Research summary: This article provides the first review of a growing line of scholarly work
in strategy that we refer to as “value capture theory.” The common thread in this work is its …

Behavioral strategy merges cognitive and social psychology with strategic management
theory and practice. Despite much progress, the aims and boundaries of behavioral strategy …

Decades of research using a wide variety of detailed plant-and firm-level data has provided
strong evidence of persistent performance differences among seemingly similar enterprises …

This study uses data on the US film industry from 1982 to 2001 to analyze the effects on box
office performance of prior relationships between film producers and distributors. In contrast …

We reflect on the evolution of the strategy field as seen through the window of Management
Science. Reflecting the diverse disciplinary roots of strategy research, we identify a broad …

This special topic forum contains seven papers that illustrate many of the ways in which
management researchers can use formal tools—mathematical methods, simulation, and …

Research Summary This article explicitly introduces cognitive considerations into the
treatment of strategic interactions, using the value‐based framework as an extended …

Can public sector organizations increase productivity through competition in spite of
inherent limitations, such as budget constraints? This study addresses that question by …

Research summary Analytic models are a powerful approach for developing theory, yet are
often poorly understood in the strategy and organizations community. Our goal is to enhance …

This paper suggests that founders often use firm formation to exploit opportunities and must
sometimes make organizing decisions about the allocation of control before the economic …