The structure and evolution of the strategic management field: A content analysis of 26 years of strategic management research

By Olivier Furrer, Howard Thomas, Anna Goussevskaia. International Journal of Management Reviews, 2008

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This paper analyses 26 years of strategic management research published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal. Through a content analysis, it studies the relationships between the subfields of strategic management. A multiple correspondence analysis provides a map of keywords and authors, and a framework to track this literature over the 26-year period. A discussion of future pathways in the strategic management literature is also provided.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Mergers & acquisitions research: A bibliometric study of top strategy and international business journals, 1980–2010 (2014, methodology): “While Furrer et al. (2008) classified 26 themes, they examined the entire discipline and we made some adjustments to better fit both the topic (M&As) and the two disciplines.”
A bibliometric review of the innovation adoption literature (2018, background): “cited reviews in this field [13,19,20,21,22], on the aspects data, analysis and coverage [11].”