Journal of Business Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Business Research is 10. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises from emerging markets: Institutional investors as enablers5749
An application of the COA Framework: Building a sound foundation for organizational resilience663
Effects of alliance portfolio breadth and depth on exploratory and exploitative innovation: Evidence from Indian high-tech sectors560
Threatened by your stars? A multi-method research investigating the negative upward influence of star employees on immediate supervisors552
Online chat encounters: Satisfying customers through dialogical interaction537
Going against the Tide: How Self-Construal Moderates Receptivity towards Popular Brand Activism365
All the cues we cannot see: How reward-driven distractors render consumers insensitive to assortment complexity358
Family strains, work passion drains: The impact of daily family demands on daily work passion327
Editorial Board322
Transformative marketing in the new normal: A novel practice-scholarly integrative review of business-to-business marketing mix challenges, opportunities, and solutions300
Business-community relations under COVID-19: A study of micro and small firms297
Consumer reviews and product life cycle: On the temporal dynamics of electronic word of mouth on movie box office294
Speaking fast and slow: How speech rate of digital assistants affects likelihood to use283
Exploring healthcare/health-product ecommerce satisfaction: A text mining and machine learning application282
Reappraising the roles of review valence and conflict in online relationships281
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance in a cross-country context: A meta-analysis269
Job demands-resources and conservation of resources theories: How do they help to explain employee well-being and future job design?267
Prosocial imprint: CEO childhood famine experience and corporate philanthropic donation254
Beyond the platform: Social media as a multi-faceted resource in value creation for entrepreneurial firms in a collaborative network252
Luxury not for the masses: Measuring inconspicuous luxury motivations252
Addressing the conceptualization and measurement challenges of sustainability orientation: A systematic review and research agenda244
Re-evaluating electronic government development index to monitor the transformation toward achieving sustainable development goals227
A goal-driven framework for compliance-dependent services: Pathways to customer satisfaction and well-being225
Fostering growth patterns of SMEs through business model innovation. A tailored dynamic business modelling approach223
Service products and productization219
Investigating organisational learning to master project complexity: An embedded case study218
Past, present, and future of international joint ventures217
What do managers value in the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship? Identification and measurement of the manager’s perspective of LMX (MLMX)214
A circular capability framework to address food waste and losses in the agri-food supply chain: The antecedents, principles and outcomes of circular economy209
Managing end-of-life solar photovoltaic e-waste in India: A circular economy approach206
Prosumer-to-customer exchange in the sharing economy: Evidence from the P2P accommodation context205
Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach200
Impact of daily entrepreneurial stressors on long-term transformational leader behaviors and well-being: Differences in experienced and nascent entrepreneurs199
It grows on you: Perceptions of sales/service personnel with facial hair194
Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach194
M&A committees and M&A performance192
Mental health among B2B salespeople: A morphological analysis192
When people make the difference: A person-organization fit approach in knowledge transfer offices187
Too much of two good things: The curvilinear effects of self-efficacy and market validation in new ventures184
Emergence in emergency: How actors adapt to service ecosystem disruption183
No laughing matter, or a secret weapon? Exploring the effect of humor in service failure situations182
Institutional logics and organizational filters: Differential responses to innovation and environmentalism in China’s cleantech sector180
The nature of vicarious embarrassment179
Choices in CDO appointment and firm performance: Moving towards a Stakeholder-based approach179
How to create more customer value in independent shops: A set-theoretic approach to value creation178
The “Pricing Footprint” of Country-of-Origin: Conceptualization and Empirical Assessment175
Cultural tightness emancipation and venture profitability: An international experience lens172
Chartering marketing strategy and marketing management research toward greater relevance and impact171
Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior171
Examining mechanisms for creating shared value by Asian firms171
Usage intention model of digital assessment systems166
