The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of strategic management studies during 1997-2008, by analyzing 63,444 cited references of 1,196 articles from two strategic management related journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this paper, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the strategic management literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. The findings show that three different factors are discriminated and the core disciplines co-citation network of cited author.