European Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of European Management Journal 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board294
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021180
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization151
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective146
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization140
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization113
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics106
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management90
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes85
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study78
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research67
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter66
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model66
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”64
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes63
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 202263
Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors62
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts56
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?55
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers49
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions46
Intercultural differences in issue interpretation: Effects of emotions and framing45
The impact of distance on acquisition performance44
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective44
Can subordinates benefit from Manager’s gossip?44
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis44
Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review42
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions40
The behavioral aspects of innovation in the age of pandemic39
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees38
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?38
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting37
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe36
Addressing the Gender Data Gap to Advance Theory, Interventions, and Equity for Women35
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?35
Impression management techniques in crowdfunding: An analysis of Kickstarter videos using artificial intelligence34
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving34
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing34
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach32
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments31
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions31
Reproducibility and replicability crisis: How management compares to psychology and economics – A systematic review of literature31
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?30
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy30
“Seeing to be seen”: The manager’s political economy of visibility in new ways of working30
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms29
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research29
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism29
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data29
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects29
It’s all about culture! Institutional context and ownership concentration across Europe28
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities28
Migration of skilled professionals across the border: Brain drain or brain gain?27
A resource-based view on SMEs regarding the transition to more sophisticated stages of industry 4.027
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions26
Reflexive sensegiving: An open-ended process of influencing the sensemaking of others during organizational change26
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda26
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers26
Editorial Board26
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions26
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance26
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention25
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions25
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms24
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work24
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior23
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches23
Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study22
Are skilled contingent workers neglected? Evidence from a cross-sector multiple case study on organizational career management practices22
Beyond the Numbers: Reflections From Three Global South Countries Using the Global Gender Gap Index22
Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective22
Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues21
The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations21
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap20
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern20
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies20
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers19
Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges18
The intertwined effect of HRM practices and transformational leadership on employees’ attitudes in an M&A context: Evidence from a collaborative and mixed-methods study18
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management18
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization18
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion18
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)17
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders17
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field16
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review16
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions16
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective16
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?16
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective16
Big data in family firms: A socioemotional wealth perspective16
PRODUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN VIRTUAL TEAMS: HOW TEAM RELATIONAL CLIMATES SHAPE VIRTUAL TEAM PERFORMANCE OVER TIME16
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength16
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management15
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract15
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience15
Forty years of European Management Journal: A bibliometric overview15
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis15
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness15
Editorial Board15
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens15
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms14
The services field: A cornucopia filled with potential management topics14
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management14
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses14
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach14
Periphery–core relations and the knowledge domain of international management: New contingencies, characterizations and theories14
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions14
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times14
Editorial Board14
Re-examining systematic literature review in management research: Additional benefits and execution protocols13
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers13
Societal effects of social media in organizations: Reflective points deriving from a systematic literature review and a bibliometric meta-analysis13
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing13
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?13
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes13
Expansion-oriented job crafting and employee performance: A self-empowerment perspective12
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda12
Government policy innovation in spurring nascent entrepreneurship during pandemic12
Reviewer Acknowledgement 202312
Strategic communication in organizational change: Exploring the impact of two-sided messages on legitimacy judgments and commitment to change11
Satisfaction with HR practices and employee performance: A moderated mediation model of engagement and health11
Firm capabilities and export performance of small firms: A meta-analytical review11
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance11
The role of focal leaders in collective leadership behavior: A historiometric analysis of socialized and personalized leaders11
When affective commitment leads to viability: The role of trust as a mediator and virtuality as a moderator11
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets11
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees11
The ebb and flow of identity: How sustainable entrepreneurs deal with their hybridity11
Job crafting and well-being among school principals: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration11
A new framework of firm-level innovation capability: A propensity–ability perspective10
When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm10
Peripheral-based subsidiaries and financial and non-financial performance: Evidence from an emerging market10
Exploring the impact of sustainable value proposition on firm performance10
Stakeholder-oriented brand management: A Venn-diagram approach to monitor brand associations10
The role of organisational drivers of exploration and exploitation – Market dynamism as a contingency factor10
Integrating national culture into the organizational performance feedback theory10
On refugee integration as organizing processes—Action nets, agency, and power10
Editorial Board9
Leader–member exchange and organizational dehumanization: The role of supervisor’s organizational embodiment9
Temporal perceptions and tensions in production management9
Open innovation and organizational features: An experimental investigation9
