OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Journal is 11. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	170
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach	160
On the Status Shocks of Tournament Rituals: How Ritual Enactment Affects Productivity, Input Provision, and Performance	107
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic	99
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision	75
Does Job Satisfaction Rise and Fall with the Economy? Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Experimental Evidence That Job Satisfaction Increases during Recessions	73
Chasing Storms: Temporal Work to Foster Group Engagement under Uncertainty	69
Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships	68
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	67
Pumping the Brakes: Examining the Impact of CEO Political Ideology Divergence on Firm Responses	66
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	66
How Organizations Influence Interpersonal Trust Repair: The Case of a French Antiterrorist Unit	64
Different Roots, Different Fruits: Gender-Based Differences in Cultural Narratives about Perceived Discrimination Produce Divergent Psychological Consequences	61
The Use of Agency Workers Hurts Business Performance: An Integrated Indirect Model	59
Learning Down to Train Up: Mentors Are More Effective When They Value Insights from Below	57
Distinct but Not Apart? Stigma Reduction and Cross-Industry Evaluative Spillovers: The Case of Medical Marijuana Legalization	54
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	53
When and Why Bias Suppression Is Difficult to Sustain: The Asymmetric Effect of Intermittent Accountability	52
Upward Mobility, the Cleft Habitus, and Speaking Up: How Class Transitions Relate to Individual and Organizational Antecedents of Voice	52
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work	52
Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians	50
The Two Towers (or Somewhere in Between): The Behavioral Consequences of Positional Inconsistency across Status Hierarchies	50
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	48
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling	46
The Hidden Cost of Prayer: Religiosity and the Gender Wage Gap	46

When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance	45
Here Comes the Sun: The Impact of Incidental Contextual Factors on Entrepreneurial Resource Acquisition	45
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	45
The Push and Pull of Attaining CEO Celebrity: A Media Routines Perspective	41
Addressing Performance Tensions in Multiteam Systems: Balancing Informal Mechanisms of Coordination within and between Teams	41
When People Build Networks That Hurt Their Performance: Structural Holes, Cognitive Style, and the Unintended Consequences of Person–Network Fit	40
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	39
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks	39
Calling Oneself and Others In: Brokering Identities in Diversity Training	38
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	38
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	38
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification	37
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work	36
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	35
Divergent Market Reactions to Abstract Language: A Multicountry Event Study of European Central Bank Communications	34
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges	34
Social Network and Temporal Myopia	34
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	34
Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation	34
Recognizing and Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities with Artificial Intelligence	33
The Outcomes of Cross-Category Career Moves: How Cross-Industry Mobility and Industry Prestige Jointly Impact Executive Compensation	33
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	33
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits	32
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	32
Creative Jolts: Exploring How Entrepreneurs Let Go of Ideas During Creative Revision	31
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	31
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience	31
Identity Multiplicity and the Formation of Professional Network Ties	30
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	29
Institutional Intermediaries and Firm Choices in Response to Regulations	29
Advancing Management Theory through Interdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities	29
More than a Feeling: How Board Member Displays of Anger and Happiness Influence Strategic Decisions	28
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?	28
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	28
CEO Attentional Vigilance: Behavioral Implications for the Pursuit of Exploration	28
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	27
Navigating Space for Personal Agency: Auxiliary Routines as Adaptations in Toxic Organizations	27
Who Will Stay When Crisis Strikes? Venture Capitalist Threat-Defiant Learning Response to Ventures in Crisis	27
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction	27
Seeing the Glass as Half Full or Half Empty: The Role of Affect-Induced Optimistic and Pessimistic States on Justice Perceptions and Outcomes	27
Do the Hustle! Empowerment from Side-Hustles and Its Effects on Full-Time Work Performance	26
Tempering Temperance? A Contingency Approach to Social Movements’ Entry Deterrence in Scottish Whisky Distilling, 1823–1921	26
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits	26
How Global Leaders Gain Power through Downward Deference and Reduction of Social Distance	25
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence	25
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	25
Dirty Heroes? Healthcare Workers’ Experience of Mixed Social Evaluations during the Pandemic	25
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	24
Microfoundations of Framing: The Interactional Production of Collective Action Frames in the Occupy Movement	24
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	24

Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs	24
It’s Not Always Sunny in Relationally Rich Jobs: The Influence of Negative Beneficiary Contact	23
A Trojan Horse Inside the Gates? Knowledge Spillovers During Patent Litigation	23
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	23
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	23
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	23
