Strategic Management Society

• Michael Hitt, 2008–2010
• Richard A. Bettis, 2004–2007
• Jeremy Davis, 2003–2004
• John McGee, 2000–2003
• Howard Thomas, 1997–2000
• Richard Rumelt, 1994–1997
• Carlos Cavallé, 1991–1994
• Henry Mintzberg, 1988–1991
• Derek Channon, 1985–1988
• Dan Schendel, 1982–1985

The Strategic Management Journal has, since its establishment in 1980, been the official journal of the Strategic Management Society.[3] It is published in 13 issues per year by Wiley-Blackwell and the editors-in-chief are Richard A. Bettis, Will Mitchell, and Edward J. Zajac. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 3.367.[4]

Key topics discussed in the journal are strategic resource allocation; organization structure; leadership; entrepreneurship and organizational purpose; methods and techniques for evaluating and understanding competitive, technological, social, and political environments; planning processes; and strategic decision processes.[5]

The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is a quarterly publication of the Strategic Management Society. It was established in 2007 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editors-in-chief are Jay Barney, Mike Wright, Rajshree Agarwal, and G. T. Lumpkin. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.205.[4]

The journal covers practice of managing organizations as they deal with entrepreneurial processes and the inevitable changes and transformations that result in ten theme areas:

• Entrepreneurship and economic growth
• Change
• Risk and uncertainty
• Innovation
• Creativity, imagination and opportunities
• Strategy versus entrepreneurship
• Technology
• Social role of entrepreneurship
• Behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurial activity
• Entrepreneurial actions, innovation and appropriability

The Global Strategy Journal] is a quarterly publication of Wiley-Blackwell published on behalf of the Strategic Management Society. The journal was established in May 2011. The first two issues of volume one were released in May 2011 as a double issue. The first volume included two invited papers for each of the ten topic areas:

• International and global strategy
• Assembling the global enterprise
• Strategic management of the global enterprise
• Global strategy and inter-organizational networks
• Performance and global strategy
• Global strategy and the global business environment
• Strategy and location
• Comparative strategies
• Global innovation and knowledge strategies
• Global strategy and emerging economies

The SMS Book Series is published in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell and focuses on cutting edge concepts/topics in strategic management theory and practice. The books emphasize building and maintaining bridges between theory and practice in strategic management. The work published generates and tests theories of strategic management and it demonstrates how to learn, understand and apply these theories in practice.

The SMS holds an annual conference, typically alternating between North America and Europe. Past locations include Prague,[6] Berlin, Vancouver, San Francisco, Paris, Baltimore, San Juan, Orlando, Vienna, San Diego, Cologne, Washington, D.C.

Each conference addresses a current theme, with specific tracks addressing sub-themes, and presents multiple sessions by leading experts in the field from around the world.

Along with the annual conference, each year SMS organizes special conferences that focus on a particular topic or region. Previous special conferences were held in India in 2008 and Finland in 2010. In March 2011, a special conference was held in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the role of Latin America in global development. In June 2011, scholars reflected on the extensive contributions of C.K. Prahalad, in a special conference in San Diego organized after his death in April 2010. The next special conference was in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China in December 2012. The focus of this conference was "Competing and Cooperating in and for China."