Strategic Management Review (SMR) advances the strategic management field by publishing articles that synthesize, evaluate, integrate, and challenge existing research. The journal's mission is to promote cumulative knowledge by clarifying core concepts, assessing evidence, reconciling competing perspectives, and identifying promising directions for future inquiry regarding resource allocation, firm scope, and competitive advantage.
SMR welcomes high-quality scholarship covering reviews, theoretical models, and conceptual development, such as:
Systematic and integrative literature reviews, theory-development and theory-integration articles, formal models, construct clarification and conceptual reassessment, methodological reviews and critiques, methodological primers, scholarly debates, and research agenda and perspective papers.
With this focus, the journal also embraces the full range of strategic management phenomena, including topics such as competitive advantage, strategic decision-making, innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, organization design, capabilities, governance, international strategy, etc.
SMR complements leading strategy journals that prioritize empirical research by focusing on the evaluation, integration, and advancement of foundational strategic management knowledge. The SMR focuses on assessing what the field has learned, identifying unresolved questions, and building more coherent foundations for future research. The SMR is therefore devoted to disseminating work that is novel and tied to the field’s history and the canonical problems that have defined the field of strategic management.
SMR's goal is to make strategic management scholarship more cumulative, rigorous, transparent, and impactful by helping scholars understand not only what we know, but also the limits, assumptions, and implications of that knowledge. Drawing on a view of strategy as the study of interdependent decisions across activities, actors, and time, the journal seeks to strengthen the intellectual foundations of the field while fostering constructive debate and future discovery on how organizations might create and capture value in specific contexts through competition, organization, and resource allocation choices.