Center for Strategy and Competitiveness

The strategic management field has yet to determine what antecedent and foundational strategy processes, practices and decisions underlie organizational performance and overall competitive advantage: What characterize strategy processes, practices and decision making providing for organizational performance? What can managers do, if anything, to influence strategy development and competitive advantage? Do different strategy process types (e.g. disruptive vs. conventional) generate diverse outcomes? How do cognitive microfoundations and framing influence strategy making and outcomes? What role do heuristics play in strategy decision making? What are the role of corporate upper-echelons vs. peripheral actors in developing strategy? How do exploitation/ exploration strategy development activities and heuristics differ?

We address such questions in an international contexts and often centered on contemporary strategic issues like sustainability, innovation and business model development. We conduct research at the research frontier in line with acknowledged and established academies and collaborate with renowned researchers at top business schools globally. Based on this we generate excellence in teaching and develop innovative teaching pedagogies and outreach.

CSC is a research center at SIR, Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research. The SIR Foundation is a national research institute for the economic sciences, with a focus on Business Administration in the broadest sense.