Academy of Management Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”505
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement385
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations165
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search151
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema146
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce109
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate105
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior98
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started88
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy78
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies66
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences61
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams60
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression60
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann59
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis59
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research57
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity54
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality53
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities53
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils52
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users51
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration50
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”49
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories48
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance48
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks45
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures44
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance43
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption43
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship42
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches40
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies40
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands35
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research35
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management35
Reflexive Quantitative Research34
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value34
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind33
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship32
The Challenge and Opportunity of a Quantum Mechanics Metaphor in Organization and Management Research: A Response to Shelef, Wuebker, and Barney’s “Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas”32
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”27
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering27
What We Do While Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships27
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations26
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity26
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability25
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics25
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice25
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building24
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy24
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective24
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”24
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field21
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool20
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers20
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers20
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs20
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”19
A Dynamic Model of CEO Humor as Social Information for Infomediaries’ Social Evaluations of Organizations: An Extension to König et al.’s “Good Fun or Laughingstock?”19
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality19
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks19
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?19
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations18
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities18
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat18
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict18
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork17
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy17
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers17
Remembering Donald E. Conlon17
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments16
Institutional Parasites16
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies16
We Are Crisis: Runtime Errors in Programmatic Theory16
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing16
It’s Going to Be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor15
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field15
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity14
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”13
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems13
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters13
Ghost in the Machine: On Organizational Theory in the Age of Machine Learning13
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”13
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression13
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”13
Theorizing with Microhistory12
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy12
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets12
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation12
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior12
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility12
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty11
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”11
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind11
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”10
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value10
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters10
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity10
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience10
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?10
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship9
Demystifying and Normalizing the Psychological Experience of Writing for AMR: A Qualitative Analysis of the Highs, Lows, and Suggested Coping Strategies9
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change9
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches9
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment9
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy9
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing9
“MOB” Mentality?: On the Formation and Consequences of Moralized Opinion-Based Intergroup Conflict in Organizations8
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model8
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success8
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital8
Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions: An Extension of Lewis Et al.’s “A Promise Not (Yet) Fulfilled”8
Optimizing Concepts: Conceptual Engineering in the Field of Management—The Case of Routines Research8
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate8
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning8
Generating Theory by Abduction7
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations6
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship6
Time to Face the Music: A Commentary on Lee, Busenbark, Withers, and Zajac’s “How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics”6
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews6
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions6
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing6
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy5
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems5
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations5
Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas5
The PSI Model for Predicting Activist Engagements: Toward a Theory of Shareholder Activism5
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites5
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?5
Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian5
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”5
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR5
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization5
Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: An Extension to Mcmullen’s “Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from5
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