Journal of Business Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Business Research is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises from emerging markets: Institutional investors as enablers4813
Catching a falling star: Mobility of declining star performers, peer effects, and organizational performance in the National Football League586
M&A committees and M&A performance572
Effects of alliance portfolio breadth and depth on exploratory and exploitative innovation: Evidence from Indian high-tech sectors481
Executive gender and firm leverage decisions: The role of firm ownership and governance480
Between episodes of strategy: Sociomateriality, sensemaking, and dysfunction in a scenario planning process480
Gamification in workforce training: Improving employees’ self-efficacy and information security and data protection behaviours423
An application of the COA Framework: Building a sound foundation for organizational resilience343
Mental health among B2B salespeople: A morphological analysis339
Investigating organisational learning to master project complexity: An embedded case study320
The role of opportunity feasibility beliefs and bribery on resource acquisition speed and new venture emergence289
Automated social presence in AI: Avoiding consumer psychological tensions to improve service value276
Editorial Board265
Transformative marketing in the new normal: A novel practice-scholarly integrative review of business-to-business marketing mix challenges, opportunities, and solutions262
Business-community relations under COVID-19: A study of micro and small firms258
Investigating the impact of interpersonal closeness and social status on electronic word-of-mouth effectiveness257
Channel stickiness in the shopping journey for electronics: Evidence from China and South Korea255
Digital or not – The future of entrepreneurship and innovation250
Consumer reviews and product life cycle: On the temporal dynamics of electronic word of mouth on movie box office249
Speaking fast and slow: How speech rate of digital assistants affects likelihood to use240
Influencer marketing and the growth of affiliates: The effects of language features on engagement behavior239
Deconstructing self-organisation in microentrepreneurship: A social embeddedness perspective238
Benevolent leadership, harmonious passion, and employee work behaviors: A multi-level moderated mediation model235
Organizational roles in the context of digital transformation: A micro-level perspective232
Sociocultural changes and portrayal of women in advertisements: A temporal investigation across product categories231
Simple = Authentic: The effect of visually simple package design on perceived brand authenticity and brand choice226
Exploring healthcare/health-product ecommerce satisfaction: A text mining and machine learning application222
The effect of the valence of forgiveness to service recovery strategies and service outcomes in food delivery apps217
Combining feature selection, instance selection, and ensemble classification techniques for improved financial distress prediction207
Search engine optimization: The long-term strategy of keyword choice203
Prosumer-to-customer exchange in the sharing economy: Evidence from the P2P accommodation context199
Bandwagon effect revisited: A systematic review to develop future research agenda196
Theorizing the dark side of business-to-business relationships in the era of AI, big data, and blockchain193
The ways we perceive: A comparative analysis of manufacturer brands and private labels using implicit and explicit measures191
From CRM to social CRM: A bibliometric review and research agenda for consumer research188
Demystifying the impact of customer participation on citizenship behaviors through interpersonal attraction and its contingencies187
Just my luck: Narcissistic admiration and rivalry differentially predict word of mouth about promotional games186
The effectiveness of AI salesperson vs. human salesperson across the buyer-seller relationship stages181
Reappraising the roles of review valence and conflict in online relationships179
Omni-channel marketing strategy in the digital platform era176
Cuteness inspires men’s risk seeking but women’s risk aversion173
Time to say goodbye: The impact of anthropomorphism on selling prices of used products173
Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach170
Impact of daily entrepreneurial stressors on long-term transformational leader behaviors and well-being: Differences in experienced and nascent entrepreneurs169
How myopic are managers? Development and validation of a multidimensional strategic myopia scale168
Precariat women’s experiences to undertake an entrepreneurial training program168
When is celebrity endorsement effective? Exploring the role of celebrity endorsers in enhancing key brand associations167
Bystanders’ reactions to leader knowledge hiding: The roles of moral disengagement and moral identity165
