Journal of Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Management Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors129
Committed Actors, Institutional Complexity, and Pathways to Compromise: The Emergence of Islamic Banking in Germany117
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration116
Have a Go or Lay Low? Predicting Firms’ Rhetorical Commitment versus Avoidance in Response to Polylithic Governmental Pressures113
Hard and Soft Integration: Towards a Dynamic Model of Post‐Acquisition Integration112
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review107
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future87
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202482
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What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?69
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Attentional Uniqueness and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Growth Actions45
Understanding the Link between Post‐Acquisition Resource Reconfiguration and Technology Out‐Licensing45
Academia in the Post‐Pandemic World: Leapfrogging into the Unknown – Tales from Organizing EGOS 202045
Why Do Some Multinational Firms Respond Better Than Others to the Hostility of Host Governments? Proximal Embedding and the Side Effects of Local Partnerships45
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective44
It’s Not What You Say, But How You Sound: CEO Vocal Masculinity and the Board's Early‐Stage CEO Compensation Decisions44
Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement44
The Art of Phenomena Construction: A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’43
One Man's Death is Another Man's Bread: The Effect of a CEO's Sudden Death on Competitors' Strategic Investments42
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum42
Trust in Difficult People: A Social Network Perspective40
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change36
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Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union36
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA32
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Growing Institutional Complexity and Field Transition: Towards Constellation Complexity in the German Energy Field30
CEOs’ Pre‐Career Exposure to Religion and Corporate Tax Avoidance30
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies30
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work30
When Business Model Innovation Creates Value for Companies: A Meta‐Analysis on Institutional Contingencies29
Non‐executive Employee Ownership and Target Selection in High‐Tech Mergers and Acquisitions29
Politicians' Hometown Favouritism and Capital Resource Allocation29
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Kiss‐Up‐Kick‐Down to Get Ahead: A Resource Perspective on How, When, Why, and With Whom Middle Managers Use Ingratiatory and Exploitative Behaviours to Advance Their Careers27
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs27
An OBSE‐Contingent Work Engagement Model of Felt Trust: Implications for Task Performance and Work‐to‐Home Conflict27
Multimodal Collective Sensemaking in Extreme Contexts: Evidence from Maritime Search and Rescue27
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research26
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’26
Coming Apart While Scaling Up – Adoption of Logics and the Fragmentation of Organizational Identity in Science‐Based Ventures26
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel25
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout25
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity24
Boundary Conditions for Organizations in the Anthropocene: A Review of the Planetary Boundaries Framework 10 Years On24
Biocentric Work in the Anthropocene: How Actors Regenerate Degenerated Natural Commons24
Nevertheless, They Persisted: How Patterns of Opposition and Support Shaped the Survival of U.S. Abortion Clinics24
Mergers and Attributions: An Examination of M&A Terminations in 1996–202223
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability23
Missing the Impact in Impact Investing Research – A Systematic Review and Critical Reflection of the Literature23
Correction to “A Transaction Cost Perspective of Alliance Portfolio Diversity”23
The Choices We Collectively Make: Orchestrating Hybridity to Tackle Grand Challenges23
Linking Experience to Intuition and Cognitive Versatility in New Venture Ideation: A Dual‐Process Perspective22
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios22
Different Feathers Embedding Together: Integrating Diversity and Organizational Embeddedness22
Strategy Can No Longer Ignore Planetary Boundaries: A Call for Tackling Strategy's Ecological Fallacy22
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis22
Panacea or Dangerous Practice: A Counterpoint to Hanisch's Argument for Prescriptive Theorizing21
Defusing Digital Disruption Through Creative Accumulation: Technology‐Induced Innovation in Professional Service Firms21
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis20
Family Business Restructuring: A Review and Research Agenda20
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home20
Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions19
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance18
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context18
Organizational Demographic Faultlines: Their Impact on Collective Organizational Identification, Firm Performance, and Firm Innovation18
Corporate Social Responsibility Research in the Journal of Management Studies: A Shift from a Business‐Centric to a Society‐Centric Focus18
Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age18
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions18
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas18
Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’17
How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work17
Corporate Political Activities and the SEC's Oversight Role in the IPO Process17
Overconfident CEOs in Dire Straits: How Incumbent and Successor CEOs’ Overconfidence Affects Firm Turnaround Performance17
Understanding the Situational Antecedents of CEO Regulatory Focus17
Embracing non‐Western Contexts in Management Scholarship17
‘Vote the Assholes Out’: How Value Congruence Work Aligns Stakeholders for Corporate Activism17
