Journal Articles
JMS is a general management journal that attaches no priority to either the subjects of study, or the methodological approach adopted, so long as they are theoretically grounded.
Here you will find articles that build upon or use different epistemological positions, research traditions and methods. The articles may also utilise different levels of analysis, including individuals, groups, organizations and the networks or societies in which organizations are embedded.
The ultimate criterion for JMS articles is that they make a strong theoretical contribution, whether this contribution is derived from empirical research or conceptual synthesis of recent advances.
The Journal of Management Studies (JMS) is published by Wiley.
Original Articles
Empirical or conceptual articles at JMS meet the highest standards of academic excellence and develop a ‘value-added’ theoretical contribution to our knowledge about behaviour within or about organizations and their environments.
Review Articles
Review Articles at JMS provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of a particular research field to develop a research agenda and/or a conceptual framework as a guide to future research.
Journal Articles
How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)
How do small and medium-sized enterprises adapt to deglobalization and economic nationalism? Drawing lessons from...Continue reading→
Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social-Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment
This paper examines how women’s economic empowerment can be advanced in culturally traditional, non-Western contexts...Continue reading→
Marching to Someone Else’s Beat or Creating Your Own Groove? Towards a Rhythmic Understanding of Context, (Entrepreneurial) Agency, and Transformative Change
Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, the authors theorize the everyday as a dynamic constellation of...Continue reading→
‘Let Me Explain’: A Comparative Field Study on How Experts Enact Authority Over Clients When Facing AI Decisions
Across banking, biotechnology, and recruitment, the authors reveal how experts respond when AI produces decisions...Continue reading→
Examining the Effect of a Firm’s AI Specialization on the Technology Firms it Acquires: A Real Options Perspective
This paper applies real options theory to explain how a firm’s AI specialization shapes its...Continue reading→
Reclaiming Relevance Through Problem-Driven Interdisciplinary Research
Management studies began as an applied, integrative field, yet has increasingly prioritised abstract theorising over...Continue reading→
Opportunity Search in the Era of GenAI: Navigating Uncertainty in an Expanding Universe of Imaginable but Unknowable Futures
This paper explores how generative AI reshapes the entrepreneurial idea-space and the epistemic challenges that...Continue reading→
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
This article introduces a special issue connecting occupations and memory, arguing that occupations are sustained...Continue reading→
Why is Bribing Doctors an Excusable Crime? The Normalization of Professional Corruption
This paper investigates how informal payments to physicians (“red packets”) become normalized within hospitals. Drawing...Continue reading→
Middle Managers’ Regulation of the Emotions of Others in Strategy Implementation: A Process Perspective
This ethnographic study (9 months, 52 recorded strategy meetings) develops a process model showing how...Continue reading→