Chinese Management Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Chinese Management Studies is 2. 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
Emotional labor management in e-smile service: does pay-for-performance work?33
Foreign competition and corporate social responsibility: the role of the firm–government relationships26
Balancing work and family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of work conditions and family-friendly policy25
Effects of intergovernmental fiscal transfers on technological innovation in China22
The employability consequences of grit: examining the roles of job involvement and team member proactivity20
Does task-technology fit suppress employee innovation in digital transformation? The role of positive emotions and creative self-expectations19
Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments17
Symbolic or substantive CSR: effect of green mergers and acquisitions premium on firm value in China16
Political institutional imprinting and Chinese private enterprises’ initial ownership strategies in OFDI15
Nonmarket strategy and innovation performance in pharmaceutical industry: the moderating effect of internal capability and external IT environment15
Exploring business model diversification and circular value creation in digital platforms for circular economy: insights from Chinese preowned electronics industry14
Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: a two-path mediating role of trust14
Generating business intelligence through automated textual analysis: measuring corporate image with online information14
Does perceived overqualification lead to cyberloafing? A moderated-mediation model based on social cognitive theory14
Unraveling psychological dilemma among miners in the context of low-carbon transformation: an ISM-MICMAC approach13
How and when top management green commitment facilitates employees green behavior: a multilevel moderated mediation model13
How corporate social responsibility moderates the relationship between distributive unfairness and organizational revenge: a deontic justice perspective12
CEO self-transcendent values influence top managers’ socially responsible behaviors: from a social learning perspective12
Impact of corporate social responsibility on carbon emission reduction in supply chains12
Volunteer to bury your talents: the influence of work values on voluntary overqualification11
Speak more or less: how firms adjust environmental information disclosure to performance feedback11
Environmental turbulence, network position and firm innovation: evidence from a natural experiment in China11
Cyberloafing at the workplace: effect of Zhong-Yong thinking on mental health and mindfulness as a moderating role11
The impact of directors’ green experience on firm environmental information disclosure: evidence from China10
Gain or loss: the double-edged effect of empowering leadership on employees’ innovative behaviours10
Does global value chain position affect innovation performance of China’s high-tech industries?10
Nonprimogeniture succession and innovation investment in family businesses10
Does corporate social responsibility influence corporate innovation in China? Combining innovation investment and dynamic capabilities theory10
Digital transformation and OFDI efficiency: the moderating role of GVC expansion and heterogeneous innovation10
Bibliometric approach to inclusive entrepreneurship: what has been written in scientific academia?10
Mechanisms of knowledge workers’ adaptive perfectionism on taking charge9
Artificial intelligence applications implication for ESG performance: can digital transformation of enterprises promote sustainable development?9
Top management teams’ technological orientation and digital transformation: evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises9
Entrepreneurial collective efficacy and team effectiveness in new venture teams: an investigation of moderated mediation mechanisms9
Timing, paths and contents of the intergenerational inheritance of family firm from the perspective of HeXie theory9
Understanding Chinese automobile firms: past, present and path to be world class9
Beauty premium: the impact of CEO facial attractiveness on corporate social responsibility9
The impact of paths of digital innovation on sustainable development performance: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry8
How do employees’ strengths use for tasks and strengths use for relationships interact to influence their job performance?8
The effect of perceived fit on thriving at work in a Chinese context8
Gaining legitimacy or exploiting opportunities? MNCs’ response to the belt and road initiative in China8
Digitization and radical innovation: the serial mediation effect of absorptive capacity8
Kinship heterogeneity and social responsibility performance of family firms: the moderating role of family-based naming7
Catering to their pleasure: female employees and corporate philanthropy7
Government support, talent, coupling of innovation chain and capital chain: empirical analysis in integrated circuit enterprises7
Perceived working conditions and employee performance in the coal mining sector of China: a job demands-resources perspective7
AI orientation, global value chain collaboration, and the international performance of entrepreneurial firms: a technology affordance theory perspective7
Green vision, steady minds: the impact of corporate ESG performance on managerial perception of uncertainty7
CEO transformational leadership and firm innovation: the role of strategic flexibility and top management team knowledge diversity7
The impact of cooperative communication on co-innovation performance: the mediating role of knowledge sharing7
Guest editorial: Institutions, corporate governance and entrepreneurship: a research agenda for Chinese world-class enterprises6
Firm age and Chinese firms’ OFDI in developing and developed countries: the moderating roles of industry munificence and state ownership6