The impact of Covid-19 on how core and peripheral service satisfaction impacts customer satisfaction165
The appeal of blurred imagery: Enhancing advertising and brand attitudes for luxury goods165
Business-to-business salespeople and political skill: Relationship building, deviance, and performance164
Uncovering local communities’ motivational factors to partner with a nonprofit for social impact: A mixed-methods approach163
Turning lurkers into innovation agents: An interactionist perspective of self-determinant theory162
The roles of NSD performance and standardized service development processes in the performance of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises161
Multimarket competition effects on product line decisions – A multi-objective decision model in fast moving consumer goods industry159
Supplier resilience under the COVID-19 crisis in apparel global value chain (GVC): The role of GVC governance and supplier’s upgrading159
Sonic branding of meat- and plant-based foods: The role of timbre156
Innovation capability in geographically dispersed R&D teams: The role of social capital and IT support154
Mission statements and financial and sustainability performance: An exploratory study of Benefit Corporations certified as B Corps154
Is cyber anxiety signaling useful? An examination of leader’s emotional and behavioral reactions154
Editorial Board152
Targeted reminder advertising: Retailers’ new weapon against cart abandonment152
Consumer self-regulation: Looking back to look forward. A systematic literature review152
Feeling warm or skeptical? An investigation into the effects of incentivized eWOM programs on customers’ eWOM sharing intentions151
How historical and social aspirations reshape the relationship between corporate financial performance and corporate social responsibility150
When Big Is Less than Small: Why dominant brands lack authenticity in their sustainability initiatives148
Avoiding the brand for me, us, or them? Consumer reactions to negative brand events147
Taking matters into one’s own hands? Addressing the relational nature of FLE autonomy144
Legitimacy association of an aged brand: Shelter for a brand suffering from consumers’ perceptions of incompetence143
Editorial Board142
The effect of local institutions on the competitive strategies of exporters. The case of emerging economies in Latin America140
Supplier involvement and supplier performance in new product development: Moderating effects of supplier salesperson behaviors140
Cash creates value for supply chain systems, but who appropriates that value?139
Thank you for not smoking – A multi-method investigation to understand the effect of anti-smoking warnings in television programs139
Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: Concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making137
Cross-border M&As: Theorizing the negative effect of political ideology mismatch with host country labor institutional context on employee outcomes136
The Dunning-Kruger effect and entrepreneurial self-efficacy: How tenure and search distance jointly direct entrepreneurial self-efficacy135
Home country and firm-specific advantage influences on HRM replication versus adaptation in EMNEs operating in advanced economies: A qualitative comparative analysis135
The social influence of employee groups: Understanding the impact of employee groups on customer intentions through intimidation135
On the (in)effectiveness of standardized versus adapted international promotion strategies: Evidence from entrepreneurial firms133
Harnessing subcultural identity to optimize workplace rewards: Evidence from Russia131
Why or How? the impact of Construal-Level Theory on vaccine message receptivity130
Can a price discount Backfire? effects of the juxtaposition of Add-On fees and price discounts on consumer evaluations130
Editorial Board130
Employee tenure and staff performance: The case of a social enterprise130
Follow your heart or your mind: The effect of consumption frequency on consumers’ reliance on feelings129
The Drucker intangibles measurement system: An academic perspective129
Let’s drink to that! How wider glass rim leads to more pleasurable purchases129
How women CEOs’ financial knowledge and firm homophily affect venture performance128
The consumer on stage: Toward a typology of improvisation in consumption contexts125
In governments we trust: A two-country Brexit field experiment on perceived uncertainty as mediator for consumer decisions124
‘Delayed Forbearance’: Multipoint contact and mutual forbearance in inaugural and subsequent competitive actions123
When do multinational corporations adjust production volume flexibly among in-network subsidiaries?120
Editorial Board120
Editorial Board119
Founder versus agent CEOs: Effects of founder status and power on firm innovation and cost of capital119
The interactive effect of power and self-construal on consumers’ preferences for brand-logo size118
Editorial Board117
Governance of new product design: The influence of national institutions116
Editorial Board116
