TY - JOUR AU - , AB - So!apbox Editorial Essay Strategic Organization 8(4) 377–386 © The Author(s) 2010 The Strategy Research Initiative: Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Recognizing and encouraging DOI: 10.1177/1476127010387821 http://soq.sagepub.com high-quality research in strategy Joanne E. Oxley University of Toronto, Canada Jan W. Rivkin Harvard Business School, USA Michael D. Ryall University of Toronto, Canada and the Strategy Research Initiative Introduction The strategy field enjoys a rich tradition of scholarship with foundations in diverse disciplines, most notably economics, sociology and psychology. The field’s diversity creates opportunities for cross-fertilization and, consequently, unique insights that scholars operating within a single disci- pline might miss. These insights promise to extend our understanding of strategy phenomena and, more broadly, contribute to progress in the social sciences. While disciplinary diversity is essential to the strength of the strategy field, it also presents some daunting challenges. In particular, disparate research traditions make it challenging to syn- thesize a set of shared quality norms, codified by editorial policies and supported by effective peer review. Many strategy researchers are concerned that the evolution of these norms and poli- cies has brought us to a point that falls substantially short of best practices found in our support- ing disciplines (see, for example, TI - The Strategy Research Initiative: Recognizing and encouraging high-quality research in strategy JF - Strategic Organization DO - 10.1177/1476127010387821 DA - 2010-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-strategy-research-initiative-recognizing-and-encouraging-high-gso0Y5vEvA SP - 377 EP - 386 VL - 8 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -