The firm’s competitive performance rests on a tripod of strategy, governance, and resource allocation, now facing unprecedented environmental turbulence and necessitating novel and integrative recipes for successful adaptation. The SMS 43rd Annual Conference calls for research contributions...

Organizational leaders today make strategy in an increasingly open world. Leaders face growing calls for transparency and accountability. Traditional hierarchies are including even more diverse voices and perspectives. Organizational boundaries are becoming increasingly permeable and fluid....

Today, we experience the dawning of an innovation renaissance determining new relations between humans and machines. Large platforms, ‘Big Data,’ Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning enabled by cloud computing are impacting our society and helping managers, entrepreneurs, and...

The theme for the SMS 41st Annual Conference in Toronto encourages individual and collective imagination and inspiration toward tackling the discordant challenges we face in strategy scholarship and practice. The theme signals the desire for novel combinations of imagination and inspiration that...

This event has been cancelled. Conference tracks: Digital Transformation; Global Emergence; Organizations Redesigned; Entrepreneurship Reinvented; Strategic Leadership & Governance Redefined.

At the SMS 40th Annual Conference, we want the research community to take stock of the changes of the last two decades and then consider what the future holds and how firms can cope with a disrupted and disruptive world. The potential to learn new things in these times of change is enormous, and...

Our goal in setting the conference theme and establishing the theme tracks is for the Society to explicitly address if we are missing economically and socially important phenomena. This will enhance our awareness of potential biases in our scholarship and biases within the general discourse of...

Both scholarly contributions and practice-oriented papers are welcome in all tracks. Conference theme tracks: Track A: Risky Choice and Luck, Track B: Innovation Under Uncertainty, Track C: Organizational Learning and Adaptation, Track D: Firm Scope and Governance. This Special Conference will...

The SMS will hold a Doctoral Workshop on June 13, 2019, preceding the SMS Special Conference in Frankfurt. The main objectives of the Doctoral Workshop are to foster interaction among leading faculty scholars and doctoral students on various aspects of research and on preparing for a...

A number of developments in executive research and practice make it pertinent to address these topics: - The proliferation of research on executive traits and values creates a need to aggregate knowledge and craft a path for future research before the field becomes too fragmented. - Scholars and...