40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research9
On the consequences of scarcity mindset: How ‘having too little’ means so much for ethnic venture failure9
Editorial Board9
We are family! The role of family members’ identification in the internationalization of family firms9
Exploring the moderating effect of family communication patterns on the family CEO characteristics – family firm internationalization relationship8
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative8
Contactless marketing management of fashion brands in the digital age8
The influence of age-based faultlines on team performance: Examining mediational paths8
Divestitures and the proportion of women on firms’ boards: The effect of shareholders and visibility8
Job crafting among school principals before and during COVID-19: Investigating the associations with work-related well-being and personal resources using variable- and person-oriented approaches8
Organizational sensemaking: A systematic review and a co-evolutionary model8
Why do some followers remain silent in response to abusive supervision? A system justification perspective8
Reflections on the roles of governance and leadership in profit-for-purpose companies: A European–United States comparative perspective8
Which collaborations allow firms to become gatekeepers? A longitudinal analysis of a large-scale collaboration network8
Career patterns of top managers in Europe: Signs of further globalisation?8
Managing inconsistencies in medical decision-making: An eight-fold typology7
Innovation capabilities decoded: Risks and rewards in small and medium enterprise performance7
Climate change, consumer lifestyles and legitimation strategies of sustainability-oriented firms7
Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide7
Studying social representations of cross-boundary collaboration between managers through drawings7
Digital orientation: Conceptualization and operationalization of a new strategic orientation7
Digitalization in the financial industry: A contingency approach of entrepreneurial orientation and strategic vision on digitalization7
Editorial Board7
Job well robotized! – Maintaining task diversity and well-being in managing technological changes7
Integration, employee resistance, and acquisition performance7
We are not who they think we are! Examining responses of qualified Tunisian immigrants in France to country-of-origin based image discrepancies7
Women who LinkedIn: The gender networking gap among executives6
From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic6
Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions6
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20226
Resilience on an emotional rollercoaster: Refugee entrepreneurship under adversity6
Pride cometh before a fall: The incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry6
A learning-based explanation of the time properties of the international scaling of digital entrepreneurial ventures6
Corporate risk management and pension investment policy6
Identifying success factors for female entrepreneurs using the AMO framework: Empirical evidence from Japan6
In service of the CEO's ego: The relationship between CEO narcissism and top management team composition6
Transformational versus transactional leadership styles and project success: A meta-analytic review5
Organizational injustice and employee affective health: The moderating effects of labor market conditions5
Nonprototypical managers: The identity work of young managers in relation to age-based stereotypes5
Editorial Board5
“We open doors others do not!”: Position and power of foreign institutional networks5
“A show of good taste” – How creative individuals can employ signal observability strategies to influence their reputation among experts: Evidence from French gastronomy5
Cooperation between large companies and start-ups: An overview of the current state of research5
Managing big data in the retail industry of Singapore: Examining the impact on customer satisfaction and organizational performance5
Cross-level effect of resonant leadership on remote engagement: A moderated mediation analysis in the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis5
Serving two masters: Commitment profiles of employees in the German military reserve5
An interaction orientation approach to SME-Intermediaries relationships5
Does empowering leadership affect SMEs' sustainability performance through knowledge transfer?5
Managing the invisible: The challenges of religious expression in the workplace5
Mining the hidden seam of proximity m-payment adoption: A hybrid PLS-artificial neural network analytical approach5
(Ir)responsible uses of technologies and the future of work: Managerial and organizational dilemmas5
Impairment or amortization of goodwill? An analysis of CFO perceptions of goodwill accounting5
FinTech in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): A review and future research agenda4
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 20234
Driven to work as a double-edged sword: The role of polychronicity and sleep quality in employee psychological outcomes4
Understanding top managers’ careers: How does career variety impact tenure on the board?4
Turning change resistance into readiness: How change agents’ communication shapes recipient reactions4
Unravelling top managers: Who are they and do they really matter?4
Developing classic systematic literature reviews to advance knowledge: Dos and don'ts4
CEO self-discipline in power use: A key moderator for the effect of CEO power4
Attracting talent through diversity at the top: The impact of TMT diversity and firms' efforts to promote diversity on employer attractiveness4
The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective4
Following the chain of command? How managers balance benefits and risks in granting autonomy to employees4
How managers’ risk perceptions affect their willingness to blame advisors as scapegoats4
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20244
Responding to discontinuities in product-based service supply chains in the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards transilience4
Disability inclusion in workplaces, firm performance, and reputation4
Coopetition, value co-creation, and knowledge-enhancement in the UK alpaca industry: A multi-level mechanism4
Refugee entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda4
A person-centered perspective in assessing career adaptability: Potential profiles, outcomes, and antecedents4
‘The great resignation’: The ambivalences of the liquid employee facing a consumerist work relationship4
Materiality in institutional work: Shaping the emerging logic of policy co-creation4
Time banditry behavior in China: Dimension exploration and scale development4
The effect of board size on shareholder value: Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions4
When bankers feel guilty–Employees’ vicarious guilt and the support of moral business practices4
New directions to create dynamic capabilities: The role of pioneering orientation and interorganizational relationships4
Scylla and Charybdis: The relationships between supervisor active and passive cyber incivility with job stress, work engagement, and turnover intentions4
When the stars align: The effect of institutional pressures on sustainable human resource management through organizational engagement4
Toward a comprehensive perspective on hubristic leadership – An aggregation of cross-disciplinary evidence and roadmap for future research3
Professional imprinting mechanisms in the doctoral trajectory: Impact on researcher identity diversity3
The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis3
Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors3
Advice tie reallocation under organizational downsizing: A longitudinal network study3
Critical mass and voice: Board gender diversity and financial reporting quality3
Adam Smith: His continuing relevance for contemporary management thought3
The influence of learning orientation on corporate sustainability: Serial mediation of supply chain practices3
In the “Crossfire” of the acquisition process: Exploring middle managers’ unfolding mediation dynamics3
Organizational disidentification and change-oriented citizenship behavior3
Multilevel qualitative research: Insights from practice3
One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon3
Conquering ‘the tyranny of distance’: Australian–European economic and geopolitical relationships past, present and future3
Shared leadership in MNC agile software teams: The role of team leadership style and attitude to sport3
Behavioral strategy in evolution: A review and conceptual framework3
Well begun is half done: Toward an understanding of predictors for initial training transfer3
Socioemotional wealth in family business research: A systematic literature review on its definition, roles and dimensions3
“We were working together, apart”: Shifting fundamentals of pandemic disrupted coworking environments3
International intermediaries: A systematic literature review and research agenda3
Employability skills: Profiling data scientists in the digital labour market3
Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms: A configurational approach3
Shaping the digital transformation of the retail banking industry. Empirical evidence from Italy3
Examining stakeholder reactions to corporate social irresponsibility: Evidence from social media3
Board composition, audit committee characteristics, and R&D expenditure3
Assessment of primary care services operational resilience by patients: Implications for COVID-19 recovery3
An organizational learning approach to digital and non-digital firm acquisition behavior3
“Where to” micromultinationals? A tribute to Professor Pavlos Dimitratos3
Female directors and the firm's cost of debt: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment3
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