Calls for Papers

Strategy Science — Call for Paper Proposals

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2026

Special Issue Editors: Victor Bennett, Brent Goldfarb, Hong Luo, Andrew Nelson, and Jason Snyder, Todd Zenger (advisor)

This is a call for papers that provide guidance to the field about how our research can better reach new audiences, particularly strategists, including what new research methods, practices or norms we should follow to reach these audiences. For instance, under what conditions are deep studies of particular contexts relevant for academic study? When are they not? How and when should strategy scholars balance the academic’s need for generality with the strategist’s need for particularity? Can the application of experimental methods to strategy frameworks and decision tools yield rigorous and generalizable methods for strategists to address firm-specific problems? We are interested in descriptions of what makes a context acceptable (how broad, what country, a perfect laboratory), descriptions of what parameters we should be interested in, techniques for identifying (or partially identifying) them, and a discussion of how new research norms will broaden the impact of strategy research.

We invite proposals of no more than 3–4 pages (excluding references), due November 15th, that answer some or all of the following types of questions: What core strategic question related to methods does the proposal take up, and why has prevailing practice failed to address it?

1. What method or shift in method is proposed—new, adapted from another field, or a revival of something strategy has set aside?
2. On what firms, settings, or data will the proposed method be shown to work, and what will that establish?
3. What do prevailing approaches fail to deliver on this question, and what does the proposed approach deliver that prevailing practice cannot?
4. By what standard should the results that proceed from this method be judged, and why is this standard appropriate?
5. What could a strategist do with access to your paper and proposed methods that differ from what is currently being done?

To read the full Call for Papers, here.