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Open Call for Applicants to Join the SMS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee

The Strategic Management Society seeks members to apply to serve on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee of the SMS Board of Directors. The DEI Committee will focus on…

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Cooperative Strategies Interest Group

Cooperative Strategies Interest Group focuses on issues related to cooperative strategies at the functional, business, corporate, group, and network levels of analysis.

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What Fuels Reluctance on Climate Change Action?

This is an excerpted transcript of an SMS webinar on “Alliances in Sustainable Development & Environment Preservation” hosted by the SMS Cooperative Strategies Interest Group. It has been edited for…

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What is the Contribution of the Alliance Network to Firm Profitability?

Recent work in the Strategic Management Journal coauthored by Pankaj Kumar, Xiaojin (Jim) Liu, and Akbar (Aks) Zaheer, helps add fresh insights into the sources of variation in firm profitability.…

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Income or Education? Community-level Antecedents of Firms’ Category-spanning Activities

A new study in the Strategic Management Journal written by Heewon Chae helps shed light on how the COVID-19 crisis influences retail firms’ business portfolio and product offerings. In this…

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

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Are Activist Investors the Villains?

by Daniel Keum Are activist investors the villains? In the movie “Pretty Woman (1990),” Richard Gere plays a corporate raider who takes over a struggling shipping company. The climax of…

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Reflections on Hannah and Eisenhardt’s “How Firms Navigate Cooperation and Competition in Nascent Ecosystems”: Exploring Bottlenecks as a Central Concept in Innovation Ecosystem Theory

by David Clough Industries in an early phase of emergence are steeped with uncertainty. When this is combined with a complex, novel technology, managers face a deeply challenging environment in…

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