Are business schools from the Global South walking their talk? Internalizing responsible management education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America115
Editorial Board115
Lifestyle of the rich and famous: Exploring the ultra-high net-worth individuals’ customer experience (UHCX)115
The paradox in happiness sales: How can happiness primes backfire?115
Exploring young consumers’ intention to pay for shared express packaging: A multi-study analysis114
Harnessing creative tensions: A micro-level study of value creation114
When review verification does more harm than good: How certified reviews determine customer–brand relationship quality110
A capability pathway to subjective economic well-being: Looking beyond materialism110
Predicting primary and secondary stakeholder engagement: A CEO motivation-means contingency model110
Switching decision, timing, and app performance: An empirical analysis of mobile app developers’ switching behavior between monetization strategies109
Editorial Board109
No entrepreneur steps in the same river twice: Limited learning advantage for serial entrepreneurs108
Defining family business efficacy: An exploratory study106
Unveiling the determining factors of family business longevity: Evidence from Kosovo106
Industry momentum in Latin America106
The child is parent of the adult: A longitudinal examination of the effect of adolescent destructive deviance on lifetime career success105
Does MBA’s paradigm transformation follow business education’s philosophy? A comparison of academic and job-performance and SES among five types of MBAian105
Developed market partner’s relative control and the termination likelihood of an international joint venture in an emerging market105
Can salespersons help firms overcome brand image crisis? Role of facial appearance105
Reducing the negative impact of ultra-processed foods: Consumer response to natural claims, organic claims, and processing level disclosures104
Does familial decision control affect the entrepreneurial orientation of family firms? The moderating role of family relationships104
Do female CMOs enhance firm performance? Power matters104
Blame work and the scapegoating mechanism in market status-quo104
Contextual differences in the moderating effects of price consciousness and social desirability in pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing102
Pride in family businesses: Authenticity, hubris, and cultural insights101
It’s more than complicated! Using organizational memetics to capture the complexity of organizational culture101
Strategies for increasing agricultural viability, resilience and sustainability amid disruptive events: An expert-based analysis of relevance101
How to gain from international R&D alliances? A mutual dependence logic101
Adaptive distributed leadership and circular economy adoption by emerging SMEs100
R&D internationalization in medium-sized firms: The moderating role of knowledge management in enhancing innovation performances100
The effect of subscriptions on customer engagement100
Born innovator? How founder birth order influences product innovation generation and adoption in entrepreneurial firms100
Removing silos to enable data-driven decisions: The importance of marketing and IT knowledge, cooperation, and information quality100
Understanding customer engagement in family firms: A conceptual framework98
Does CEO temporal myopia always lead to firm short-termism? The critical role of CEO optimism and perceived opportunity costs98
The effect of CEO prominence on cross-border acquisitions: An international entrepreneurship approach98
Acceptance of circular entrepreneurship: Employees’ perceptions on organizations’ transition to the circular economy97
Immediate return in circular economy: Business to consumer product return information sharing framework to support sustainable manufacturing in small and medium enterprises97
Explaining the Sales Transformation through an institutional lens96
Deconstructing self-organisation in microentrepreneurship: A social embeddedness perspective95
International orientation: An antecedent-consequence model in Spanish agri-food cooperatives which are aware of the circular economy94
Leveraging design thinking to foster Knowledge-Based dynamic capabilities94
The effect of brand names and logos’ figurativeness on memory: An experimental approach94
Internationalization of digital firms: A systematic review and research agenda94
Not all friends are created equal: The effect of friendship type on performance of shared native ads on social media93
Efficient Inefficiency: Organisational challenges of realising economic gains from AI93
Relationships Between Clinical Psychological Depression and Employee Absenteeism: A data analytics approach93
Servitizing for sustainability: Leveraging technology-enabled platforms and service innovation for carbon reduction in Africa’s Agri-Food Sector: A dynamic capabilities perspective93
The personality of luxury. A new measure and the effects of brand personality distinctiveness and congruence on consumer responses93
