Current and Future Research Methods in Strategic Management

Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

1991 • 38,049 citations

Applied logistic regression

1990 • 37,000 citations

The Discovery of Grounded Theory; Strategies for Qualitative Research

1968 • 32,954 citations

A resource‐based view of the firm

1984 • 23,611 citations

Building Theories from Case Study Research

1989 • 22,606 citations

Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods

1969 • 21,257 citations

Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

1986 • 17,982 citations

Econometric Analysis of Panel Data

2021 • 14,710 citations

Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.

1976 • 13,953 citations

Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics

1983 • 13,615 citations

Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology

1992 • 12,743 citations

Quasi-Experimentation: Design & Analysis Issues for Field Settings

1979 • 11,624 citations

Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review

1989 • 9,451 citations

The American Economic Review

2013 • 8,512 citations

Structural Holes

1992 • 8,094 citations

Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm

1996 • 7,689 citations

Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process

1978 • 7,299 citations

Using daily stock returns

1985 • 6,463 citations

What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data

1995 • 6,236 citations

Organization and environment

1967 • 5,425 citations

Efficient Capital Markets: II

1991 • 5,145 citations

Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice

1972 • 4,693 citations

Administrative Science Quarterly

1981 • 3,775 citations

Dimensions of Organizational Task Environments

1984 • 3,725 citations

Multidimensional Scaling

1978 • 3,621 citations

Patterns in Strategy Formation

1978 • 3,465 citations

Econometric Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R & D Relationship

1984 • 3,400 citations

Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer

1996 • 3,381 citations

Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action.

1994 • 3,315 citations

Strategic Management Journal

2016 • 3,299 citations

Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test

1995 • 3,295 citations

Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise

1962 • 3,270 citations

Organizations and Environments

1980 • 3,076 citations

Qualitative data analysis: A sourcebook of new methods

1985 • 2,961 citations

Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations.

1984 • 2,798 citations

Social Structure and Alliance Formation Patterns: A Longitudinal Analysis

1995 • 2,654 citations

Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research

1994 • 2,635 citations

INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION: EFFECTS ON INNOVATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN PRODUCT-DIVERSIFIED FIRMS.

1997 • 2,570 citations

How we should measure "change": Or should we?

1970 • 2,463 citations

Initial human and financial capital as predictors of new venture performance

1994 • 2,260 citations

The evolution of cooperation in strategic alliances: Initial conditions or learning processes?

2007 • 2,184 citations

Event History Analysis

1984 • 2,136 citations

Strategy, structure, and economic performance

1975 • 2,068 citations

Network Data and Measurement

1990 • 1,998 citations

Handbook of organizational design

1982 • 1,895 citations

Research Note: How Valuable are Organizational Capabilities?

1994 • 1,787 citations

CONFIGURATIONAL APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS.

1993 • 1,707 citations

Noise

1986 • 1,665 citations

EVENT STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES.

1997 • 1,664 citations

Diversification strategy, profit performance and the entropy measure

1985 • 1,586 citations

Organizations: A Quantum View

1984 • 1,521 citations

Competitive strategic management

1984 • 1,519 citations

Academy of Management Proceedings

2016 • 1,464 citations

THE RESOURCE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM IN TWO ENVIRONMENTS: THE HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS FROM 1936 TO 1965.

1996 • 1,463 citations

Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network

1991 • 1,409 citations

Determinants of firm performance: The relative importance of economic and organizational factors

1989 • 1,330 citations

Multimarket Contact and Collusive Behavior

1990 • 1,330 citations

Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness.

1975 • 1,303 citations

Cognitive change, strategic action, and organizational renewal

1992 • 1,257 citations

Elements of Econometrics.

1988 • 1,255 citations

CEO duality and organizational performance: A longitudinal analysis

1991 • 1,250 citations

Local search and the evolution of technological capabilities

2007 • 1,235 citations

Who Shall Govern? CEO/Board Power, Demographic Similarity, and New Director Selection

1995 • 1,159 citations

Strategic Management: A New View of Business Policy and Planning.

1980 • 1,129 citations

Social Dynamics: Models and Methods.

1985 • 1,122 citations

The new competitive landscape

1995 • 1,108 citations

Hypercompetition: managing the dynamics of strategic maneuvering

1994 • 1,091 citations

The link between resources and type of diversification: Theory and evidence

1991 • 1,077 citations

THE MARKET FOR CORPORATE CONTROL AND FIRM INNOVATION.

