OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Business & Society is 2. 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
Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity	216
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	201
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	48
Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	44
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain	32
Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity	27
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	27
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	25
Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations	23
Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	23
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: A Catalyst for Ethical AI in Business	22
From Trailing Behind to Shaping the Curve: Researching Rare and Impactful Events for Societal Benefit	22
Poverty Porn as Humanitarian Business: The Effects of Framing, Affect Intensity, and Spokesperson Characteristics	21
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	20
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	19
Understanding German Consumers’ Intention to Adopt COVID-19 Infection Prevention Measures: A Moral Decoupling Perspective	18
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	18
The Dark Side of Family Embeddedness: Family Firms Engagement in Private-Sector Corruption	18
Everyday Talk on Twitter: Informal Deliberation About (Ir-)responsible Business Conduct in Social Media Arenas	17
Corporate Environmental Governance Strategies Under the Dual Supervision of the Government and the Public	17
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	17
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	16
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations	16
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	16
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	15

From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk	14
Bad Guys Finish First? A Moral Emotional Perspective of Job Performance Outcomes for Abusive Supervisors	14
Green Bond Issuances: A Promising Signal or a Deceptive Opportunity?	14
How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development	14
Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States	14
From the Editors: Introducing Business & Society Commentary	14
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	13
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	13
Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development in a Business-as-Usual World	13
Broadening Our Understanding of Human Resource Management for Improved Environmental Performance	13
Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?	12
Unmasking the Info War: The Communication Dynamics of Reliable and Misinformation Sources During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Participating By Choice or Command? When Ideals of Stakeholder Engagement Clash With a Prevailing Strategy Discourse	12
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	12
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	12
Different Shades of Green? The Role of Green HRM and Its Authenticity in Cultivating Employee Commitment to Environment and Organization	12
The Evolving Political Marketplace: Revisiting 60 Years of Theoretical Dominance Through a Review of Corporate Political Activity Scholarship in Business & Society and Major Management Jour	11
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	11
How Collaborating with NGOs Makes Green Innovations More Desirable	11
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	11
Lost in Translation-Why an Independent Institutional Identity of Islamic Banks Failed to Emerge?	10
Policy Learning in Nascent Industries’ Venue Shifting: A Study of the U.S. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Industry	10
An Eye for Artificial Intelligence: Insights Into the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Vision for Future Research	10
Neither Naïve Nor Fatalistic: Decolonizing Mining Partnerships With Indigenous Communities in Mongolia and Australia	10
Do Firms Adjust Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement After a Focal Change in Credit Ratings?	10
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	10
Staging the Lie: The Impact of Framing and Content on the Visibility of Fake Business News	10
Context-Driven Diversification in Social Enterprises	9
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	9
Scorched Earth: Employers’ Breached Trust in Refugees’ Labor Market Integration	9
In Praise of Involvement	8
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	7
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	7
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	7
When Are Voluntary Environmental Programs More Effective? A Meta-Analysis of the Role of Program Governance Quality	7
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	7
Public Health and Political Corporate Social Responsibility: Pharmaceutical Company Engagement in COVAX	6
Human Rights: A Promising Perspective for Business & Society	6
Enhancing Pracademia in Business Schools: Designing Systems That Enable Impact	6
Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak	6
Whom to Ask for Feedback: Insights for Resource Mobilization From Social Entrepreneurship	6
Exploring Public Health Research for Corporate Health Policy: Insights for Business and Society Scholars	6
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	6
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	6
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	6
The Instrumentalization of CSR by Rent-Seeking Governments: Lessons From Tanzania	6
Predisposed, Exposed, or Both? How Prosocial Motivation and CSR Education Are Related to Prospective Employees’ Desire for Social Impact in Work	5
Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding: A Review and Synthesis	5
Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space	5

“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	5
If You are Serious About Impact, Create a Personal Impact Development Plan	5
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	5
Complete and Accurate? The Role of Profit Orientation in the Production of Public Health Data	4
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	4
Unbundling Ethical Consumer Choice: A Configurational Analysis With a Framing Experiment	4
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	4
Social Challenges for Business in the Age of Populism	4
The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions	4
Addressing Health Care Inequality Through Social Franchising: The Role of Network Stewardship in Impact Intermediation	4
Involving, Countering, and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case Study of a Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise’s Implementation of SA8000	4
Beyond the CSO: How Alternative Attention Carriers Influence the Role of CSOs on CSR	4
From the Editors: Introducing Impact	4
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	4
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	4
Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact	3
Moral CSR	3
When the Spotlight Burns: Gender Bias in the Public Perception of Entrepreneurs	3
Antiretroviral Therapy Coverage, Entrepreneurship, and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	3
Time Theft: Exposing a Subtle Yet Serious Driver of Socioeconomic Inequality	3
A Moral Foundations Framing Approach: Retail Investors’ Investment Intention in Ethical Mutual Funds	3
A Responsibility to Whom? Populism and Its Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility	3
How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?	3
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	3
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	3
ESG Leaders or Laggards? A Configurational Analysis of ESG Performance	3
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	3
Social-Market Hybridity in Social Ventures: Scale Development and Validation	3
Corrigendum to “Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement”	3
More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context	2
When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis	2
Social Innovation Is a Team Sport: Combining Top-Down and Shared Leadership for Social Innovation	2
Grand Challenges and Female Leaders: An Exploration of Relational Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	2
Questioning Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Certification Standards for Sustainability	2
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	2
The Hidden Costs of Scientific Progress: A Call for Holistic and Environmentally Sustainable Approaches to Scientific Research	2
Organizing Means–Ends Decoupling: Core–Compartment Separations in Fast Fashion	2
Where, When, and Who: Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value—A Global Panel Study	2
The Interplay of Market Choices and Social Mission: Learning From B2B Social Enterprises in Emerging Economies	2
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	2
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	2
Revisiting Renewable Energies: Liberating, Pacifying, and Democratizing	2
Business and the Climate Crisis: Toward Engagement With Climate Assemblies	2
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	2
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	2
Institutional Hegemony of a Logic Within a Cross-Sector Partnership	2
Outcomes of Paradox Responses in Corporate Sustainability: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis	2
Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future	2