European Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of European Management Journal is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021199
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization195
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study158
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization122
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes110
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics97
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective96
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model88
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management76
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research75
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization73
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter68
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 202266
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes61
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?55
The impact of distance on acquisition performance54
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”53
Intercultural differences in issue interpretation: Effects of emotions and framing52
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis49
Can subordinates benefit from Manager’s gossip?49
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective48
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions47
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts45
Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors45
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers45
Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review41
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?37
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions37
The behavioral aspects of innovation in the age of pandemic37
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach36
Addressing the gender data gap to advance theory, interventions, and equity for women36
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees36
Reproducibility and replicability crisis: How management compares to psychology and economics – A systematic review of literature35
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving35
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting34
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?33
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe33
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing32
Impression management techniques in crowdfunding: An analysis of Kickstarter videos using artificial intelligence32
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism31
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities31
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects31
“Seeing to be seen”: The manager’s political economy of visibility in new ways of working31
Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability30
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions30
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments30
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms29
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?29
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research28
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data28
Migration of skilled professionals across the border: Brain drain or brain gain?28
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy28
It’s all about culture! Institutional context and ownership concentration across Europe27
A resource-based view on SMEs regarding the transition to more sophisticated stages of industry 4.027
Editorial Board25
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda25
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention25
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions25
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions24
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work24
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers24
Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective24
Are skilled contingent workers neglected? Evidence from a cross-sector multiple case study on organizational career management practices24
Reflexive sensegiving: An open-ended process of influencing the sensemaking of others during organizational change23
Beyond the numbers: Reflections from three Global South countries using the global gender gap index23
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior23
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches22
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance22
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms22
Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study21
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions21
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap21
The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations21
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion20
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization20
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management20
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies19
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern18
Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues18
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers18
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders17
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions17
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective17
PRODUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN VIRTUAL TEAMS: HOW TEAM RELATIONAL CLIMATES SHAPE VIRTUAL TEAM PERFORMANCE OVER TIME17
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field17
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)17
Legitimacy by Association? How Citizens Form Propriety Beliefs Through Horizontal Spillovers in Public–Private Partnerships17
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength17
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review17
Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges17
The intertwined effect of HRM practices and transformational leadership on employees’ attitudes in an M&A context: Evidence from a collaborative and mixed-methods study17
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?17
Editorial Board16
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management16
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective16
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience16
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness16
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract16
Organization as the abuser: Introducing & operationalizing organizational mistreatment16
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis16
Forty years of European Management Journal: A bibliometric overview15
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens15
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times15
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms15
The services field: A cornucopia filled with potential management topics15
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions15
Societal effects of social media in organizations: Reflective points deriving from a systematic literature review and a bibliometric meta-analysis14
Periphery–core relations and the knowledge domain of international management: New contingencies, characterizations and theories14
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management14
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach14
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing14
Editorial Board14
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes13
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?13
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses13
Reviewer Acknowledgement 202313
Re-examining systematic literature review in management research: Additional benefits and execution protocols13
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers13
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance12
Expansion-oriented job crafting and employee performance: A self-empowerment perspective12
Satisfaction with HR practices and employee performance: A moderated mediation model of engagement and health12
Strategic communication in organizational change: Exploring the impact of two-sided messages on legitimacy judgments and commitment to change12
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets12
The ebb and flow of identity: How sustainable entrepreneurs deal with their hybridity12
Job crafting and well-being among school principals: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration12
Government policy innovation in spurring nascent entrepreneurship during pandemic12
Mobilising materiality for strategy work: the role of organisational spaces12
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda12
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees12
When affective commitment leads to viability: The role of trust as a mediator and virtuality as a moderator11
40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research11
Exploring the impact of sustainable value proposition on firm performance11
Integrating national culture into the organizational performance feedback theory11
Fitting in or feeling the tension: Matching personality traits with innovation attributes of corporate coworking spaces11
