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strategic-management-journal
Use when targeting Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) or deciding whether a strategy / firm-performance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Strategic Management Journal (strategic-management-journal)
## Journal positioning
SMJ is the flagship journal of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) and the premier outlet for strategy research — how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage and why some firms outperform others. It draws on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, and transaction-cost and agency economics, as well as organizational sociology, but the question is always strategic: firm-level (or business/corporate-level) choices and their performance consequences. SMJ rewards a clear contribution to strategy theory backed by rigorous empirics. The audience is strategy scholars, so a paper must be strategy-central, not an OB or general-management study dressed up with a performance variable.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the SMS / SMJ / Wiley site and the submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names SMJ (or the SMS journals / FT50 strategy elite) as the venue.
- A paper studies competitive advantage, firm performance, corporate or business strategy, diversification, alliances, M&A, governance, or capabilities.
- A management paper with firm-level outcomes needs re-framing around a strategy-theory contribution.
- The author needs SMJ's desk-reject risks and a credible `academy-of-management-journal` / `organization-science` / `journal-of-management-en` alternative list.