SMS

Strategy Expanding: Making Sense of Shifting Field and Firm Boundaries

October 3-6, 2015

Denver, USA

Since its inception in the early 1980s, the field of strategic management has expanded greatly as researchers, managers and consultants have worked to develop and apply a knowledge base to inform the decisions of strategic leaders. The Strategic Management Society now includes more than 3000 members and the flagship journal, Strategic Management Journal, receives over 1000 submissions a year from authors all over the world. This developing and expanding knowledge base reflects the complicated and complex business world today that scholars and managers seek to understand and lead. Our field now embraces a broader plurality of research questions, units of analyses and modeling tools. These developments beg the question of whether the foundational questions that drove our field at its inception are still at the center of it, or whether there are new unifying themes that may drive future knowledge creation.

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Program Chairs

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Sharon Alvarez
University of Pittsburgh
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Donald Bergh
University of Denver
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Sharon Matusik
University of Michigan - Ross School of Business

Track Chairs

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Vincent Barker
University of Kansas
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Doug Bosse
University of Richmond
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Thomas Brush
Purdue University
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Laura B. Cardinal
University of South Carolina
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Igor Filatotchev
King's College London
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Martin Friesl
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
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Samina Karim
Northeastern University
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Adelaide King
University of Virginia
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David King
Florida State University
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Doug Miller
Rutgers University
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Ronaldo Parente
Florida International University
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Sotirios Paroutis
University of Warwick
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Laura Poppo
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Rhonda Reger
University of North Texas
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Carlo Salvato
Bocconi University
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Karen Schnatterly
Virginia Tech
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Deepak Somaya
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Inger Stensaker
Norwegian School of Economics
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Anu Wadhwa
Imperial College London