Luxury consumption and the dark triad of personality165
It grows on you: Perceptions of sales/service personnel with facial hair165
Leader narcissism, perceived leader narcissism, and employee outcomes: The moderating effect of goal congruence163
Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach160
Prosocial imprint: CEO childhood famine experience and corporate philanthropic donation158
Control mechanisms, management orientations, and the creativity of service employees: Symmetric and asymmetric modeling155
Woke brand activism authenticity or the lack of it154
Brand activism and the consequence of woke washing150
No laughing matter, or a secret weapon? Exploring the effect of humor in service failure situations150
Institutional logics and organizational filters: Differential responses to innovation and environmentalism in China’s cleantech sector149
Supportive leadership and job performance: Contributions of supportive climate, team-member exchange (TMX), and group-mean TMX148
The nature of vicarious embarrassment146
Choices in CDO appointment and firm performance: Moving towards a Stakeholder-based approach146
Overcoming the liability of outsidership: An fsQCA analysis of African transnational entrepreneurs in the UK145
Corruption as a perverse Innovation: The dark side of digitalization and corruption in international business142
How to create more customer value in independent shops: A set-theoretic approach to value creation141
Sharing Your Assets: A Holistic Review of Sharing Economy140
The “Pricing Footprint” of Country-of-Origin: Conceptualization and Empirical Assessment139
Advancing the understanding of the resident pro-tourism behavior scale: An integration of item response theory and classical test theory139
Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior137
Carbon emission reduction driven by ambidextrous green innovation strategies: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach137
Usage intention model of digital assessment systems137
The impact of human AI skills on organizational innovation: The moderating role of digital organizational culture134
The impact of Covid-19 on how core and peripheral service satisfaction impacts customer satisfaction133
The appeal of blurred imagery: Enhancing advertising and brand attitudes for luxury goods132
Regulating board gender diversity in Europe: The influence of cultural, governmental, and women’s institutions131
Help or hindrance? The effects of leader workaholism on employee creativity131
Business-to-business salespeople and political skill: Relationship building, deviance, and performance129
Turning lurkers into innovation agents: An interactionist perspective of self-determinant theory129
Uncovering local communities’ motivational factors to partner with a nonprofit for social impact: A mixed-methods approach129
ESG performance and firms’ business and geographical diversification: An empirical approach129
Augmented reality generalizations: A meta-analytical review on consumer-related outcomes and the mediating role of hedonic and utilitarian values129
The roles of NSD performance and standardized service development processes in the performance of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises128
Multimarket competition effects on product line decisions – A multi-objective decision model in fast moving consumer goods industry126
Supplier resilience under the COVID-19 crisis in apparel global value chain (GVC): The role of GVC governance and supplier’s upgrading126
Business model change and internationalization in the sharing economy125
Returnee directors and cost of debt125
Sonic branding of meat- and plant-based foods: The role of timbre123
Partnerships in digital financial services: An exploratory study of providers in an emerging market122
Happily (N)ever after: An empirical examination of the termination of IJVs across emerging versus developed markets122
Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments120
Is cyber anxiety signaling useful? An examination of leader’s emotional and behavioral reactions120
Mission statements and financial and sustainability performance: An exploratory study of Benefit Corporations certified as B Corps119
Innovation capability in geographically dispersed R&D teams: The role of social capital and IT support119
Capital market deepening, Governor’s characteristics and Russian regional enterprises: A big data analysis119
Targeted reminder advertising: Retailers’ new weapon against cart abandonment118
Consumer self-regulation: Looking back to look forward. A systematic literature review117
Self-image goals, compassionate goals and innovative work behavior: The role of organizational support for innovation across countries116
Feeling warm or skeptical? An investigation into the effects of incentivized eWOM programs on customers’ eWOM sharing intentions116
How historical and social aspirations reshape the relationship between corporate financial performance and corporate social responsibility115
