European Management Journal

Article	Citations
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes	397
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study	192
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization	138
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization	115
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model	114
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research	112
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management	104
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization	104
The mixed blessing of servant leadership: Investigating the moderating role of followers’ attributed motives in emotional and behavioral reactions to servant leadership	95
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics	93
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective	87
How co-working spaces self-organise to novel outcomes: A comparison and contrast study from an ecosystem perspective	75
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions	72
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts	69
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”	67
Control yourselves! Linking impulse-control demands to production deviance: The role of burnout and health-specific leadership	61
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis	60
The impact of distance on acquisition performance	57
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 2022	55
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes	50
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective	49
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers	47
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter	46
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?	46
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions	46

Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors	43
Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review	42
Editorial Board	41
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees	40
Addressing the gender data gap to advance theory, interventions, and equity for women	40
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting	40
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe	39
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach	38
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?	36
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing	36
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving	36
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects	35
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions	35
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?	35
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities	33
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?	32
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments	32
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms	30
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism	29
Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability	29
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy	28
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data	28
A resource-based view on SMEs regarding the transition to more sophisticated stages of industry 4.0	27
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research	27
Migration of skilled professionals across the border: Brain drain or brain gain?	27
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior	26
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions	26
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers	26
Beyond the numbers: Reflections from three Global South countries using the global gender gap index	26
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda	26
Editorial Board	25
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions	25
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms	25
How organizational AI adoption profits top leaders’ self-concept and behavior	25
Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective	25
Are skilled contingent workers neglected? Evidence from a cross-sector multiple case study on organizational career management practices	25
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention	25
Shedding light on the dark: Distrust as a distinct concept in stakeholder relationships	24
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions	24
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches	24
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work	23
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance	23
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap	22
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion	22
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies	22
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers	22
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern	22
Breaking promises, breaking trust: How psychological contract breach relates to trust trajectories and performance	22
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management	22
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization	21

The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations	21
Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues	21
Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges	21
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review	20
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective	20
The intertwined effect of HRM practices and transformational leadership on employees’ attitudes in an M&A context: Evidence from a collaborative and mixed-methods study	20
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions	20
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength	20
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)	20
Legitimacy by association? How citizens form propriety beliefs through horizontal spillovers in public–private partnerships	19
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders	18
Productive engagement in virtual teams: How team relational climates shape virtual team performance over time	18
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?	18
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective	17
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management	17
Organization as the abuser: Introducing & operationalizing organizational mistreatment	17
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens	17
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field	17
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness	17
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract	17
Editorial Board	17
