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This study investigates the intellectual structure of strategic management research in the hospitality management field. 1,652 articles related to hospitality strategic management published in leading hospitality and tourism and business journals were analyzed using co-citation analysis combining social network analysis. The study’s findings demonstrate the subfields of SM in hospitality are strategy and uncertainty, strategy and the internal organization, competitive strategy, corporate strategy and governance, global strategy, strategy process, strategy implementation, knowledge and innovation, the practice of strategy, and entrepreneurship and strategy. As one of the first studies in this field, this research discusses intellectual structure of strategic management studies within a hospitality focus while also looking at the potential for expansion in future studies.