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.[1] 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.[2]

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 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.

Former presidents

Publications

Strategic Management Journal

The Strategic Management Journal has, since its establishment in 1980, been the official journal of the Strategic Management Society.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5]

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

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.[4]

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:

Global Strategy Journal

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:

The SMS Book Series

The SMS Book Series is published in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell and focuses on cutting edge concepts/topics in strategic management theory and practice. The books emphasize building and maintaining bridges between theory and practice in strategic management. The work published generates and tests theories of strategic management and it demonstrates how to learn, understand and apply these theories in practice.

Meetings

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, Washington, D.C.

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. The next special conference will be held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China in December 2012. The focus of this conference will be "Competing and Cooperating in and for China."

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 ten interest groups. Involvement in meetings, conferences and calls for papers and proposals are offered to all members, as are preferential rates to all meetings and conferences and discounts for the SMS Book Series. Membership spans an entire calendar year, and includes subscriptions 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 five 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.

Fellows

The Strategic Management Fellows are a group of individuals so elected because of their substantial contribution to the field of strategic management. There are currently 62 fellows.[6]

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.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Strategic Management Society. Strategic Management Society. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Hambrick, D. C. and M.-J. Chen (2008). "New Academic Fields as Admittance-Seeking Social Movements: The Case of Strategic Management." Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review 33(1): 32-54
  3. ↑ "Publications". Strategic Management Society. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Strategic Management Journal". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.
  5. ↑ "SMJ Overview". Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  6. ↑ http://fellows.strategicmanagement.net/

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