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience	17
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions	16
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms	16
Expanding on individual resilience in organizational contexts: The case of reconciling the work–eldercare conflict of middle-aged women	16
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis	16
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing	15
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times	15
Editorial Board	15
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management	14
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers	14
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses	14
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?	14
Editorial Board	14
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach	14
The importance of employee bodily movements in everyday organizational life	14
Mapping the interdisciplinary landscape of management and organization studies: A big data bibliometric-systematic literature review	13
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets	13
Mobilising materiality for strategy work: the role of organisational spaces	13
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes	13
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance	13
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda	13
Big data analytics and supply chain learning: A serial mediation model for enhancing resilience and financial performance	13
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	13
Expansion-oriented job crafting and employee performance: A self-empowerment perspective	13
Strategic communication in organizational change: Exploring the impact of two-sided messages on legitimacy judgments and commitment to change	13
Orchestrating the bounce back: Resourceful boards, competent owners, and organizational resilience	13
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees	13
Institutional complexity in action: how do prison directors engage in institutional maintenance work?	12
Government policy innovation in spurring nascent entrepreneurship during pandemic	12
When affective commitment leads to viability: The role of trust as a mediator and virtuality as a moderator	12
The role of organisational drivers of exploration and exploitation – Market dynamism as a contingency factor	12
Bridging generations: The impact of family collective psychological ownership on succession in family businesses	12
Job crafting and well-being among school principals: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration	12
The big passion play in new venture creation: New insights from a moderated mediation model	12
Reverse asymmetry: Agency in advanced economy subsidiaries of emerging market multinational enterprises	12
Afraid to be vulnerable? Women, leadership, and the constructive role of vulnerability for organizations	12
Peripheral-based subsidiaries and financial and non-financial performance: Evidence from an emerging market	12
Stakeholder-oriented brand management: A Venn-diagram approach to monitor brand associations	12
On refugee integration as organizing processes—Action nets, agency, and power	12
When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm	11
Influence of gender equality practices and work–life programs on women in leadership, management, and nonmanagement: The role of industry gender composition	11
The role of focal leaders in collective leadership behavior: A historiometric analysis of socialized and personalized leaders	11
Exploring the impact of sustainable value proposition on firm performance	11
40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research	11
Fitting in or feeling the tension: Matching personality traits with innovation attributes of corporate coworking spaces	11
We are family! The role of family members’ identification in the internationalization of family firms	11
Editorial Board	10
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 approaches	10
Integrating national culture into the organizational performance feedback theory	10
Editorial Board	10
Which collaborations allow firms to become gatekeepers? A longitudinal analysis of a large-scale collaboration network	10
Reflections on the roles of governance and leadership in profit-for-purpose companies: A European–United States comparative perspective	10
A new framework of firm-level innovation capability: A propensity–ability perspective	10
On the consequences of scarcity mindset: How ‘having too little’ means so much for ethnic venture failure	10
Divestitures and the proportion of women on firms’ boards: The effect of shareholders and visibility	10
A platform for ideas that Matter: New paths for publishing in EMJ	10
Temporal perceptions and tensions in production management	9
Exploring the moderating effect of family communication patterns on the family CEO characteristics – family firm internationalization relationship	9
Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide	9

Contactless marketing management of fashion brands in the digital age	9
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative	9
Career patterns of top managers in Europe: Signs of further globalisation?	9
Studying social representations of cross-boundary collaboration between managers through drawings	9
Why do some followers remain silent in response to abusive supervision? A system justification perspective	9
Organizational sensemaking: A systematic review and a co-evolutionary model	9
Editorial Board	9
Managing inconsistencies in medical decision-making: An eight-fold typology	9
Job well robotized! – Maintaining task diversity and well-being in managing technological changes	8
We are not who they think we are! Examining responses of qualified Tunisian immigrants in France to country-of-origin based image discrepancies	8
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	8
Integration, employee resistance, and acquisition performance	8
In service of the CEO's ego: The relationship between CEO narcissism and top management team composition	8
Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions	8
Social good under transformation: New contexts for social entrepreneurship	8
The behavioral aspects of innovation in the age of pandemic	8
Cross-level effect of resonant leadership on remote engagement: A moderated mediation analysis in the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis	8
Pride cometh before a fall: The incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry	8
The role of daily leadership in promoting playful work design: Enhancing employee flourishing and performance	8
