The Strategic Management Society is a professional society for the advancement of Strategic Management. The Society is unique in bringing together the worlds of reflective practice and thoughtful scholarship. The Society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. Membership, composed of academics, business practitioners, and consultants, focuses on the development and dissemination of insights on the Strategic Management process, as well as on fostering contacts and interchange around the world.

The SMS is a non-profit member based organization that depends upon volunteer help from its members.

History

The Strategic Management Society was founded at an initial meeting in London in 1981, founding officers were elected on a second conference held in Montreal in 1982, and the founding constitution was drawn and approved at the third meeting in Paris in 1983. There were 459 original founding members of the Society.

Former Presidents

• Michael Hitt, 2008–2010
• Richard Bettis, 2004–2007
• Jeremy Davis, 2003–2004
• John McGee, 2000–2003
• Howard Thomas, 1997–2000
• Richard Rumelt, 1994–1997
• Carlos Cavallé, 1991–1994
• Henry Mintzberg, 1988–1991
• Derek Channon, 1985–1988
• Dan Schendel, 1982–1985

Strategic Management Journal

The Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) was first published in 1980, and has been the official journal since its start. Published in 13 issues per year by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, the SMJ is consistently rated one of the top publications in the management area. The SMJ provides a forum to advance Strategic Management theory and practice.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

The first volume of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) was published in 2007. The SEJ promotes contributions that lead to improved practice of managing organizations as they deal with entrepreneurial processes and the inevitable changes and transformations that result. Ten theme areas are recognized and encouraged by the SMJ:

• Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
• Change
• Risk and Uncertainty
• Innovation
• Creativity, Imagination and Opportunities
• Strategy versus Entrepreneurship
• Technology
• Social Role of Entrepreneurship
• Behavioral Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Activity
• Entrepreneurial Actions, Innovation and Appropriability

Global Strategy Journal

The launch of the Global Strategy Journal (GSJ) occurred in May 2011. The first volume includes two invited papers for each of the ten topic areas. The papers were prepared by prominent scholars working in the topic content. The first two issues of volume one were released in May 2011 as a double issue, and the final two issues of volume one, also released as a double issue, will be published in October 2011. The GSJ will publish four issues per year. The ten GSJ theme areas are:

• International and Global Strategy
• Assembling the Global Enterprise
• Strategic Management of the Global Enterprise
• Global Strategy and Inter-Organizational Networks
• Performance and Global Strategy
• Global Strategy and the Global Business Environment
• Strategy and Location
• Comparative Strategies
• Global Innovation and Knowledge Strategies
• Global Strategy and Emerging Economies

The SMS Book Series

In cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, the SMS Book Series publishes books that promote building and maintaining collaboration between the theory and the practice of Strategic Management. The work develops and tests theories of Strategic Management and demonstrates how to learn, understand and apply the theories in practice.

Annual Conferences

The SMS holds an annual conference at various sites around the world, typically alternating between North America and Europe; some past locations included Berlin, Vancouver, San Francisco, Paris, Baltimore, San Juan, Orlando, Vienna, San Diego, Cologne, and Washington, D.C. Last year’s annual conference was hosted in Rome, Italy, in September 2010. The annual conference for 2011 will be held in Miami in November.

Each conference addresses a current theme, with specific tracks addressing sub-themes, and presents multiple sessions by leading experts in the field from around the world. The SMS has responded to membership interest in special topics through its introduction of a series of smaller, regionally based meetings addressing more specific industry or subject themes.

Special Conferences

Along with the annual conference, each year SMS organizes special conferences that focus on a particular topic or region. Previous special conferences were held in India in 2008 and Finland in 2010. In March 2011, a special conference was held in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the role of Latin America in global development. In June 2011, scholars reflected on the extensive contributions of C.K. Prahalad, in a special conference in San Diego organized after his death in April 2010. A special conference will be held in Singapore in 2011. The focus of this conference will be “Globalisation of Innovation Strategies: Novel Moves for a Global Game”.

Membership

SMS has nearly 3,000 members from more than eighty different countries. Membership is open to anyone who is active in the Strategic Management field, either as an academic scholar or teacher, as a business practitioner, or in a consulting capacity. There are three distinct memberships.

