Research in Strategic Management Program
Forecasted
Research in Strategic Management Program supports scholars studying rotating strategy themes, with a focus on firm growth and evolution in 2025–2026, to advance strategic management research.
Funder: Strategic Management Society
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to US$25,000 per grant for a two-year research period
Summary: Supports research on rotating strategic management themes, with the 2025–2026 theme focused on firm growth and evolution.
Key Information: Principal investigators must be university-affiliated full-time faculty or postdoctoral researchers and maintain SMS membership throughout the grant.
Description
The Research in Strategic Management Program is administered by the Strategic Management Society’s Strategy Research Foundation (SRF). It supports research on rotating themes central to strategic management. The 2025–2026 theme, “Growth in Focus: Strategy Across the Arc of Firm Evolution,” examines growth as a distinct aspect of strategic decision-making and execution, including its drivers, frictions, strategies, tradeoffs, and outcomes.
The call welcomes theoretical, empirical, and methodological research, including approaches using emerging data to capture growth dynamics. Illustrative topics include scaling entrepreneurial ventures, entering technologies and markets, renewing corporate portfolios, and managing growth through capabilities, partnerships, acquisitions, and human capital. Research may address individuals, firms, industries, or ecosystems. Proposals must explain their contribution to the thematic question and to strategic management scholarship.
