Strategy Research Initiative

The Strategic Research Initiative began as an informal gathering of mid-career strategy scholars in the hinterlands of Nova Scotia in 2007. The goal of the gathering was simple: to begin a conversation on how to best advance the field of strategy. Since that first gathering, the group has expanded, meeting annually at various exotic locales.

Our mission remains the advancement of strategy scholarship. Our intent is to create and disseminate resources to strategy scholars to help improve the quality of work in the field. We believe:

1. High quality theory in strategy is unambiguous and rigorously derived, is true to the essentials of reality, produces refutable, measurable claims, and is often interdisciplinary. To date, formal methods have been underutilized in the development of strategy theory.
2. High quality empirical research in strategy may either report empirical regularities or aim to test theory. In both cases, high quality research is transparent in data presentation and analysis. In the case of theory-testing research, high quality work uses data that conform closely to the theory to be tested as well as empirical designs and methods that generate valid inferences.
3. High quality research in strategy appreciates and builds upon prior, substantive contributions in the field.