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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	257
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	55
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	52
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	38
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	35
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	32
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	29
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	27
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	26
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	26
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	26
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	25
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	24
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	23
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	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	21
Where, When, and Who: Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value—A Global Panel Study	21
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	21
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	20
Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	19
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	19
Walking, Talking, or Standing Still? Climate Commitment and Performance in Publicly Listed Firms in Five Major Economies	19
Mapping Liability of Origin and Mimetism in MNE Engagement Across the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Sustainability Reports	18
How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	17
Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation	17

Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	17
Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	17
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	17
Learning or Leaking? Enforcement Spillover Effects Within and Beyond the Firm	16
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	16
Relational or Transactional? The Importance of Distinguishing Two Types of Community-Supported Business Models	16
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations	15
In the Multitude of Words, Sin is Not Lacking: Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Corporate Responsibility or Providing Legal Shields?	15
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	15
Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions	15
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach	15
From Trailing Behind to Shaping the Curve: Researching Rare and Impactful Events for Societal Benefit	15
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	14
Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect	14
Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity	14
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	14
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	14
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	12
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	12
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	11
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	11
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	11
Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?	11
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	11
Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development in a Business-as-Usual World	11
Moral CSR	10
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation	10
Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy	10
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	9
From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis	9
Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders	9
How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective	8
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	8
Erratum to “Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact”	8
For What It’s Earth: Transcending the Human–Nature Dualism Through “Deep Nature Connection”	8
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	8
Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization	8
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	8
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
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	6
Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	6
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	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
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	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
Three Different Approaches to Impact: Translating, Cocreating, and Performing	6

Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	6
From the Editors: Introducing Business & Society Commentary	6
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	6
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	5
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	5
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	5
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	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
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	5
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	5
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	5
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	4
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	4
Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy	4
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	4
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	4
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	4
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	4
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	4
Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers	4
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	4
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	4
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	4
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	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	3
Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter?	3
Is Technology Uniquely Placed to Solve Our Problems? An Examination Into Technosolutionism, What It Entails and What It Predicts	3
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain	3
Poverty Porn as Humanitarian Business: The Effects of Framing, Affect Intensity, and Spokesperson Characteristics	3
Do Firms Adjust Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement After a Focal Change in Credit Ratings?	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises	3
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	3
Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States	3
Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity	3
Unmasking the Info War: The Communication Dynamics of Reliable and Misinformation Sources During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises	3
How Do New Forms of Organizations Manage Institutional Voids? Social Enterprises’ Quest for Sociopolitical Legitimacy	3
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	3
Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration	3
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3
How Collaborating with NGOs Makes Green Innovations More Desirable	3