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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How co-working spaces self-organise to novel outcomes: A comparison and contrast study from an ecosystem perspective275
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization154
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study122
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes108
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management100
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model99
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics99
Reviewer Acknowledgement 202191
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization88
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization78
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research77
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective75
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter71
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions64
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes60
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”60
Intercultural differences in issue interpretation: Effects of emotions and framing55
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts54
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 202252
The impact of distance on acquisition performance52
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective50
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions48
Control yourselves! Linking impulse-control demands to production deviance: The role of burnout and health-specific leadership42
Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors42
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers41
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis39
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?39
Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review39
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?39
Editorial Board39
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe39
Addressing the gender data gap to advance theory, interventions, and equity for women38
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting38
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach38
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?38
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving37
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing34
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees34
Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability33
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research33
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy32
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions32
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects32
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities32
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?31
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism30
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data29
It’s all about culture! Institutional context and ownership concentration across Europe28
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments28
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda27
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms27
Migration of skilled professionals across the border: Brain drain or brain gain?27
A resource-based view on SMEs regarding the transition to more sophisticated stages of industry 4.027
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance26
Editorial Board26
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention26
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions26
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work25
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions25
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms25
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior25
Beyond the numbers: Reflections from three Global South countries using the global gender gap index24
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers24
Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study24
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 practices23
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions22
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches22
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers21
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management21
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies21
The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations21
Breaking promises, breaking trust: How psychological contract breach relates to trust trajectories and performance21
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion21
Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges20
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap20
Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues19
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern19
Legitimacy by association? How citizens form propriety beliefs through horizontal spillovers in public–private partnerships19
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization19
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)18
Productive engagement in virtual teams: How team relational climates shape virtual team performance over time18
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength18
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review18
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective18
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?18
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
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens17
Editorial Board17
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions17
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders17
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective17
Organization as the abuser: Introducing & operationalizing organizational mistreatment17
Forty years of European Management Journal: A bibliometric overview16
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis16
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract16
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience16
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions16
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes15
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field15
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?15
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness15
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms15
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses15
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management15
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach15
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management14
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers14
Societal effects of social media in organizations: Reflective points deriving from a systematic literature review and a bibliometric meta-analysis14
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times13
The services field: A cornucopia filled with potential management topics13
Periphery–core relations and the knowledge domain of international management: New contingencies, characterizations and theories13
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing13
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance12
Big data analytics and supply chain learning: A serial mediation model for enhancing resilience and financial performance12
Government policy innovation in spurring nascent entrepreneurship during pandemic12
Satisfaction with HR practices and employee performance: A moderated mediation model of engagement and health12
Reviewer Acknowledgement 202312
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees12
Mobilising materiality for strategy work: the role of organisational spaces12
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
Editorial Board12
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets12
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda12
Orchestrating the bounce back: Resourceful boards, competent owners, and organizational resilience12
40th anniversary editorial: Looking backwards to move forward in management research11
Expansion-oriented job crafting and employee performance: A self-empowerment perspective11
Peripheral-based subsidiaries and financial and non-financial performance: Evidence from an emerging market11
The role of organisational drivers of exploration and exploitation – Market dynamism as a contingency factor11
We are family! The role of family members’ identification in the internationalization of family firms11
When affective commitment leads to viability: The role of trust as a mediator and virtuality as a moderator11
The big passion play in new venture creation: New insights from a moderated mediation model11
Fitting in or feeling the tension: Matching personality traits with innovation attributes of corporate coworking spaces11
Leader–member exchange and organizational dehumanization: The role of supervisor’s organizational embodiment11
When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm11
Integrating national culture into the organizational performance feedback theory11
