Chinese Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Chinese Management Studies is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of intergovernmental fiscal transfers on technological innovation in China29
The employability consequences of grit: examining the roles of job involvement and team member proactivity28
Symbolic or substantive CSR: effect of green mergers and acquisitions premium on firm value in China26
Foreign competition and corporate social responsibility: the role of the firm–government relationships22
Does task-technology fit suppress employee innovation in digital transformation? The role of positive emotions and creative self-expectations19
Balancing work and family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of work conditions and family-friendly policy17
Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments17
Generating business intelligence through automated textual analysis: measuring corporate image with online information16
Unraveling psychological dilemma among miners in the context of low-carbon transformation: an ISM-MICMAC approach15
Nonmarket strategy and innovation performance in pharmaceutical industry: the moderating effect of internal capability and external IT environment15
Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: a two-path mediating role of trust15
Exploring business model diversification and circular value creation in digital platforms for circular economy: insights from Chinese preowned electronics industry15
Political institutional imprinting and Chinese private enterprises’ initial ownership strategies in OFDI14
Environmental turbulence, network position and firm innovation: evidence from a natural experiment in China13
Impact of corporate social responsibility on carbon emission reduction in supply chains13
How and when top management green commitment facilitates employees green behavior: a multilevel moderated mediation model13
Does perceived overqualification lead to cyberloafing? A moderated-mediation model based on social cognitive theory13
How corporate social responsibility moderates the relationship between distributive unfairness and organizational revenge: a deontic justice perspective13
Speak more or less: how firms adjust environmental information disclosure to performance feedback12
CEO self-transcendent values influence top managers’ socially responsible behaviors: from a social learning perspective12
Volunteer to bury your talents: the influence of work values on voluntary overqualification11
Does corporate social responsibility influence corporate innovation in China? Combining innovation investment and dynamic capabilities theory11
Cyberloafing at the workplace: effect of Zhong-Yong thinking on mental health and mindfulness as a moderating role11
Bibliometric approach to inclusive entrepreneurship: what has been written in scientific academia?10
Gain or loss: the double-edged effect of empowering leadership on employees’ innovative behaviours10
Influence of intellectual capital and integration on operational performance: big data analytical capability perspectives10
Does global value chain position affect innovation performance of China’s high-tech industries?10
Mechanisms of knowledge workers’ adaptive perfectionism on taking charge10
Digital transformation and OFDI efficiency: the moderating role of GVC expansion and heterogeneous innovation9
The impact of directors’ green experience on firm environmental information disclosure: evidence from China9
Understanding Chinese automobile firms: past, present and path to be world class9
Artificial intelligence applications implication for ESG performance: can digital transformation of enterprises promote sustainable development?9
Kinship heterogeneity and social responsibility performance of family firms: the moderating role of family-based naming8
Gaining legitimacy or exploiting opportunities? MNCs’ response to the belt and road initiative in China8
The effect of perceived fit on thriving at work in a Chinese context8
Nonprimogeniture succession and innovation investment in family businesses8
Perceived working conditions and employee performance in the coal mining sector of China: a job demands-resources perspective8
Entrepreneurial collective efficacy and team effectiveness in new venture teams: an investigation of moderated mediation mechanisms8
Timing, paths and contents of the intergenerational inheritance of family firm from the perspective of HeXie theory8
Beauty premium: the impact of CEO facial attractiveness on corporate social responsibility8
The impact of paths of digital innovation on sustainable development performance: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry7
Digitization and radical innovation: the serial mediation effect of absorptive capacity7
The impact of cooperative communication on co-innovation performance: the mediating role of knowledge sharing7
Workaholism and work–family conflict: a moderated mediation model of psychological detachment from work and family-supportive supervisor behavior7
CEO transformational leadership and firm innovation: the role of strategic flexibility and top management team knowledge diversity7
How do employees’ strengths use for tasks and strengths use for relationships interact to influence their job performance?7
Green vision, steady minds: the impact of corporate ESG performance on managerial perception of uncertainty7
Guest editorial: Institutions, corporate governance and entrepreneurship: a research agenda for Chinese world-class enterprises7
Curvilinear effect of economic policy uncertainty on innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms: do managerial pay gaps matter?7
Research on corporate financialization and green innovation: moderating role of CEO’s individual characteristics7
