Reflecting on IJMR’s Most Impactful Reviews on the 40th Anniversary of the British Academy of Management
This virtual special issue is dedicated to celebrating the 40th anniversary of the British Academy of Management and recognises the ten most influential articles published in the International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR) between 2001 and 2025.
As Editors-in-Chief of IJMR, we selected and identified ten articles that revealed five recurring dimensions of excellence: the diagnosis of a consequential intellectual problem; methodological rigour and transparency; a distinctive theoretical output; logical structure of the analysis; and practical relevance linked to a theoretical or conceptual contribution.
We present here the editorial and ten original selected articles that we believe will serve as an excellent reference point to understand and learn about writing high-quality review articles for IJMR.
We hope through the editorial and the collection, our readers can understand how to impose conceptual order, resolve genuine ambiguities, and equip themselves with further tools for inquiry.
Articles
Free Access
05 October 2026
Reflecting on IJMR's most impactful reviews on the 40th anniversary of the British Academy of Management
Andrea Caputo, T. Alexandra Beauregard, Ashish Malik
05 January 2009
What are dynamic capabilities and are they a useful construct in strategic management?
Véronique Ambrosini, Cliff Bowman
Open Access
16 October 2020
A (Re)view of the Philosophical Foundations of Strategic Management
Rodrigo Rabetino, Marko Kohtamäki, Juan S. Federico
07 September 2011
The Strategic Management of Innovation: A Systematic Review and Paths for Future Research
Marcus Matthias Keupp, Maximilian Palmié, Oliver Gassmann
Open Access
17 May 2015
Sustainability-oriented Innovation: A Systematic Review
Richard Adams, Sally Jeanrenaud, John Bessant, David Denyer, Patrick Overy
23 February 2006
Using knowledge within small and medium-sized firms: A systematic review of the evidence
Richard Thorpe, Robin Holt, Allan Macpherson, Luke Pittaway
31 January 2013
Entrepreneurial Learning: Past Research and Future Challenges
Catherine L. Wang, Harveen Chugh
Open Access
21 July 2020
Collaboration and Internationalization of SMEs: Insights and Recommendations from a Systematic Review
Nadia Zahoor, Omar Al-Tabbaa, Zaheer Khan, Geoffrey Wood
Open Access
16 August 2020
Organizational Resilience: A Valuable Construct for Management Research?
Julia Hillmann, Edeltraud Guenther
Open Access
19 April 2016
Shades of Grey: Guidelines for Working with the Grey Literature in Systematic Reviews for Management and Organizational Studies
Richard J. Adams, Palie Smart, Anne Sigismund Huff
Open Access
07 October 2024
Guidelines for Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Reviews: 10 steps to combine analysis, synthesis and theory development
Giacomo Marzi, Marco Balzano, Andrea Caputo, Massimiliano M. Pellegrini