Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies118
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change116
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors114
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum112
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The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout84
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration82
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective74
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?67
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis58
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union49
Family Business Restructuring: A Review and Research Agenda49
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions48
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas47
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‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race46
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers46
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools45
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Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers41
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research40
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review39
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐1938
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms36
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities36
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility35
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination34
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity33
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement32
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer31
Introduction to the Point‐Counterpoint: The Corporate Objective as a Contingency31
Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation31
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?31
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal31
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance31
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics30
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics30
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India29
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms28
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Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms28
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective28
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts27
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo27
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms27
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings27
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding26
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Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles25
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market25
Workers' Rites: Ritual Mediations and the Tensions of New Management25
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Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options24
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation24
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production24
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment24
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs24
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems24
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea24
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures22
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict22
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures22
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda22
Transactional Dependence and Technological Upgrading in Global Value Chains22
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence22
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future21
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors21
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The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective20
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Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts19
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms19
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals19
How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives19
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination18
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance18
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors18
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The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective18
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance18
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation17
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Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational ActiveTrust‐Building17
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations17
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Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research17
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action17
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity17
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing17
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors16
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors16
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Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise16
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios15
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance15
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work15
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?15
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research15
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel15
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis14
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context14
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’14
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity14
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Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness13
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors13
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking13
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation13
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy13
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List of Reviewers for this Special Issue13
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?13
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact13
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis12
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations12
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Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation12
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202112
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions12
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations12
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes11
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future11
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing11
Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation11
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation11
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation11
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View11
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work11
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue11
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts10
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective10
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors10
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis10
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship10
Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos10
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns10
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry9
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Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork9
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy9
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour9
Incomplete Institutional Change and the Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Contestation of Institutional Misalignment in South Africa*9
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study9
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry9
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors9
A Multi‐Level Model of I‐deals in Workgroups: Employee and Coworker Perceptions of Leader Fairness, I‐Deals and Group Performance9
Stigma Management within and between Levels8
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan8
Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India8
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory8
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge8
CEO–TMT Congruence in Growth‐Need Strength and Firm Growth8
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile8
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory8
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations8
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction8
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue7
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Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization7
Relational Co‐ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems7
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A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference7
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations7
Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency7
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework7
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence7
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation7
Double Trouble: Containing Public Disapproval Arising from an Interplay of Stigmatized Categories6
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk6
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism6
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Empirical Literature on Cognition‐Based and Affect‐Based Trust6
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts6
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative6
Both Diversity and Meritocracy: Managing the Diversity‐Meritocracy Paradox with Organizational Ambidexterity6
The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms6
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements6
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work6
Contextualizing Management Research: An Open Systems Perspective6
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors5
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No5
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures5
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process5
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future5
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers5
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research5
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus5
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement5
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict5
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics5
Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age5
Organizational Demographic Faultlines: Their Impact on Collective Organizational Identification, Firm Performance, and Firm Innovation5
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy5
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions5
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review5
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions5
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies5
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process4
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies4
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching4
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors4
Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity4
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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community4
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers4
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia4
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers4
Actors and Resources in the Deinstitutionalization and Reproduction of Educational Inequalities: A Comparative Historical Analysis4
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms4
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue4
Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self‐Sustaining Ecosystem4
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions4
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict4
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple4
Governing Inter‐Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises' Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners' Practices4
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy4
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect4
What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform4
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors4
The Effects of Objective and Subjective Social Class on Leadership Emergence3
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls3
Status Transfer across Borders: The Mediating Role of Common Partners in First Entry3
Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools3
Organizing and Strategizing in and for Extreme Contexts: Temporality, Emotions, and Embodiment3
I Did It My Way: CEO Core Self‐Evaluations and the Environmental Contingencies on Firm Risk‐Taking Strategies3
A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice3
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies3
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Once a Founder, Always a Founder? The Role of External Former Founders in Corporate Boards3
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Voice Work, Upward Influence during Change ‘When Time is of the Essence’3
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors3
How do Intermediaries Build Inclusive Markets? The Role of the Social Context3
Tax‐Motivated Relocations of Headquarters: The Role of Affinity Bias among Socially‐Responsible Blockholders and CEOs3
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment3
Future Making: Towards a Practice Perspective3
The Role of Organizational Structure in Senior Managers' Selective Information Processing3
How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work2
The Dynamic Role of Subnational Regions in Firm Performance2
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