AI orientation, global value chain collaboration, and the international performance of entrepreneurial firms: a technology affordance theory perspective7
Government support, talent, coupling of innovation chain and capital chain: empirical analysis in integrated circuit enterprises7
Corporate social responsibility, brand value and corporate governance: new evidence from a 3SLS model7
Career variety and turnover intention: mediating role of job crafting and moderating role of HR innovators and integrators7
The curvilinear relationship between hindrance stressors and bootlegging: the moderate role of state ownership6
Enterprise digital transformation and labor structure evolution: evidence from China6
Being politically connected: corporate charitable giving before and after the 2016 Charity Law6
Marketing capability, technology capability and complementor performance: the mediating role of platform network centrality6
What drives the effectual entrepreneurship: combinative effects of environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurs’ means6
How entrepreneurial implementation intention moves toward subsequent actions: affordable loss and environmental uncertainty6
Firm age and Chinese firms’ OFDI in developing and developed countries: the moderating roles of industry munificence and state ownership6
Financial performance feedback, institutional ownership and green innovation: evidence from China6
Impact of corruption on Chinese investment in African countries6
Impact of family supportive leadership on taking charge behaviour: resource-gain-development framework perspective5
Strategic orientation, strategic flexibility and firm performance: the important role of strategic human resource management5
Voluntary overqualification: conceptualization, scale development and validation5
How can firms achieve sustainable high growth? A case study based on the integrating orchestration of digital elements and traditional resources5
Nonlinear impact of market segmentation on the upgrading of Chinese manufacturing enterprises5
Better safe than sorry: the role of anticipated regret and organizational ethical climate in predicting workplace safety behavior5
Interdependence with suppliers in the innovation ecosystem: the effects of supplier concentration on firm innovation5
Exploration or exploitation? A comparative analysis of organizational slack and technological environmental dynamism in external knowledge searches5
Strategic flexibility or persistence? Examining the survival path of export enterprises under COVID-195
The effect of job insecurity on employee silence: test an interactive model5
Building world-class enterprises though mixed-ownership reform: explaining performance differences in minority and majority state-owned enterprises5
The expectancy violation effect: how negative performance feedback affects firms’ M&A intensity5
Extending working lives: how age-inclusive HR practices shape the older workers’ willingness to delay retirement5
How work-family conflict predict HSR drivers safety performance? Empirical evidence from China5
On the link between job insecurity and CWB: moderated mediation by employment status and turnover intention5
How does differential leadership affect team decision-making effectiveness? The role of thriving at work and cooperative goal perception4
Managerial openness and employee voice: a moderated mediation model4
Abusive supervision and employee unethical pro-organizational behavior: a moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and traditionality4
The double-edged sword impact of companies’ digital transformation on employee counterproductive work behavior4
A configurational analysis of innovation ambidexterity: evidence from Chinese niche leaders4
Getting organizational adaptability in the context of digital transformation4
Effect of team identification on employee constructive deviance: the role of moral justification and environmental instability4
Impact of managerial power on enterprise innovation performance: the mediating roles of financing constraints and strategic orientation4
The micromechanism of “co-beneficial” cooperation between government and business in the context of Chinese transition economy: the case of “Daqing–Geely mode”4
Loss of control: AI-based decision-making induces negative company evaluation4
Too much of a good thing: the non-linear effect of vertical pay dispersion on vice presidents’ voluntary turnover rate4
A mechanistic study of the influence of quantum leadership on employees’ constructive deviance4
Mechanism of digital business model innovation for common prosperity: based on resource orchestration perspective4
Where humor prevails, entrepreneurship never ends: the role of leader’s positive humor on employee intrapreneurship4
Study of double-edged sword effect of green human resource management on hospitality employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment4
The power of the public: air environmental concern and corporate ESG performance4
The effect of supervisor developmental feedback on employee silence behaviour: perspective of cognitive-affective personality system4
Effects of work-to-family conflict on job satisfaction and reparative behaviors4
Stock market reaction to affiliated sports teams’ performance: evidence from China4
Do professionals really matter? Top executive legal expertise and firm lawsuits4
Risk identification, quantification and governance strategies for generative artificial intelligence service4
Impact of participation in the belt and road initiative on regional economic resilience at province level4
Towards a meaningful innovation paradigm: conceptual framework and practice of leading world-class enterprise3