Innovation capabilities decoded: Risks and rewards in small and medium enterprise performance	8
Women who LinkedIn: The gender networking gap among executives	8
Corporate risk management and pension investment policy	8
Identifying success factors for female entrepreneurs using the AMO framework: Empirical evidence from Japan	7
“We open doors others do not!”: Position and power of foreign institutional networks	7
Steadying the fickle friend—How leader extraversion and neuroticism shape teams’ ability to build on prior success for sustained performance	7
From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic	7
Resilience on an emotional rollercoaster: Refugee entrepreneurship under adversity	7
(Ir)responsible uses of technologies and the future of work: Managerial and organizational dilemmas	7
Serving two masters: Commitment profiles of employees in the German military reserve	7
A learning-based explanation of the time properties of the international scaling of digital entrepreneurial ventures	7
Editorial Board	7
“A show of good taste” – How creative individuals can employ signal observability strategies to influence their reputation among experts: Evidence from French gastronomy	7
The model–viewer gap can harm attitudes and behavioral intentions: The moderation of body dissatisfaction	7
Time banditry behavior in China: Dimension exploration and scale development	6
Nonprototypical managers: The identity work of young managers in relation to age-based stereotypes	6
Transformational versus transactional leadership styles and project success: A meta-analytic review	6
When the stars align: The effect of institutional pressures on sustainable human resource management through organizational engagement	6
A service ecosystem-informed conceptual framework and research agenda regarding mergers and acquisitions	6
Cooperation between large companies and start-ups: An overview of the current state of research	6
Spirituality, support, and agency: An investigation of how Indian women cope with career shocks	6
Driven to work as a double-edged sword: The role of polychronicity and sleep quality in employee psychological outcomes	6
A person-centered perspective in assessing career adaptability: Potential profiles, outcomes, and antecedents	6
Following the chain of command? How managers balance benefits and risks in granting autonomy to employees	6
Mining the hidden seam of proximity m-payment adoption: A hybrid PLS-artificial neural network analytical approach	6
Does empowering leadership affect SMEs' sustainability performance through knowledge transfer?	6
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 2023	6
Managing the invisible: The challenges of religious expression in the workplace	6
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	5
Religious faith as a double edge sword: Buffering and amplifying the negative effect of despotic leaders	5
Attracting talent through diversity at the top: The impact of TMT diversity and firms' efforts to promote diversity on employer attractiveness	5
Actions speak louder than words: An interpersonal relationship perspective	5
Developing classic systematic literature reviews to advance knowledge: Dos and don'ts	5
How managers’ risk perceptions affect their willingness to blame advisors as scapegoats	5
FinTech in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): A review and future research agenda	5
Organizational injustice and employee affective health: The moderating effects of labor market conditions	5
Editorial Board	5
New directions to create dynamic capabilities: The role of pioneering orientation and interorganizational relationships	5
Materiality in institutional work: Shaping the emerging logic of policy co-creation	5
‘The great resignation’: The ambivalences of the liquid employee facing a consumerist work relationship	5
Extending careers with purpose? An exploration of the benefits of skill-based volunteering programs for aging employees	5
Scylla and Charybdis: The relationships between supervisor active and passive cyber incivility with job stress, work engagement, and turnover intentions	5
Will you speak up, digitally? A high-context communication perspective	5
Perceived collective hope: Development and validation of a scale	5
The influence of learning orientation on corporate sustainability: Serial mediation of supply chain practices	4
The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis	4
When bankers feel guilty–Employees’ vicarious guilt and the support of moral business practices	4
Refugee entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	4
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 2025	4
Organizational moral commitment: A holistic view incorporating both norms and values	4
Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors	4
Multilevel qualitative research: Insights from practice	4
Employability skills: Profiling data scientists in the digital labour market	4
Socioemotional wealth in family business research: A systematic literature review on its definition, roles and dimensions	4
Responding to discontinuities in product-based service supply chains in the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards transilience	4
The effect of board size on shareholder value: Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions	4
Beyond linear models: how (in)authenticity and identity asymmetry shape the visibility and invisibility of religious identity among muslim women who wear the hijab at work in France	4
Shared leadership in MNC agile software teams: The role of team leadership style and attitude to sport	4
Way-shaping in extreme contexts: How search and rescue teams navigated the 2023 Turkey earthquake	4
Examining stakeholder reactions to corporate social irresponsibility: Evidence from social media	4
International intermediaries: A systematic literature review and research agenda	4
Board composition, audit committee characteristics, and R&D expenditure	4
How meta-organizations take shape: Boundary work in multi-stakeholder sustainability initiatives	4
Disability inclusion in workplaces, firm performance, and reputation	4
Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms: A configurational approach	4
The role of mindfulness on the relationship between job complexity and job crafting: A self-regulation approach	4
Unravelling top managers: Who are they and do they really matter?	4
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2025	4
One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon	4
Professional imprinting mechanisms in the doctoral trajectory: Impact on researcher identity diversity	4