Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The manuscript is original, has not been published previously and is not under consideration by another journal.
The submission fits the SMF aims and scope and states its strategic-management question and contribution clearly.
A separate title page and an anonymized manuscript have been prepared for double-blind review.
Theory, setting, sampling, measures, organizational data and analytical methods are described sufficiently for assessment.
Ethics approval, consent, privacy, confidentiality, organizational permissions and potential participant risks are addressed where applicable.
Funding, competing interests, author contributions, data and code availability and AI-tool use are disclosed where applicable.

Author Guidelines

Authors should read the aims and scope before submission. Manuscripts must be original, clearly written and not under review elsewhere.

Article types

Original research articles
Review and theory articles
Case and comparative studies
Methods, datasets and research notes
Short communications

Management research reporting

State the strategic or organizational question, theoretical framework, research setting, unit of analysis and contribution clearly. Describe sampling, measures, data sources, field procedures and analytical methods in sufficient detail. Quantitative studies should report model specification, uncertainty, diagnostics and robustness. Qualitative studies should explain case selection, researcher position, coding, interpretation and evidentiary support.

Organizations and participants

Research involving employees, managers, customers, communities, confidential organizational records or interventions requires appropriate ethics review and informed consent where applicable. Protect participants from identification, retaliation or commercial harm, and disclose access arrangements and conflicts of interest.

Data and transparency

Include a Data Availability Statement. Share anonymized data, instruments, coding frameworks, analysis code and documentation where lawful and ethical. Explain restrictions involving privacy, contractual confidentiality, proprietary information or commercial sensitivity.

Review files

Provide a separate title page and anonymized manuscript for double-blind review. Disclose funding, competing interests, author contributions and material use of generative AI.

Submission status

Online submissions are temporarily closed while SMF completes its editorial setup.

Articles

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Privacy Statement

Strategic Management Frontiers (SMF) respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, readers, research participants and registered users. The journal may collect names, affiliations, contact details, ORCID iDs, account information, submission and review records, correspondence and technical logs needed to operate and secure the journal.

Use and confidentiality

Information is used to manage editorial work, publish accepted articles and metadata, maintain the scholarly record and meet ethical or legal obligations. Access to non-public material is limited to authorized people who require it for journal operations.

Organizational research information

Authors must remove personal, employment, commercially sensitive or confidential organizational information that they are not authorized to publish. Interviews, internal records, performance data, customer information and identifiable workplace evidence must be handled according to consent, ethics, contractual duties and applicable law.

Sharing, retention and security

SMF does not sell personal information. Limited data may be processed by hosting, DOI, indexing, preservation, email or security services required to run the journal. Editorial records may be retained to document decisions and preserve research integrity. Privacy questions should be sent to the official contact address.