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Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Business Management 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Brand and customer management mindsets creating brand relationships and equity in young adults	20
Biodiversity reporting: Comparing listed entities in the United Kingdom and South Africa	14
Resistance: Faces of power and how identity is reflected	12
The role of management accounting in human capital management: Lessons from the services sector	9
Corporate Sustainability and Service Innovation; Moderating role of absorptive capacity	8
Consequences of family-supportive supervisor behaviour: A meta-analytic review	7
Corporate Sustainability and Service Innovation; Moderating role of absorptive capacity	7
Responsible leadership, an Afrocentric viewpoint: Leadership as a collective effort	7
Corrigendum: Corporate governance and performance of state-owned enterprises in a least developed economy	7
Are initial public offerings significant to firm performance in an emerging stock market? Evidence from China	6
Responsible leadership in the public sector: A sector-specific interpretation	6
A business continuity model for manufacturing SMMEs underscoring talent management	6
Greasing the wheel through bribes: interaction of national culture and local business conditions	6
Fostering supply chain performance and resilience through technology	6
Using trust to gain credible access to the boardroom: A methodological contribution	5
Components of integrated thinking: Evidence from South African listed companies	5
The impact of environmental, social and governance performance on brand value: The role of the digitalisation level	5
Big data analytics effect on competitive performance: mediating role of business model innovation	5
Understanding the determinants of the development of the green bond market in South Africa	5
Exploring the effect of entrepreneurial bricolage and new venture growth	5
Table of Contents Vol 54, No 1 (2023)	5
Dynamic innovation model for ambidextrous SMEs: Insights from a bibliometrics analysis	5
Marketing exploitation and exploration in export companies: The moderating effect of organisational formalisation	5
Adaptive leadership Competencies for hybrid work teams in the South African banking sector	5
Is board-tie among rivals harmful to customers? Evidence from banks’ project-financing consortium	5

Firm value, corporate cash holdings and the role of managerial ability	4
Responsible leadership through purpose-driven brand building: Guidelines for leaders in Africa	4
Empowering employees for digital transformation in manufacturing enterprises: A case study	4
Evaluating the understanding and implementation of Non-compliance with Laws and Regulations	4
Assessing attendees’ satisfaction at a craft beer festival by means of an importance-performance analysis	4
Variations on Internet of Things adoption factors between India and the USA	4
Perceptions of asset managers on corporate social responsibility challenges and opportunities	4
China’s technological footprint in Africa: A patent network analysis	4
My heritage matters: Building a strong brand, awareness and image	4
South African Journal of Business Management: Annual editorial overview 2021	3
Green practices and supply chain performance in South African textiles: Evidence from Gauteng	3
Leveraging resources and dynamic capabilities for organizational resilience amid COVID-19	3
Factors influencing top management team dynamics for successful strategy implementation	3
Data-related risks for the use of machine learning in retail customer demand forecasting	3
The moderating effect of expatriate acculturation on career sustainability: Evidence from Chinese University alumni from Africa	3
Innovation to intention: Drivers of fashion rental platform adoption in the circular economy	3
The effect of SMEs’ dynamic capability on operational capabilities and organisational agility	3
Digital transformation and employees’ unethical pro-self behaviours: Roles of uncertainty and job security	3
How event quality affects satisfaction and revisit intention from the theory of planned behaviour	3
Business environment’s impact on female students’ entrepreneurial intentions: Gender analysis	3
Psychological career pre-occupation and social connectedness in Ghanaian education staff’s career management	3
Conceptualising Responsible Leadership in South Africa: An Interactive Qualitative Analysis	3
SMEs perception related to their trade credit management effectiveness	3
The perceived influence of Christian leadership competencies during COVID-19	3
Impacts of digital transformation on enterprise innovation resilience: A study from China	3
Exploring opportunism, conflict, noneconomic satisfaction and economic satisfaction in a B2B context – A buyer and seller perspective	3
Resourcing actions that influenced business model adaptation during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Business growth mentorship for female-owned enterprises in South Africa	2
Table of Contents Vol 53, No 1 (2022)	2
Driving customer loyalty in digital banking: The mediating role of engagement and the moderating role of switching costs	2