Does the deepening of digital trade rules improve GVC positioning?– A product-level analysis3
Digital technologies and Chinese digital firms’ green innovation3
Green fund shareholdings and firms’ dual performance: based on the perspective of institutional logic3
Financial misconduct and corporate innovation: evidence from China3
The impact of corporate social responsibility on green innovation: a test based on meta-analysis3
Career calling and employee innovative behavior: the role of role breadth self-efficacy and supervisor innovation support3
Accelerate or delay? Big step internationalization and the speed of subsequent foreign expansion—evidence from Chinese MNEs3
Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders3
Perceived work identity deprivation: the construct, measurement, and validity3
Does institutional fragility affect innovation investment?3
Antecedents of voice endorsement: a communication perspective3
Managerial Coase theorem: evidence from China3
Formation of TMT strategic consensus: the effects of collective team identification and information elaboration3
Do corporate social responsibility reduce crash risk of stock price: evidence from China3
Impact of firm’s supply chain network position on digital transformation: evidence from China3
Managerial coaching behavior and subordinates’ learning effects in cross-cultural context: a moderated mediation study3
Influence of big data analytical capability on new product performance – the effects of collaboration capability and team collaboration in high-tech firm3
The Eastern construction of paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedents: a Yin–Yang balancing perspective3
Guest editorial3
Family roots, green shoots: exploring the impact of work–family interpersonal capitalization on employee green behavior3
Does digital transformation help mitigate firm innovation dilemma? A quasi-natural experiment based on the COVID-19 pandemic in China3
Between facilitation and hindrance: linking CEO Machiavellianism, top management team collective organizational engagement and new ventures performance3
Ties, status, and internationalization of Chinese private firms3
The effects of executives’ overseas background on enterprise digital transformation: evidence from China3
Editorial: QCA methodology and causal complexity of management studies in China3
Tackling organizational wicked problems: a heuristics study based on a qualitative comparative analysis approach3
Work boundary violations and daily goal progress in remote work: the importance of the work role re-engagement2
Chinese multinationals post-merger integration evolutions in developed markets from autonomy to actual-form integration: a lens of ambidexterity2
Blockchain for smart manufacturing systems: a survey2
Followers’ role breadth self-efficacy matters: examining the “double-edged sword” effects of empowering leadership2
The unintended consequences of temporal leadership: a multilevel investigation of the effects of temporal leadership on employee silence2
How do entrepreneurial activities at different levels promote business growth: a review and research agenda2
How does liability of origin influence cross-border acquisition completion? Evidence from Chinese firms2
Workplace small talk and task performance: the chain mediation role of relational energy and positive affect2
How do digital ­oriented firms perform superior environmental performance? A natural resource ­based view2
Navigating multiple institutional environments: institutional quality and the role of Belt and Road Initiative on location choice of Chinese MNEs2
Cross-level interaction mechanism for high growth among digital start–ups: an fsQCA analysis2
How entrepreneurial team heterogeneity impacts decision-making performance? An input-process-output approach2
Returnee entrepreneurs’ effects on external and internal CSR in China: the moderating role of market embeddedness and government endorsement2
CEO’s early-life extreme experiences and corporate social responsibility: the moderating role of CEO power2
Innovative search, capability reconfiguration and firm innovation performance in the process of technological leapfrogging2
Impact of entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of new ventures in China: the roles of entrepreneurial bricolage and opportunity recognition2
Be zhongyong and be ethical: dual leadership in promoting employees’ thriving at work2
How large entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation: the roles of interdepartmental collaboration and organizational culture2
How do peer listed stars affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China2
Friend or foe in the eyes of the beholder? How and when LMX increases and decreases workplace ostracism2
Keeping pace with competitors in CSR: from a perspective of competitive dynamics2
How does leader emotional labor influence employee voice: the mediating roles of psychological safety and perceived voice efficacy2
Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy2
How host-country firms’ information transparency affects MNEs’ joint venture entry mode of OFDI: evidence from Chinese listed manufacturing firms2
The longer, the farther? The internationalization of Chinese firms1
Configuring an MNE’s subsidiary capabilities for performance in China1
Does supply chain concentration promote or inhibit corporate R&D investment?1
Does enterprise digital transformation promote technological innovation? Empirical evidence from China1
The influence mechanism of relational capital on adaptive behaviors of Chinese expatriates in Latin America1
The effects of geographical and business proximity on affiliates’ R&D investment: a proximity theory perspective1