Family Control, Political Risk and Employment Security: A Cross‐National Study17
Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers17
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue16
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms16
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Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process16
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An Integrative Model of the Role of Structural, Behavioural, and Cognitive Coordination in Intergroup Effectiveness: How Middle Managers Play a Role15
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Firms’ Response to Slacktivism: When and Why are E‐Petitions Effective?15
How Context Matters in Non‐market Strategies: Exploring Variations in Corporate Social Responsibility‐Political Activity Relationships14
Identity Conflict Amidst Environmental Change: An Ethnography of a Korean Buddhist Temple14
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer14
How Political Actors Co‐Construct CSR and its Effect on Firms' Political Access: A Discursive Institutionalist View14
Emergence of Hybrid CSR Models as a Conflict‐Driven Communicative Process in a Nordic Welfare State14
Social Comparison Inside Business Groups and Strategic Change: Evidence from Group‐affiliated Chinese Firms13
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 202213
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The Mission (Im)possible of Climate Action through Quixotic Institutional Work13
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness13
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Are Boards Sensitive to CEO Masculinity? The Effect of CEO Facial and Vocal Masculinity on CEO Dismissal13
Remembering Steven W. Floyd's Impact on Middle Management Research13
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Communities in Coworking Spaces: Boundary Work and Social Identity Work by Community Managers13
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers13
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The Road Less Travelled: Sabbaticals as Pathways for Engagement and Impact12
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Re‐Envisioning a Hierarchy of Leadership Behaviours Using Insights from the Psychological Literature on Personality Traits12
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation11
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‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race11
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility11
Happy Diamond Anniversary JMS! A Decade Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies11
How are Competing Logics Combined in Managerial Teams? The Impact of Branch Founding Team Hybridity on the Growth of Islamic Bank Branches in Turkey, 2002–1911
Alliance Re‐Evaluation in the Context of Outside Partnering Opportunities: Decision Heuristics and the Impact of Environmental Uncertainty11
No Need to Know It All: Implications of COVID‐19 for Corporate Communication Research10
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When Duality Fails: Addressing the Liability of Hybridity in a Field Dominated by Non‐profit Values10
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization10
Trusting without a Safety Net: The Peril of Trust in Base of the Pyramid Economies10
Connecting Cross‐Border Market Participants: The Intermediary Role of International Analysts in Global Capital Markets10
‘There’s Many a Slip “Twixt the Cup and the Lip”’: HR Management Practices and Firm Performance10
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Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession, 1880–190510
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination10
Can Strategy Address the Climate Crisis Without Losing its Essence?9
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions9
Middle Managers’ Relational Dynamics in the Context of Acquisitions: Balancing Strategic Interdependence and Organizational Autonomy9
Do we Need a ‘New Strategy Paradigm’? No9
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity9
Transactive Memory Systems and Acquisition Performance: A Strategic Decision Making Process Perspective9
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?8
The Biological Basis of the Symbolic: Exploring the Implications of the Co‐Evolution of Language, Cognition and Sociality for Management Studies8
The Role of Space and Place in Organizational and Institutional Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature8
Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi‐Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict8
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Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role‐Distancing for Middle Managers8
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities8
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking8
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers8
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools8
The Dynamic Role of Subnational Regions in Firm Performance8
Changing Ideological Regimes: CEO Succession with A Shift in Political Ideology and New CEO Early Departure8
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐198
Reverse Knowledge Flows: How and When Do Preparation and Reintegration Facilitate Repatriate Knowledge Transfer?7
Non‐Market Strategies and Credit Benefits: Unpacking Heterogeneous Political Connections in Response to Government Anti‐Corruption Initiatives7
Unified Divergence and the Development of Collective Leadership7
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy7
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal7
Overcoming the Early‐stage Conundrum of Digital Platform Ecosystem Emergence: A Problem‐Solving Perspective7
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review7
Interpersonal Outcomes of Religious Identity Management at Work7
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia7
The Impact of Sustainable Investing: A Multidisciplinary Review7
Neutral In‐Tensions: Navigating Neutrality in Coaching7
From ‘Publish or Perish’ to Societal Impact: Organizational Repurposing Towards Responsible Innovation through Creating a Medical Platform7
Changing the Scholarly Conversation: What it Means, Why it Matters, and How to Approach it in Micro Research7
