Research Progress on Managerial Cognition in the Field of Strategic ManagementA Systematic Review

The increasingly volatile environment challenges the strategic adaptability of enterprises, which arouses the attention of scholars on the micro sources of corporate strategic adaptability, thus prompting the research results of managers’ cognition to be introduced into the field of strategic management. However, how strategic management scholars understand manager cognition, how to understand the role of manager cognition in enterprise strategic management, and what kind of knowledge graph has been formed by existing research have not been systematically reviewed. In order to fully grasp the research progress of manager cognition in the field of strategic management, this paper conducted a comprehensive search of the research results of “manager cognition” based on the core database of Web of Science and constructed a literature pool. Firstly, the literature measurement method was used to make a holistic analysis of the research status, hot issues and development of manager cognition in the field of strategic management. On this basis, the content analysis method was adopted to explain and summarize the hot topics, extract the main context of manager cognition research in the field of strategic management, identify research gaps, and predict future research topics. The findings are as follows: in the field of strategic management, managers’ cognition is defined based on dynamic process perspective, including meaning construction, attention process, etc. Manager cognition has been introduced into the field of strategic management, and has attracted attention as the micro-basis of dynamic capability, and as the driving force of organizational adaptability and strategic change in the context of change, and formed three main sub-research fields: manager cognition and innovation (change), manager cognition and decision, and manager cognition and performance. On this basis, the future research issues from the perspective of the integration of managerial cognitive theory and strategic management theory are predicted.