An independent reference on the Strategic Management Journal and the SMJ acronym.
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The Strategic Management Journal — almost universally shortened to SMJ in academic writing — published its first volume in 1980, with Dan Schendel of Purdue University as founding editor. It is published by Wiley and serves as the flagship journal of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), the main international association for strategy researchers.
The journal's scope covers the core questions of strategic management: why some firms outperform others, how companies choose and change their strategies, and how executives, boards, and markets shape those choices. It is one of the 50 journals on the Financial Times FT50 list used in business-school research rankings, and it publishes 13 issues per year.
SMJ is the oldest of three journals published in partnership with the Strategic Management Society. The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) followed in 2007, focusing on the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategy, and the Global Strategy Journal (GSJ) launched in 2011 to cover international and global strategy topics.
Together the three journals form a family with distinct scopes: SMJ covers strategy research broadly, SEJ concentrates on new ventures and entrepreneurial behavior, and GSJ addresses strategy in a global context. Researchers typically cite them together as the society's official journals.
Like most leading academic journals, SMJ uses anonymous peer review. A submitted manuscript is first screened by editors, and a substantial share of submissions to top journals are declined at this stage without external review. Papers that pass screening are sent to typically two or three expert reviewers.
Authors usually go through one or more rounds of revision before a final decision, and the full path from submission to publication can take many months or longer. This slow, adversarial process is why journal articles are considered more rigorously vetted than most other business writing.
SMJ articles are distributed through Wiley Online Library. Most readers reach them through a university or corporate library subscription; Strategic Management Society membership also includes journal access, and a growing share of articles is published open access.
For practitioners, the most efficient way to read an academic strategy paper is to start with the abstract and the discussion section, then check the study's setting and sample before treating findings as applicable to a different industry or era.
SMJ is not unique to strategy research. In medicine, SMJ commonly refers to the Singapore Medical Journal, published by the Singapore Medical Association since 1960. Museum and Southeast Asian studies also know the Sarawak Museum Journal, which uses the same initials.
Context usually resolves the ambiguity: citations in management journals almost always mean the Strategic Management Journal, while medical literature means the Singapore title. This site uses SMJ in the management sense unless stated otherwise.