I am maintaining this as a living repository of notes, annotations, and reflections gathered across my readings in strategy literature. The papers, books, and essays that pass through a researcher’s hands have a way of disappearing — not entirely, but into a kind of blur where half-remembered arguments and vaguely familiar citations float without anchorage. This space is my attempt to resist that drift.
The act of documenting is not a clerical task. It is, I think, constitutive of how understanding actually forms. When I write out what a paper argues — its theoretical moves, its empirical choices, the gaps it leaves open — I find that I did not fully understand it until I had to say it back to myself. The discipline of putting something into words forces a confrontation with what one actually grasped versus what one merely read past. In that sense, every note here is less a record of a text and more a record of an encounter with an idea.
There is also something to be said for the cumulative structure that emerges over time. Strategy literature spans a daunting range — agency problems, resource dependence, institutional pressures, dynamic capabilities, behavioural foundations, and more — and individual papers rarely announce how they fit into this larger architecture. A repository like this, built incrementally, begins to reveal those connections: where frameworks converge, where they are in quiet tension, and where the literature has simply not yet looked. These are often the most generative places to work from.
The notes collected here are partial, idiosyncratic, and deliberately reflexive. They are not summaries for citation management — I have other tools for that. They are records of what struck me, what troubled me, and what I want to think through further.