TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The authors evaluate the evolution of the intellectual structure of strategic management (SM) by employing a document co-citation analysis through a network analysis for academic citations in articles published in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ).Design/methodology/approach The authors employed the co-citation analysis through the social network analysis.Findings The authors outlined the evolution of the academic foundations of the structure and emphasized several domains. The economic foundation of SM research with macro and micro perspectives has generated a solid knowledge stock in the literature. Industrial organization (IO) psychology has also been another dominant foundation. Its robust development and extension in the literature have focused on cognitive issues in actors' behaviors as a behavioral foundation of SM. Methodological issues in SM research have become dominant between 2004 and 2011, but their influence has been inconsistent. The authors concluded by recommending future directions to increase maturity in the SM research domain.Originality/value This is the first paper to elucidate the intellectual structure of SM by adopting the co-citation analysis through the social network analysis. VL - 13 IS - 4 SN - 1755-425X DO - 10.1108/JSMA-05-2020-0102 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-05-2020-0102 AU - Köseoğlu Mehmet Ali AU - Parnell John PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/01/01 TI - The evolution of the intellectual structure of strategic management between 1980 and 2019 T2 - Journal of Strategy and Management PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 503 EP - 534 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -