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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Management Studies is 11. 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.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	121
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Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	115
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	111
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum	84
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	83
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	71
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change	59
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions	51
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	51
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective	51
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis	50
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas	48
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Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	46
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer	45
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research	45
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Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	44
Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	41
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	40
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms	39
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	39

Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	39
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race	36
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	35
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	34
Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation	34
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal	33
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	32
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?	32
Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	31
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	31
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics	31
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	30
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	30
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	30
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	30
Issue Information	30
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	30
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	29
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward	28
From Seats at the Table to Voices in the Discussion: Antecedents of Underrepresented Director Participation in Board Meetings	28
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India	28
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Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms	28
Issue Information	27
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	27
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	27
Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	27
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	27
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	26
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	26
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	25
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	25
On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	25
Transactional Dependence and Technological Upgrading in Global Value Chains	24
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	24
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	23
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices	23
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	23
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	22
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	22
Workers' Rites: Ritual Mediations and the Tensions of New Management	22
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options	22
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	22
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	22
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees	22
Issue Information	21
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	20
Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	20

How to Build a Network that Facilitates Firm‐level Innovation: An Integration of Structural and Managerial Perspectives	20
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms	20
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	19
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The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	19
The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	19
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	19
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	19
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Issue Information	19
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	19
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	18
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	18
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations	18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational ActiveTrust‐Building	18
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	17
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	17
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	17
Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	17
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	17
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges	17
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	17
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Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	16
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance	16
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability	16
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	15
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	15
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	15
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	15
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’	15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	15
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	15
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home	15
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity	15
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	15
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	15
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	14
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	14
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Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	13
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	13
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	13
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking	13
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	12
Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	12
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Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	12
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	12
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List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2021	12
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	12
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	12
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View	11
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation	11
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	11
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future	11
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective	11
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing	11
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	11
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship	11
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work	11