1996 • 1,060 citations

Strategic decision models: Integrating different perspectives

1991 • 1,043 citations

Efficient Estimation of a System of Regression Equations when Disturbances are Both Serially and Contemporaneously Correlated

1967 • 1,019 citations

Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations

1997 • 1,011 citations

The competitive challenge

1993 • 955 citations

Knowledge sourcing by foreign multinationals: Patent citation analysis in the U.S. semiconductor industry

1996 • 922 citations

A CAUSAL MODEL OF LINKAGES AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS, MACRO ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND PERFORMANCE.

1988 • 908 citations

Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice

2011 • 895 citations

Strategic groups: A cognitive perspective

1993 • 890 citations

A resource-based analysis of global competition: The case of the bearings industry

1991 • 884 citations

Generic knowledge strategies in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry

1996 • 884 citations

Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance

2007 • 828 citations

FIT, EQUIFINALITY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: A TEST OF TWO CONFIGURATIONAL THEORIES.

1993 • 743 citations

INSTITUTIONAL AND STRATEGIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON BOARD INVOLVEMENT IN THE STRATEGIC DECISION PROCESS.

1992 • 736 citations

Transformative capacity: Continual structuring by intertemporal technology transfer

1994 • 727 citations

A resource‐based approach to the multibusiness firm: Empirical analysis of portfolio interrelationships and corporate financial performance

1995 • 689 citations

Whether and When? Probability and Timing of Incumbents' Entry into Emerging Industrial Subfields

1989 • 678 citations

AGENCY CONFLICT AND CORPORATE STRATEGY: THE EFFECT OF DIVESTMENT ON CORPORATE VALUE

1997 • 669 citations

DIVERSITY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND PROFITABILITY AMONG BRITISH MANUFACTURING COMPANIES 1972-84.

1988 • 668 citations

The problem of unobservables in strategic management research

1995 • 652 citations

THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL ALLIANCES AND NETWORKS.

1997 • 652 citations

Estimators for Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations: Some Exact Finite Sample Results

1963 • 650 citations

Dynamic Core Competences through Meta-Learning and Strategic Context

1996 • 641 citations

The Costs of Organization

1991 • 628 citations

CEO DUALITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: WHAT'S THE FUSS?

1996 • 619 citations

CORPORATE DIVESTITURE INTENSITY IN RESTRUCTURING FIRMS: EFFECTS OF GOVERNANCE, STRATEGY, AND PERFORMANCE.

1994 • 619 citations

Construct validity of an objective (entropy) categorical measure of diversification strategy

1993 • 608 citations

Mass customization: Implementing the emerging paradigm for competitive advantage

1995 • 600 citations

Corporate economic performance: Diversification strategy versus market structure

1981 • 589 citations

ISOMORPHISM IN CONTEXT: THE POWER AND PRESCRIPTION OF INSTITUTIONAL NORMS.

1997 • 587 citations

Antecedents and Performance Outcomes of Diversification: A Review and Critique of Theoretical Perspectives

1990 • 580 citations

Industry Effects and Strategic Management Research

1990 • 580 citations

Mapping Strategic Thought

1991 • 566 citations

Strategic control systems and relative r&d investment in large multiproduct firms

1988 • 544 citations

The red queen in organizational evolution

2007 • 539 citations

NONRESPONSE AND DELAYED RESPONSE TO COMPETITIVE MOVES: THE ROLES OF COMPETITOR DEPENDENCE AND ACTION IRREVERSIBILITY.

1992 • 538 citations

Cooperative Versus Competitive Structures in Related and Unrelated Diversified Firms

1992 • 533 citations

A CONTINGENCY APPROACH TO STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION AT THE BUSINESS-UNIT LEVEL: INTEGRATING ADMINISTRATIVE MECHANISMS WITH STRATEGY.

1988 • 529 citations

RELATIVE STANDING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING DEPARTURES OF ACQUIRED EXECUTIVES.

1993 • 528 citations

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND FIRM INNOVATION: A TEST OF COMPETING HYPOTHESES

1996 • 526 citations

Competitive attack, retaliation and performance: An expectancy‐valence framework

1994 • 503 citations

CEO DUALITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: WHAT’S THE FUSS?