Putting Distant Futures into Action: How Actors Sustain a Course of Action toward Distant-Future Goals through Path Enactment	23
Salient Expectations? Incongruence across Capability and Integrity Signals and Investor Reactions to Organizational Misconduct	22
Gaining Legitimacy by Being Different: Optimal Distinctiveness in Crowdfunding Platforms	22
Strength and Weakness in Numbers? Unpacking the Role of Prevalence in the Diffusion of Reverse Mergers	22
How Technological Overlap between Spinouts and Parent Firms Affects Corporate Venture Capital Investments in Spinouts: The Role of Competitive Tension	22
Free to Be Me? Evolving Gender Expression and the Dynamic Interplay between Authenticity and the Desire to Be Accepted at Work	21
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment	21
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing	21
Does Power Protect Female Moral Objectors? How and When Moral Objectors’ Gender, Power, and Use of Organizational Frames Influence Perceived Self-Control and Experienced Retaliation	21
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	20
Structuring the Start-Up: How Coordination Emerges in Start-Ups through Learning Sequencing	20
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work	20
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	20
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management	20
Tick Off the Gender Diversity Box: Examining the Cross-Level Effects of Women’s Representation in Senior Management	20
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	19
“I Go Here…But I Don’t Necessarily Belong”: The Process of Transgressor Reintegration in Organizations	19
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	19
The Technological Entrainment of Moral Issues: The Case of Genomic Data Markets	18
Becoming a Right-Hand Partner: How Lower-Power Employees Heedfully Challenge Organizational Leaders	18
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis	18
To Catch a Predator: The Lived Experience of Extreme Practices	17
Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Position of Digital Innovations	17
Zoning Out or Breaking Through? Linking Daydreaming to Creativity in the Workplace	17
Keep Your Eye on the Ball or on the Field? Exploring the Performance Implications of Executive Strategic Attention	17
Echoes from the Past: The Impact of Racial Transference on Leader Selection during Succession	17
Hierarchical Team Structures Limit Joint Gain in Interteam Negotiations: The Role of Information Elaboration and Value-Claiming Behavior	17
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity	17
Rolling the Dice: Resolving Demand Uncertainty in Markets with Partial Network Effects	17
Organizational Ghosts: How “Ghostly Encounters” Enable Former Leaders to Influence Current Organizational Members	17
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award	17
The Psychological Design of Firm Boundaries: Preempting Escalating Commitment through Buy Vs. Make	16
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values	16
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	16
Job Insecurity and Well-Being: Integrating Life History and Transactional Stress Theories	16
Struggling to Meet the Bar: Occupational Progress Failure and Informal Leadership Behavior	16
Big Fish versus Big Pond? Entrepreneurs, Established Firms, and Antecedents of Tie Formation	15
Performance Shortfalls, Response Directions, and Belief in the Effectiveness of Responses	15
Deploying Human Capital Resources: Accentuating Effects of Situational Alignment and Social Capital Resources	15
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity	15
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)	14
How Do Investors Evaluate Past Entrepreneurial Failure? Unpacking Failure Due to Lack of Skill versus Bad Luck	14
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	14
High Risk, Low Return (and Vice Versa): The Effect of Product Innovation on Firm Performance in a Transition Economy	14
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	14
Polishing the Gilt Edge: Elite Category Endurance and Symbolic Boundaries in U.S. Luxury Hotels, 1790–2015	14
I Don’t Need a Degree, I’ve Got Abs: Influencer Warmth and Competence, Communication Mode, and Stakeholder Engagement on Social Media	14
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness	13
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability	13
Meaning, Mission, and Measurement: How Organizational Performance Measurement Shapes Perceptions of Work as Worthy	13
Leader Perfectionism—Friend or Foe of Employee Creativity? Locus of Control as a Key Contingency	13
Unpacking Political Ideology: CEO Social and Economic Ideologies, Strategic Decision-Making Processes, and Corporate Entrepreneurship	13
Office Chitchat as a Social Ritual: The Uplifting Yet Distracting Effects of Daily Small Talk at Work	13
Stakeholder Orientation and Divestiture Activity	12
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	12
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience	12
Swift Sense of Community: Resourcing Artifacts for Rapid Community Emergence in a Temporary Organization	12
Turned Down and Taking Off? Rejection and Turnover in Internal Talent Markets	12
Receiving Service from a Person with a Disability: Stereotypes, Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Opportunity for Increased Corporate Reputation	12
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	12
The Impostor Phenomenon Revisited: Examining the Relationship between Workplace Impostor Thoughts and Interpersonal Effectiveness at Work	12
When Does Pay for Performance Motivate Employee Helping Behavior? The Contextual Influence of Performance Subjectivity	12
How Voice Emerges and Develops in Newly Formed Supervisor–Employee Dyads	12
Leading by Doing: Does Leading by Example Impact Productivity and Service Quality?	11
Resource Dependence, Uncertainty, and the Allocation of Corporate Political Activity across Multiple Jurisdictions	11
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	11
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance	11
Overcoming Conflict Between Symmetric Occupations: How “Creatives” and “Suits” Use Gender Ordering in Advertising	11
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates	11
There Is a Time to Be Creative: The Alignment between Chronotype and Time of Day	11
Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it	11
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	11
The Highs and Lows of Hierarchy in Multiteam Systems	11
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	11