Most-cited Business and Management papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Business and Management research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Job demands–resources theory: Taking stock and looking forward.
   Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti · 2016 · 6,811 citations
2. Understanding Customer Experience Throughout the Customer Journey
   Katherine N. Lemon, Peter C. Verhoef · 2016 · 5,669 citations
3. “Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives”
   2016 · 5,102 citations
4. Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy
   Nancy M. P. Bocken, Ingrid de Pauw et al. · 2016 · 3,939 citations
5. Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship
   Satish Nambisan · 2016 · 2,781 citations
6. Ecosystem as Structure
   Ron Adner · 2016 · 2,552 citations
7. Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy
   David J. Teece, Margaret A. Peteraf et al. · 2016 · 2,284 citations
8. Understanding and Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Management Research
   Gerard George, Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville et al. · 2016 · 2,030 citations
9. Fifteen Years of Research on Business Model Innovation
   Nicolai J. Foss, Tina Saebi · 2016 · 1,909 citations
10. The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research
    Christian Leuz, Peter D. Wysocki · 2016 · 1,896 citations
11. Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
    Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim et al. · 2016 · 1,723 citations
12. The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
    Ghulam Nabi, Francisco Liñán et al. · 2016 · 1,678 citations
13. Designing the Business Models for Circular Economy—Towards the Conceptual Framework
    Mateusz Lewandowski · 2016 · 1,610 citations · Free PDF
14. Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors
    Joseph A. McCahery, Zacharias Sautner et al. · 2016 · 1,568 citations
15. Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing
    Christopher Marquis, Michael W. Toffel et al. · 2016 · 1,555 citations · Free PDF
16. Effects of Green HRM Practices on Employee Workplace Green Behavior: The Role of Psychological Green Climate and Employee Green Values
    Jenny Dumont, Jie Shen et al. · 2016 · 1,535 citations
17. On the Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility
    Hao Liang, Luc D. R. Renneboog · 2016 · 1,430 citations
18. Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks *
    Jean-Noël Barrot, Julien Sauvagnat · 2016 · 1,371 citations
19. Do Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership Explain Variance Above and Beyond Transformational Leadership? A Meta-Analysis
    Julia Elisabeth Hoch, William H. Bommer et al. · 2016 · 1,357 citations
20. Implementation of Circular Economy Business Models by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Barriers and Enablers
    Vasileios Rizos, Arno Behrens et al. · 2016 · 1,254 citations · Free PDF
21. Marketing Analytics for Data-Rich Environments
    Michel Wedel, P.K. Kannan · 2016 · 1,235 citations
22. Psychological Safety: A Meta‐Analytic Review and Extension
    Michael Lance Frazier, Stav Fainshmidt et al. · 2016 · 1,197 citations
23. Carroll’s pyramid of CSR: taking another look
    Archie B. Carroll · 2016 · 1,170 citations · Free PDF
24. Paradox Research in Management Science: Looking Back to Move Forward
    Jonathan Schad, Marianne W. Lewis et al. · 2016 · 1,151 citations · Free PDF
25. Networks, platforms, and strategy: Emerging views and next steps
    David McIntyre, Arati Srinivasan · 2016 · 1,120 citations

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