Strategic Organization
Business & Management | Organization Studies | Strategic Management & Business Policy
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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| Charlotte Cloutier | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| David Gomulya | Singapore Management University |
| Matthew Kraatz | University of Illinois, USA |
| Caterina Moschieri | IE Business School, Spain |
| Margarethe Wiersema | University of California Irvine, USA |
| Lorenzo Skade | Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Germany |
| Joel A C Baum | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Luca Berchicci | Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands |
| Russell Coff | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Robert David | McGill University, Canada |
| Glen W.S. Dowell | Cornell University, 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 |
| Amit Nigam | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Tim Rowley | Rotman School of Management, Canada |
| 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 |
| Jean-Luc Arrègle | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Rebecca Bednarek | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Janet Bercovitz | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Hans Berends | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Donald Bergh | University of Denver, USA |
| Marie-Ann Betschinger | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Alexandre Bitektine | Concordia University, Canada |
| Daniela Blettner | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Christophe Boone | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
| Anne Bowers | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Flore Bridoux | Erasmus University, the Netherlands |
| Laure Cabantous | ESCP Buniness School, France |
| Giulia Cappellaro | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Chad Carlos | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Gino Cattani | New York University, USA |
| 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 |
| Elena Dalpiaz | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Erwin Danneels | University of South Florida, USA |
| Maria Andrea de Villa | University EAFIT, Colombia |
| David Deephouse | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Fleur Deken | VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Rodrigo DeMello | Bentley College, USA |
| Giada Di Stefano | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Nilanjana Dutt | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Bernadine Dykes | Shenandoah University, USA |
| Mark Ebers | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Moshe Farjoun | York University, Canada |
| Bernard Forgues | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Johann Fortwengel | King’s College London, USA |
| Hans Frankort | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Martin Friesl | Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany |
| Santi Furnari | Bayes Business School, UK |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Hadani | Saint Mary's College of California, USA |
| Ralph Hamann | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Jean-François Harvey | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Aaron Hill | University of Florida, USA |
| Glenn Hoetker | University of Melbourne, 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 |
| 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 |
| Haeyoung Koo | City University of Hong Kong, China |
| Saouré Kouamé | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Brooke Lahneman | Montana State University, USA |
| Ann Langley | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Ben Lewis | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Jean-Baptiste Litrico | Queen's University, Canada |
| Danielle Logue | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Johannes Luger | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| 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 |
| Siobhan O'Mahony | Boston University, USA |
| Ilya Okhmatovskiy | Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal |
| Joanne Oxley | University of Toronto, Canada |
| 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 |
| Nelson Phillips | Imperial College Business School, London, UK |
| Jo-Ellen Pozner | Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA |
| Camille Pradies | EDHEC Business School, France |
| Kunyuan Qiao | Georgetown University, USA |
| Madeleine Rauch | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| 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 |
| Mario Schijven | University of Illinois, USA |
| Oliver Schilke | University of Arizona, USA |
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| Matthew Semadeni | Arizona State University, USA |
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| Taekjin Shin | San Diego State 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 |
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| Danqing Wang | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China |
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| James Westphal | University of Michigan, USA |
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| Amanda Williams | IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| Basak Yakis-Douglas | King’s College London, UK |
| Zheng (Jackie) Yan | Hong Kong University, China |
| Tieying Yu | Boston College, USA |
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| Maggie Zeng | University of Kent, UK |
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| Cyndi Man Zhang | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
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