Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 210, issue C, 2026

War, peace, and entrepreneurship: An institutional and socio-cognitive perspective on how violent conflict affects (necessity) entrepreneurship

Mirko Hirschmann, Christian Fisch and Paul P. Momtaz

Is distance dead in the digital age? firm digitalization and spatial knowledge acquisition

Shuai Wang, Delin Zhuang, Xin Huang and Yao Li

Staying or leaving? A person-centred view of algorithmic management and gig worker attrition

Nastaran Hajiheydari and Mohammad Soltani Delgosha

Synchronous technology-mediated service experience: conceptualization, scale development, and validation

Cenhua Lyu, Yangyang Jiang, M.S. Balaji and Yi Wang

Do women entrepreneurs influence their start-up’s exit? Entrepreneurial identity and firm exit in high-tech

Eliran Solodoha, Stav Rosenzweig and Shai Harel

Exploring the impact of inter-text space on consumer reactions in firm-customer communication

Jie Wang, Dongjin He, Yiwei Li and Yuwei Jiang

When AI meets ethics: unveiling the impact of firm AI innovation on corporate social responsibility

Wenbin Sun and Zhihua Ding

Digital currency as a “watchdog”: Central bank digital currency and corporate misconduct

Chuyu Wang, Kam C. Chan and Guanglong Zhang

Building resilience for social enterprises: An fsQCA analysis based on the institutional bricolage perspective

Qian Yang, Lai Wei and Yi Lu

Balancing relational and financial approaches in family firm acquisitions: A multiple case study investigation

Darin A. Dredge, Laura T. Madden, Torsten M. Pieper, Anne Smith and Joseph Astrachan

AI is taking my job! Task programmability and employee job thriving in the age of AI

Mai Nguyen, Lars-Erik Casper Ferm and Liem Viet Ngo

Green silence: How dividend underpayment shapes corporate environmental disclosure strategies

Xiao Sun, Juelin Yin and Puwen Shang

Parasocial relationship: reconceptualization, scale development and validation

Jie Sheng, Alena Kostyk and Kalliopi Chatzipanagiotou

Corrigendum to “Speak green to serve: scale development and validation of front‑line service employees’ pro-environmental voice behaviour in restaurants”. [J. Bus. Res. 207 (2026) 116032]

Li Lin-Schilstra, Mengyu He and Wenjing Cai

Unlocking the effectual orientation of corporations: developing a new dictionary-based measure

Andrea Greven, Denise Fischer-Kreer, Elisa Kaupel, Christopher Kallhoff and Malte Brettel

Reimagining entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainable development

Iulia Stroila, Paul Steffens and Carolin Plewa

Overcoming liability of origin: the effects of EM-MNEs’ ESG reporting on establishment mode choice

Wenchuan Huang, Yuanyuan Hu and Shouming Chen

Entrepreneurial women’s investment empowerment: A theoretical framework

Amalie Dalgaard Scheel Vandel Nørgaard, Colin C.J. Cheng and Chwen Sheu

Foreign ownership and corporate environmental responsibility

Yong Li, Wenqian Tan, Robert Faff, Rui Xu and Hao Zhang

Who goes informal and when? A multilevel analysis of entrepreneurial entry in emerging and developing economies

Mengli Zhao, Chengli Shu, Elizabeth M. Moore, Luis Alfonso Dau and Jinxin Liu

Business-to-Business (B2B) branding: What we know and where do we go

Debashree Roy Bhattacharjee, Debasis Pradhan and Kunal Swani

Fandom-driven engagement and payment behavior: Uncovering dual mediation mechanisms in freemium pricing for webtoons

Minjung Roh and Kiwan Park

Virtue signaling vs. authenticity: ESG reporting for stakeholder engagement

Sheen Kachen, Sıddık Bozkurt, David Gligor, Maria Petrescu, Anjala S. Krishen and Mihai Orzan

The impact of perceived economic mobility and social status on consumers’ preference for experiential products

Yujie Zhao, Zhenchuan Cai and Haichuan Zhao

Genuine, fake, or does it matter? exploring engagement behavior driven by self-presentation

Matthew Alexander, Elina Jaakkola, Archareeporn Thanvarachorn and Anne Marie Doherty

How invisible versus visible luxury characteristics shape length of product use

Matteo De Angelis, Cesare Amatulli, Rumen I. Pozharliev, Ernesto Cardamone and Martina Di Cioccio

Self-determination theory in the workplace: the evolution, present, and beyond

Marylène Gagné, Anja H. Olafsen, Joseph A. Carpini and Claus W. Frølund

Corporate sociopolitical activism as a Signal: A Meta-Analysis and research agenda

Luiza D. Braga, Matheus G. Tardin, Amir Grinstein and Marcelo G. Perin

How does temporal content on social media influence engagement behaviors? The roles of experiential messages and visual features

Sara Lapresta-Romero, Blanca Hernández-Ortega and José L. Franco

Corrigendum to “The influence of national contexts on hybrid tensions, and how to manage them through business model innovation” [J. Bus. Res. 209 (2026) 116086]

