The presented theoretical paper explores the issue of the methodology apparatus used in the most popular recent research topics in the area of strategic management. The methodology applied in this work is based upon the advanced rapid review technique. Authors have used the citation score of Web of Science in the PICOS frame as a classification criterion. The main objective of the paper is to find out and depict such topics of world strategic management which have recently been most impactful in scientific literature. Discovering what type of methodology is being used most frequently in this field of research and inspecting the extent of its variety is the secondary goal. The presented paper includes literature review, important theoretical concepts, applied methodology description as well as the most important research findings accompanied with commented charts, tables and discussion. The conclusion section points out what methodology apparatus is primarily applied in the highly cited papers, and what further methods are being used in the most popular dozen of papers.