We are excited that our PDW "Navigating Impact: Strategy and Organization in the Face of Grand Challenges" has been accepted for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025 in Copenhagen! 🌍📚 Apply here until June 6 👉 lnkd.in/eqbCmb94

📣 New in SO! "Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987-2020" (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf…) by Keyan LAI (The University of Edinburgh) and Johann Fortwengel (King's College London).

📢 Join us for our Virtual PDW on Academic Essay Writing! 📌 If you're interested, register and submit a short essay proposal (300-500 words) by May 1, 2025 👉🏾 tinyurl.com/EssaysPDW

New in SO! 📣 "Transparent politics: Political ideology, lobbying and firm performance" 🎭 (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…) by Amy Ingram (Clemson University), Jason Ridge (University of Arkansas) and Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

New essay in SO! 🔔 "Performing While Transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven's Enduring Contributions to Management Scholarship" (👉🏾 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…) by Jean Bartunek, Raghu Garud, Ann Langley, S. Katharina Schilli, and Yunchen Sun

New in SO! "Steven W. Floyd: His legacy as a Scholar and Academic Community Builder" (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…) by Julia Balogun (University of Liverpool Management School) Christoph Lechner (University of St.Gallen) Linda Rouleau (HEC Montréal) & Bill Wooldridge (UMass Boston)

New in SO! 📢 "The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation" 🗣️ (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…) by Akhil Bhardwaj (University of Bath).

Welcome to our new Co-Editors! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome David Gomulya (Singapore Management University), who joined the team in Sept 2024. With his expertise in #corporategovernance, #strategicleadership, and #entrepreneurship, David has already started handling manuscripts.

New in SO! 📣 "Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry" 📺 (👉journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…) by Yeonji Seo, Chuljin Park, & Tim Pollock

🏆 Celebrating Scholarly Excellence: The 2025 SO!WHAT Awards 🏆 We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 SO!WHAT Awards for Scholarly Contribution, which recognize the most outstanding article and essay published in Strategic Organization (SO) five years earlier.

New in SO! 🆕 "The Burden of Being Atypical: The Impact of (A)typicality in Leader Profiles on Organizational Reputation" ⚠️ (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…) by Young-Chul Jeong, Jaegoo Lim, DONGHOON SHIN & Saeid Bazmohammadi