When Big Is Less than Small: Why dominant brands lack authenticity in their sustainability initiatives114
Decomposing main effects in moderated regression models113
Avoiding the brand for me, us, or them? Consumer reactions to negative brand events113
Taking matters into one’s own hands? Addressing the relational nature of FLE autonomy112
Legitimacy association of an aged brand: Shelter for a brand suffering from consumers’ perceptions of incompetence111
The effect of local institutions on the competitive strategies of exporters. The case of emerging economies in Latin America110
Editorial Board110
Supplier involvement and supplier performance in new product development: Moderating effects of supplier salesperson behaviors109
Thank you for not smoking – A multi-method investigation to understand the effect of anti-smoking warnings in television programs109
Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: Concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making108
SIEs’ interaction and adaptation to their task performance108
Cross-border M&As: Theorizing the negative effect of political ideology mismatch with host country labor institutional context on employee outcomes108
Cash creates value for supply chain systems, but who appropriates that value?108
The social influence of employee groups: Understanding the impact of employee groups on customer intentions through intimidation107
The Dunning-Kruger effect and entrepreneurial self-efficacy: How tenure and search distance jointly direct entrepreneurial self-efficacy107
Editorial Board106
Home country and firm-specific advantage influences on HRM replication versus adaptation in EMNEs operating in advanced economies: A qualitative comparative analysis106
Harnessing subcultural identity to optimize workplace rewards: Evidence from Russia106
On the (in)effectiveness of standardized versus adapted international promotion strategies: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms106
Why or How? the impact of Construal-Level Theory on vaccine message receptivity104
Employee tenure and staff performance: The case of a social enterprise104
B2B strategies for surviving global crises: A resource dependence perspective on the COVID−19 pandemic104
Can a price discount Backfire? effects of the juxtaposition of Add-On fees and price discounts on consumer evaluations102
The Drucker intangibles measurement system: An academic perspective101
Developing resilience: Multinational enterprise business model transformation to mitigate major disruptions100
Follow your heart or your mind: The effect of consumption frequency on consumers’ reliance on feelings99
How women CEOs’ financial knowledge and firm homophily affect venture performance97
Past, present, and future of international joint ventures97
Let’s drink to that! How wider glass rim leads to more pleasurable purchases97
An internalization perspective on subsidiaries’ reputation and its impact on subsidiaries’ marketing advantage: The moderating roles of resources and autonomy97
Reference price effect of partially similar online products in the consideration stage95
‘One bad apple won’t spoil the bunch’ – Representations of the “sharing economy”95
Post diversity: A new lens of social media WOM95
Is the door really open? A contingent model of boundary spanning behavior and abusive supervisory behavior95
The consumer on stage: Toward a typology of improvisation in consumption contexts95
Brand resurrections: How past and present narrations impact consumer reactions towards resurrected utilitarian brands93
In governments we trust: A two-country Brexit field experiment on perceived uncertainty as mediator for consumer decisions93
Dark clouds on the horizon: Dark personality traits and the frontiers of the entrepreneurial economy93
Joint forward contract negotiation: The role of B2B procurement platforms92
‘Delayed Forbearance’: Multipoint contact and mutual forbearance in inaugural and subsequent competitive actions92
When do multinational corporations adjust production volume flexibly among in-network subsidiaries?91
Subsidiary divestment of EMNEs – Does home country matter?91
Editorial Board91
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The interactive effect of power and self-construal on consumers’ preferences for brand-logo size90
Preserving the legacy – Why do professional soccer clubs (not) adopt innovative process technologies? A grounded theory study90
Founder versus agent CEOs: Effects of founder status and power on firm innovation and cost of capital90
Editorial Board89
The importance of being earnest: Mandatory vs. voluntary disclosure of incentives for online product reviews89
Governance of new product design: The influence of national institutions88
Are business schools from the Global South walking their talk? Internalizing responsible management education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America88
Editorial Board88
