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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeking Greener Pastures: Employee Turnover Following Corporate Stakeholder Violations	525
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	250
Catalyzing Categories: Category Contrast and the Creation of Groundbreaking Inventions	159
Siloed Sustainability: How Paradox Management Unravels in Integrative Practice Implementation	142
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	126
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	119
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Pragmatic Adaptation in Large-Scale Creative Projects with Underspecified Product Concepts	97
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	89
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	85
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	82
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	78
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	74
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	71
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	67
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	64
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	63
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	62
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)	62
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	61
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West	59
Compelling Empirics in Quantitative Studies	57
Who’s Behind the Red Suit? Exploring Role Prototypicality within Calling Enactment among Professional Santas	56
Who Avoids Punishment? How Discretion and Psychopathy Shape Leaders’ Responses to Misconduct	56
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	54
Are You Looking at Me? Orchestrating Voyeuristic Events to Add Value for Those Being Observed	53

A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	53
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	49
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	47
Interlacing Situated and Algorithmic Modes of Knowledge Work: A Workplace Jurisdiction Perspective	46
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations	46
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	45
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?	45
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	43
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	43
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	42
Understanding I-Deals through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks	42
The Ties That Nurture: Expressive Simmelian Ties, Instrumental Brokerage, and Individual Performance	42
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure	41
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	41
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	41
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work	40
From Founders to Funders: Generalized Reciprocity and Embeddedness in Founders’ Transition to Angel Investing	39
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions	39
Movin’ and Groovin’! Increased Prior Mobility Facilitates Newcomers’ Transitions Into Organizations	38
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	38
Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead	37
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide	36
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	36
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts	34
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	34
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	34
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	34
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions	34
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	33
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	33
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	32
A Prosocial Perspective on Advice Seeking and Networking: How Focusing on What Advice Givers Can Gain Motivates Advice Seekers to Reach Out More	32
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	32
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change	32
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	32
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	32
Innovating More Formally: How Resistance-Led Participation Drives Expansion and Integration in Innovation Control Configuration	31
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	31
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	31
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	30
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	30
Anticipatory Impression Management for Potential Adverse Events: Positive Framing in the Wake of Short Seller Attacks on a Competitor	29
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	29
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	28
Listen to Your Users? Self-Selection in User Community Feedback and Commercial Impact	27
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	27
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	27
Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California	27
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways	26
Falling Off the Unicorn: The Maintenance of Unrealistic Startup Labor Narratives	26

Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences	26
Short-Term Demands and Long-Term Commitments: A Temporal Model of Stakeholder Governance	25
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital	25
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties	25
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation	25
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	25
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity	24
Reckoning With the Ideal Worker Body: A Qualitative Study of Workers in Chronic Pain	24
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations	24
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy	24
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation	24
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance	24
CEO Regulatory Focus as an Interpretive Frame: An Empirical Examination of Investor Perceptions in the Context of Earning Deviations	24
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience	24
Impact, Interrupted: How and When Thwarted Prosocial Impact Undermines Employee Performance and Retention	23
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence	22
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	22
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation	22
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation	22
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation	21
Moderately Fast and Furious: A Screening and Behavioral Theory of New CEO Strategic Action Speed	21
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients	21
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions	20
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity	20
The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI	20
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues	20
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries	20
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work	19
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges	19
Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs about a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and “Professional-Class” Identities in Working-Class Jobs	19
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct	19
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification	19
Vicarious Experimentation: Do Innovators Learn by Being Imitated?	19
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks	18
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience	18
Political Segregation in the Labor Market and the Persistence of Pay Gaps	18
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence	18
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance	18
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits	18
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work	17
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?	17
Algorithmic Facial Expression Analysis: A Novel Methodology to Advance Management Research on Emotions	17
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award	16
From Paralysis to Publicization: How Victims of the UK Post Office Horizon IT Scandal Experienced and Confronted Organizational Harm	16
Not So Fast? Rapid Response to Voice Leads to Perceived Inauthenticity	16
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management	16
When the Moon is Jealous of the Stars: Implications of Informal Leadership for Supervisor Downward Jealousy and Their Treatment of Other Subordinates	16
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values	16
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity	16
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates	15
Stakeholder Political Ideology, Purpose of Business Beliefs, and Responses to CEO Activism: Introducing an Asymmetry Model	15
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success	15
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work	15
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness	15
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form	14
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment	14
Understanding Why and When Coworkers Undermine Employees Who Have Friends in High Places	14
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	14
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives	13
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization	13
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers	13
Point Break? The Efficacy of Creative Differences as a Protective Label for Future Work	13
Market-Stigmatized Groups and the Effectiveness of Stigma Management Strategies: Evidence from Washington’s Marijuana Market	13
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration	13
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context	13
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions	13
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women	13
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions	12
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work	12
Tied in or Tied Up? The Contrasting Effects of Social Ties on Employee Turnover	12
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error	12
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance	12
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach	12
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability	12
When People Build Networks That Hurt Their Performance: Structural Holes, Cognitive Style, and the Unintended Consequences of Person–Network Fit	12
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12