Academy of Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Academy of Management Journal is 11. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gaining Legitimacy by Being Different: Optimal Distinctiveness in Crowdfunding Platforms139
Distinguishing Voice and Silence at Work: Unique Relationships with Perceived Impact, Psychological Safety, and Burnout112
CFO Gender and Financial Statement Irregularities100
Dare to Be Different? Conformity Versus Differentiation in Corporate Social Activities of Chinese Firms and Market Responses94
A Dual-Agency Model of Firm CSR in Response to Institutional Pressure: Evidence from Chinese Publicly Listed Firms88
Why Activist Hedge Funds Target Socially Responsible Firms: The Reaction Costs of Signaling Corporate Social Responsibility83
Signal Strength, Media Attention, and Resource Mobilization: Evidence from New Private Equity Firms68
Office Chitchat as a Social Ritual: The Uplifting Yet Distracting Effects of Daily Small Talk at Work67
Dissonant Ties in Intraorganizational Networks: Why Individuals Seek Problem-Solving Assistance from Difficult Colleagues66
Perception Is Reality: How CEOs’ Observed Personality Influences Market Perceptions of Firm Risk and Shareholder Returns65
When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt62
Playing It Safe for My Family: Exploring the Dual Effects of Family Motivation on Employee Productivity and Creativity58
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs58
“And Who Are You?”: A Performative Perspective on Authority in Organizations55
My Coworkers are Treated More Fairly than Me! A Self-Regulatory Perspective on Justice Social Comparisons54
Portfolio Spillover of Institutional Investor Activism: An Awareness–Motivation–Capability Perspective54
Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation49
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment48
Paradoxical Leadership and Innovation in Work Teams: The Multilevel Mediating Role of Ambidexterity and Leader Vision as a Boundary Condition48
Too Unsafe to Monitor? How Board–CEO Cognitive Conflict and Chair Leadership Shape Outside Director Monitoring47
Resource Dependence, Uncertainty, and the Allocation of Corporate Political Activity across Multiple Jurisdictions46
Microfoundations of Framing: The Interactional Production of Collective Action Frames in the Occupy Movement45
Unpacking Political Ideology: CEO Social and Economic Ideologies, Strategic Decision-Making Processes, and Corporate Entrepreneurship44
What Changes after Women Enter Top Management Teams? A Gender-Based Model of Strategic Renewal43
Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Board Turnover after Social Movement Boycotts43
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability42
How Temporal Focus Shapes the Influence of Executive Compensation on Risk Taking41
Token Female Voice Enactment in Traditionally Male-Dominated Teams: Facilitating Conditions and Consequences for Performance41
Identity Trajectories: Explaining Long-Term Patterns of Continuity and Change in Organizational Identities41
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity40
Customer Concentration, Executive Attention, and Firm Search Behavior39
Virtually (In)separable: The Centrality of Relational Cadence in the Formation of Virtual Multiplex Relationships37
Unpacking Firm External Dependence: How Government Contract Dependence Affects Firm Investments and Market Performance37
Ups and Downs: The Role of Legitimacy Judgment Cues in Practice Implementation35
Salient Expectations? Incongruence across Capability and Integrity Signals and Investor Reactions to Organizational Misconduct35
Constraints and Opportunities of Stigma: Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Sex Industry35
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory35
Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it35
Discovery as an Abductive Mechanism for Reorienting Habits within Organizational Change34
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment34
Best Not to Know: Pay Secrecy, Employee Voluntary Turnover, and the Conditioning Effect of Distributive Justice34
Last to Come and Last to Go? The Complex Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Reputational Penalties for Directors Linked to Corporate Fraud34
Applying Coleman’s Boat in Management Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging Macro and Micro Theory34
Interorganizational Relationships as Political Battlefields: How Fragmentation within Organizations Shapes Relational Dynamics between Organizations34
When is it Good to be Bad? Contrasting Effects of Multiple Reputations for Bad Behavior on Media Coverage of Serious Organizational Errors33
Do the Hustle! Empowerment from Side-Hustles and Its Effects on Full-Time Work Performance33
The Hidden Cost of Prayer: Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap33
Keep Your Eye on the Ball or on the Field? Exploring the Performance Implications of Executive Strategic Attention32
Performance Benefits of Reciprocal Vicarious Learning in Teams32
Rivals’ Negative Earnings Surprises, Language Signals, and Firms’ Competitive Actions32
Amplifying Voice in Organizations32
The Underdog Effect: When Low Expectations Increase Performance32
Catching the Big Fish: The Role of Scandals in Making Status a Liability31
