Journal of Management Studies

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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment	86
How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change	80
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	77
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	72
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	69
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum	66
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	65
Are Social Media Platforms a Threat to Democracy? An Ecosystem Governance Perspective	61
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Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	57
Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance	57
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	56
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‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	54
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	53
Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption	53
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race	52
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	51
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	50
Understanding Talent in Foreign Subsidiaries: A Review, Synthesis, and Way Forward	50
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	48

Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	48
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	46
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	45
Academic Borders and Passport Disadvantage: Reclaiming Lost Dreams, Connections, and Career Horizons	44
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	43
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms	43
Will It Stick or Go Away? Examining How the Experience of Former Supervisor's Abuse Affects Newcomers' Adjustment	43
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Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status	41
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	38
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations	38
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward	38
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	37
Parenthood and CEO Responses to Media Criticism on Pay	35
Network‐Enabled Responses to Deglobalization: Examining How Firms Strategize During Eras of Global Disruption	35
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India	33
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	32
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	32
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	32
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	31
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact	31
The Effect of Board Leadership Roles and Committee Responsibilities on Governance Effectiveness	31
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LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	31
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	31
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Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	30
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How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices	30
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees	29
Demystifying AI for the Workforce: The Role of Explainable AI in Worker Acceptance and Management	29
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	29
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	28
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	27
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	27
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	27
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	26
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	26
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	26
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	26
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	26
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	25
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	25
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	25
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	24
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	24
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	23
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	23
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies	23

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What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations	21
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Entrepreneurial Market Leadership Claims, Cultural Resonance, and Investor Evaluations in Nascent Markets: The Goldilocks Effect	21
Curse or Blessing: Investigating the Influence of Firms’ Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employee Job Satisfaction	20
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	20
Not the Time to be Humble! When and Why Leader Humility Enhances and Deteriorates Evaluations on Leader Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Leader	20
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Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	20
Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic	20
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	20
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	19
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	19
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	19
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	19
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Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges	19
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building	18
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	18
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	18
Once a Conformist, Always a Conformist? Firms’ Discontinued Conformity to Global Sustainability Standards	18
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	18
How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)	18
Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption	17
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	17
‘Let Me Explain’: A Comparative Field Study on How Experts Enact Authority Over Clients When Facing AI Decisions	17
Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy	17
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	16
Opportunity Search in the Era of GenAI: Navigating Uncertainty in an Expanding Universe of Imaginable but Unknowable Futures	16
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	16
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	16
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	16
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	16
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance	16
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	16
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	15
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	15
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	15
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Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	15
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	15
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	15
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	15
Whom Should Entrepreneurs Approach? The Effect of Contact Status on Referring New Ventures for Acquisition	15
Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal	14
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	14
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A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	14
Set & Done? Trade‐offs between Stakeholder Expectation and Attainment Pressures in Corporate Carbon Target Management	14
Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories	14
A Selfless Integrator or a Selfish Quasi‐Professional? Relational Tactics for Organizational Professionals’ Durable Influence	14
Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences	14
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	13
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	13
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	13
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Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work	13
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	13
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	13
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	13
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	12
Examining the Effect of a Firm’s AI Specialization on the Technology Firms it Acquires: A Real Options Perspective	12
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	12
CEO Activism and Corporate Reputation: How Authenticity and CSR Mitigate Stakeholder Misalignment	12
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing	12
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	12
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The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry	12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	12
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	12
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Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches	12
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory	11
Counter‐Stigmatization in the Digital Age: The Case of the Sex Tech Award Incident	11
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour	11

Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy	11
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Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India	11
Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti	11
Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos	11
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts	11
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	11
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork	11
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry	11
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns	11
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis	11
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan	10
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations	10
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	10
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations	10
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile	10
Stigma Management within and between Levels	10
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction	10
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	10
Stakeholder Management and Resource Complementarities: Firm Performance amid Systemic Crises	10
Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants	10
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory	10
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge	10
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation	10
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization	10
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts	9
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk	9
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From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship	9
When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions	9
The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms	9
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference	9
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2025	9
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence	9
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism	9
Indigenizing Brokerage: How Western Brokers Bridge Environment and Nature Worldviews in Global Market Relations	9
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Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency	9
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative	9
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements	9
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work	9
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework	9
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions	8
The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice‐Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work	8
Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism	8
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures	8
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement	8
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	8
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review	8
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions	8
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics	8
Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society	8
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process	8
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	8
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies	8
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies	7
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching	7
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia	7
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict	7
How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective	7
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple	7
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers	7
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No	7
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process	7
Advancing Abductive Theory Building: Balancing Creative Curiosity and Programmatic Rigour Through ‘Loosely Coupled Abduction’	7
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	7
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus	7
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Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict	7
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions	7
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers	7
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy	7
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future	7
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research	7
Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda	7
Microlevel Judgments of Organizational Legitimacy: How Validity Cues and Categorical Fit Shape Evaluators' Propriety Beliefs	7
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy	6
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	6
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms	6
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect	6
Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio‐Economic Systems in a Multipolar World?	6
Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem‐Driven Interdisciplinary Research	6
Challenges of Semiotic Abduction in Management Research	6
Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity	6
Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community	6
Creating a Neuroinclusive Profession: Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem	6
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls	6
What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform	6
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment	6
Early Internationalization: A Meta‐Analysis of Antecedents, Dimensions, and Performance	6
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	6
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	6
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Correction to ‘The Devil is in the Details: Zooming out in Leadership Research’	6
A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice	6