1996 • 502 citations

Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion

1993 • 493 citations

Strategy and Structure in the Multiproduct Firm

1987 • 491 citations

On Least Squares Estimation when the Dependent Variable is Grouped

1983 • 469 citations

Discrete Choice Analysis

2014 • 441 citations

SUCCESSION AS A SOCIOPOLITICAL PROCESS: INTERNAL IMPEDIMENTS TO OUTSIDER SELECTION.

1993 • 435 citations

How Much is That Company Worth?: Interorganizational Relationships, Uncertainty, and Acquisition Premiums

1994 • 425 citations

Strategic groups: Untested assertions and research proposals

1990 • 421 citations

An Evolutionary Model of Organizational Performance

1994 • 420 citations

CASE SURVEY METHODOLOGY: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PATTERNS ACROSS CASE STUDIES.

1993 • 418 citations

Generic knowledge strategies in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry: Generic Knowledge Strategies

1996 • 418 citations

Diversified expansion by large established firms

1991 • 415 citations

“Austrian” and Industrial Organization Perspectives on Firm-level Competitive Activity and Performance

1996 • 414 citations

Hypercompetition in a Multimarket Environment: The Role of Strategic Similarity and Multimarket Contact in Competitive De-Escalation

1996 • 412 citations

Event History Analysis.

1992 • 380 citations

Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs

1996 • 359 citations

Measuring and modelling changes in strategy: Theoretical foundations and empirical directions

1988 • 339 citations

Longitudinal Research.

1991 • 327 citations

Jumping Ship: The Diffusion of Strategy Abandonment

1995 • 322 citations

Beyond Industry Boundaries: Human Expertise, Diversification and Resource-Related Industry Groups

1994 • 318 citations

Reciprocal threats in multimarket rivalry: staking out ‘spheres of influence’ in the U.S. airline industry

1999 • 317 citations

Patterns of Competition: The Diffusion of a Market Position in Radio Broadcasting

1996 • 314 citations

Selecting partners for successful international alliances: Examination of U.S. and Korean firms

1997 • 305 citations

JOINT VENTURE FORMATIONS AND STOCK MARKET REACTIONS: AN ASSESSMENT IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR.

1991 • 305 citations

COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS OF INTERFIRM RIVALRY.

1996 • 303 citations

Top Management Team Structure: Differential Effects by Environmental Context

1997 • 302 citations

The Logic of Causal Order

1985 • 300 citations

A diametric forces model of strategic change: Assessing the antecedents and consequences of restructuring in the higher education industry

1993 • 297 citations

Research notes and communications factors in the instability of international joint ventures: An event history analysis

1992 • 290 citations

Multidimensional scaling and related techniques in marketing analysis

2009 • 287 citations

Evolutionary perspectives on strategy

2007 • 281 citations

Constructing Social Theories.

1969 • 281 citations

An empirical evaluation of the internal corporate venturing process

1992 • 278 citations

Heterogeneity Within an Industry: Firm Conduct in the U.S. Brewing Industry, 1952-71

1977 • 270 citations

New venture strategies: Theory development with an empirical base

1994 • 268 citations

Research notes and communications: The effect of product recall announcements on shareholder wealth

1992 • 267 citations

The learning curve, diffusion, and competitive strategy

1987 • 261 citations

Precarious collaboration: Business survival after partners shut down or form new partnerships

2007 • 248 citations

Antecedents and Outcomes of Corporate Refocusing

1996 • 248 citations

MULTIDIVISIONAL STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE: THE CONTINGENCY OF DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY.

1987 • 237 citations

Global strategic management: Impact on the new frontiers of strategy research

1991 • 232 citations

Evaluating technological collaborative opportunities: A cognitive modeling perspective

1995 • 216 citations

An empirical analysis of strategic competition and firm values the case of R&D competition

1996 • 208 citations

Strategic Management and the Straightjacket: An Editorial Essay

1991 • 208 citations

Knights, Raiders, and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover.

1990 • 207 citations

Embeddedness, Interdependence, and Opportunism in Organizational Supplier-Buyer Networks

1993 • 207 citations

The Analysis of Count Data: Overdispersion and Autocorrelation

1992 • 204 citations

A method for eliciting and comparing causal maps

1995 • 204 citations

Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research.