Sharing is caring? The effect of negative peer-to-peer experiences on loyalty intentions in the sharing economy92
How do customers experience terroir? An investigation of its ability to increase brand relationship quality92
Contrasting knowledge development for internationalization among emerging and advanced economy firms: A review and future research92
The evolution of consumer restaurant selection: Changes in restaurant and food delivery application attributes over time91
Network governance institutionalization: Creating mutual value by harnessing and avoiding conflicts in interorganizational networks91
Communicating intent: Effects of employer-controlled tipping strategy disclosures on tip amount and firm evaluations90
Consumer self-uncertainty increases price dependency90
The more the merrier? Exploring the effect of women on boards on the gender pay gap in top management teams90
Managing the content of LinkedIn posts: Influence on B2B customer engagement and sales?89
The effect of color lightness on anticipated product comfort: The role of the lightness-softness cross-modal correspondence89
Influence of social augmented reality app usage on customer relationships and continuance intention: The role of shared social experience88
Learned helplessness attributional scale (LHAS): Development and validation of an attributional style measure88
Interfirm collaboration for knowledge resources interaction among small innovative firms87
Entrepreneurial competencies and alliance success: The role of external knowledge absorption and mutual trust87
Do employee orientation and societal orientation matter in the customer orientation—Performance link?87
A meta-model of customer brand loyalty and its antecedents87
A dynamic, relational approach to B2B customer experience: A customer-centric perspective from a longitudinal investigation87
Examining the effect of a firm’s product recall on financial values of its competitors86
The influence of launching mobile channels on online customer reviews86
Act as you preach! Authentic brand purpose versus “woke washing’s” impact on brand credibility: The moderating role of cause involvement and consumer skepticism86
What becomes sacred to the consumer: Implications for marketers85
How can brands encourage consumers to donate data to a data-driven social partnership? An examination of hedonic vs. functional categories85
Balancing identity, construction, and rules: Family relationship negotiations during first-generation succession in family businesses84
The impact of demonetization on microfinance institutions84
How perceived behavioral control affects trust to purchase in social media stores83
Export status and SME productivity: Learning-to-export versus learning-by-exporting83
Managing performance expectations in association football83
Firm value impact of corporate activism: Facebook and the stop hate for profit campaign83
What consumers actually know: The role of objective nutrition knowledge in processing stop sign and traffic light front-of-pack nutrition labels83
Internationalization of I-business Firms: The role of distance on location choice82
Precariat women’s experiences to undertake an entrepreneurial training program82
Firm performance and marketing analytics in the Chinese context: A contingency model82
Hunting for new customers: Assessing the drivers of effective salesperson prospecting and conversion81
Does one rotten apple always spoil the barrel? The role of perceptions of empowerment when consumers observe destructive others in online co-creation activities81
Effects of firm presence in customer-owned touch points: A self-determination perspective81
Cashback as cash forward: The serial mediating effect of time/effort and money savings81
Cost-cutting actions, employment relations and workplace grievances: Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis81
Encouraging creative teams to integrate a sustainable approach to technology81
How business legacy influences organising body legitimacy in the delivery of mega events: The drift to myth at Rio 201680
Digital transformation of higher education in Australia: Understanding affordance dynamics in E-Textbook engagement and use79
Uncertainty, entrepreneurial orientation, and the pursuit of M&A: Managing the unpredictable79
The emerging world of digital exploration services79
Transcultural identity development among third generation minority consumers79
Buying gifts for multiple recipients: How culture affects whose desires are prioritized79
How supportive and challenging behaviors of leaders promote employees' thriving at work: An examination of underlying mechanisms78
Do morally disengaged employees withdraw from customer-oriented citizenship behavior in response to customers’ uncivil behavior?78
Developing resilience of MNEs: From global value chain (GVC) capability and performance perspectives78
The role of government policies in explaining the internationalization of Chinese firms78
Strategic change and innovation reputation: Opening up the innovation process78
Knowledge management capabilities and organizational risk-taking for business model innovation in SMEs77
