Academy of Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Academy of Management Journal is 13. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions266
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling144
Catalyzing Categories: Category Contrast and the Creation of Groundbreaking Inventions132
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole119
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan106
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work101
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up100
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives95
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments94
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity90
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction71
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations71
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success70
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction64
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)62
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing62
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale62
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis60
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West57
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion55
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover54
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?52
Interlacing Situated and Algorithmic Modes of Knowledge Work: A Workplace Jurisdiction Perspective51
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations50
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges50
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies47
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap47
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure45
Who Should Become a Business School Associate Dean? Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles45
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms45
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance45
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events44
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work44
Understanding I-Deals Through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks44
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks44
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries42
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent42
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China42
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions41
Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead41
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts40
The Catch-22 of Countering a Moral Occupational Stigma in Employee-Customer Interactions40
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term40
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough40
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide39
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions38
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox38
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion38
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms38
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization38
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation36
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks36
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change35
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory34
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources33
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives33
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows32
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations32
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers31
Anticipatory Impression Management for Potential Adverse Events: Positive Framing in the Wake of Short Seller Attacks on a Competitor31
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat30
Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California30
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?29
Falling Off the Unicorn: The Maintenance of Unrealistic Startup Labor Narratives28
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship28
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs28
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways28
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms27
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties27
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis27
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness27
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience27
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation26
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance26
Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences26
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations26
When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt25
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation25
Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms25
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital25
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research25
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients25
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy24
Does Identification Hurt or Help Under Identity Threat? The Exacerbating Role of Identity Centrality on Feeling Offended and the Buffering Role of Coworker Solidarity on Identity-Protection Behaviors24
Applying Coleman’s Boat in Management Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging Macro and Micro Theory24
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence24
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation24
Increasing Dispositional Legitimacy: Progressive Legitimation Dynamics in a Trajectory of Settlements23
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation22
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation22
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues22
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity22
From the Editors—Publishing Impactful Research in AMJ: Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Impact Awards21
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries21
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?21
In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires21
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions21
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks20
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity20
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct20
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision20
The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI20
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance19
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges19
Vicarious Experimentation: Do Innovators Learn by Being Imitated?19
Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs about a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and “Professional-Class” Identities in Working-Class Jobs19
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits18
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing18
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification18
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence18
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work18
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?18
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience18
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment17
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity17
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work17
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)17
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award17
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits17
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity17
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management17
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work16
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness16
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context16
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success16
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions16
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates16
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values16
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement16
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization15
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form15
Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Interorganizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars15
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration15
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment14
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers14
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability14
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women14
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work14
From the Editors—Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ14
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives14
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error14
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance13
Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians13
Distinct but Not Apart? Stigma Reduction and Cross-Industry Evaluative Spillovers: The Case of Medical Marijuana Legalization13
How Global Leaders Gain Power through Downward Deference and Reduction of Social Distance13
From the Editors—Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research13
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions13
When and Why Bias Suppression Is Difficult to Sustain: The Asymmetric Effect of Intermittent Accountability13
Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships13
The Outcomes of Cross-Category Career Moves: How Cross-Industry Mobility and Industry Prestige Jointly Impact Executive Compensation13
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea13
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic13
When People Build Networks That Hurt Their Performance: Structural Holes, Cognitive Style, and the Unintended Consequences of Person–Network Fit13
The Push and Pull of Attaining CEO Celebrity: A Media Routines Perspective13
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach13
Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences13
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