OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Business & Society is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	384
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	77
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	44
“She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability	44
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	43
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	42
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	39
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	38
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	34
Reaffirming and Renewing Our Declaration of Interdependence	32
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	31
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	28
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy	27
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	27
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	27
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	26
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	26
Kazakh Sharing Practices: A Critical Inquiry Into Sharing Economy Models From the Vantage of Ownership in Collective Societies	25
Community-Based Enterprise Creation in Base of the Pyramid Environments: A Sharing Economy Perspective	25
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	23
If the Body Keeps the Score, What Happens When You Bring the Body to Work? Exploring the Health Effects of Trauma on Human Capital	22
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	22
Mapping Liability of Origin and Mimetism in MNE Engagement Across the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Sustainability Reports	21
Editing/Exiting Business & Society : Some Reflections on Transitioning	21
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	21

Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	21
Age-Inclusive Digital Responsibility: A New Form of Responsibility in the Resonance of Aging and Digitalization	20
Walking, Talking, or Standing Still? Climate Commitment and Performance in Publicly Listed Firms in Five Major Economies	19
How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	19
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	17
Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation	17
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	17
In the Multitude of Words, Sin is Not Lacking: Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Corporate Responsibility or Providing Legal Shields?	16
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	15
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	14
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach	14
From Trailing Behind to Shaping the Curve: Researching Rare and Impactful Events for Societal Benefit	14
Learning or Leaking? Enforcement Spillover Effects Within and Beyond the Firm	14
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	14
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	14
Relational or Transactional? The Importance of Distinguishing Two Types of Community-Supported Business Models	14
The Ripple Effect of Reputation Spillover: How Corruption Fugitives Shape Consumer Perceptions of Fugitives’ Host Countries and Their MNEs?	13
Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect	12
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	12
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	12
Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity	12
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations	12
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	12
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Towards Authentic Engagement with Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Negotiated Agreements in the Pilbara, Western Australia	10
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	10
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	10
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	10
Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective	9
Erratum to “Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact”	9
Moral CSR	9
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	9
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation	9
How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective	8
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	8
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	8
Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization	8
For What It’s Earth: Transcending the Human–Nature Dualism Through “Deep Nature Connection”	8
Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy	8
From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis	8
Advisory Governance Policy, Shareholder Voice, and Board Responsiveness: The Case of Majority Vote in Director Elections	8
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	8
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	8
Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders	8
When Sustainability Initiatives and Indigenous Realities Meet: Ontological Violence in the Case of the “Paiter Suruí Carbon Credit REDD+ Project”	7
Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk	7
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	7
Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016	7
Finding the “Sweet Spot”: The Politics of Alignment in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Refugees	7
Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	6

Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	6
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	6
Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations	6
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	6
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	6
Towards a Justice-Oriented Human Rights Due Diligence Approach for Migrant Labor	6
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	6
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	5
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	5
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	5
Corrigendum to “Paradoxical Ethical Tensions in Wind Power Generation: Mapping Vicious Cyclical Dynamics and Proposing Strategies to Pivot to a Just Energy Transition”	5
Ethics Reviews Meet the Global South: Hidden Barriers to Contextualized Knowledge Generation	5
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	5
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	5
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	5
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	5
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	5
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	5
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	5
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	5
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	4
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	4
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	4
A Taxonomy of Hybrid Value Logics—How Social Enterprises Combine Institutional Logics Differently	4
Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter?	4
Desk Rejection: When the Musical Notes Just Don’t Come Together	4
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	4
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	4
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	4
Stepping Stone or Quicksand? Ethical Understandings of Non-Profit Support Organizations and Capability Consequences	4
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises	4
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	4
Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers	4
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	4
Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy	4
Beyond Fixing Women: In Pursuit of Women Leaders for Responsible Leadership	4
Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts	4
Engaged and Responsible Scholarship: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Not Embrace GenAI	3
How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?	3
Antiretroviral Therapy Coverage, Entrepreneurship, and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	3
Escaping Authenticity’s Dark Side: How Indigenous Groups Negotiate Indigeneity During Contentious Interactions	3
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain	3
Is Technology Uniquely Placed to Solve Our Problems? An Examination Into Technosolutionism, What It Entails and What It Predicts	3
Unmasking the Info War: The Communication Dynamics of Reliable and Misinformation Sources During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding: A Review and Synthesis	3
Social Challenges for Business in the Age of Populism	3
Unbundling Ethical Consumer Choice: A Configurational Analysis With a Framing Experiment	3
Participating By Choice or Command? When Ideals of Stakeholder Engagement Clash With a Prevailing Strategy Discourse	3
Poverty Porn as Humanitarian Business: The Effects of Framing, Affect Intensity, and Spokesperson Characteristics	3
Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity	3
Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises	3
How Do New Forms of Organizations Manage Institutional Voids? Social Enterprises’ Quest for Sociopolitical Legitimacy	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak	3
The Influence of Ethical Beliefs and Attitudes, Norms, and Prior Outcomes on Cybersecurity Investment Decisions	3
Complete and Accurate? The Role of Profit Orientation in the Production of Public Health Data	3
Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States	3
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	3
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3
Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration	3
How Collaborating with NGOs Makes Green Innovations More Desirable	3