Entrepreneurial learning outcomes in the transition from hybrid to full-time entrepreneurship	2
Fuelling innovation with love: Unravelling the role of companionate love culture and Confucian work values in employees’ innovative behaviour	2
The drivers of reflection in arts-based coaching	2
Performance Assessment through Work Gamification: Investigating Engagement	2
Financial technology in a South African banking institution to achieve strategic sustainability	2
Factors influencing electronic human resource management implementation in public organisations in an emerging economy: An empirical study	2
An analysis of key audit matter disclosures in South African audit reports from 2017 to 2020	2
Is digital transformation a catalyst or challenge for corporate financial flexibility? Evidence from China	2
Can strategic corporate social responsibility drive corporate innovation?	2
Flipping the South African Journal of Business Management: The implications of going Open Access	2
The relationship between employee-related disclosures and working days lost because of labour strikes	2
Corporate social responsibility, organisational reputation and liability of foreignness	2
Effect of digital brand experience on luxury fashion brand authenticity, attachment and loyalty	2
Millennial leaders and leadership styles displayed in the workplace	2
The U-shaped effect of responsible leadership on employees’ cyberloafing	2
The association between optimism and future performance: Evidence of impression management from chief executive officer and chairperson letters	2
How to create Shared Value in mining organisations	2
Acknowledgement to reviewers	1
Social entrepreneurship orientation and corporate dual performance: A serial mediation model	1
The composition of listed family firm boards in South Africa: Alignment to best practices and governance codes	1

Corrigendum: Investigating the relationship between corporate social responsibility and market, cost and environmental performance for sustainable business	1
Perceptions of economic policy uncertainty and digital transformation: Evidence from China	1
From satisfaction to revisit: The nexus of tourist attitude with cultural image	1
Table of Contents Vol 52, No 1 (2021)	1
Managerial strategies to reduce stress and brain drain in tourism through moral values	1
Determinants of emerging technologies adoption in the South African financial sector	1
A leadership-organisational performance model for state-owned enterprises in emerging economies	1
Financial reporting challenges of small- and medium-capitalisation JSE-listed companies	1
The role of affective commitment in promoting knowledge sharing in Zimbabwean higher education	1
Do firms’ pension contributions decrease their investment efficiency in Chinese context?	1
A qualitative system dynamics perspective on the contribution of information technology credibility towards business and information technology alignment	1
Organisational support and employee commitment on turnover in a high-risk occupation	1
Does board gender diversity improve environmental, social and governance disclosure? Evidence from South Africa	1
Understanding Millennial relationships and consumption of no and low alcohol beer brands	1
Online education and organisational space in business schools during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
South African young adult males’ behavioural intentions when purchasing apparel via mobile apps	1
Analysing crab syndrome through the perspective of life history theory	1
Digital transformation: A literature review in the context of international economies and finance	1
An evaluation of the use of professional judgement in corporate valuations in South Africa	1
Decent work and economic growth in the South African agricultural sector	1
Contextual entrepreneurship and gender: The case of Nigeria in relation to developed countries	1
Effecting successful shared value creation: The role of organisations in fence-line communities	1
CEO’s childhood poverty experience and corporate greenwashing: Evidence from China	1
Relationship amongst cultural openness, world-mindedness, product-country image and purchase intention of Korean and Chinese smartphone products: A case study of the South African consumers	1
Strategies for the declining printing industry: Diversification, consolidation, and internationalisation	1
The influence of self-awareness on effective leadership outcomes in South Africa	1
‘We are surviving well’: Adaptive strategies applied by women in an underground South African mine	1
The impact of human resource management practices on affective commitment: An empirical study in micro, small and medium enterprises using partial least squares structural equation modelling	1
Sensemaking and corporate social responsibility: Implications for stakeholder communication amid the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Self-perceived employability, well-being and institutional embeddedness of accounting students	1
Disclosure of the six capitals in strategy, risk and performance sections: Evidence from South Africa	1