OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Journal is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling	153
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	125
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	118
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	112
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction	94
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	92
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	91
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	87
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	81
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	79
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	74
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	69
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	68
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	64
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	63
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West	61
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)	60
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	56
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	55
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	54
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?	53
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	52
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations	51
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	49
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	49

When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity	49
Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications	48
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	47
Who Should Become a Business School Associate Dean? Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles	47
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure	46
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	46
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	45
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	45
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work	44
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China	42
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	40
From the Editors—Improving the Transparency of Empirical Research Published in AMJ	40
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	40
Who Will Board a Sinking Ship? a Firm–Director Interdependence Perspective of Mutual Selection between Declining Firms and Director Candidates	40
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	39
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions	38
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide	38
The Catch-22 of Countering a Moral Occupational Stigma in Employee-Customer Interactions	38
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	37
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts	37
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions	37
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	36
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	36
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	36
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	36
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	35
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	34
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	34
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	34
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	33
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	33
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	33
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	33
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change	33
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	32
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	32
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	31
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs	31
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	30
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis	29
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability	29
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness	29
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience	28
Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences	28
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance	27
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties	26
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital	26
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	26
Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms	26
Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it	25

When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt	25
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation	24
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation	24
Does Identification Hurt or Help Under Identity Threat? The Exacerbating Role of Identity Centrality on Feeling Offended and the Buffering Role of Coworker Solidarity on Identity-Protection Behaviors	24
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity	24
Constraints and Opportunities of Stigma: Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Sex Industry	24
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation	24
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations	24
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation	23
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence	23
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients	23
Applying Coleman’s Boat in Management Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging Macro and Micro Theory	23
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy	22
From the Editors—Publishing Impactful Research in AMJ: Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Impact Awards	22
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries	22
Increasing Dispositional Legitimacy: Progressive Legitimation Dynamics in a Trajectory of Settlements	22
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct	21
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity	21
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?	21
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues	21
In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires	21
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions	21
Understanding When and Why Cover-Ups Are Punished Less Severely	21
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges	20
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance	20
Social Network and Temporal Myopia	19
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work	19
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks	19
Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation	19
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work	18
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification	18
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision	18
The Use of Agency Workers Hurts Business Performance: An Integrated Indirect Model	18
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience	18
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence	17
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits	17
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work	17
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing	17
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management	17
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits	17
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?	17
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment	17
Institutional Intermediaries and Firm Choices in Response to Regulations	17
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity	16
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)	16
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity	16
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award	16
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values	16
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness	15
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	15
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success	15
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context	15
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work	15
Stakeholder Orientation and Divestiture Activity	15
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates	15
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions	14
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers	14
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form	14
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women	14
Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Interorganizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars	14
From the Editors—Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ	13
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment	13
From the Editors—Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research	13
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization	13
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives	13
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error	13
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration	13
Performance Benefits of Reciprocal Vicarious Learning in Teams	12
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work	12
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach	12
When People Build Networks That Hurt Their Performance: Structural Holes, Cognitive Style, and the Unintended Consequences of Person–Network Fit	12
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance	12
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions	12
When and Why Bias Suppression Is Difficult to Sustain: The Asymmetric Effect of Intermittent Accountability	12
Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians	12
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability	12
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea	12
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences	12