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Institutional Transitions, Research and Development, and Exports from India6
Understanding interorganizational big data technologies: How technology adoption motivations and technology design shape collaborative dynamics6
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research6
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement6
Introduction to the Point‐Counterpoint: The Corporate Objective as a Contingency6
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Polycentric Governance of Privately Owned Resources in Circular Economy Systems6
Passing the Torch: Exploring how Tradition and Innovation Influence Coopetition among Street Performers6
Me, the Patriarchy, and the Business School6
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?6
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Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India6
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Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation6
Why and when does CFO ranking in top management team informal hierarchy affect entrepreneurial firm initial public offering fraud?6
Grand Societal Challenges and Responsible Innovation6
Technological Entry, Redeployability, and Firm Value6
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Who Controls the Controller? People Reaction to Social Control Agent's Decisions about Organizational Misconduct5
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts5
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective5
How do New Ventures Thrive in Ecosystem Venturing: The Impacts of Alliance Strategy and Technology Interdependence5
With or without you: Family and Career‐Work in a Demanding and Precarious Profession5
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From Boundary Objects to Boundary Infrastructure: A Process Study of Collaboration between Big Science and Big Business5
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Actions Speak Louder than Words, Particularly in the East: How Taiwanese Followers Perceive Leaders’ Promotion of Ethical Actions Differently from Followers in the States5
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue5
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View4
When Does a Firm Fail to Walk the Talk? Decoupling in International Expansion4
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 20214
Lost and Found in Translation: How Firms Use Anisomorphism to Manage the Institutional Complexity of CSR4
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Family Ownership and Alliance Intensity4
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation4
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Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation4
From the Ivory Tower’? Memory Workers and Mnemonic Practices in Communities4
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Mission Accomplished? Balancing Market Growth and Moral Legitimation in the Fair Trade Moral Market4
Actors and Resources in the Deinstitutionalization and Reproduction of Educational Inequalities: A Comparative Historical Analysis4
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings4
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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community4
Governing Inter‐Organizational Collaboration through Purpose Work and Purpose Borrowing: How Social Enterprises' Normative Aspirations Influence Business Partners' Practices4
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance4
Not on Skid Row: Stigma Management in Addiction Treatment Organizations4
Control‐Trust Dynamics during Socialization: Lessons from Workgroup Hazing4
Cross‐Sector Partnerships to Address Societal Grand Challenges: Systematizing Differences in Scholarly Analysis4
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis4
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms4
‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital4
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective4
The AI of the Beholder: Intra‐Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology3
How Social‐Symbolic Work Changes Places3
It Takes a Village: Translating Management Ideas through an Ecology of Roles3
Corporate Social Performance, Legitimacy, and the Choice of Foreign Partners by State‐Controlled Entities in the Global Extractive Industries3
The Dent in the Floor: Ecological Knowing in the Skilful Performance of Work3
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact3
How do Status Differentials Affect the Unplanned Dissolution of Alliances?3
What, When, and How of Responsible Leadership: Taking Stock of Eighteen Years of Research and a Future Agenda3
Balancing Variety and Quality: Examining the Impact of Benefit‐Linked Cross‐Subsidization on Multisided Platforms3
The Tragic Failings of Political CSR: A Damning Verdict from the Indigenous Pehuenche Highlands in Chile3
Theorizing the Grey Area between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy3
Career Booster or Dead End? Entrepreneurial Failure and Its Consequences for Subsequent Corporate Careers3
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”3
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship2
Stakeholder Governance for Responsible Innovation: A Theory of Value Creation, Appropriation, and Distribution2
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future2
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing2
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms2
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations2
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation2
Reassessing Moral Legitimacy in Times of Instability2
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work2
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo2
Selecting Innovation Projects: Do Middle and Senior Managers Differ When It Comes to Radical Innovation?2
A Mother's Work Is Never Done: On Being a Mother in Academia2
The Distinctive Domain of the Sharing Economy: Definitions, Value Creation, and Implications for Research2
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations2
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes2
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics2
System Change, Not Climate Change: Charting Alternative Responses to the Climate Crisis through International Comparative Research2
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