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...

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...

The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

We call for proposals that help us make sense of our expanding field and the firms that we seek to understand. As the field grows, are we still trying to answer fundamental question of “why do some firms outperform others?” Have we answered the questions that led to the development of our...

The SMS Annual International Conference for 2013 will provide a forum for considering emerging and evolving notions of sustainability in strategy research and practice. The Conference invites contributions that represent original, interesting and theoretically bold research, as well as...