Journal of Management Studies

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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	116
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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment	99
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	98
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	93
Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance	91
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	84
How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change	74
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	73
Understanding and Addressing the Disruptive Impacts of Contemporary Climate Crises	71
Are Social Media Platforms a Threat to Democracy? An Ecosystem Governance Perspective	70
Bifurcation Bias in Executive Compensation and Family Firm Performance: The Role of Normative Context	67
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	63
Will It Stick or Go Away? Examining How the Experience of Former Supervisor's Abuse Affects Newcomers' Adjustment	63
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	63
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Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	62
Issue Information	60
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	59
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	59
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	56
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	56
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	55

Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption	54
Understanding Talent in Foreign Subsidiaries: A Review, Synthesis, and Way Forward	52
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	52
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	50
Academic Borders and Passport Disadvantage: Reclaiming Lost Dreams, Connections, and Career Horizons	48
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	48
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms	47
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	47
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Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India	45
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	44
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	44
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	44
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward	44
Parenthood and CEO Responses to Media Criticism on Pay	43
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status	40
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	38
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations	38
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	38
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	37
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	37
Network‐Enabled Responses to Deglobalization: Examining How Firms Strategize During Eras of Global Disruption	37
The Effect of Board Leadership Roles and Committee Responsibilities on Governance Effectiveness	36
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Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	35
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Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	35
When Doing Good Feels Wrong: The Dual Influence of Perceived Organizational Opportunism on Employee CSR Behaviour	34
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	33
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices	33
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	33
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	33
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact	32
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	32
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	31
Demystifying AI for the Workforce: The Role of Explainable AI in Worker Acceptance and Management	31
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	31
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees	30
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	30
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	30
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	29
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	29
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	29
Issue Information	28
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	28
The Price of Prominence: How CEO Extraversion Influences Board Attributions and the Dismissal‐Performance Sensitivity	28
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	28
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	28
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	27

Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies	27
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Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	26
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	26
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Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	25
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Entrepreneurial Market Leadership Claims, Cultural Resonance, and Investor Evaluations in Nascent Markets: The Goldilocks Effect	24
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Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic	24
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	24
From Platform Design to Attention Governance: Rethinking Social Media Externalities	23
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	23
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Curse or Blessing: Investigating the Influence of Firms’ Artificial Intelligence Adoption on Employee Job Satisfaction	23
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	23
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges	23
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	22
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	22
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	22
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	21
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	21
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building	21
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	21
Not the Time to be Humble! When and Why Leader Humility Enhances and Deteriorates Evaluations on Leader Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Leader	21
Navigating Regulatory Transitions: The Evolving Role of Multi‐Stakeholder Initiatives as Intermediaries in the Context of Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation	21
How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)	20
Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy	20
Why Do I Do What I Do? How Searching for Meaning at Work Can Facilitate the Spread of Unethical Conduct through Organizations	20
Once a Conformist, Always a Conformist? Firms’ Discontinued Conformity to Global Sustainability Standards	20
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	20
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	20
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	19
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	18
Beyond Quality and Quantity: Enriching the Study of Organizational Attention	18
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	18
Shaping the System Through Turbulence: Strategic Leadership and the Micro‐Foundations of Ecosystem Orchestration in Times of Disruption	18
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	18
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	18
‘Let Me Explain’: A Comparative Field Study on How Experts Enact Authority Over Clients When Facing AI Decisions	18
Opportunity Search in the Era of GenAI: Navigating Uncertainty in an Expanding Universe of Imaginable but Unknowable Futures	18
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	18
Whom Should Entrepreneurs Approach? The Effect of Contact Status on Referring New Ventures for Acquisition	17
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	17
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	17
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	17
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	17
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	16
Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal	16
Set & Done? Trade‐offs between Stakeholder Expectation and Attainment Pressures in Corporate Carbon Target Management	16
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	16
A Selfless Integrator or a Selfish Quasi‐Professional? Relational Tactics for Organizational Professionals’ Durable Influence	16
Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences	16
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	16
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Disentangling the Leadership Theory Jungle: A Reconciliation of Bright and Dark Side Leadership Theories	16
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	16
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	16
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	16
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	15
Examining the Effect of a Firm’s AI Specialization on the Technology Firms it Acquires: A Real Options Perspective	15
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Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	15
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	15
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	15
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	15
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing	14
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Algorithmic Status Inequality Through a Dynamic Capabilities Lens: A Market‐Based Perspective	14
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	14
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	14
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	14
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	14
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	14
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	14
Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches	14
Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti	13
Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses	13

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Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems	13
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry	13
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts	13
Counter‐Stigmatization in the Digital Age: The Case of the Sex Tech Award Incident	12
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry	12
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	12
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile	12
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis	12
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour	12
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy	12
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	12
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns	12
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork	12
CEO Activism and Corporate Reputation: How Authenticity and CSR Mitigate Stakeholder Misalignment	12
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory	12
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization	12
Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India	12
Crafting Interdisciplinary Research: Four Cornerstone Practices for Management Scholars	11
Stigma Management within and between Levels	11
Hidden in Plain Sight: Conceptualizing Platform Auxiliaries and Their Conflicting Impacts on Platforms' Value Architecture	11
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan	11
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Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants	11
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	10
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations	10
Stakeholder Management and Resource Complementarities: Firm Performance amid Systemic Crises	10
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements	10
Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency	10
When Newspapers Fail to Deter Corporate Illegality: The Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions	10
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory	10
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	10
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The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations	10
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework	10
Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation	10
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction	10
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge	10
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts	10
Indigenizing Brokerage: How Western Brokers Bridge Environment and Nature Worldviews in Global Market Relations	10
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2025	10
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement	9
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	9
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk	9
Signalling servant leadership: How followers interpret leader behaviours	9
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work	9
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference	9
Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society	9
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process	9
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism	9
Beyond Resilience: The Privilege of Composure Under Geopolitical Tension	9
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence	9
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions	9
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics	9
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future	9
From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship	9
The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms	9
The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice‐Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work	9
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict	9
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review	8
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions	8
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict	8
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers	8
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No	8
How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective	8
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers	8
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions	8
Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism	8
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research	8
Microlevel Judgments of Organizational Legitimacy: How Validity Cues and Categorical Fit Shape Evaluators' Propriety Beliefs	8
Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda	8
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus	8
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies	8
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy	8
Advancing Abductive Theory Building: Balancing Creative Curiosity and Programmatic Rigour Through ‘Loosely Coupled Abduction’	8
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	8
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	8
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia	8
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process	8
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple	8
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What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies	8
Early Internationalization: A Meta‐Analysis of Antecedents, Dimensions, and Performance	7
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	7
A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice	7
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies	7
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms	7
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Institutional Logics and Relational Inequality in UK Surgery: Demographic Dominance and the Uneven Governance of Careers	7
Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio‐Economic Systems in a Multipolar World?	7
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy	7
Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem‐Driven Interdisciplinary Research	7
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect	7
Challenges of Semiotic Abduction in Management Research	7