Does beauty encourage sharing? Exploring the role of physical attractiveness and racial similarity in collaborative fashion consumption88
The paradox in happiness sales: How can happiness primes backfire?87
Editorial Board86
Harnessing creative tensions: A micro-level study of value creation86
Lifestyle of the rich and famous: Exploring the ultra-high net-worth individuals’ customer experience (UHCX)86
Lobbying and political expenses: Complements or substitutes?86
Exploring young consumers’ intention to pay for shared express packaging: A multi-study analysis85
When review verification does more harm than good: How certified reviews determine customer–brand relationship quality85
A capability pathway to subjective economic well-being: Looking beyond materialism84
Predicting primary and secondary stakeholder engagement: A CEO motivation-means contingency model84
Switching decision, timing, and app performance: An empirical analysis of mobile app developers’ switching behavior between monetization strategies84
The power of social influence and customer–firm interactions in predicting non-transactional behaviors, immediate customer profitability, and long-term customer value84
Industry momentum in Latin America83
Editorial Board83
No entrepreneur steps in the same river twice: Limited learning advantage for serial entrepreneurs83
Unveiling the determining factors of family business longevity: Evidence from Kosovo83
Does it pay to withdraw marketing metrics disclosure? An empirical study of retailers’ cessation of monthly comparable-store sales83
Defining family business efficacy: An exploratory study82
Systematic literature review of professional social media platforms: Development of a behavior adoption career development framework81
Does MBA’s paradigm transformation follow business education’s philosophy? A comparison of academic and job-performance and SES among five types of MBAian81
An integrated social network marketing metric for business-to-business SMEs80
Referral campaigns for software startups: The impact of network characteristics on product adoption80
Does CEO temporal myopia always lead to firm short-termism? The critical role of CEO optimism and perceived opportunity costs80
Can salespersons help firms overcome brand image crisis? Role of facial appearance80
Innovative leadership in organizations: Dimensions, measurement, and validation80
How to build a brand-oriented family firm: The impact of socioemotional wealth (SEW) dimensions80
How to stay on the road? A business model perspective on mission drift in social purpose organizations79
The dark side of open innovation: Individual affective responses as hidden tolls of the paradox of openness79
Intellectual agility and innovation in micro and small businesses: The mediating role of entrepreneurial leadership79
A recommending system for mobile games using the dynamic nonparametric model79
Developed market partner’s relative control and the termination likelihood of an international joint venture in an emerging market79
Somebody is hiding something: Disentangling interpersonal level drivers and consequences of knowledge hiding in international entrepreneurial firms79
When supplier development initiatives fail: Identifying the causes of opportunism and unexpected outcomes77
The impact of political ties on firm innovativeness: Testing a mediation and moderation model77
Competition or spillover? Effects of platform-owner entry on provider commitment77
Eliciting brand-related social media engagement: A conditional inference tree framework77
The child is parent of the adult: A longitudinal examination of the effect of adolescent destructive deviance on lifetime career success77
Blame work and the scapegoating mechanism in market status-quo77
The impact of advisor status on corporate divestitures and market reactions77
1 + 1 > 2? Is co-branding an effective way to improve brand masstige?77
Does familial decision control affect the entrepreneurial orientation of family firms? The moderating role of family relationships76
Do female CMOs enhance firm performance? Power matters76
Mind the fake reviews! Protecting consumers from deception through persuasion knowledge acquisition76
Reducing the negative impact of ultra-processed foods: Consumer response to natural claims, organic claims, and processing level disclosures76
Consumers’ navigation of risk perceptions in the adoption of stigmatized products76
How employees shape CSR transparency: A sensemaking perspective75
An investigative study of links between terrorist attacks and cryptocurrency markets75
Contextual differences in the moderating effects of price consciousness and social desirability in pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing74
Adaptive distributed leadership and circular economy adoption by emerging SMEs74
Understanding how virtuous lenders encourage support for peer-to-peer platforms’ prosocial initiatives74
Pride in family businesses: Authenticity, hubris, and cultural insights74