On refugee integration as organizing processes—Action nets, agency, and power11
Institutional complexity in action: how do prison directors engage in institutional maintenance work?11
Strategic communication in organizational change: Exploring the impact of two-sided messages on legitimacy judgments and commitment to change11
Exploring the impact of sustainable value proposition on firm performance11
The role of focal leaders in collective leadership behavior: A historiometric analysis of socialized and personalized leaders11
Editorial Board10
Editorial Board10
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 approaches10
A platform for ideas that Matter: New paths for publishing in EMJ10
A new framework of firm-level innovation capability: A propensity–ability perspective10
Stakeholder-oriented brand management: A Venn-diagram approach to monitor brand associations10
Reflections on the roles of governance and leadership in profit-for-purpose companies: A European–United States comparative perspective9
On the consequences of scarcity mindset: How ‘having too little’ means so much for ethnic venture failure9
Contactless marketing management of fashion brands in the digital age9
Career patterns of top managers in Europe: Signs of further globalisation?9
Why do some followers remain silent in response to abusive supervision? A system justification perspective9
Exploring the moderating effect of family communication patterns on the family CEO characteristics – family firm internationalization relationship9
Which collaborations allow firms to become gatekeepers? A longitudinal analysis of a large-scale collaboration network9
Temporal perceptions and tensions in production management9
Divestitures and the proportion of women on firms’ boards: The effect of shareholders and visibility9
Identifying success factors for female entrepreneurs using the AMO framework: Empirical evidence from Japan8
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative8
Editorial Board8
Job well robotized! – Maintaining task diversity and well-being in managing technological changes8
Innovation capabilities decoded: Risks and rewards in small and medium enterprise performance8
Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide8
Organizational sensemaking: A systematic review and a co-evolutionary model8
Managing inconsistencies in medical decision-making: An eight-fold typology8
Integration, employee resistance, and acquisition performance8
In service of the CEO's ego: The relationship between CEO narcissism and top management team composition8
We are not who they think we are! Examining responses of qualified Tunisian immigrants in France to country-of-origin based image discrepancies8
Climate change, consumer lifestyles and legitimation strategies of sustainability-oriented firms8
Studying social representations of cross-boundary collaboration between managers through drawings8
Women who LinkedIn: The gender networking gap among executives7
Cross-level effect of resonant leadership on remote engagement: A moderated mediation analysis in the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis7
Editorial Board7
Resilience on an emotional rollercoaster: Refugee entrepreneurship under adversity7
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20227
The role of daily leadership in promoting playful work design: Enhancing employee flourishing and performance7
Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions7
“We open doors others do not!”: Position and power of foreign institutional networks7
From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic7
Pride cometh before a fall: The incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry7
The behavioral aspects of innovation in the age of pandemic7
Nonprototypical managers: The identity work of young managers in relation to age-based stereotypes7
Serving two masters: Commitment profiles of employees in the German military reserve7
Corporate risk management and pension investment policy7
A learning-based explanation of the time properties of the international scaling of digital entrepreneurial ventures7
Mining the hidden seam of proximity m-payment adoption: A hybrid PLS-artificial neural network analytical approach6
Does empowering leadership affect SMEs' sustainability performance through knowledge transfer?6
Driven to work as a double-edged sword: The role of polychronicity and sleep quality in employee psychological outcomes6
Following the chain of command? How managers balance benefits and risks in granting autonomy to employees6
“A show of good taste” – How creative individuals can employ signal observability strategies to influence their reputation among experts: Evidence from French gastronomy6
(Ir)responsible uses of technologies and the future of work: Managerial and organizational dilemmas6
Organizational injustice and employee affective health: The moderating effects of labor market conditions6
Managing the invisible: The challenges of religious expression in the workplace6
Transformational versus transactional leadership styles and project success: A meta-analytic review6
Impairment or amortization of goodwill? An analysis of CFO perceptions of goodwill accounting6
Cooperation between large companies and start-ups: An overview of the current state of research6
A person-centered perspective in assessing career adaptability: Potential profiles, outcomes, and antecedents6
‘The great resignation’: The ambivalences of the liquid employee facing a consumerist work relationship6
How managers’ risk perceptions affect their willingness to blame advisors as scapegoats5
When bankers feel guilty–Employees’ vicarious guilt and the support of moral business practices5
The effect of board size on shareholder value: Evidence from bank mergers and acquisitions5
Scylla and Charybdis: The relationships between supervisor active and passive cyber incivility with job stress, work engagement, and turnover intentions5
The role of mindfulness on the relationship between job complexity and job crafting: A self-regulation approach5
Attracting talent through diversity at the top: The impact of TMT diversity and firms' efforts to promote diversity on employer attractiveness5
Extending careers with purpose? An exploration of the benefits of skill-based volunteering programs for aging employees5
Perceived collective hope: Development and validation of a scale5
Actions speak louder than words: An interpersonal relationship perspective5
Unravelling top managers: Who are they and do they really matter?5
Refugee entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda5
New directions to create dynamic capabilities: The role of pioneering orientation and interorganizational relationships5
Materiality in institutional work: Shaping the emerging logic of policy co-creation5
When the stars align: The effect of institutional pressures on sustainable human resource management through organizational engagement5
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 20235
A service ecosystem-informed conceptual framework and research agenda regarding mergers and acquisitions5
Responding to discontinuities in product-based service supply chains in the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards transilience5
Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms: A configurational approach5
Developing classic systematic literature reviews to advance knowledge: Dos and don'ts5
Will you speak up, digitally? A high-context communication perspective5
Reviewer Acknowledgement 20245
Time banditry behavior in China: Dimension exploration and scale development5
FinTech in small and medium enterprises (SMEs): A review and future research agenda5
The state of play of ethno-racial representation on boards: A comparative analysis4
Examining stakeholder reactions to corporate social irresponsibility: Evidence from social media4
Organizational disidentification and change-oriented citizenship behavior4
Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors4
Multilevel qualitative research: Insights from practice4
Toward a comprehensive perspective on hubristic leadership – An aggregation of cross-disciplinary evidence and roadmap for future research4
Disability inclusion in workplaces, firm performance, and reputation4
One concept to bind them: An exploration of the search fund phenomenon4
Way-shaping in extreme contexts: How search and rescue teams navigated the 2023 Turkey earthquake4
How meta-organizations take shape: Boundary work in multi-stakeholder sustainability initiatives4
Advice tie reallocation under organizational downsizing: A longitudinal network study4
Approaching management and organization paradoxes paradoxically: The case for the tetralemma as an expansive encasement strategy4
Professional imprinting mechanisms in the doctoral trajectory: Impact on researcher identity diversity4
Employability skills: Profiling data scientists in the digital labour market4
International intermediaries: A systematic literature review and research agenda4
Shared leadership in MNC agile software teams: The role of team leadership style and attitude to sport4
“We were working together, apart”: Shifting fundamentals of pandemic disrupted coworking environments4
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