Registration is now available for the SMS Special Conference in Milan! 

We hope you will join us in June as we discuss Governing Knowledge and Imagination in the Digital Era! With an exciting program of research presentations, roundtable discussions, and labs, it promises to be a thought-provoking event. 

Click below to read the conference registration policy and sign up to attend!

Strategic Management Journal Special Issue: “Resource Allocation and Strategic Management” Interested authors should read the full Call for Submissions and submit their research from May 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022. 

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Special Issue: "Strategic Entrepreneurship in Craft-Based Ventures" Interested authors should read the full Call for Submissions and submit their research from October 15, 2022 to November 1, 2022.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Special Issue: "Business Model Innovation Design: Deploying Strategic Entrepreneurship to Address Grand Challenges" Interested authors should read the full Call for Submissions and submit their research by April 3, 2023.

As a member of SMS, you are invited to access the SMS Member Circle, a new online community for SMS members to connect and communicate in a member exclusive setting! The Member Circle is only open to current members of the Strategic Management Society, and features groups of members and communication tools to help foster an atmosphere of collaboration and networking.

Join us as we explore the theme of “Innovative Strategies for an Open World”. Visit the conference website to learn more. 

We at SMS are very sad to share with you that our colleague and friend, José Ramón de la Torre Jr. passed away on April 25, 2022. He was an SMS Fellow and a beloved member of our community. For more than 50 years he taught International Business at several universities in the U. S. and abroad, making lasting connections across the world. He lived a full life, enjoyed his work and traveling the world with family and friends, always searching for the best food in all places he visited. As all who met him know, he loved bringing people together and was always ready to help. He touched many lives and leaves a big empty space in our hearts.

We at SMS are very sorry to share with you the sad news that our friend and colleague Andy Van de Ven, who was inducted into the SMS Fellowship last year, passed away on April 30th. Andy is survived by his wife Martha, children Jim and John, and grandson, Ben. He earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972 and had a long and distinguished career, beginning with serving on the faculty at Kent State University and at the Wharton School, before joining the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in 1981. He held the Vernon Heath Endowed Chair in Organizational Innovation and Change until he retired in 2016. Andy was one of the most influential scholars in the field of organization theory and management with over 93,000 Google Scholar citations, over 120 articles and 13 books. Andy's motto was to "pass it on" and "pay it forward." In that spirit, he and wife Martha have endowed a professorship, faculty fellowships, and a conference based on Engaged Scholarship at the University of Minnesota. We shall miss him terribly.

The SMS Blog has been renamed and rebranded the "SMS Explorer." The SMS Explorer provides business people, consultants, and academics a window into scholarly insights published in SMJ, GSJ, and SEJ that are relevant for strategy practice. 
 

One of the primary functions of the Strategic Management Society is to convene and conduct meetings and conferences for professionals in the field of strategic management. Each conference addresses a current theme and brings together over 1,000 scholars and practitioners from all over the world to present, participate, and exchange ideas.

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The Strategic Management Society is proud to be involved in the publication of leading journals which have been vital tools for the benefit of researchers and practitioners in the field for more than 25 years.

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The promotion and encouragement of research and scholarship is another of SMS’ primary purposes. In support of this goal, the Society operates the Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) programs to award research grants to individuals or groups identified through a competitive application and review process.

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The SMS recognizes and honors those who have made significant contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management, such as emerging scholars in the field, business leaders that have demonstrated strategic leadership and innovation, and articles published that have notable impact, through the SMS Awards program, Conference Paper Prizes, Journal Paper Prizes, and the SMS Fellows.

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The SMS Interest Groups and Communities act as a catalyst  for building and disseminating new ideas in research, practice, and teaching around a set of core issues in strategic management.

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