Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration115
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout111
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum84
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies83
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union71
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change59
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?51
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective51
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions51
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis50
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas48
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Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools46
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer45
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research45
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Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility44
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers41
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination40
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers39
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review39
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms39
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race36
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities35
Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation34
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement34
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal33
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?32
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity32
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics31
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics31
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐1931
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms30
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts30
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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms30
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance30
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo30
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective29
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India28
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Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms28
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward28
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings28
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Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence27
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future27
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs27
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles27
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production26
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market26
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea25
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding25
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment25
Transactional Dependence and Technological Upgrading in Global Value Chains24
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation24
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices23
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda23
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict23
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options22
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems22
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures22
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees22
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An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures22
Workers' Rites: Ritual Mediations and the Tensions of New Management22
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Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals20
How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives20
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms20
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts20
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The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective19
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective19
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity19
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research19
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Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance19
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Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing18
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational ActiveTrust‐Building18
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations18
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Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination17
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance17
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Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise17
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Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges17
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action17
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability16
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work16
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance16
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity15
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs15
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue15
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios15
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis15
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context15
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel15
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research15
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home15
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness14
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions14
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How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy13
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking13
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”12
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions12
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Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations12
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue12
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List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202112
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis12
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation12
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing11
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation11
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship11
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work11
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View11
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation11
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes11
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future11
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective11
Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry10
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour10
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy10
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Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis10
Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns9
Values‐based Trust as a Shift Parameter for Collective Organizing: The Case of Magnum Photos9
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Capability Development in Infrequent Organizational Processes: Unveiling the Interplay of Heuristics and Causal Knowledge9
Emotional Expression between CEO and Chairperson as a Micro‐Foundation of Organizational Capabilities: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study9
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry9
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork9
The Role of Multistakeholder Initiatives in the Radicalization of Resistance: The Forest Stewardship Council and the Mapuche Conflict in Chile9
Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction9
Institutional Divide, Political Ties, and Contested Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan9
Balancing Multiple Goals: The Effects of Performance Shortfalls Relative to Aspirations vs. Analysts' Earnings Forecasts9
Incomplete Institutional Change and the Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Contestation of Institutional Misalignment in South Africa*9
Stigma Management within and between Levels9
Big Data, Proxies, Algorithmic Decision‐Making and the Future of Management Theory9
CEO–TMT Congruence in Growth‐Need Strength and Firm Growth8
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Relational Co‐ordination and Stigma at Work: How Frontline Employees Compensate for Failures in Public Health Systems8
Guaranteed Basic Income from the Perspective of Self‐Determination Theory8
A Multi‐Level Model of I‐deals in Workgroups: Employee and Coworker Perceptions of Leader Fairness, I‐Deals and Group Performance8
Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency8
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The Mixed Gamble of Competitive Dynamics in Family‐Controlled Firms8
Negative Incentives and Regulatory Capture: Noncompliance with Price Ceilings on Essential Medicines in India8
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization8
Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations8
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List of Reviewers for this Special Issue8
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Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation7
Double Trouble: Containing Public Disapproval Arising from an Interplay of Stigmatized Categories7
Managing the “Downside” of Downsizing: Firms' Impression Offsetting around Downsizing Announcements7
Business, Conflict, and Peace: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework7
Both Diversity and Meritocracy: Managing the Diversity‐Meritocracy Paradox with Organizational Ambidexterity7
A More Ethical Workplace? How and Why Perceived Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Makes a Difference7
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Empirical Literature on Cognition‐Based and Affect‐Based Trust7
The Elites‐Mutual‐Attraction Effect: How Relative Reputation Influences Employee Flows between Organizations7
Outcome‐Based Typology of Social Enterprises: Interlacing Individual Transformation, Capital Provision, and Societal Influence7
Straight OUTTA Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative7
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work7
Constructing a World for Compassion: How Temporal Work Can Preserve Compassion in Extreme Contexts7
Contextualizing Management Research: An Open Systems Perspective7
Reducing Symbolic Compliance: The Presence of Multiple Large Shareholders as an Internal Monitoring Mechanism7
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process6
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict6
Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions6
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures6
Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age6
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics6
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement6
What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies6
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions6
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review6
Industry Exposure to Artificial Intelligence, Board Network Heterogeneity, and Firm Idiosyncratic Risk6
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers6
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future6
Organizational Demographic Faultlines: Their Impact on Collective Organizational Identification, Firm Performance, and Firm Innovation6
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process5
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple5
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No5
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia5
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Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research5
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Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict5
Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions5
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Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus5
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching5
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy5
Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers5
Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers5
Actors and Resources in the Deinstitutionalization and Reproduction of Educational Inequalities: A Comparative Historical Analysis5
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies5
Status Transfer across Borders: The Mediating Role of Common Partners in First Entry4
How do Intermediaries Build Inclusive Markets? The Role of the Social Context4
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue4
Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community4
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy4
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies4
Organizing and Strategizing in and for Extreme Contexts: Temporality, Emotions, and Embodiment4
The Role of Organizational Structure in Senior Managers' Selective Information Processing4
The Effects of Objective and Subjective Social Class on Leadership Emergence4
What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform4
Governing Inter‐Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises' Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners' Practices4
In the Riptide of Control and Trust: Emergence of Control Practices, Suspicion, and Distrust in New Technology Deployment4
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect4
A Cautionary Tale: On the Adoption of Self‐Determination Theory Principles for Practice4
Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools4
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Social Entrepreneurs as Ecosystem Catalysts: The Dynamics of Forming and Withdrawing from a Self‐Sustaining Ecosystem4
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Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity4
Shock Anticipation: Voluntary Turnover by Foreign Directors in Response to Sanctions on Peer Firms4
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls4
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Voice Work, Upward Influence during Change ‘When Time is of the Essence’4
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Linking Experience to Intuition and Cognitive Versatility in New Venture Ideation: A Dual‐Process Perspective3
‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA3
Correction to “A Transaction Cost Perspective of Alliance Portfolio Diversity”3
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