Published/Hosted by: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Online ISSN: 1097-0266
Country: England
Impact Factor: 3.367 (2012)
About Journal
The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of strategic management. It is devoted to the improvement and further development of the theory and practice of strategic management and it is designed to appeal to both practicing managers and academics. Papers acceptable to an editorial board acting as referees are published. The journal also publishes communications in the form of research notes or comments from readers on published papers or current issues. Editorial comments and invited papers on practices and developments in strategic management appear from time to time as warranted by new developments. Overall, SMJ provides a communication forum for advancing strategic management theory and practice. Such major topics as strategic resource allocation; organization structure; leadership; entrepreneurship and organizational purpose; methods and techniques for evaluating and understanding competitive, technological, social, and political environments; planning processes; and strategic decision processes are included in the journal.
Submission Process
General Guidelines for Authors
The language of the journal is American English. Your submission needs a title. Please use a 12-point readable font, 1-inch margins on all sides, double spacing, and left-justification of text and titles. Please avoid bulleted lists in the text and do not number sections.
Although SMJ does not have formal limits on article length, manuscripts that are longer than about 30 pages of text (before references, figures, and tables) are almost always clearer and stronger when shortened. Editors reserve the right to return overly long articles for revision.
Figures and Tables
Figures and tables should appear at the end of the manuscript after the references section. Within the text, please include only a placement note, such as ‘Insert Table 1 here,’ where appropriate.
Title Page
Please list the full names, titles, and affiliations (with complete addresses) of all authors, including e-mail, telephone, and fax information on the title page. Please identify the corresponding author. A running head of your choice (a short title of up to 60 characters to be used at publication) should appear on the title page as well. For indexing purposes, include six keywords that describe your paper.
Abstract
Please supply a one-paragraph abstract of up to 125 words for all articles, research notes, and commentaries. Abstracts should provide a precise summary of your entire paper, not just your conclusions, and must be able to stand alone, separate from the rest of the paper. SMJ policy is that no citations to other works are used in the abstract.
References
See examples:
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Bagozzi R, Phillips L. 1982. Representing and testing organizational theories: a holistic construal. Administrative Science Quarterly 27 (3): 459–489.
Baldwin CY, Clark KB. 2003. Where do transactions come from? Working paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.
Bleeke J, Ernst D (eds). 1993. Collaborating to Compete: Using Strategic Alliances and Acquisitions in the Global Marketplace. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
Bowman EH, Singh H. 1990. Overview of corporate restructuring: trends and consequences. In Corporate Restructuring, Rock L, Rock RH (eds). McGraw-Hill: New York; 1–16.
Child J, Yan Y. 1999. Predicting the performance of international alliances: an investigation in China. Working paper, Chinese Management Centre, University of Hong Kong.
Collis D. 1996. Organizational capability as a source of profit. In Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage, Moingeon B, Edmondson A (eds). Sage: London, U.K.: 139–163.
D'Eredita M, Misiolek N, Siow J. 2005. States of mind as stages of team development: making sense of strategies for building a virtual team. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, HI. Available at: http://www.hicbusiness.org.
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). 2004. Job patterns for women and minorities in private industry. http://www.eeoc.gov/stats/jobpat/jobpat.html (2 August 2005).
Grant RM. 1996. Toward a knowledge-based theory of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, Winter Special Issue 17 : 109–122.
ISO. 2003. The ISO survey of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certificates. Thirteenth cycle: up to and including 31 December 2003. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/certification/isosurvey.html (15 September 2004).
Jensen M, Zajac EJ. 2004. Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm. Strategic Management Journal 25 (6): 507–524.
Misiolek N. 2003. Knowledge management and the corporate university: insights from the knowledge-based view of the firm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA.
Rumelt RP, Schendel D, Teece DJ. 1994. Fundamental Issues in Strategy: A Research Agenda. Harvard Business School Press: Boston MA.
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Van Brundt J. 2001. The many facets of co-development. Signals Magazine 19 May: 1–6. http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf [6 June 2005].
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