How entrepreneurial implementation intention moves toward subsequent actions: affordable loss and environmental uncertainty6
Enterprise digital transformation and labor structure evolution: evidence from China6
Corporate social responsibility, brand value and corporate governance: new evidence from a 3SLS model6
Career variety and turnover intention: mediating role of job crafting and moderating role of HR innovators and integrators6
The curvilinear relationship between hindrance stressors and bootlegging: the moderate role of state ownership6
Financial performance feedback, institutional ownership and green innovation: evidence from China6
Research on corporate financialization and green innovation: moderating role of CEO’s individual characteristics6
Workaholism and work–family conflict: a moderated mediation model of psychological detachment from work and family-supportive supervisor behavior6
The value of cognitive bias: exploring the role of overconfidence and illusion of control in driving business model innovation6
Marketing capability, technology capability and complementor performance: the mediating role of platform network centrality6
Curvilinear effect of economic policy uncertainty on innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms: do managerial pay gaps matter?6
The effect of job insecurity on employee silence: test an interactive model5
What drives the effectual entrepreneurship: combinative effects of environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurs’ means5
From technology to sustainability: the role of AI in reducing corporate pollution5
Extending working lives: how age-inclusive HR practices shape the older workers’ willingness to delay retirement5
Strategic orientation, strategic flexibility and firm performance: the important role of strategic human resource management5
Impact of corruption on Chinese investment in African countries5
Strategic flexibility or persistence? Examining the survival path of export enterprises under COVID-195
Building world-class enterprises though mixed-ownership reform: explaining performance differences in minority and majority state-owned enterprises5
Voluntary overqualification: conceptualization, scale development and validation5
The expectancy violation effect: how negative performance feedback affects firms’ M&A intensity5
How can firms achieve sustainable high growth? A case study based on the integrating orchestration of digital elements and traditional resources5
Better safe than sorry: the role of anticipated regret and organizational ethical climate in predicting workplace safety behavior5
Research on operating mechanisms of hidden champion-led niche platform ecosystems: innovation and collaboration5
Exploration or exploitation? A comparative analysis of organizational slack and technological environmental dynamism in external knowledge searches5
Strategic responses to performance below aspiration: the moderating roles of institutional development and industry competition4
Impact of family supportive leadership on taking charge behaviour: resource-gain-development framework perspective4
Nonlinear impact of market segmentation on the upgrading of Chinese manufacturing enterprises4
The power of the public: air environmental concern and corporate ESG performance4
No shame, no glory: when and why leader aggressive humor promotes employees’ promotive and prohibitive voices4
The heterogeneous impact of team faultlines on proactive behavior in the context of artificial intelligence: an information processing perspective4
A configurational analysis of innovation ambidexterity: evidence from Chinese niche leaders4
Does digital transformation help mitigate firm innovation dilemma? A quasi-natural experiment based on the COVID-19 pandemic in China4
The micromechanism of “co-beneficial” cooperation between government and business in the context of Chinese transition economy: the case of “Daqing–Geely mode”4
Impact of participation in the belt and road initiative on regional economic resilience at province level4
Effect of team identification on employee constructive deviance: the role of moral justification and environmental instability4
Being politically connected: corporate charitable giving before and after the 2016 Charity Law4
Study of double-edged sword effect of green human resource management on hospitality employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment4
Regulatory focus of the top management team and firms’ green innovation: the contingency of the firm’s environmental underperformance4
Stock market reaction to affiliated sports teams’ performance: evidence from China4
Loss of control: AI-based decision-making induces negative company evaluation4
A mechanistic study of the influence of quantum leadership on employees’ constructive deviance4
Impact of managerial power on enterprise innovation performance: the mediating roles of financing constraints and strategic orientation4
Risk identification, quantification and governance strategies for generative artificial intelligence service4
On the link between job insecurity and CWB: moderated mediation by employment status and turnover intention4
The effect of supervisor developmental feedback on employee silence behaviour: perspective of cognitive-affective personality system4
Where humor prevails, entrepreneurship never ends: the role of leader’s positive humor on employee intrapreneurship4
Too much of a good thing: the non-linear effect of vertical pay dispersion on vice presidents’ voluntary turnover rate4
How does differential leadership affect team decision-making effectiveness? The role of thriving at work and cooperative goal perception4
Adapting to uncertainty: digital transformation strategy of Chinese listed companies under climate policy shifts3
Family roots, green shoots: exploring the impact of work–family interpersonal capitalization on employee green behavior3
Formation of TMT strategic consensus: the effects of collective team identification and information elaboration3
Abusive supervision and employee unethical pro-organizational behavior: a moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and traditionality3
