Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors132
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Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union126
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies89
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change86
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions77
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum57
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout56
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis56
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration53
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?53
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‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race51
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A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research49
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers49
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools47
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers47
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms44
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐1941
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal38
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities38
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity38
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?37
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer36
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review36
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination36
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement36
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility35
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms33
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms33
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings32
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India32
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance32
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics32
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts32
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms31
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Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo31
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward30
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics30
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status30
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective30
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Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda29
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles28
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options28
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence28
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea28
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production27
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On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding26
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future26
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Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment26
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees25
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Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market24
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures24
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact24
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems23
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs23
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures23
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation23
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices22
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors22
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors22
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict22
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies21
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective21
How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives21
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms20
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors20
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts20
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals20
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Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action19
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination19
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Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise19
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance18
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building18
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance17
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors17
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research17
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges17
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The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity17
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The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective17
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Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing17
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation17
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance16
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel16
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home16
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context16
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’16
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research15
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios15
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity15
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work15
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis15
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs15
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List of Reviewers for this Special Issue14
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?13
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization13
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A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions13
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking13
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness13
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How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation12
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective12
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”12
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis12
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions12
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202112
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue12
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing12
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation11
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact11
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View11
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations11
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes11
Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches11
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations11
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors10
Incomplete Institutional Change and the Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Contestation of Institutional Misalignment in South Africa*10
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation10
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour10
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Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future10
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns10
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan9
Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge9
A Multi‐Level Model of I‐deals in Workgroups: Employee and Coworker Perceptions of Leader Fairness, I‐Deals and Group Performance9
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy9
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts9
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry9
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations9
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization9
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork9
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis9
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors9
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study9
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory9
CEO–TMT Congruence in Growth‐Need Strength and Firm Growth9
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry9
Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos9
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction9
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors8
Stigma Management within and between Levels8
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile8
Both Diversity and Meritocracy: Managing the Diversity‐Meritocracy Paradox with Organizational Ambidexterity8
Relational Co‐ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems8
Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants8
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory8
Double Trouble: Containing Public Disapproval Arising from an Interplay of Stigmatized Categories8
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts8
Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India8
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue8
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements8
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative8
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework7
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence7
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Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation7
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work7
Indigenizing Brokerage: How Western Brokers Bridge Environment and Nature Worldviews in Global Market Relations7
Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency7
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations7
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk7
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From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship7
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism7
The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms6
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Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers6
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement6
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict6
Rethinking How We Theorize AI in Organization and Management: A Problematizing Review of Rationality and Anthropomorphism6
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference6
Contextualizing Management Research: An Open Systems Perspective6
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures6
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future6
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions6
Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age6
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions6
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Empirical Literature on Cognition‐Based and Affect‐Based Trust6
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics6
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process6
Organizational Demographic Faultlines: Their Impact on Collective Organizational Identification, Firm Performance, and Firm Innovation6
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies6
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions5
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms5
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue5
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors5
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia5
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers5
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors5
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus5
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers5
Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity5
Actors and Resources in the Deinstitutionalization and Reproduction of Educational Inequalities: A Comparative Historical Analysis5
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy5
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies5
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process5
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching5
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No5
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict5
Governing Inter‐Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises' Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners' Practices5
Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community5
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors5
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy5
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research5
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple5
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review5
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment4
Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self‐Sustaining Ecosystem4
Once a Founder, Always a Founder? The Role of External Former Founders in Corporate Boards4
There is No End to Learning, but How Does it Begin? A Meta‐Analysis of the Team Learning Pathway4
Status Transfer across Borders: The Mediating Role of Common Partners in First Entry4
Future Making: Towards a Practice Perspective4
The Role of Organizational Structure in Senior Managers' Selective Information Processing4
How do Intermediaries Build Inclusive Markets? The Role of the Social Context4
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I Did It My Way: CEO Core Self‐Evaluations and the Environmental Contingencies on Firm Risk‐Taking Strategies4
Organizing and Strategizing in and for Extreme Contexts: Temporality, Emotions, and Embodiment4
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue4
Is Red or Blue More Likely to Narrow the Gap? The Effect of CEO Political Ideology on CEO‐Employee Pay Disparity4
Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools4
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect4
Tax‐Motivated Relocations of Headquarters: The Role of Affinity Bias among Socially‐Responsible Blockholders and CEOs4
The Effects of Objective and Subjective Social Class on Leadership Emergence4
Social‐Symbolic Work of Engaging Heterogeneous Communities: Participation Work and Entangled Effects on Organizations and Communities4
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Populist Syndrome and Nonmarket Strategy4
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies4
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