OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Journal is 27. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Catalyzing Categories: Category Contrast and the Creation of Groundbreaking Inventions	297
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	156
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	137
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling	125
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	109
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	104
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	104
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	100
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction	97
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	92
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	83
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	75
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	72
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	69
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	65
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)	64
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	64
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West	64
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	62
Interlacing Situated and Algorithmic Modes of Knowledge Work: A Workplace Jurisdiction Perspective	59
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	58
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	53
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?	52
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	52
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	51

Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations	50
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	49
Who Should Become a Business School Associate Dean? Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles	48
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure	47
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	47
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	47
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	45
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	45
Understanding I-Deals Through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks	45
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work	45
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China	45
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	44
Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead	44
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	44
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	43
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide	43
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	43
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions	43
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions	42
The Catch-22 of Countering a Moral Occupational Stigma in Employee-Customer Interactions	42
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts	42
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	40
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	40
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change	40
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	38
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	38
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	37
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	37
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	35
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	34
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	34
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	34
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	33
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	33
Anticipatory Impression Management for Potential Adverse Events: Positive Framing in the Wake of Short Seller Attacks on a Competitor	32
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	31
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	30
Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California	30
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs	30
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	29
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	29
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways	29
Falling Off the Unicorn: The Maintenance of Unrealistic Startup Labor Narratives	28
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	28
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness	28
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation	28
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis	28
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	27
Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms	27

Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital