About Reflexive Strategy

Reflexive Strategy is an invitational magazine for heterodox management research. It publishes long-form essays, short notes, and occasional interviews that sit at the edge of the field — work that takes the epistemology of strategy seriously, interrogates the methods used to study organizations, and treats management as a social science with unfinished foundations rather than a settled body of applied knowledge.

The publication exists because the conventional journal system has narrowed. Top-tier outlets reward incremental contribution within dominant paradigms; the disciplinary edges — reflexivity, critical realism, process ontology, historical method, philosophy of measurement — are ceded to specialist venues that rarely reach the general strategy reader. Reflexive Strategy publishes that work with the production quality and editorial attention usually reserved for the journals it argues with. The aim is not to replace peer review. The aim is to make unconventional ideas legible to researchers who already know the conventional ones.

Three content types run through the site. Essays are long-form pieces — two thousand words and up — that develop a sustained argument. Notes are shorter interventions, typically five hundred to fifteen hundred words, that register a methodological worry, a reading, or a reply. Interviews are edited conversations with researchers whose published work has shaped how we think about method or epistemology. Every piece carries a byline with institutional affiliation. There are no anonymous posts, no aggregation, no reheated LinkedIn commentary.

What this is not. It is not how-to content; it will not tell readers how to run a literature review, structure a dissertation, or pitch a reviewer. It is not business news and does not cover industry developments, executive moves, or policy debates of the week. It is not a personal blog — the editor's voice is present in framing but absent from the essays themselves, which belong to their authors. And it is not LinkedIn-style commentary; pieces are edited to a stricter standard than most journal submissions face in early review.

Contributions are by invitation, but the editor reads unsolicited pitches — see the Contact page for scope and format. The publication is a one-editor operation with a deliberately slow cadence: one or two pieces per week, sometimes less. Quality of argument and clarity of prose are the only criteria. Affiliation, seniority, and citation count are not.