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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Management Studies is 10. 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.)

Article	Citations
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Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	118
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change	116
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	114
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum	112
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The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	84
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	82
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective	74
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	67
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis	58
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	49
Family Business Restructuring: A Review and Research Agenda	49
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions	48
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas	47
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	46
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‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race	46
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Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	45
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	41
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research	40
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	39
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	38

Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms	36
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	36
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	35
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	34
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	33
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	32
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer	31
Introduction to the Point‐Counterpoint: The Corporate Objective as a Contingency	31
Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation	31
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 Withdrawal	31
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	31
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	30
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics	30
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India	29
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	28
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms	28
Issue Information	28
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	28
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings	27
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	27
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	27
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	27
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	26
Workers' Rites: Ritual Mediations and the Tensions of New Management	25
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Issue Information	25
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	25
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	25
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options	24
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	24
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	24
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	24
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	24
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	24
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	24
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	22
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	22
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	22
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	22
Transactional Dependence and Technological Upgrading in Global Value Chains	22
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	22
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	21
Issue Information	21
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	20
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	20
Issue Information	20
How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives	19
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	19

The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms	19
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	19
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	18
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	18
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	18
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	18
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	18
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Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	17
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Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational ActiveTrust‐Building	17
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations	17
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	17
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	17
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	17
Issue Information	17
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	17
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	16
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Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	16
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	16
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	15
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	15
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home	15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	15
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability	15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	15
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance	15
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	15
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	14
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 Proactivity	14
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	14
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	13
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List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	13
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	13
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	13
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Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	13
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	13
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking	13
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	13
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Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	12
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2021	12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	12
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	12
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	12
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	12
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	11
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	11
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View	11
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work	11
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	11
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	11
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future	11
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing	11
Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms	11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation	11
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	10
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis	10
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship	10
Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos	10
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns	10
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts	10
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective	10