The big passion play in new venture creation: New insights from a moderated mediation model11
On refugee integration as organizing processes—Action nets, agency, and power11
We are family! The role of family members’ identification in the internationalization of family firms10
Firm capabilities and export performance of small firms: A meta-analytical review10
Peripheral-based subsidiaries and financial and non-financial performance: Evidence from an emerging market10
Leader–member exchange and organizational dehumanization: The role of supervisor’s organizational embodiment10
The role of focal leaders in collective leadership behavior: A historiometric analysis of socialized and personalized leaders10
Stakeholder-oriented brand management: A Venn-diagram approach to monitor brand associations10
The role of organisational drivers of exploration and exploitation – Market dynamism as a contingency factor10
A new framework of firm-level innovation capability: A propensity–ability perspective10
When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm10
On the consequences of scarcity mindset: How ‘having too little’ means so much for ethnic venture failure9
Editorial Board9
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative9
Editorial Board9
Divestitures and the proportion of women on firms’ boards: The effect of shareholders and visibility9
Exploring the moderating effect of family communication patterns on the family CEO characteristics – family firm internationalization relationship8
The influence of age-based faultlines on team performance: Examining mediational paths8
Why do some followers remain silent in response to abusive supervision? A system justification perspective8
Reflections on the roles of governance and leadership in profit-for-purpose companies: A European–United States comparative perspective8
Temporal perceptions and tensions in production management8
Contactless marketing management of fashion brands in the digital age8
Career patterns of top managers in Europe: Signs of further globalisation?8
Which collaborations allow firms to become gatekeepers? A longitudinal analysis of a large-scale collaboration network8
Job crafting among school principals before and during COVID-19: Investigating the associations with work-related well-being and personal resources using variable- and person-oriented approaches8
A platform for ideas that Matter: New paths for publishing in EMJ8
Integration, employee resistance, and acquisition performance7
Studying social representations of cross-boundary collaboration between managers through drawings7
Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide7
We are not who they think we are! Examining responses of qualified Tunisian immigrants in France to country-of-origin based image discrepancies7
Organizational sensemaking: A systematic review and a co-evolutionary model7
Innovation capabilities decoded: Risks and rewards in small and medium enterprise performance7
Climate change, consumer lifestyles and legitimation strategies of sustainability-oriented firms7
Editorial Board7
Digital orientation: Conceptualization and operationalization of a new strategic orientation7
Managing inconsistencies in medical decision-making: An eight-fold typology7
Cross-level effect of resonant leadership on remote engagement: A moderated mediation analysis in the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis6
Pride cometh before a fall: The incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry6
Identifying success factors for female entrepreneurs using the AMO framework: Empirical evidence from Japan6
Job well robotized! – Maintaining task diversity and well-being in managing technological changes6
“We open doors others do not!”: Position and power of foreign institutional networks6
Nonprototypical managers: The identity work of young managers in relation to age-based stereotypes6
Impairment or amortization of goodwill? An analysis of CFO perceptions of goodwill accounting6
An interaction orientation approach to SME-Intermediaries relationships6
Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions6
Resilience on an emotional rollercoaster: Refugee entrepreneurship under adversity6
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20226
Corporate risk management and pension investment policy6
Editorial Board6
Serving two masters: Commitment profiles of employees in the German military reserve6
“A show of good taste” – How creative individuals can employ signal observability strategies to influence their reputation among experts: Evidence from French gastronomy6
From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic6
In service of the CEO's ego: The relationship between CEO narcissism and top management team composition6
A learning-based explanation of the time properties of the international scaling of digital entrepreneurial ventures6
Women who LinkedIn: The gender networking gap among executives6
(Ir)responsible uses of technologies and the future of work: Managerial and organizational dilemmas6
Mining the hidden seam of proximity m-payment adoption: A hybrid PLS-artificial neural network analytical approach6
A person-centered perspective in assessing career adaptability: Potential profiles, outcomes, and antecedents5
‘The great resignation’: The ambivalences of the liquid employee facing a consumerist work relationship5
Does empowering leadership affect SMEs' sustainability performance through knowledge transfer?5
Time banditry behavior in China: Dimension exploration and scale development5
Attracting talent through diversity at the top: The impact of TMT diversity and firms' efforts to promote diversity on employer attractiveness5
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20245
Scylla and Charybdis: The relationships between supervisor active and passive cyber incivility with job stress, work engagement, and turnover intentions5
The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective5
Cooperation between large companies and start-ups: An overview of the current state of research5
Following the chain of command? How managers balance benefits and risks in granting autonomy to employees5
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 20235
When the stars align: The effect of institutional pressures on sustainable human resource management through organizational engagement5
CEO self-discipline in power use: A key moderator for the effect of CEO power5
Developing classic systematic literature reviews to advance knowledge: Dos and don'ts5
Driven to work as a double-edged sword: The role of polychronicity and sleep quality in employee psychological outcomes5
Transformational versus transactional leadership styles and project success: A meta-analytic review5
Managing the invisible: The challenges of religious expression in the workplace5
Organizational injustice and employee affective health: The moderating effects of labor market conditions5
Materiality in institutional work: Shaping the emerging logic of policy co-creation5
How managers’ risk perceptions affect their willingness to blame advisors as scapegoats5
FinTech in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): A review and future research agenda5
Examining stakeholder reactions to corporate social irresponsibility: Evidence from social media4
Shared leadership in MNC agile software teams: The role of team leadership style and attitude to sport4
Organizational disidentification and change-oriented citizenship behavior4
When bankers feel guilty–Employees’ vicarious guilt and the support of moral business practices4
Disability inclusion in workplaces, firm performance, and reputation4
Understanding top managers’ careers: How does career variety impact tenure on the board?4
Coopetition, value co-creation, and knowledge-enhancement in the UK alpaca industry: A multi-level mechanism4
One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon4
International intermediaries: A systematic literature review and research agenda4
Professional imprinting mechanisms in the doctoral trajectory: Impact on researcher identity diversity4
Employability skills: Profiling data scientists in the digital labour market4
The effect of board size on shareholder value: Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions4
Unravelling top managers: Who are they and do they really matter?4
Refugee entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda4
The role of mindfulness on the relationship between job complexity and job crafting: A self-regulation approach4
Advice tie reallocation under organizational downsizing: A longitudinal network study4
The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis4
Multilevel qualitative research: Insights from practice4
Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors4
Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms: A configurational approach4
Responding to discontinuities in product-based service supply chains in the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards transilience4
New directions to create dynamic capabilities: The role of pioneering orientation and interorganizational relationships4
Turning change resistance into readiness: How change agents’ communication shapes recipient reactions4
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