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.
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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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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”.
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 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 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 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.
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.
In Memoriam *
Elected but not inducted **
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.
Strategic Management Society Website [1] Strategy Research Foundation Website [2]