Winner-takes-all or competitive coexistence? Research on the co-opetition relationships between platform owners and complementors1
Collaborating digitalization and green supply chain to promote green development of manufacturing firms – an analysis from a configurational perspective1
Employee stock ownership plans and within-firm income inequality: evidence from China1
Are senior management with academic experience more cautious? Empirical evidence from corporate risk-taking1
Coevolution of post-merger integration and dual knowledge networks reconstruction: evidence from Chinese overseas acquisitions1
How can a single spark kindle a Prairie fire? Diffusion process and mechanism of medical disruptive innovation1
The effect of technological core executives on industrial AI transformation: evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises1
Influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance: a multilevel moderated mediation model1
Influence of substantive corporate social responsibility attribution on salespeople’s value-based selling: a resource perspective1
Abusive supervision: a content analysis of theory and methodology1
Guest editorial: Digital transformation and sustainable development of Chinese enterprises1
Playing it ethical or safe? Examining the effects of executive military experience on earnings management1
Does subordinate moqi ignite employee creativity? The role of self-efficacy and face consciousness1
Predicting team effectiveness in Chinese IT companies: development and validation of team processes and emergent states (TPES) scale1
Internationalization speed and firm innovation: the moderating roles of negative attainment discrepancy and state-ownership1
Can corporate ESG investing boost zombie firms back to normal? Evidence from Chinese firms1
Social entrepreneurship and employee-related corporate social responsibility: evidence from Chinese privately owned firms1
How performance pressure influences firms’ cross-boundary growth: the moderating effect of managerial discretion1
How do team faultlines damage team voice behavior? Comparing the effects of objective and perceived faultlines1
Voluntary overqualification enables job adaptation and need targets: the mediating role of job crafting1
Do CSR awards enhance firms’ market value? Evidence from China1
Confucianism and technology for social good: evidence from Chinese listed firms1
The role of project managers’ attributes in project sustainability management and project performance under China-Pakistan economic corridor1
Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion1
Dual entrepreneurial opportunities transformation process of industrial internet platforms: structural embeddedness perspective1
How and when does leader narcissism hinder team radical creativity? The role of team information elaboration and inter-team competition1
Legitimacy-building role of incubators: a multiple case study of activities and impacts of business incubators in a developing Chinese city1
When digitalization meets HRM: developing a HRM value chain model in China1
Exploring the effect of socially responsible human resource management on team cooperation: a social information processing theory perspective1
Female leadership in sports coaching: a case analysis of Chinese coaches through the ability–motivation–opportunity framework1
The individual-team multilevel outputs of humble leadership based on the affective events theory1
COVID-19, business continuity management and standardization: case study of Huawei1
Transcendent leadership and corporate philanthropic disaster response1
Slowing down in the final lap: investigating the effect of CEO career horizon on green innovation in China1
The dilemma of winners: market power, industry competition and subsidy efficiency1
Insight into the risk-resistant function of ESG performance: An organizational management perspective1
How and when negative workplace gossip influences service sabotage behavior? A study among hotel frontline employees in China1
Organizational environments, work characteristics and employee innovative behavior in the digital age: an fsQCA approach1
Who cares about environmental, social and governance performance? Family versus non-family firms1
Exploring the factors affecting the intention to use AI systems in the health-care field with social cognitive theory: a two-stage SEM-ANN approach1
Entrepreneurship and innovation efficiency: the moderating role of absorptive capacity1
Antecedents of i-deals: a transaction cost economics perspective1
Effect of workplace status on employees’ creativity from the perspective of expectation identity: a moderated chain double mediation model1
Flexible human resource management systems and employee innovation performance in China – based on the moderated mediation effect1
Government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity: empirical analysis in photovoltaic companies1
Emerging IT investments and firm performance: a perspective of the digital options1
Can vertical interlocks of executives block adverse loops between R&D investment and the cost of equity capital? Evidence from China1
Political connection and green innovation in industrial enterprises: an examination of policy based on environmental target constraints1
Do subsidy increases promote or inhibit innovation? Evidence from Chinese enterprises listed on the SSE STAR Market1
What facilitates the emergence of shared leadership? The predictive role of team personality composition1
How does technology sourcing in organizational ambidexterity produce high venture performance?1
Regional institutional environment and R&D performance: Evidence from marketization index of China’s provinces and panel data of high-tech manufacturing firms1
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