Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change81
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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment67
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration66
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies64
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout64
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union63
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum60
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?59
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Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers51
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools50
Understanding Talent in Foreign Subsidiaries: A Review, Synthesis, and Way Forward49
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination48
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Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption47
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer46
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity45
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms44
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility43
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers43
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities43
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review43
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐1942
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement42
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race40
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status39
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward38
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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms37
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective37
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations35
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance35
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India34
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics34
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics33
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms33
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo32
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts31
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market30
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact30
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On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding29
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Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs28
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles27
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees27
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems27
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices26
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation26
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production26
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures25
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea25
Demystifying AI for the Workforce: The Role of Explainable AI in Worker Acceptance and Management 25
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options24
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment23
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda23
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict23
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future23
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures23
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Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals22
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Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence22
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies21
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts21
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The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective20
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations20
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The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity20
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges19
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The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective19
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Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action19
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance19
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance19
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing18
Entrepreneurial Market Leadership Claims, Cultural Resonance, and Investor Evaluations in Nascent Markets: The Goldilocks Effect18
Curse or Blessing: Investigating the Influence of Firms’ Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employee Job Satisfaction18
Not the Time to be Humble! When and Why Leader Humility Enhances and Deteriorates Evaluations on Leader Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Leader18
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research17
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building17
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination17
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise17
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Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation17
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work16
Once a Conformist, Always a Conformist? Firms’ Discontinued Conformity to Global Sustainability Standards16
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios16
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research15
Opportunity Search in the Era of GenAI: Navigating Uncertainty in an Expanding Universe of Imaginable but Unknowable Futures15
‘Let Me Explain’: A Comparative Field Study on How Experts Enact Authority Over Clients When Facing AI Decisions15
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance15
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?14
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis14
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs14
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue14
How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)14
Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy14
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel14
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity14
Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption14
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context14
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Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness13
Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences13
Set & Done? Trade‐offs between Stakeholder Expectation and Attainment Pressures in Corporate Carbon Target Management13
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List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization13
Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal13
A Selfless Integrator or a Selfish Quasi‐Professional? Relational Tactics for Organizational Professionals’ Durable Influence13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy12
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation12
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202112
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work12
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation12
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”12
Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches12
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue12
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions12
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Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis12
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions11
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing11
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations11
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation11
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact11
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations11
Examining the Effect of a Firm’s AI Specialization on the Technology Firms it Acquires: A Real Options Perspective11
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Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation11
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour10
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
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis10
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts10
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Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti10
Incomplete Institutional Change and the Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Contestation of Institutional Misalignment in South Africa*10
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork10
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Counter‐Stigmatization in the Digital Age: The Case of the Sex Tech Award Incident10
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy10
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry10
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry10
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation10
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction9
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory9
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue9
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations9
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan9
When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions9
Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India9
CEO–TMT Congruence in Growth‐Need Strength and Firm Growth9
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile9
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Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts9
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study9
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization9
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory9
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge9
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations9
Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants9
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation9
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Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence9
Stigma Management within and between Levels9
Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency8
Relational Co‐ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems8
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk8
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Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements8
From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship8
Stakeholder Management and Resource Complementarities: Firm Performance amid Systemic Crises8
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The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms8
Indigenizing Brokerage: How Western Brokers Bridge Environment and Nature Worldviews in Global Market Relations8
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Empirical Literature on Cognition‐Based and Affect‐Based Trust7
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers7
Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society7
Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism7
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement7
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework7
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative7
The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice‐Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work7
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions7
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue7
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference7
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism7
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures7
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics7
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process7
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies7
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work7
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict6
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict6
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions6
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research6
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No6
How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective6
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple6
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review6
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future6
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies6
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus6
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers6
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Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers6
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching6
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Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions6
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia6
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies5
Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio‐Economic Systems in a Multipolar World?5
Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem‐Driven Interdisciplinary Research5
Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self‐Sustaining Ecosystem5
Advancing Abductive Theory Building: Balancing Creative Curiosity and Programmatic Rigour Through ‘Loosely Coupled Abduction’5
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy5
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What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform5
A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice5
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls5
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect5
Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity5
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Artificial Intelligence as an Organizing Capability Arising from Human‐Algorithm Relations5
How do Intermediaries Build Inclusive Markets? The Role of the Social Context5
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment5
Voice Work, Upward Influence during Change ‘When Time is of the Essence’5
Governing Inter‐Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises' Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners' Practices5
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms5
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process5
Creating a Neuroinclusive Profession: Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem5
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