For this year, I looked at 295 articles in the top five strategic management journals. Of those, I immediately liked 44 articles:
- Almirall, E. & Casadesus-Masanell, R. Open versus closed innovation: A model of discovery and divergence. Acad. Manag. Rev. 35, 27–47 (2010).
- Ansari, S. M., Fiss, P. C. & Zajac, E. J. Made to fit: How practices vary as they diffuse. Acad. Manag. Rev. 35, 67–92 (2010).
- Arend, R. J. & Lévesque, M. Is the resource-based view a practical organizational theory? Organ. Sci. 21, 913–930 (2010).
- Battilana, J. & Dorado, S. Building sustainable hybrid organizations: The case of commercial microfinance organizations. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1419–1440 (2010).
- Castel, P. & Friedberg, E. Institutional change as an interactive process: the case of the modernization of the French cancer centers. Organ. Sci. 21, 311–330 (2010).
- Chowdhury, S. K. & Endres, M. L. The impact of client variability on nurses’ occupational strain and injury: Cross-level moderation by safety climate. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 182–198 (2010).
- Connelly, B. L., Tihanyi, L., Certo, S. T. & Hitt, M. A. Marching to the beat of different drummers: The influence of institutional owners on competitive actions. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 723–742 (2010).
- Creed, W. E. D., DeJordy, R. & Lok, J. Being the change: Resolving institutional contradiction through identity work. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1336–1364 (2010).
- Cruz, C. C., Gómez-Mejia, L. R. & Becerra, M. Perceptions of benevolence and the design of agency contracts: CEO-TMT relationships in family firms. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 69–89 (2010).
- D’Aveni, R. A., Dagnino, G. B. & Smith, K. G. The age of temporary advantage. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 1371–1385 (2010).
- Dacin, M. T., Munir, K. & Tracey, P. Formal dining at Cambridge colleges: Linking ritual performance and institutional maintenance. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1393–1418 (2010).
- Dunn, M. B. & Jones, C. Institutional logics and institutional pluralism: The contestation of care and science logics in medical education, 1967–2005. Adm. Sci. Q. 55, 114–149 (2010).
- Farjoun, M. Beyond dualism: Stability and change as a duality. Acad. Manag. Rev. 35, 202–225 (2010).
- Gilpin, D. R. & Murphy, P. J. Crisis management in a complex world. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
- Greenwood, R., Díaz, A. M., Li, S. X. & Lorente, J. C. The multiplicity of institutional logics and the heterogeneity of organizational responses. Organ. Sci. 21, 521–539 (2010).
- Gruber, M., Heinemann, F., Brettel, M. & Hungeling, S. Configurations of resources and capabilities and their performance implications: an exploratory study on technology ventures. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 1337–1356 (2010).
- Hardy, C. & Maguire, S. Discourse, field-configuring events, and change in organizations and institutional fields: Narratives of DDT and the Stockholm Convention. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1365–1392 (2010).
- Haynes, K. T. & Hillman, A. The effect of board capital and CEO power on strategic change. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 1145–1163 (2010).
- Hermelo, F. D. & Vassolo, R. Institutional development and hypercompetition in emerging economies. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 1457–1473 (2010).
- INSIGHT, D. N. T. EDITORS’COMMENTS: DEVELOPING NOVEL THEORETICAL INSIGHT FROM REVIEWS OF EXISTING THEORY AND RESEARCH. Acad. Manag. Rev. 35, 506–509 (2010).
- King, B. G., Felin, T. & Whetten, D. A. Perspective-Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor. Organ. Sci. 21, 290–305 (2010).
- Kraatz, M. S., Ventresca, M. J. & Deng, L. Precarious values and mundane innovations: Enrollment management in American liberal arts colleges. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1521–1545 (2010).
- Kunc, M. H. & Morecroft, J. D. W. Managerial decision making and firm performance under a resource‐based paradigm. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 1164–1182 (2010).
- Lahiri, N. Geographic distribution of R&D activity: how does it affect innovation quality? Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1194–1209 (2010).
- Li, J. & Tang, Y. I. CEO hubris and firm risk taking in China: The moderating role of managerial discretion. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 45–68 (2010).
- Lok, J. Institutional logics as identity projects. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1305–1335 (2010).
- Madsen, P. M. & Desai, V. Failing to learn? The effects of failure and success on organizational learning in the global orbital launch vehicle industry. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 451–476 (2010).
- McDonald, M. L. & Westphal, J. D. A little help here? Board control, CEO identification with the corporate elite, and strategic help provided to CEOs at other firms. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 343–370 (2010).
- Mutch, A. Technology, organization, and structure-a morphogenetic approach. Organ. Sci. 21, 507–520 (2010).
- Nadkarni, S. & Herrmann, P. O. L. CEO personality, strategic flexibility, and firm performance: the case of the Indian business process outsourcing industry. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1050–1073 (2010).
- Nigam, A. & Ocasio, W. Event attention, environmental sensemaking, and change in institutional logics: An inductive analysis of the effects of public attention to Clinton’s health care reform initiative. Organ. Sci. 21, 823–841 (2010).
- Osterman, P. The truth about middle managers: Who they are, how they work, why they matter. (Harvard Business Press, 2013).
- Pache, A.-C. & Santos, F. When worlds collide: The internal dynamics of organizational responses to conflicting institutional demands. Acad. Manag. Rev. 35, 455–476 (2010).
- Plambeck, N. & Weber, K. When the glass is half full and half empty: CEOs’ ambivalent interpretations of strategic issues. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 689–710 (2010).
- Shipilov, A. V, Greve, H. R. & Rowley, T. J. When do interlocks matter? Institutional logics and the diffusion of multiple corporate governance practices. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 846–864 (2010).
- Sonenshein, S. We’re Changing—Or are we? untangling the role of progressive, regressive, and stability narratives during strategic change implementation. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 477–512 (2010).
- Suddaby, R., Elsbach, K. D., Greenwood, R., Meyer, J. W. & Zilber, T. B. Organizations and their institutional environments—Bringing meaning, values, and culture back in: Introduction to the special research forum. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 1234–1240 (2010).
- Surroca, J., Tribó, J. A. & Waddock, S. Corporate responsibility and financial performance: The role of intangible resources. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 463–490 (2010).
- Tang, Y. & Liou, F. Does firm performance reveal its own causes? The role of Bayesian inference. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 39–57 (2010).
- Tortoriello, M. & Krackhardt, D. Activating cross-boundary knowledge: the role of Simmelian ties in the generation of innovations. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 167–181 (2010).
- Yang, H., Phelps, C. & Steensma, H. K. Learning from what others have learned from you: The effects of knowledge spillovers on originating firms. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 371–389 (2010).
- Yuan, F. & Woodman, R. W. Innovative behavior in the workplace: The role of performance and image outcome expectations. Acad. Manag. J. 53, 323–342 (2010).
- Zhang, Y. & Rajagopalan, N. Once an outsider, always an outsider? CEO origin, strategic change, and firm performance. Strateg. Manag. J. 31, 334–346 (2010).
- Zietsma, C. & Lawrence, T. B. Institutional work in the transformation of an organizational field: The interplay of boundary work and practice work. Adm. Sci. Q. 55, 189–221 (2010).
A few more years to go!