1981 • 199 citations

THE REGRESSION-ANALOG TO SURVIVAL ANALYSIS: A SELECTED APPLICATION TO TURNOVER RESEARCH.

1993 • 174 citations

A longitudinal study of the cause and consequences of changes in diversification in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry 1977–1986

1991 • 174 citations

UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCES IN KOREAN AND U.S. EXECUTIVES’ STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS

1997 • 172 citations

DIVERSIFYING ENTRY: SOME EX ANTE EXPLANATIONS FOR POSTENTRY SURVIVAL AND GROWTH.

1996 • 171 citations

Scale Returns in Communication and Elite Control of Organizations

1991 • 160 citations

Organizational form as a solution to the problem of credible commitment: The evolution of naming strategies among U.S. hotel chains, 1896-1980

2007 • 158 citations

WHY DO FIRMS REDUCE BUSINESS RISK?

1990 • 157 citations

Barriers to entry and competitive strategies

1981 • 155 citations

PREDICTED CHANGE IN OPERATIONAL SYNERGY AND POST-ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE OF ACQUIRED BUSINESSES

1996 • 152 citations

The Multidivisional Structure: Organizational Fossil or Source of Value?

1993 • 152 citations

Leveraging Human Assets in Law Firms: Human Capital Structures and Organizational Capabilities

1995 • 150 citations

The Importance of an Integrative Approach To Strategic Management Research<sup />

1981 • 147 citations

Strategy content and the research process: A critique and commentary

1989 • 141 citations

The market share‐profitability relationship: An empirical assessment of major assertions and contradictions

1986 • 139 citations

Downscoping

1994 • 136 citations

In Search of the Market Share Effect.

1981 • 129 citations

BUSINESS POLICY OR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: A Broader View for an Emerging Discipline.

1972 • 118 citations

Competitive Advantage

2023 • 116 citations

CONSTRUING THE BUSINESS PORTFOLIO: A COGNITIVE MODEL OF DIVERSIFICATION^[1]

1989 • 108 citations

Path analysis of the relationship between market share, business‐level conduct and risk

1987 • 107 citations

Divisional sell‐off: A hazard function analysis

1991 • 104 citations

A RESOURCE-BASED PREDICTION OF NEW VENTURE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH.

1991 • 104 citations

PROBLEMS WITH REPEATED MEASURES ANALYSIS: DEMONSTRATION WITH A STUDY OF THE DIVERSIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP.

1995 • 100 citations

The effect of exit barriers upon strategic flexibility

1980 • 100 citations

MARKET VALUE IMPACT OF JOINT VENTURES: THE EFFECT OF INDUSTRY INFORMATION-PROCESSING LOAD.

1995 • 95 citations

A Methodology to Develop the Criteria and Criteria Weightings for Assessing Subunit Effectiveness in Organizations.

1979 • 91 citations

Specification and Estimation of Heterogeneous Diffusion Models

1995 • 82 citations

MODE OF CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE.

1985 • 81 citations

Watch the Time Carefully: The Use and Misuse of Time Effects in Management Research

1993 • 75 citations

Strategy and the research process: A comment

1991 • 57 citations

Strategic action generation: A comparison of emphasis placed on generic competitive methods by U.S. And Japanese managers

1995 • 55 citations

The predictive validity of the Karnani and Wernerfelt model of multipoint competition

1995 • 54 citations

Constrained Multidimensional Scaling, Including Confirmation

1983 • 54 citations

Don't “waste” your time! The effects of time series errors in management research: The case of ownership concentration and research and development spending

1993 • 48 citations

Multivariate point process models in social research

1986 • 43 citations

Strategy and the research process: A reply

1991 • 31 citations

MULTIPOINT COMPETITION, MARKET RIVALRY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A TEST OF THE COMPLETE MEDIATION MODEL.

1994 • 16 citations

Objectivity, disagreement, and projectibility¹

1988 • 15 citations

The influence of secondary production on industry definition in the extended vertical market model

1992 • 12 citations

Modeling Distance Structures in Consumer Research: Scale Versus Order in Validity Assessment

1990 • 8 citations

DO INTER-FIRM DIFFERENCES IN CAPABILITIES AFFECT STRATEGIC PRICING DYNAMICS?

1997 • 6 citations

THE ROLE OF ACTIVISM BY INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS IN INFLUENCING CORPORATE INNOVATION.

1996 • 2 citations