Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment89
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies86
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union83
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout74
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum73
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration68
Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance67
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?63
How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change62
Are Social Media Platforms a Threat to Democracy? An Ecosystem Governance Perspective61
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Will It Stick or Go Away? Examining How the Experience of Former Supervisor's Abuse Affects Newcomers' Adjustment59
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility58
Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption57
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms57
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools55
Understanding Talent in Foreign Subsidiaries: A Review, Synthesis, and Way Forward54
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The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement51
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review50
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race49
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity48
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities47
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers45
Academic Borders and Passport Disadvantage: Reclaiming Lost Dreams, Connections, and Career Horizons44
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination43
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers43
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐1943
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status42
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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms39
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward39
Parenthood and CEO Responses to Media Criticism on Pay39
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo38
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective37
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts37
The Effect of Board Leadership Roles and Committee Responsibilities on Governance Effectiveness35
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms34
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations34
Network‐Enabled Responses to Deglobalization: Examining How Firms Strategize During Eras of Global Disruption34
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance33
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market33
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics33
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Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact33
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India33
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Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems31
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees31
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices31
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding30
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment30
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation28
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures28
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production28
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles28
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures27
When Doing Good Feels Wrong: The Dual Influence of Perceived Organizational Opportunism on Employee CSR Behaviour27
Demystifying AI for the Workforce: The Role of Explainable AI in Worker Acceptance and Management 27
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs26
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict26
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda26
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence26
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea26
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future25
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The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective24
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals24
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies24
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts23
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The Price of Prominence: How CEO Extraversion Influences Board Attributions and the Dismissal‐Performance Sensitivity23
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Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic22
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Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance22
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Entrepreneurial Market Leadership Claims, Cultural Resonance, and Investor Evaluations in Nascent Markets: The Goldilocks Effect22
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations22
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity21
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges21
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance21
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Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building20
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing20
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation20
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Not the Time to be Humble! When and Why Leader Humility Enhances and Deteriorates Evaluations on Leader Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Leader20
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise20
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research19
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective19
From Platform Design to Attention Governance: Rethinking Social Media Externalities19
Curse or Blessing: Investigating the Influence of Firms’ Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employee Job Satisfaction19
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action18
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios18
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs18
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Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption18
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination18
‘Let Me Explain’: A Comparative Field Study on How Experts Enact Authority Over Clients When Facing AI Decisions18
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work18
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research17
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel17
Opportunity Search in the Era of GenAI: Navigating Uncertainty in an Expanding Universe of Imaginable but Unknowable Futures17
How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)17
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance17
Once a Conformist, Always a Conformist? Firms’ Discontinued Conformity to Global Sustainability Standards16
Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy16
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue16
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context16
Why Do I Do What I Do? How Searching for Meaning at Work Can Facilitate the Spread of Unethical Conduct through Organizations16
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What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?16
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis16
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization15
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?15
Whom Should Entrepreneurs Approach? The Effect of Contact Status on Referring New Ventures for Acquisition15
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness15
Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories15
Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences15
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors15
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue15
A Selfless Integrator or a Selfish Quasi‐Professional? Relational Tactics for Organizational Professionals’ Durable Influence15
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions15
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation14
Set & Done? Trade‐offs between Stakeholder Expectation and Attainment Pressures in Corporate Carbon Target Management14
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy14
Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal14
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Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work13
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing13
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Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations13
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions13
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes13
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact13
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation13
Examining the Effect of a Firm’s AI Specialization on the Technology Firms it Acquires: A Real Options Perspective13
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations13
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue13
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”13
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation12
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation12
Counter‐Stigmatization in the Digital Age: The Case of the Sex Tech Award Incident12
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry12
Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches12
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry12
Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti12
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts12
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Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis12
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CEO Activism and Corporate Reputation: How Authenticity and CSR Mitigate Stakeholder Misalignment12
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour11
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns11
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study11
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge11
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis11
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork11
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory11
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile11
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy11
Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses11
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Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India11
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence10
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations10
Crafting Interdisciplinary Research: Four Cornerstone Practices for Management Scholars10
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue10
Stakeholder Management and Resource Complementarities: Firm Performance amid Systemic Crises10
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization10
Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants10
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Stigma Management within and between Levels10
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From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship10
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory10
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction10
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan10
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation10
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 20259
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Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework9
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations9
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative9
Indigenizing Brokerage: How Western Brokers Bridge Environment and Nature Worldviews in Global Market Relations9
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Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency9
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk9
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference9
When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions9
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts9
The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms9
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements9
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work8
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue8
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions8
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict8
Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism8
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies8
Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society8
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism8
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement8
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process8
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions8
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review8
Signalling servant leadership: How followers interpret leader behaviours8
The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice‐Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work8
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics8
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers8
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future8
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Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process7
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers7
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus7
Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda7
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict7
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No7
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies7
Microlevel Judgments of Organizational Legitimacy: How Validity Cues and Categorical Fit Shape Evaluators' Propriety Beliefs7
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How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective7
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers7
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Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple7
Advancing Abductive Theory Building: Balancing Creative Curiosity and Programmatic Rigour Through ‘Loosely Coupled Abduction’7
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions7
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia7
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research7
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy7
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching7
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Artificial Intelligence as an Organizing Capability Arising from Human‐Algorithm Relations6
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls6
Correction to ‘The Devil is in the Details: Zooming out in Leadership Research’6
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Voice Work, Upward Influence during Change ‘When Time is of the Essence’6
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment6
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect6
Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem‐Driven Interdisciplinary Research6
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies6
Institutional Logics and Relational Inequality in UK Surgery: Demographic Dominance and the Uneven Governance of Careers6
What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform6
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