“The field of strategy will benefit immensely from a journal that deals carefully with the intersection of strategy and organization theory. Strategy research is gradually reaching maturity, but has not yet fully incorporated systematic treatment of many organizational dimensions … This journal has a wonderful opportunity to draw insights from organizational disciplines and apply them in ways that traditional journals are unwilling to accept. I welcome the opportunity to help develop papers that use any appropriate method to undertake disciplined explorations of key questions.”

Will Mitchell, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

“I think a new journal to complement SMJ is very timely and appropriate. There is much criticism from scholars and practitioners in Europe about SMJ’s limited empiricism and theoretical ethnocentricity and there is certainly a receptive scholarly and political context for something new in the field. If I had to pick one new area of strategy where there is great scholarly interest, a wide spectrum of new scholarship, and commitments being made across both sides of the Atlantic, then that area would be at the boundaries of strategy and organization. This journal has the focus right and I certainly support its birth.”

Andrew Pettigrew, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

“Strategy is increasingly about understanding organizations. Yet conventional outlets for strategy work – SMJ, AMJ or AMR – do not demand the kind of rigorous, disciplinary research that is necessary to make progress in the field. A new journal is clearly needed.”

Rebecca Henderson, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“This journal promises to bring the best of organization theory to strategic management. Strategy has made great progress in the last twenty years, and Strategic Organization will encourage the new blood, new methods and new perspectives necessary to take the discipline still further in the coming decades.”

Richard Whittington, Said Business School, Oxford University

“The last decade's research in strategy shows that the competitiveness of a firm is integrally related to how the firm is organized. Over the same period, we've learned a great deal about the character of new organizational models. It's now time to bring together insights from these two lines to develop our understanding of how firms’ choices influence long-term performance, and industry conditions affect firms’ structures. I'm delighted to be a part of this new venture, which creates a forum for this new knowledge. It's likely to have a great impact both on management practice and on scholarship.”

Anita M. McGahan, School of Management, Boston University

“This is exactly what the field of strategy needs—a journal devoted to the intersection of organizational research and strategic management, with an emphasis on rigor in theory and method, but open to the diversity of approaches taken by researchers in the field of strategic organization.”

Henrich R. Greve, Norwegian School of Management, BI

“For too long, strategy and organizations have parted, though the genesis of this field (Alfred Chandler's work) is that strategy and structure should be thought as one … New approaches of organizing and strategizing are emerging and need a new forum.”

Raghu Garud, Stern School of Business, New York University