Summary
Organisations navigate complex environments by integrating strategic planning, managerial control and insights into human behaviour. Strategy concerns the pattern of choices and actions through which an organisation positions itself for sustainable advantage. Management translates these patterns into structured processes, governance arrangements and performance systems that coordinate resources, digital platforms and risk-management under shifting market and regulatory pressures. Organisational behaviour examines how individuals, teams and cultures influence decision-making, motivation and adaptation. Together these fields address how firms balance deliberate planning with emergent change, align corporate, business and functional strategies, and leverage leadership, innovation and stakeholder engagement to build resilience, drive performance and capture value in volatile, uncertain contexts.
Research from Nature Portfolio
Evidence from provincial panel data shows that mature digital platforms not only raise innovation quality directly but also trigger threshold-driven effects through improved resource allocation, guiding policy for ecosystem design. In parallel, novel patent-recommendation systems have been developed by embedding heterogeneous patent information into knowledge graphs and applying deep neural networks with relevance-propagation explanations, empowering firms to identify high-value technology transfers. In the realm of governance, analyses of crisis management reveal that strong information technology governance frameworks magnify the positive influence of board size, director independence and audit-committee diligence on business continuity, underscoring the strategic importance of digital oversight for resilience under stress.
Topic trend for the past 5 years
The graph below shows the article count in Nature Index journals for strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
* The ‘Current Index’ represents data for a 12-month rolling window, the current window is 1 May 2025 - 30 April 2026.
Technical terms
Digital platform ecosystem: A network of interconnected digital infrastructure, complementors and stakeholders that co-create, exchange and capture value through shared services and data.
Information technology governance: The system of structures, processes and relational mechanisms by which boards oversee IT strategy, risk and performance to support corporate objectives.
Absorptive capacity: A firm’s ability to recognise, assimilate and apply external knowledge for commercial innovation and strategic renewal.
Ambidextrous leadership: The capability of leaders to foster both exploratory, innovative behaviours and exploitative, efficiency-oriented practices within teams.
Psychological safety: A shared belief that the team environment permits interpersonal risk-taking—such as proposing new ideas—without fear of negative consequences.
Notable articles in strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- Impact of digital input on enterprise green productivity: Micro evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry. Journal of Cleaner Production (2023).
- Do energy efficiency R&D investments and information and communication technologies promote environmental sustainability in Sweden? A quantile-on-quantile KRLS investigation. Journal of Cleaner Production (2024).
- Assessment of urban resilience and subsystem coupling coordination in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. Sustainable Cities and Society (2024).
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Research
Position of Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour in Nature Index by Count
Leading institutions
| Institution | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | 22 | 7.72 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 12 | 6.36 |
| Beijing Normal University (BNU) | 10 | 5.25 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | 11 | 5.23 |
| University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | 12 | 5.14 |
| Tianjin University (TJU) | 7 | 5.01 |
| Tongji University | 11 | 4.61 |
| Stanford University | 10 | 4.26 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | 14 | 4.15 |
| Harvard University | 10 | 3.88 |
Collaboration
Top 5 leading collaborators in Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
Collaborating institutions
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