Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 15 Issue 2

Editorial: Strategic knowledge management (SKM) in the digital age – insights and possible research directions

Krishna Venkitachalam, Giovanni Schiuma

Big data analytics and competitive advantage: the strategic role of firm-specific knowledge

Rajiv Dahiya, Son Le, John Kirk Ring, Kevin Watson

While advances in big data analytics (BDA) provide valuable business insights and immense business value, many firms find it difficult to gain advantage from their BDA…

Performing openness: how the interplay between knowledge sharing and digital infrastructure creates multiple accountabilities

Tomas Ivan Träskman, Matti Skoog

The present study aims to address the emergence of platform-organized open innovation (OI). The research has the two main aims: the first is to increase the understanding of the…

“I cannot feel your print”. How military strategic knowledge managers respond to digitalization

Therese Heltberg

The purpose of this paper is to explore how military strategic knowledge managers consider and respond to digitalization of operational processes in their revision of military…

Leveraging the organizational mission statement to communicate identity, distinctiveness and purpose to primary and secondary stakeholders during COVID-19

Lorelei Ortiz

This study examines comprehensiveness and responsiveness of mission statements for the top 100 retailers on the 2020 National Retailers Federation list in order to (1) evaluate…

Pressure to perform: female CEOs and firm community engagement

Nongnapat Thosuwanchot

This study examines the impact of female CEO on firm community engagement. By drawing on the stakeholder-agency paradigm, the author proposes that female CEOs feel more pressure…

Dynamic capabilities for digital transformation

Daniel Ellström, Johan Holtström, Emma Berg, Cecilia Josefsson

The purpose of this paper is to identify sensing, seizing and reconfiguring routines of dynamic capabilities that enable digital transformation in firms.

Enhancing foreign subsidiaries' performance through relational ties, market- and nonmarket-based capabilities

Amonrat Thoumrungroje, Supara Kapasuwan

Given the inconclusive findings on relational ties–performance relationships, this study approaches this phenomenon through social capital theory and resource-based view (RBV…

Psychological capital and strategic decision outcomes

Sina Kiegler, Torsten Wulf, Niklas Nolzen, Philip Meissner

A large body of research has analyzed individual psychological characteristics as antecedents of strategic decision-making. However, this research has mainly focused on…