Strategies for increasing agricultural viability, resilience and sustainability amid disruptive events: An expert-based analysis of relevance74
Leveraging international R&D teams of portfolio entrepreneurs and management controllers to innovate: Implications of algorithmic decision-making73
It’s more than complicated! Using organizational memetics to capture the complexity of organizational culture73
Digitalization as solution to environmental problems? When users rely on augmented reality-recommendation agents73
How to gain from international R&D alliances? A mutual dependence logic73
Consumers’ interplays between solidity and liquidity in life: Insights from tattoo consumption72
Emergence in emergency: How actors adapt to service ecosystem disruption72
Emergence of social impact in company–NGO relationships in corporate volunteering72
Unraveling business model innovation in firm internationalization: A systematic literature review and future research agenda72
Does the CEO effect differ in times of crisis? Evidence from US and China during the global financial crisis72
Clarifying knowledge withholding: A systematic literature review and future research agenda72
Understanding cross border innovation activities: The linkages between innovation modes, product architecture and firm boundaries71
The territory effect: How awe reduces territoriality and enhances sharing intention71
What makes an object smart? Conceptualization, development, and validation of a scale to measure the Smartness of a Thing (SoT)71
Editorial Board71
The evolution of consumer restaurant selection: Changes in restaurant and food delivery application attributes over time70
Contrasting knowledge development for internationalization among emerging and advanced economy firms: A review and future research70
Base of the pyramid producers’ constraints: An integrated review and research agenda69
Consumer over-indebtedness: A review and future research agenda69
Editorial and research agenda: JBR special issue on business model innovation in social purpose organizations69
Business model innovation as a window into adaptive tensions: Five paths on the B Corp journey69
Wisdom of crowds: SWOT analysis based on hybrid text mining methods using online reviews68
Learned helplessness attributional scale (LHAS): Development and validation of an attributional style measure68
Influence of social augmented reality app usage on customer relationships and continuance intention: The role of shared social experience68
Understanding patterns of COVID infodemic: A systematic and pragmatic approach to curb fake news68
Entrepreneurial competencies and alliance success: The role of external knowledge absorption and mutual trust67
Technology distraction at work. Impacts on self-regulation and work engagement67
Analysis of security and privacy issues of information management of big data in B2B based healthcare systems67
Barriers to blockchain adoption: Empirical observations from securities services value network67
Foreign market entry modes of family firms: A review and research agenda67
A dynamic, relational approach to B2B customer experience: A customer-centric perspective from a longitudinal investigation67
Removing silos to enable data-driven decisions: The importance of marketing and IT knowledge, cooperation, and information quality66
Firm value impact of corporate activism: Facebook and the stop hate for profit campaign66
Protection of trade secrets and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine66
Standardized vs. customized firm-initiated interactions: Their effect on customer gratitude and performance in a B2B context66
Do employee orientation and societal orientation matter in the customer orientation—Performance link?66
Interfirm collaboration for knowledge resources interaction among small innovative firms65
Examining the effect of a firm’s product recall on financial values of its competitors65
A meta-analytic review of mobile advertising research65
A meta-model of customer brand loyalty and its antecedents65
Family firms’ characteristics and consumer behaviour: An enquiry into millennials’ purchase intention in the online channel64
The influence of launching mobile channels on online customer reviews64
Act as you preach! Authentic brand purpose versus “woke washing’s” impact on brand credibility: The moderating role of cause involvement and consumer skepticism64
Acquiescence or Redemption: CEO’s early-life experience of environmental pollution and corporate green innovation64
Complexity, interconnectedness and stability: New perspectives applied to the European banking system63
How can brands encourage consumers to donate data to a data-driven social partnership? An examination of hedonic vs. functional categories63
What becomes sacred to the consumer: Implications for marketers63
Competing value framework-based culture transformation63
International relations in international business research: A review and research agenda62
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