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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	303
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	63
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	41
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	39
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	36
“She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability	32
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	30
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	30
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	29
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	29
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	29
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	28
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	26
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy	25
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	24
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	24
If the Body Keeps the Score, What Happens When You Bring the Body to Work? Exploring the Health Effects of Trauma on Human Capital	23
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	22
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	22
Community-Based Enterprise Creation in Base of the Pyramid Environments: A Sharing Economy Perspective	21
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	21
How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	20
Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	20
Walking, Talking, or Standing Still? Climate Commitment and Performance in Publicly Listed Firms in Five Major Economies	19
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	19

Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	18
Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation	17
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	16
Age-Inclusive Digital Responsibility: A New Form of Responsibility in the Resonance of Aging and Digitalization	16
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	16
In the Multitude of Words, Sin is Not Lacking: Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Corporate Responsibility or Providing Legal Shields?	16
Mapping Liability of Origin and Mimetism in MNE Engagement Across the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Sustainability Reports	16
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	15
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach	15
Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions	15
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
Relational or Transactional? The Importance of Distinguishing Two Types of Community-Supported Business Models	14
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	13
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	13
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	12
Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect	12
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	12
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	12
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	11
Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity	11
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	11
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations	11
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	10
Moral CSR	10
Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective	9
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	9
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	9
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	9
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	9
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation	9
Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders	8
Erratum to “Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact”	8
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	8
Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy	8
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	8
From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis	8
How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective	7
Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization	7
For What It’s Earth: Transcending the Human–Nature Dualism Through “Deep Nature Connection”	7
Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016	7
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	7
Finding the “Sweet Spot”: The Politics of Alignment in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Refugees	7
Advisory Governance Policy, Shareholder Voice, and Board Responsiveness: The Case of Majority Vote in Director Elections	7
Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations	6
Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	6
Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk	6
Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	6
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	6

Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	5
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	5
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	5
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	5
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	5
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	5
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	5
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	5
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	5
Ethics Reviews Meet the Global South: Hidden Barriers to Contextualized Knowledge Generation	4
Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers	4
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	4
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	4
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	4
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	4
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	4
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	4
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	4
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	4
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	4
Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises	3
Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy	3
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	3
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	3
Is Technology Uniquely Placed to Solve Our Problems? An Examination Into Technosolutionism, What It Entails and What It Predicts	3
Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter?	3
Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts	3
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	3
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	3
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	3
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises	3
Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration	3
Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity	3
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	3
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	3
Beyond Fixing Women: In Pursuit of Women Leaders for Responsible Leadership	3
How Do New Forms of Organizations Manage Institutional Voids? Social Enterprises’ Quest for Sociopolitical Legitimacy	3
Poverty Porn as Humanitarian Business: The Effects of Framing, Affect Intensity, and Spokesperson Characteristics	3