The Strategy Research Group is a multi-disciplinary collection of scholars, predominantly from within but also from outside the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. The group’s scholars bring a wide ranging set of perspectives — strategic management, organizational theory, cognitive theory, economic history, organizational economics, and others— to explore issues around firms’ performance.

As a group, we are particularly interested in and excited by topics such as reputation and competitive dynamics, management of uncertainty, intangible assets, innovation and entrepreneurship, social networks, strategies for emerging markets, location of economic activity, and the boundary of the firm.

The group is focused on research for both academics and practitioners. For academic audiences, regular activities include a seminar series that features speakers from leading universities, a brown-bag seminar series with internal speakers, sponsorship of academic conferences, and support of PhD student education. For practitioner audiences, regular activities include management insights from current and classic strategy research by the group’s scholars and position briefs on current and emerging business news events.