Strategy research carries ontological commitments that largely go unstated — assumptions about what kinds of entities exist, what causal relations look like, and whether the phenomena under study are stable enough to theorise. These commitments are not merely philosophical background noise; they determine what counts as a valid research question, what a satisfactory explanation looks like, and where the field draws the boundary between the strategic and the contextual. This is a space to make those commitments explicit and examine what follows from them.