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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	318
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	66
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	44
“She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability	40
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	36
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	35
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	33
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	33
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	31
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	30
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	29
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	28
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy	28
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	28
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	25
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	24
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	23
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	22
Community-Based Enterprise Creation in Base of the Pyramid Environments: A Sharing Economy Perspective	22
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	22
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	21
Age-Inclusive Digital Responsibility: A New Form of Responsibility in the Resonance of Aging and Digitalization	21
Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	21
Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	20

How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	20
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	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
Walking, Talking, or Standing Still? Climate Commitment and Performance in Publicly Listed Firms in Five Major Economies	17
Mapping Liability of Origin and Mimetism in MNE Engagement Across the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Sustainability Reports	17
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	16
Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions	16
In the Multitude of Words, Sin is Not Lacking: Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Corporate Responsibility or Providing Legal Shields?	16
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach	15
Relational or Transactional? The Importance of Distinguishing Two Types of Community-Supported Business Models	15
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	14
Learning or Leaking? Enforcement Spillover Effects Within and Beyond the Firm	14
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	13
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	13
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	13
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
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	12
Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect	12
From Trailing Behind to Shaping the Curve: Researching Rare and Impactful Events for Societal Benefit	12
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	11
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	11
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	11
Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective	10
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation	10
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	10
Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders	9
From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis	9
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	9
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	9
Moral CSR	9
Advisory Governance Policy, Shareholder Voice, and Board Responsiveness: The Case of Majority Vote in Director Elections	8
Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy	8
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	8
Erratum to “Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact”	8
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	8
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	8
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	7
For What It’s Earth: Transcending the Human–Nature Dualism Through “Deep Nature Connection”	7
Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk	7
Finding the “Sweet Spot”: The Politics of Alignment in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Refugees	7
How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective	7
Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations	7
Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization	7
Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016	7
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	7
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	6
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	6

Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	6
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	6
Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	6
“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	5
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	5
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	5
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	5
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	5
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	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
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	5
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	5
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	5
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	4
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	4
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	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
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	4
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	4
A Taxonomy of Hybrid Value Logics—How Social Enterprises Combine Institutional Logics Differently	4
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	4
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	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
Desk Rejection: When the Musical Notes Just Don’t Come Together	3
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	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
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	3
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	3
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	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
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
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	3
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	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
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3