Undertrusted, Overtrusted, or Just Right? The Fairness of (In)Congruence between Trust Wanted and Trust Received31
Once in Orange Always in Orange? Identity Paralysis and the Enduring Influence of Institutional Logics on Identity30
When Does Pay for Performance Motivate Employee Helping Behavior? The Contextual Influence of Performance Subjectivity29
Pumping the Brakes: Examining the Impact of CEO Political Ideology Divergence on Firm Responses29
When Work and Family Blend Together: Examining the Daily Experiences of Breastfeeding Mothers at Work29
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources29
Making Space for Art: A Spatial Perspective of Disruptive and Defensive Institutional Work in Venezuela’s Art World28
Water Wars in Detroit: Custodianship and the Work of Institutional Renewal28
What Drives Exploration? Convergence and Divergence of Exploration Tendencies among Alliance Partners and Competitors28
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work28
Motivation Purity Bias: Expression of Extrinsic Motivation Undermines Perceived Intrinsic Motivation and Engenders Bias in Selection Decisions28
Maintaining Strategic Ambiguity for Protection: Struggles over Opacity, Equivocality, and Absurdity around the Sicilian Mafia27
The Impact of Executive Verbal Communication on the Convergence of Investors’ Opinions27
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success27
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms26
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity26
Big Fish versus Big Pond? Entrepreneurs, Established Firms, and Antecedents of Tie Formation26
Making Change from Behind a Mask: How Organizations Challenge Guarded Institutions by Sparking Grassroots Activism26
Guilt and Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of the Privatization in China26
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis26
Identity Asymmetries: An Experimental Investigation of Social Identity and Information Exchange in Multiteam Systems26
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship25
Recognizing and Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities with Artificial Intelligence25
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits25
The Roles of Material Artifacts in Managing the Learning–Performance Paradox: The Kaizen Case24
Which Ideas for Change Are Endorsed? How Agentic and Communal Voice Affects Endorsement Differently for Men and for Women24
High Risk, Low Return (and Vice Versa): The Effect of Product Innovation on Firm Performance in a Transition Economy24
Stakeholder Preservation or Appropriation? The Influence of Target CSR on Market Reactions to Acquisition Announcements24
You Are Great and I Am Great (Too): Examining New CEOs’ Social Influence Behaviors during Leadership Transition23
How Technological Overlap between Spinouts and Parent Firms Affects Corporate Venture Capital Investments in Spinouts: The Role of Competitive Tension23
How Voice Emerges and Develops in Newly Formed Supervisor–Employee Dyads23
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?23
Regulating Top Managers’ Emotions during Strategy Making: Nokia’s Socially Distributed Approach Enabling Radical Change from Mobile Phones to Networks in 2007–201323
Living Up to the Hype: How New Ventures Manage the Resource and Liability of Future-Oriented Visions within the Nascent Market of Impact Investing22
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat22
Social Network and Temporal Myopia22
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China22
Political Risk and Alliance Diversity: A Two-Stage Model of Partner Selection in Multipartner Alliances22
The Push and Pull of Attaining CEO Celebrity: A Media Routines Perspective22
Organizations, Risk Translation, and the Ecology of Risks: The Discursive Construction of a Novel Risk21
In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires21
Across the Great Divides: Gender Dynamics Influence How Intercultural Conflict Helps or Hurts Creative Collaboration21
Who Will Board a Sinking Ship? a Firm–Director Interdependence Perspective of Mutual Selection between Declining Firms and Director Candidates20
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women20
Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications20
Enabling Rapid Financial Response to Disasters: Knotting and Reknotting Multiple Paradoxes in Interorganizational Systems20
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration20
How Do Investors Evaluate Past Entrepreneurial Failure? Unpacking Failure Due to Lack of Skill versus Bad Luck20
Reinventing the State-Owned Enterprise? Negotiating Change during Profound Environmental Upheaval20
Historical Origins of Firm Ownership Structure: The Persistent Effects of the African Slave Trade20
The Two Towers (or Somewhere in Between): The Behavioral Consequences of Positional Inconsistency across Status Hierarchies20
Marriage of Unequals? Investment Quality Heterogeneity, Market Heat, and the Formation of Status-Asymmetric Ties in the Venture Capital Industry19
OMG! My Boss Just Friended Me: How Evaluations of Colleagues’ Disclosure, Gender, and Rank Shape Personal/Professional Boundary Blurring Online19
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea19
Stakeholder Orientation and Divestiture Activity19
