Editorial Statement—Strategy

STRATEGY

Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University

Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD

Jiatao Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Anita McGahan, University of Toronto

Christoph Loch, University of Navarra

The Strategy Department seeks papers that deepen our understanding of how organizations are deployed to address and solve important problems. It considers that strategy is relevant for the pursuit of both financial and nonfinancial goals, and it is relevant to different types of organizations, including firms, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit organizations, governments, cooperatives, and others. It also realizes that the twenty-first century is increasingly characterized by changes in the international order and new challenges toward the actors involved and thus requires a better understanding of the new era of international management.

The department welcomes rigorous studies of important strategic choices such as how to compete, the boundaries of the firm, organizational governance, location, purpose, sustainability, nonmarket approaches, culture, employees, stakeholder engagement, and human resources. It also welcomes papers that examine novel forms and challenges of strategy in a dynamic and changing world. It is willing to draw on political science, international relations, political economy, cross-cultural theories, sociology, and so on, in addition to mainstream management theories. The research must conform to scientific standards of quality in both theory development and empirical methodology and execution. The department is open to analyses that draw from different methodologies and disciplines. Editors will consider the potential of the research to have impact on future study and the relevance for managerial practice.