Aims & Scope

SMF publishes strategy and management research that offers a clear theoretical, empirical, methodological or practice-relevant contribution.

Scope

• Competitive advantage and business-level strategy
• Corporate strategy, diversification and governance
• Innovation, technology strategy and digital transformation
• Entrepreneurship and new venture strategy
• Organization theory, design and change
• Leadership, strategic decision-making and behavioural strategy
• International and comparative management
• Strategic human resource management
• Networks, alliances, ecosystems and interorganizational relations
• Sustainability, responsible management and stakeholder strategy
• Public, nonprofit and family-enterprise strategy
• Strategy process, implementation and managerial practice

Descriptive business profiles or consultancy-style recommendations without a clear research question, method, evidence and scholarly contribution are outside scope.