From the Editors—Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research19
Beyond the Pyramid: Alternative Formal Hierarchical Structures and Team Performance19
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives18
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions18
Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization: Employee Reactions to Coworker Positive Event Disclosures18
Antecedents and Consequences of Employee and Asset Restructuring18
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox18
Leading by Doing: Does Leading by Example Impact Productivity and Service Quality?17
No Change Is an Island: How Interferences between Change Initiatives Evoke Inconsistencies That Undermine Implementation17
The Impostor Phenomenon Revisited: Examining the Relationship between Workplace Impostor Thoughts and Interpersonal Effectiveness at Work17
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap17
Constructing and Sustaining Counter-Institutional Identities17
From the Editors—Improving the Transparency of Empirical Research Published in AMJ16
There Is a Time to Be Creative: The Alignment between Chronotype and Time of Day16
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification16
Too Much on the Plate? How Executive Job Demands Harm Firm Innovation and Reduce Share of Exploratory Innovations16
Seeing the Glass as Half Full or Half Empty: The Role of Affect-Induced Optimistic and Pessimistic States on Justice Perceptions and Outcomes16
Understanding When and Why Cover-Ups Are Punished Less Severely16
Lenient Reactions to Misconduct: Examining the Self-Conscious Process of Being Lenient to Others at Work16
How Global Leaders Gain Power through Downward Deference and Reduction of Social Distance16
Increasing Dispositional Legitimacy: Progressive Legitimation Dynamics in a Trajectory of Settlements15
Turned Down and Taking Off? Rejection and Turnover in Internal Talent Markets15
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity15
From the Editors: Publishing Practical and Responsible Research in AMJ15
Being Different, Being Absent? A Dynamic Perspective on Demographic Dissimilarity and Absenteeism in Blue-Collar Teams15
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work15
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement15
“Tapping” into Goodwill: Enhancing Corporate Reputation through Customer Volunteering14
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management14
Meaning, Mission, and Measurement: How Organizational Performance Measurement Shapes Perceptions of Work as Worthy14
Not in My Pay Grade: The Relational Benefit of Pay Grade Dissimilarity14
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction14
Institutional Translation Gone Wrong: The Case ofVillages for Africain Rural Tanzania13
Institutional Intermediaries and Firm Choices in Response to Regulations13
Employer–Employee Matching and Complementary Assets: The Role of Cross-Organization Collaborations13
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges13
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up13
Kin Ties and the Performance of New Firms: A Structural Approach13
Leader Perfectionism—Friend or Foe of Employee Creativity? Locus of Control as a Key Contingency13
Too Hot to Handle and Too Valuable to Drop: An Expanded Conceptualization of Firms’ Reactions to Exchange Partner Misconduct12
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness12
I Don’t Need a Degree, I’ve Got Abs: Influencer Warmth and Competence, Communication Mode, and Stakeholder Engagement on Social Media12
Here Comes the Sun: The Impact of Incidental Contextual Factors on Entrepreneurial Resource Acquisition12
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence12
Swift Sense of Community: Resourcing Artifacts for Rapid Community Emergence in a Temporary Organization12
Deploying Human Capital Resources: Accentuating Effects of Situational Alignment and Social Capital Resources12
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work12
Clustering and Connectedness: How Inventor Network Configurations within Incumbent Firms Influence Their Assimilation and Absorption of New Venture Technologies12
Zoning Out or Breaking Through? Linking Daydreaming to Creativity in the Workplace12
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing12
Upward Mobility, the Cleft Habitus, and Speaking Up: How Class Transitions Relate to Individual and Organizational Antecedents of Voice12
How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking11
Investing In Communities: Forging New Ground in Corporate Community Codevelopment through Relational and Psychological Pathways11
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations11
Appraising and Reacting to Perceived Pay For Performance: Leader Competence and Warmth as Critical Contingencies11
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization11
Distinct but Not Apart? Stigma Reduction and Cross-Industry Evaluative Spillovers: The Case of Medical Marijuana Legalization11
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions11
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?11
Addressing Performance Tensions in Multiteam Systems: Balancing Informal Mechanisms of Coordination within and between Teams11
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