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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions238
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole137
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling129
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan111
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing101
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work99
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success99
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction93
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity93
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations80
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction80
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up76
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments68
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives68
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)67
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale63
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis61
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion60
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap60
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West60
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies58
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?55
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations54
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges53
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover52
Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications52
Who Should Become a Business School Associate Dean? Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles50
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms50
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries48
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks47
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure47
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work45
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance44
Understanding I-Deals Through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks44
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events44
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China43
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts43
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide43
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term43
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough42
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions42
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent41
The Catch-22 of Countering a Moral Occupational Stigma in Employee-Customer Interactions40
From the Editors—Improving the Transparency of Empirical Research Published in AMJ40
Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead39
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions39
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization38
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox38
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation38
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks38
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives38
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion38
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms37
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources37
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 Theory35
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations35
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows34
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship34
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs33
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat33
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?32
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers31
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms31
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness30
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways30
Falling Off the Unicorn: The Maintenance of Unrealistic Startup Labor Narratives30
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis29
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital29
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research29
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations28
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties27
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance27
Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms27
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation27
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience27
When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt27
Increasing Dispositional Legitimacy: Progressive Legitimation Dynamics in a Trajectory of Settlements26
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation26
Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences26
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation26
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation25
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation25
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 Behaviors25
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence24
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy24
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients24
Applying Coleman’s Boat in Management Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging Macro and Micro Theory24
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity24
Constraints and Opportunities of Stigma: Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Sex Industry24
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues23
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries23
From the Editors—Publishing Impactful Research in AMJ: Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Impact Awards23
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions22
In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires22
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity22
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?22
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision21
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct21
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work21
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification21
The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI21
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance20
Vicarious Experimentation: Do Innovators Learn by Being Imitated?20
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges19
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks19
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work19
Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation19
Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs about a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and “Professional-Class” Identities in Working-Class Jobs19
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing18
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits18
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment18
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?18
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management18
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence18
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience18
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work18
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits18
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success17
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)17
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values17
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity17
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates17
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity17
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award17
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context16
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement16
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration16
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work16
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness16
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions16
Stakeholder Orientation and Divestiture Activity16
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization15
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment15
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives15
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers15
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form14
From the Editors—Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research14
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error14
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women14
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance14
From the Editors—Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ14
Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Interorganizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars14
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea14
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work14
Distinct but Not Apart? Stigma Reduction and Cross-Industry Evaluative Spillovers: The Case of Medical Marijuana Legalization13
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic13
When and Why Bias Suppression Is Difficult to Sustain: The Asymmetric Effect of Intermittent Accountability13
Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians13
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions13
Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences13
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
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability13
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach13
Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships13
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