# Most-cited Business and Management papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Business and Management research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [Towards a theory of ecosystems](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2799670133) · 3,517 citations · Free PDF
2. [Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? International evidence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123658139) · 2,616 citations
3. [Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3124123998) · 2,281 citations · Free PDF
4. [Impact of digital finance on financial inclusion and stability](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2788597170) · 2,117 citations
5. [On the Fintech Revolution: Interpreting the Forces of Innovation, Disruption, and Transformation in Financial Services](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2795321837) · 2,110 citations
6. [The impact of digital technology and Industry 4.0 on the ripple effect and supply chain risk analytics](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2810507576) · 2,031 citations
7. [Fintech, regulatory arbitrage, and the rise of shadow banks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2603785580) · 1,844 citations
8. [Servant Leadership: A systematic review and call for future research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2885493167) · 1,840 citations · Free PDF
9. [Sustainable business model innovation: A review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2810801192) · 1,635 citations
10. [Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2593745552) · 1,620 citations
11. [A systematic review on drivers, barriers, and practices towards circular economy: a supply chain perspective](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2782348312) · 1,523 citations
12. [The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2801313916) · 1,507 citations
13. [Business models and supply chains for the circular economy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2802548422) · 1,335 citations
14. [Quo Vadis, Dynamic Capabilities? A Content-Analytic Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Recommendations for Future Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2767795466) · 1,207 citations
15. [Digitalization and its influence on business model innovation](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2886374081) · 1,091 citations
16. [Do environmental, social, and governance activities improve corporate financial performance?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2886771468) · 1,071 citations
17. [Promoting employee's proenvironmental behavior through green human resource management practices](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2898061770) · 1,035 citations
18. [Supply chain risk management and artificial intelligence: state of the art and future research directions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2893740026) · 1,016 citations
19. [Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2887927457) · 984 citations
20. [Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2887416572) · 981 citations
21. [Creating Strategic Business Value from Big Data Analytics: A Research Framework](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804274048) · 957 citations
22. [Digital technology, digital capability and organizational performance](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2948706555) · 947 citations
23. [Is sustainability reporting (ESG) associated with performance? Evidence from the European banking sector](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2807472376) · 940 citations
24. [Exploring Industry 4.0 technologies to enable circular economy practices in a manufacturing context](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2902970703) · 903 citations
25. [Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2809346299) · 887 citations

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