# 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.](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2530409471) · 6,811 citations
2. [Understanding Customer Experience Throughout the Customer Journey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2422895071) · 5,669 citations
3. [“Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives”](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1571438983) · 5,102 citations
4. [Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2342540942) · 3,939 citations
5. [Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2530432988) · 2,781 citations
6. [Ecosystem as Structure](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2551675031) · 2,552 citations
7. [Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk, Uncertainty, and Strategy in the Innovation Economy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2483540831) · 2,284 citations
8. [Understanding and Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Management Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2565126480) · 2,030 citations
9. [Fifteen Years of Research on Business Model Innovation](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2553227351) · 1,909 citations
10. [The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2336317428) · 1,896 citations
11. [Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123478739) · 1,723 citations
12. [The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2311618036) · 1,678 citations
13. [Designing the Business Models for Circular Economy—Towards the Conceptual Framework](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2264050319) · 1,610 citations · Free PDF
14. [Behind the Scenes: The Corporate Governance Preferences of Institutional Investors](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1949455802) · 1,568 citations
15. [Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3121311011) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2529046244) · 1,535 citations
17. [On the Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3121521941) · 1,430 citations
18. [Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks *](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2260725321) · 1,371 citations
19. [Do Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership Explain Variance Above and Beyond Transformational Leadership? A Meta-Analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2514767416) · 1,357 citations
20. [Implementation of Circular Economy Business Models by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Barriers and Enablers](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2554300231) · 1,254 citations · Free PDF
21. [Marketing Analytics for Data-Rich Environments](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2396526128) · 1,235 citations
22. [Psychological Safety: A Meta‐Analytic Review and Extension](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2495600728) · 1,197 citations
23. [Carroll’s pyramid of CSR: taking another look](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2474476572) · 1,170 citations · Free PDF
24. [Paradox Research in Management Science: Looking Back to Move Forward](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4247573850) · 1,151 citations · Free PDF
25. [Networks, platforms, and strategy: Emerging views and next steps](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2531864566) · 1,120 citations

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