The presented paper is of the theoretical range and deals with the issue of the most popular recent topics in the world of strategic management. The methodology applied in the paper is based upon the advanced rapid review technique. As the classification criterium the authors have used the citation score of Web of Science in the PICOS frame. The main objective of the paper is to find out the most attractive and popular recent theories of world strategic management and discover whether they focus mostly on business performance of different types of organizations. The presented paper includes literature review, applied methodology description as well as the most important research findings accompanied with commented charts, tables and discussion. The most important finding pointed out that, business performance is not explicit primary goal of the most cited paper, although this topic occurs twice among the most cited dozens of papers. Most popular topics in the top cited dozen topics are strategic human resources management as well as multinational (international) strategic management with three occurrences of the focus in the most cited dozen.