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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	95
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Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	82
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	59
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	59
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum	59
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	58
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change	56
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change	55
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions	54
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	52
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis	51
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‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race	43
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	42
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research	42
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	39
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	39
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal	39
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	38
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	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	37

Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	37
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	35
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	34
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	34
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	34
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer	34
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	33
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	33
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status	33
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	33
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward	33
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	32
Issue Information	32
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	32
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	31
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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	30
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings	30
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms	30
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	30
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options	29
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	28
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	28
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	28
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	27
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	27
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	26
Issue Information	25
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	24
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An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	24
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact	24
Issue Information	24
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees	24
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	23
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	23
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	23
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	23
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices	23
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	23
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	22
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	22
Issue Information	21
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	20
How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives	20
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms	20
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	20

Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	19
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies	19
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	19
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Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges	18
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building	18
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	18
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What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations	18
Issue Information	18
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	17
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	17
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	17
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	17
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	17
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	16
Issue Information	16
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	16
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	16
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The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	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
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	15
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home	15
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	15
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	15
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	15
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	14
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’	14
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	14
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	13
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	13
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity	13
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	13
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Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	13
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	13
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	12
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Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	12
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking	12
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List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2021	12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	12
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	12
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	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	11
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	11
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation	11
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	11
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	11
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	11
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	11
Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches	11
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	10
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour	10
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy	10
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	10
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work	10
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Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View	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