Can digital transformation policy drive digital innovation of Chinese enterprises: based on the quasi-natural experiment of big data comprehensive pilot zones3
How proactive personality moderates the impact of abusive supervision on job performance: explanations from the conservation of resources theory3
Influence of big data analytical capability on new product performance – the effects of collaboration capability and team collaboration in high-tech firm3
Tackling organizational wicked problems: a heuristics study based on a qualitative comparative analysis approach3
Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders3
Do corporate social responsibility reduce crash risk of stock price: evidence from China3
Green fund shareholdings and firms’ dual performance: based on the perspective of institutional logic3
Do professionals really matter? Top executive legal expertise and firm lawsuits3
Mechanism of digital business model innovation for common prosperity: based on resource orchestration perspective3
The power of peers: how common ownership networks shape corporate digitalization3
Digital technologies and Chinese digital firms’ green innovation3
Perceived work identity deprivation: the construct, measurement, and validity3
Managerial Coase theorem: evidence from China3
The effects of executives’ overseas background on enterprise digital transformation: evidence from China3
Financial misconduct and corporate innovation: evidence from China3
Between facilitation and hindrance: linking CEO Machiavellianism, top management team collective organizational engagement and new ventures performance3
Does the deepening of digital trade rules improve GVC positioning?– A product-level analysis3
Getting organizational adaptability in the context of digital transformation3
Effects of work-to-family conflict on job satisfaction and reparative behaviors3
Antecedents of voice endorsement: a communication perspective3
The double-edged sword impact of companies’ digital transformation on employee counterproductive work behavior3
Ties, status, and internationalization of Chinese private firms3
Accelerate or delay? Big step internationalization and the speed of subsequent foreign expansion—evidence from Chinese MNEs3
Editorial: QCA methodology and causal complexity of management studies in China3
Career calling and employee innovative behavior: the role of role breadth self-efficacy and supervisor innovation support3
How does liability of origin influence cross-border acquisition completion? Evidence from Chinese firms2
How large entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation: the roles of interdepartmental collaboration and organizational culture2
Followers’ role breadth self-efficacy matters: examining the “double-edged sword” effects of empowering leadership2
Managerial coaching behavior and subordinates’ learning effects in cross-cultural context: a moderated mediation study2
The impact of corporate social responsibility on green innovation: a test based on meta-analysis2
Impact of firm’s supply chain network position on digital transformation: evidence from China2
How do digital ­oriented firms perform superior environmental performance? A natural resource ­based view2
Are senior management with academic experience more cautious? Empirical evidence from corporate risk-taking2
Organizational design, knowledge scanning and employee creativity: a study from the attention allocation perspective2
How does technology sourcing in organizational ambidexterity produce high venture performance?2
CEO’s early-life extreme experiences and corporate social responsibility: the moderating role of CEO power2
How host-country firms’ information transparency affects MNEs’ joint venture entry mode of OFDI: evidence from Chinese listed manufacturing firms2
Chinese multinationals post-merger integration evolutions in developed markets from autonomy to actual-form integration: a lens of ambidexterity2
Work boundary violations and daily goal progress in remote work: the importance of the work role re-engagement2
How do peer listed stars affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China2
Blockchain for smart manufacturing systems: a survey2
Navigating multiple institutional environments: institutional quality and the role of Belt and Road Initiative on location choice of Chinese MNEs2
Do subsidy increases promote or inhibit innovation? Evidence from Chinese enterprises listed on the SSE STAR Market2
Exploring the effect of socially responsible human resource management on team cooperation: a social information processing theory perspective2
The individual-team multilevel outputs of humble leadership based on the affective events theory2
Returnee entrepreneurs’ effects on external and internal CSR in China: the moderating role of market embeddedness and government endorsement2
Workplace small talk and task performance: the chain mediation role of relational energy and positive affect2
How do entrepreneurial activities at different levels promote business growth: a review and research agenda2
The unintended consequences of temporal leadership: a multilevel investigation of the effects of temporal leadership on employee silence2
Friend or foe in the eyes of the beholder? How and when LMX increases and decreases workplace ostracism2
How institutional advantage influences overseas subsidiary performance: the mediating role of media legitimacy2
How career growth intervene job burnout for informal-identity auxiliary police in China? The dual mediating role of career commitment and career delay of gratification2
Cross-level interaction mechanism for high growth among digital start–ups: an fsQCA analysis2
Chairman–CEO demographic similarity and voluntary CEO turnover: the moderating role of equity incentives and Confucian culture2
Unveiling consumer intentions in internet-only banking: a machine learning–assisted analytical approach2
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
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