Most-cited Business and Management papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Business and Management research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change
   André Hanelt, René Bohnsack et al. · 2020 · 2,493 citations
2. Viability of intertwined supply networks: extending the supply chain resilience angles towards survivability. A position paper motivated by COVID-19 outbreak
   Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui · 2020 · 2,103 citations
3. Responsible investing: The ESG-efficient frontier
   Lasse Heje Pedersen, Shaun Fitzgibbons et al. · 2020 · 2,009 citations
4. A digital supply chain twin for managing the disruption risks and resilience in the era of Industry 4.0
   Dmitry Ivanov, Alexandre B. Dolgui · 2020 · 1,788 citations
5. Viable supply chain model: integrating agility, resilience and sustainability perspectives—lessons from and thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
   Dmitry Ivanov · 2020 · 1,349 citations · Free PDF
6. Concepts and forms of greenwashing: a systematic review
   Sebastião Vieira de Freitas Netto, Marcos Felipe Falcão Sobral et al. · 2020 · 1,343 citations · Free PDF
7. Food supply chains during the COVID‐19 pandemic
   Jill E. Hobbs · 2020 · 1,314 citations
8. Financial literacy: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis
   Kirti Goyal, Satish Kumar · 2020 · 1,144 citations
9. Startups in times of crisis – A rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic
   Andreas Kuckertz, Leif Brändle et al. · 2020 · 1,116 citations
10. Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development
    Gerard George, Ryan Merrill et al. · 2020 · 1,042 citations
11. Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning
    Kai Li, Feng Mai et al. · 2020 · 1,026 citations
12. Digital transformation: a review, synthesis and opportunities for future research
    Swen Nadkarni, Reinhard Prügl · 2020 · 1,022 citations · Free PDF
13. Impacts of epidemic outbreaks on supply chains: mapping a research agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a structured literature review
    Maciel Manoel de Queiroz, Dmitry Ivanov et al. · 2020 · 1,006 citations · Free PDF
14. Organizational Resilience: A Valuable Construct for Management Research?
    Julia Hillmann, Edeltraud Guenther · 2020 · 990 citations
15. Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake*
    Vasco M. Carvalho, Makoto Nirei et al. · 2020 · 968 citations
16. Management and Prevention Strategies for Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Their Risk Factors
    Aida Budrevičiūtė, Samar Damiati et al. · 2020 · 946 citations · Free PDF
17. Customer experience: fundamental premises and implications for research
    Larissa Becker, Elina Jaakkola · 2020 · 936 citations
18. Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data
    Charles I. Jones, Christopher Tonetti · 2020 · 917 citations
19. Impact of COVID-19 on logistics systems and disruptions in food supply chain
    Sube Singh, Ramesh Kumar et al. · 2020 · 910 citations
20. Effective supply chain management
    2020 · 900 citations
21. Research opportunities for a more resilient post-COVID-19 supply chain – closing the gap between research findings and industry practice
    Remko van Hoek · 2020 · 852 citations
22. Digital transformation in healthcare: Analyzing the current state-of-research
    Sascha Kraus, Francesco Schiavone et al. · 2020 · 852 citations
23. The smart circular economy: A digital-enabled circular strategies framework for manufacturing companies
    Eivind Kristoffersen, Fenna Blomsma et al. · 2020 · 826 citations
24. The economics of COVID-19: initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis
    Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauß et al. · 2020 · 825 citations
25. Corporate Governance in China: A Survey
    Fuxiu Jiang, Kenneth A. Kim · 2020 · 823 citations

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