Eileen Lara and Philipp A. Trotter

Practicing what you preach: Social enterprise resource utilization and its signalling implications

Daniel D. Prior, Ava Huijuan Yu, Joan Carlini, Malliga Marimuthu and Joona Keränen

Enhancing CSR performance in emerging market firms: The effects of pro-market reforms, government support, and internationalization

Muhammad Ahmed, Chengli Shu, Dan Luo and Adnan Ali

Deinfluencers as institutional actors: dramaturgical work and the embedded contestation of consumerism

Gokcen Coskuner-Balli, Charlene Chu, Niklas Myhr and Cristina Nistor

How the emotional tone of financial disinformation influences investment behaviour

Lam An and Fabrizio Di Muro

Supply chain risks and consumer complaints in product value chains: The moderating role of ESG integration

Weijie Tan and Binhua Guo

Unlocking how agency contributes to the female leadership advantage: An evolutionary leadership theory perspective

Man-Ling Chang and Chia-Chen Tu

Employees’ idea generation after idea rejection: The contingent roles of leader mindful awareness and acceptance

Dan Ni, Xin Liu and Xiaoming Zheng

The impact of national charitable donations on domestic product’s market competitiveness: evidence from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Xiaosong Dong, Zijun You and Xing Zhao

Facilitating or constraining: The influence of governmental and private venture capital on ESG performance

Taoyong Su, Xin Guo, Wei Liu and Wanrong Hou

Can moral dilemmas be mitigated? Exploring the impact of AI supervisors on workplace cheating behavior

Jiaoyang Li, Qi Qin and Bao Cheng

Learning ambidexterity as ecosystem capability

Oumaima Ait-Hammou and Bisan Abdulkader

Demystifying the interactive impact of analyst certification and investor relations quality on media coverage and firm value

Louis T.W. Cheng, Jianfu Shen and Piyush Sharma

Cross-selling in key accounts: Role of key account management approaches

Mu Li, Mahima Hada, Till Haumann, Maximilian Dax and Christian Schmitz

HRM digitalization affordance: When legitimate and effective?

Jieyu Hu, Dejun Cheng, Tianlong Feng and Shijun Huang

Examining the double-edged sword effect of stretch goals on employee radical creativity

Zhiqiang Liu, Naizheng Liang, Jinhui Zhu, Youqing Fan and Guangying Yan

Applying an experiential lens to the strength-based approach for students living with disabilities: Insights from online higher education professionals

Svetlana De Vos, Bora Qesja, Gediminas Lipnickas and Joanne Harris

Advancing strengths-based methodologies for transformative service research

Mark S. Rosenbaum and Kirsten Passyn

Indigenous-informed strengths-based approaches to supporting customers experiencing vulnerability in service ecosystems

Maria M. Raciti

How platforms manufacture the ‘appropriate individual’

Brana Jianu, Iis P. Tussyadiah and Graham Miller

Designing and delivering services with stories: how service stories and consumer transportability affect the customer experience and outcomes

Olamide Olajuwon-Ige and Elten Briggs

The impact of power distance belief and relative status on service evaluations

Ellen E.K. Kim, Seung Hyun Jenna Lee and Kwanglim Seo

The influences of branding on personal selling and sales management strategies for the digital age

Pantea Foroudi, Nektarios Tzempelikos, T.C. Melewar and Charles Dennis

A meta-analysis of the effects of AI agent implementation on customer-level outcomes

Sri Vishnu Srinivasa Raja, Davide C. Orazi, Yimin Cheng and Alex Belli

Democracy and foreign firms’ internal corporate social responsibility: evidence from World Bank Enterprise Surveys

Yoona Choi, Yusen Dong and Pengcheng Ma

Growth hacking. From theoretical understanding to practical application: a special issue editorial

Gabriele Santoro, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Samuel Fosso Wamba and Sabeen Bhatti

How executives’ long-termism shapes ESG performance: dual-channel shareholder governance

Ning Xu, Di Zhang, Guangjian Liu and Shujun Wang

Enhancement or depletion: the double-edged sword effect of electronic performance monitoring on employee job performance

Pengxiang Nian, Min Liu, Jialiang Pei and Shanshi Liu

Optimal ticket pricing by seat location in the movie industry

Ling-Chieh Kung, Yu-Hung Chen, Chieh-Hsiang Hu and Yu-Ping Chen

Futures thinking in market-shaping research: Developing an onto-epistemological foundation and analytical framework

Aino Halinen, Valtteri Kaartemo and Petri Tapio

‘Cost’-playing: paid vs. free non-functional virtual goods experiences

Will Zhiyuan Zhang, Ben Marder, Kirsten Cowan and Seth Ketron

Brand attachment styles: Adapting the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) scale to examine consumer perceptions of brands’ relational behaviour

Jodie Whelan and Matthew Thomson

CEO marketing experience and corporate investment efficiency

Yingshan Qiu, Jinping Zhang and Yunlu Yin