandro Giudici | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Vern Glaser | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Martin Goossen | Old Dominion University, USA |
| Aleksios Gotsopoulos | Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea |
| Melissa E. Graebner | University of Illinois, USA |
| Thomas Greckhamer | Louisiana State University, USA |
| Henrich R.Greve | INSEAD, Singapore |
| Julia Grimm | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Thorsten Grohsjean | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Michael Hadani | Saint Mary's College of California, USA |
| Ralph Hamann | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Derek Harmon | Michigan State University, USA |
| Jean-François Harvey | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Aaron Hill | University of Florida, USA |
| Glenn Hoetker | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Markus Höllerer | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Srividya Jandhyala | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Paula Jarzabkowski | Bayes Business School, UK and University of Queensland Business School, Australia |
| Young Chul Jeong | Concordia University, Canada |
| Candace Jones | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Rangapriya (Priya) Kannan | San Jose State University, USA |
| Samina Karim | Northeastern University, USA |
| Arvind Karunakaran | Stanford University, USA |
| Mustafa Kavas | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Saeed Khanagha | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Bo Kyung Kim | Yonsei University, Republic of Korea |
| Jooyoung Kim | Deakin University, Australia |
| Brayden G King | Northwestern University, USA |
| Helge Klapper | Purdue University, USA |
| Patricia Klarner | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Jochen Koch | European University Viadrina, Germany |
| Kalin Kolev | Marquette University, USA |
| Haeyoung Koo | City University of Hong Kong, China |
| Saouré Kouamé | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Tomi Laamanen | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Brooke Lahneman | Montana State University, USA |
| Theresa Langenmayr | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Ann Langley | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Ben Lewis | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Jean-Baptiste Litrico | Queen's University, Canada |
| Danielle Logue | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Johannes Luger | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Fabrice Lumineau | University of Hong Kong, China |
| Jukka Luoma | Aalto University, Finland |
| Shenghui Ma | Fudan University, China |
| Ravi Madhavan | University of Pittsburgh, United States |
| Tammy Madsen | University of Santa Clara, USA |
| Livia Markoczy | University of Texas Dallas, USA |
| David Maslach | Florida State University, USA |
| Klaus Meyer | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Kent Miller | Michigan State University, USA |
| Anna Nadolska-den Ouden | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Jackson Nickerson | Washington University in St.Louis, USA |
| Amit Nigam | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Siobhan O'Mahony | Boston University, USA |
| Ilya Okhmatovskiy | Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal |
| David Park | Syracuse University, USA |
| Owen Parker | University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Anne Parmigiani | University of Oregon, USA |
| Kelly Patterson | Santa Clara University, USA |
| Stevo Pavicevic | Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany |
| Brian Pentland | Michigan State University, USA |
| Krista Pettit | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Nelson Phillips | Imperial College Business School, London, UK |
| Jonatan Pinkse | King's College, UK |
| Jo-Ellen Pozner | Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA |
| Kunyuan Qiao | Georgetown University, USA |
| Adrien Querbes | University of Manchester, UK |
| Stratos Ramoglou | University of Bristol, UK |
| Madeleine Rauch | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Davide Ravasi | University College London, UK |
| Patrick Reinmöller | Cranfield School of Management, UK |
| Eunice Rhee | Seattle University, USA |
| Luke Rhee | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Linda Rouleau | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Thomas Roulet | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Philip Roundy | University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA |
| Steve Sauerwald | University of Houston, USA |
| Mario Schijven | University of Illinois, USA |
| Oliver Schilke | University of Arizona, USA |
| Stephanie Schrage | Kiel University, Germany |
| Ann-Christine Schulz | University of Sustainability, Austria |
| Victor Seidel | Babson College, USA |
| Matthew Semadeni | Arizona State University, USA |
| Viviane Sergi | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Cole Short | Pepperdine University, USA |
| Brian S. Silverman | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Yuliya Snihur | TBS Education, France |
| Sara Soderstrom | University of Michigan, USA |
| Christian Stadler | University of Warwick, UK |
| Jennifer Tae | Temple University, USA |
| Wenpin Tsai | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Eric W.K. Tsang | University of Texas Dallas, USA |
| Klaus Uhlenbruck | University of Montana, USA |
| Juha Uotila | Warwick Business School, UK |
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| Gordon Walker | Southern Methodist University, USA |
| Matthias Wenzel | Leuphana University, Germany |
| Georg Wernicke | HEC Paris, France |
| James Westphal | University of Michigan, USA |
| Filippo Carlo Wezel | Universita de la Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Richard Whittington | University of Oxford, UK |
| Frank Wijen | RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Amanda Williams | IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Michael Withers | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Basak Yakis-Douglas | King’s College London, UK |
| Toru Yoshikawa | Waseda University, Japan |
| Tieying Yu | Boston College, USA |
| Aks Zaheer | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Maggie Zeng | University of Kent, UK |
| Chenjian Zhang | University of Bath, UK |
| Cyndi Man Zhang | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Tammar Zilber | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |