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HBR’s Most-Read Research Articles of 2021

• Dagny Dukach

A look back at the insights that resonated most with our readers.

What will it take to make work better? Over the past year, HBR has published a wide array of research-backed articles that explore topics ranging from retaining employees to overcoming meeting overload to fostering gender equity in the workplace. In this end-of-year roundup, we share key insights and trends from our most-read research articles of 2021.

As the workplace rapidly transforms in the wake of the pandemic, social movements, and more, a fundamental question remains: How can we ensure we’re making work better — for employees, organizations, and society at large?

• Dagny Dukach is a former associate editor at Harvard Business Review.

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The social and environmental drivers of corporate credit ratings: international evidence

• Gregor Dorfleitner
• Johannes Grebler

An ethical intuitionist account of transparency of algorithms and its gradations

Determinants and consequences of clawback provisions in management compensation contracts: a structured literature review on empirical evidence.

• Patrick Velte

Editorial: transformation

• Thomas Gehrig

Sustaining the current or pursuing the new: incumbent digital transformation strategies in the financial service industry

• Maik Dehnert

On the current state of combining human and artificial intelligence for strategic organizational decision making

• Hendrik Birkel
• Evi Hartmann

Discriminated by an algorithm: a systematic review of discrimination and fairness by algorithmic decision-making in the context of HR recruitment and HR development

• Alina Köchling
• Marius Claus Wehner

Betting the farm and playing it safe? Hyper-core self-evaluation in decisions when managers are winning and losing

• Andreas Hönl
• Philip Meissner
• Torsten Wulf

Success factors of academic journals in the digital age

• Milan Frederik Klus
• Alexander Dilger

A contingency lens on cloud provider management processes

• Severin Oesterle

Strategic decision-making under ambiguity: a new problem space and a proposed optimization approach

• Richard J. Arend

More self-organization, more control—or even both? Inverse transparency as a digital leadership concept

• Maren Gierlich-Joas
• Thomas Hess
• Rahild Neuburger

Valuation with mixed financing strategies

• Stefan Dierkes
• Imke de Maeyer

The digital transformation of the healthcare industry: exploring the rise of emerging platform ecosystems and their influence on the role of patients

• Sebastian Hermes
• Tobias Riasanow
• Helmut Krcmar

The right digital strategy for your business: an empirical analysis of the design and implementation of digital strategies in SMEs and LSEs

• Wolfgang Becker
• Oliver Schmid

Demand response through automated air conditioning in commercial buildings—a data-driven approach

• Benedict J. Drasch
• Gilbert Fridgen
• Lukas Häfner

Editorial: The future of Business Research

Revenue management systems as symbiotic analytics systems: insights from a field study.

• Claudia Schütze
• Catherine Cleophas
• Monideepa Tarafdar

Unicorns—what drives multibillion-dollar valuations?

• Carolin Bock
• Christian Hackober

Agency in the face of path dependence: how organizations can regain scope for maneuver

• Johann Fortwengel
• Arne Keller

How to digitalize inseparable service processes: the enabling role of internal and external support for innovation

• Prisca Brosi
• Isabell M. Welpe

Building an ambidextrous organization: a maturity model for organizational ambidexterity

• Katharina Stelzl
• Maximilian Röglinger
• Katrin Wyrtki

A lab test on the decision not to decide

• Christian D. Schade
• Avichai Snir

Project leaders’ control resources and role overload as predictors of project success: developing the job demands–resources model

• Kai-Kristina Lattrich
• Marion Büttgen

“Touching” services: tangible objects create an emotional connection to services even before their first use

• Nora Nägele
• Benjamin von Walter
• Daniel Wentzel

Frontiers of business intelligence and analytics 3.0: a taxonomy-based literature review and research agenda

• Mathias Eggert
• Jens Alberts

Can ‘Civil Enterprises’ survive in the market? Some game theoretical considerations on the one-shot game

• Christian Müller
• María Guadalupe Martino

Editorial for Business Research 13(1)

Sectoral evolution and shifting service delivery models in the sharing economy.

• J. Corcoran

Corporate governance and banks’ productivity: evidence from the banking industry in Bangladesh

• Md. Harun Ur Rashid
• Shah Asadullah Mohd. Zobair
• Azharul Islam

Sustainable luxury: current status and perspectives for future research

• Jennifer Kunz
• Stephanie May
• Holger J. Schmidt

Exploring patterns of corporate social responsibility using a complementary K -means clustering criterion

• Boris Mirkin

Observational learning and willingness to pay in equity crowdfunding

• Martin Walther

Explaining the competitive advantage generated from Analytics with the knowledge-based view: the example of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• Tino T. Herden

Evaluating investments in flexible on-demand production capacity: a real options approach

• Bettina Freitag
• Jochen Übelhör

Influence of different stakeholders on first-tier suppliers’ sustainable supplier selection: insights from a multiple case study in the automotive first-tier industry

• Sabrina Lechler
• Angelo Canzaniello

A data-driven hierarchical MILP approach for scheduling clinical pathways: a real-world case study from a German university hospital

• Karsten Schwarz
• Michael Römer
• Taïeb Mellouli

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots

• Christian Weckenborg
• Karsten Kieckhäfer
• Thomas S. Spengler

The multi-vehicle stochastic-dynamic inventory routing problem for bike sharing systems

• Jan Brinkmann
• Marlin W. Ulmer
• Dirk C. Mattfeld

Escalating internationalization decisions: intendedly rational, but only limitedly so?

• Björn Röber

(Ir)Rationality of decisions in business research and practice: introduction to the special issue

• Marko Sarstedt

Partnering for good? An analysis of how to achieve sustainability-related outcomes in public–private partnerships

• Katharina Spraul
• Julia Thaler

Corporate reputation and the future cost of equity

• Benjamin Pfister
• Manfred Schwaiger
• Tobias Morath

Violations of dominance in decision-making

• Thomas Kourouxous
• Thomas Bauer

Development of an AHP hierarchy for managing omnichannel capabilities: a design science research approach

• Jochen Wulf

When rational decision-making becomes irrational: a critical assessment and re-conceptualization of intuition effectiveness

• Christian Julmi

Making regulation fit by taking irrationality into account: the case of the whistleblower

• Sebastian Oelrich

Price limits under incomplete preference information based on almost stochastic dominance

• Hermann Jahnke
• Jan Thomas Martini
• Tobias Wiens

Transactions for trading used electric vehicle batteries: theoretical underpinning and information systems design principles

• Sebastian Bräuer
• Florian Plenter
• Jörg Becker

Stabilized-cycle strategy for a multi-item, capacitated, hierarchical production planning problem in rolling schedules

• Malte Meistering
• Hartmut Stadtler

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