Extending the resource-based view through the lens of the institution-based view: A longitudinal case study of an Indian higher educational institution76
Tribute to a marketing legend: Commemorating the contributions of Shelby D. Hunt with implications for the future of marketing76
The spillover effect of product recalls on competitors’ market value: The role of corporate product reliability76
How escapism leads to behavioral intention in a virtual reality store with background music?76
Understanding the colonial roots of Indian management thought: An agenda to decolonise and theorise for Indian contexts76
Theorizing the dark side of business-to-business relationships in the era of AI, big data, and blockchain76
Once bitten, twice shy? The relationship between business failure experience and entrepreneurial collaboration74
Subsidiary performance measurement in international business research: A systematic review and future directions74
Your heart is where your treasure is: Family chairman and tax avoidance in family-controlled firms73
The negative effect of virtual endorsers on brand authenticity and potential remedies73
Deliberation does not make the attraction effect disappear: The role of induced cognitive reflection73
Prioritization of organizational stakeholders: A managerial decision-making perspective73
Volatility spillover effect between internet finance and banks73
Matchmakers or chaperones? How venture capital investors facilitate startups’ corporate venture capital partnership formation through aligning and disciplining73
Examining the impact of salesperson orientation on creative selling, passive deviance, and organizational outcomes73
Cross-border acquisitions and the performance of Chinese publicly listed companies72
The importance of functional and emotional content in online consumer reviews for product sales: Evidence from the mobile gaming market72
The roles of innovation strategy and founding team diversity in new venture growth72
Determinants in adopting the Internet of Things in the transport and logistics industry72
Stock price implications of DEI initiatives when liberties of vulnerable groups are politically undermined—Evidence from veterans and LGBT groups72
Carbon emission reduction driven by ambidextrous green innovation strategies: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach70
Is the door really open? A contingent model of boundary spanning behavior and abusive supervisory behavior70
Does beauty encourage sharing? Exploring the role of physical attractiveness and racial similarity in collaborative fashion consumption70
A recommending system for mobile games using the dynamic nonparametric model70
Consumers’ interplays between solidity and liquidity in life: Insights from tattoo consumption70
Catching a falling star: Mobility of declining star performers, peer effects, and organizational performance in the National Football League69
The impact of human AI skills on organizational innovation: The moderating role of digital organizational culture69
Underrated yet successful! A framework of invisible-disabled underdog entrepreneurs69
Clarifying knowledge withholding: A systematic literature review and future research agenda69
Decomposing main effects in moderated regression models69
Leader narcissism, perceived leader narcissism, and employee outcomes: The moderating effect of goal congruence69
Omni-channel marketing strategy in the digital platform era69
Bystanders’ reactions to leader knowledge hiding: The roles of moral disengagement and moral identity69
Subsidiary divestment of EMNEs – Does home country matter?69
Joint forward contract negotiation: The role of B2B procurement platforms69
Team of champions or champion team? The roles of knowledge hiding and psychological entitlement69
Brand envy in economic disparity: Understanding and mitigating malicious envy towards brands among consumers perceiving limited economic mobility68
Simple = Authentic: The effect of visually simple package design on perceived brand authenticity and brand choice68
Lighting the fire of wisdom following humor: How and when leader humor yields team creativity through team knowledge integration capability68
Innovative leadership in organizations: Dimensions, measurement, and validation68
Channel stickiness in the shopping journey for electronics: Evidence from China and South Korea68
Post diversity: A new lens of social media WOM67
How verbal and non-verbal cues in a CEO apology for a corporate crisis affect a firm’s social disapproval67
Investigating the impact of interpersonal closeness and social status on electronic word-of-mouth effectiveness67
On the role of partial least squares in path analysis for the social sciences67
Navigating the platform economy: Crafting a customer analytics capability instrument67
Consumers’ navigation of risk perceptions in the adoption of stigmatized products66
ESG performance and firms’ business and geographical diversification: An empirical approach66
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