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The Evolution of Strategic Management Research

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DOI: 10.25236/ICSM.2019.031

Author(s)

Erming Xu, Jianqiang Xiao

Corresponding Author

Erming Xu

Abstract

Strategic management as an academic research field has gone through over half a century and accumulated many wonderful theoretical and empirical studies. However, the fragmentation of the field is expanding so that reviewing the history of the field is necessary to guide those researchers who are new to the field and not familiar with strategy research. Analysis of the most influential studies with the forefront scientific bibliometric method shows an outlined map of the strategy field which also shows the evolutionary path and future potentials of the field. Some significant changes of the field in theory and methodology are discussed. Strategy research in China is at the peripheral position of global strategy community. However, the periphery can have its indispensable value. From a Sino-West comparative perspective, Chinese strategy scholars can take an active participation in the global strategy research practice as “peripheral participants”, with a mission to contribute to strategy theory and practice by investigating indigenous social and strategy phenomena and increasing the legitimacy of Chinese strategic management research by practicing engaged scholarship.

Keywords

Strategic management; bibliometric analysis; indigenous research; core-periphery; engaged scholarship