Strategic Management Journal

SMJ seeks to publish papers that ask and help to answer important and interesting questions in strategic management. Published articles can range in length from standard journal length to shorter papers that focus on a specific issue or question, as well as papers that describe and make available datasets that can be used by a wide community of researchers in strategy. These papers:

• Develop and/or test theory
• Replicate prior studies
• Explore interesting phenomena
• Review and synthesize existing research
• Evaluate the methodologies used in the field 

The Journal welcomes a diverse range of research methods and is open to papers that rely on statistical inference, qualitative data, verbal theory, computational models and mathematical models. Comments from readers on published papers and “prospectives” on new or emerging lines of research can also be found in the publication. Editorial comments and invited papers on practices and developments in strategic management appear from time to time as warranted by new developments.

Submissions are put through a double-blind review process and are published if the paper meets the journal’s standards.

Submission Information

All manuscripts considered for submission must be sent to SMJ's online submission site. For information as to the form of submission, including style and other submission guidelines, please review the Submissions Guidelines.