The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new theoretical and empirical research on the psychological origins of Strategic Management. A more explicit recognition of the psychological foundations of strategy offers exciting new directions for research on strategic behavior and firm performance. Strategy research was historically concerned with the responsibilities of general managers, such as evaluating the competitive position of the enterprise, determining its long-term goals, allocating resources, and ensuring that courses of action are implemented. More recently, under the influence of industrial economics and the resource-based view, attention shifted away from general managers toward explaining the phenomenon of sustained competitive advantage. In the resource-based view, competitive advantage is largely determined in factor markets, attributable to firm resources that cannot profitably be acquired by competitors.
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