Strategic Management Society

The Strategic Management Society (SMS) 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 society has been credited with being a seminal factor in the development of strategic management as a legitimate field of scholarly endeavor.

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

The Strategic Management Society was founded at an initial meeting in London in 1981. Founding officers were elected at 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.

The Strategic Management Journal has, since its establishment in 1980, been the official journal of the Strategic Management Society. It is published in 13 issues per year by Wiley-Blackwell and the editors-in-chief are Richard A. Bettis, Will Mitchell, and Edward J. Zajac. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 3.367.

Key topics discussed in the journal are 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.

The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is a quarterly publication of the Strategic Management Society. It was established in 2007 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editors-in-chief are Jay Barney, Mike Wright, Rajshree Agarwal, and G. T. Lumpkin. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.205.

The journal covers practice of managing organizations as they deal with entrepreneurial processes and the inevitable changes and transformations that result in ten theme areas:

The Global Strategy Journal] is a quarterly publication of Wiley-Blackwell published on behalf of the Strategic Management Society. The journal was established in May 2011. The first two issues of volume one were released in May 2011 as a double issue. The first volume included two invited papers for each of the ten topic areas:

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