Regular

Regular membership is open to all individuals who are actively involved in the field of Strategic Management. The membership provides opportunities for exchange and networking through enrollment and participation in two of the currently seven Interest Groups. Involvement in meetings, conferences and calls for papers and proposals are offered to all members, as is preferential rates to all meetings and conferences and discounts for the SMS Book Series. Membership spans an entire calendar year, and includes subscription to all three journals.

Emeritus

Emeritus membership is offered to individuals who are passed the age of 65 and have been an SMS member for at least 10 years. These individuals can request to have their membership status changed to emeritus. All rights of the full membership remain.

Student

Student membership is offered to individuals who are enrolled full-time, in-residence at the PhD granting institution. Individuals can be SMS student members for up to 5 years. For the initial year of student status, proof of enrollment from the PhD granting institution and confirmation letter from a major professor is required. All rights of the regular membership exist.

SMS Fellows

The purpose of Fellows is to recognize and honor members who have made significant contributions to the theory and practice of Strategic Management, and/or to the service and activities of the SMS. Fellows also provide opportunities for fellowship and a forum for discussions. The nomination and election of candidates for Fellows status is made by the Active Fellows themselves.

• Raffi Amit
• Kenneth R. Andrews
  Kenneth R. Andrews
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• H. Igor Ansoff*
• Charles Baden-Fuller**
• Jay Barney
• Christopher Bartlett
• Richard Bettis
• Joseph Bower
• Edward Bowman*
• Robert Burgelman
• Carlos Cavallé
• Bala Chakravarthy
• Alfred Chandler*
• Derek Channon*
• Karel Cool
• Arnold Cooper
• Yves Doz
• Irene Duhaime
• Kathleen Eisenhardt
• Pankaj Ghemawat
  Pankaj Ghemawat
  Pankaj Ghemawat is an economist, global strategist, speaker and author.-Early life and career:Pankaj Ghemawat received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. Entering Harvard College at the age of 16, he was accepted to Harvard...
  
  
• Sumantra Ghoshal
  Sumantra Ghoshal
  Sumantra Ghoshal was an academic and management guru. He was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School....
  
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• Vijay Govindarajan
  Vijay Govindarajan
  Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business and founding director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership...
  
  
• Ranjay Gulati**
• Anil K. Gupta
  Anil K. Gupta
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• William Guth
• Donald Hambrick
• Gary Hamel
  Gary Hamel
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• Constance Helfat
• Bruce Henderson
  Bruce Henderson
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• Michael Hitt
• Robert Hoskisson
• R. Duane Ireland
• Bruce Kogut**
• Peter Lorange
  Peter Lorange
  Peter Lorange is a Norwegian economist. He is President and owner of the Lorange Institute of Business Zürich, formerly known as GSBA Zurich, which he bought in July 2009. Lorange has previousely been President of the International Institute for Management Development and President of the BI...
  
  
• Ian MacMillan
• John McGee
• Rita Gunther McGrath
  Rita Gunther McGrath
  Rita Gunther McGrath is an Associate Professor of Management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business . She joined Columbia in 1993 after completing her Ph.D. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Henry Mintzberg
  Henry Mintzberg
  Professor Henry Mintzberg, is an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since...
  
  
• Will Mitchell
• David Northburn
• Margaret Peteraf
• Andrew Pettigrew
  Andrew Pettigrew
  Andrew Marshall Pettigrew OBE is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. A British professor, he was formerly dean of the University of Bath School of Management. He received his training in sociology and anthropology at Liverpool University...
  
  
• Michael Porter
  Michael Porter
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• C.K. Prahalad*
• Richard Rumelt
• Dan Schendel
• Habir Singh
• Ken Smith**
• George Stalk Jr.
• John Stopford
• David Teece
  David Teece
  David J. Teece is the Chairman of Berkeley Research Group, LLC, and Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Teece received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics...
  
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• Howard Thomas
• Sidney Winter
• Edward Zajac

In Memoriam *

Elected but not inducted **

Strategy Research Foundation

The Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) is an initiative of the Strategic Management Society to support the generation, preservation and dissemination of new knowledge in the field of Strategic Management. Initially funded by the SMS, the SRF provides support, primarily in the form of research grants, to academic researchers with the aim of promoting their research and inviting them to tackle problems and issues as defined in the annual SRF call for proposals for the General Research Program and the Dissertation Research Program.

External links

Strategic Management Society Website http://strategicmanagement.net/
Strategy Research Foundation Website http://srf.strategicmanagement.net/