OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Relations is 4. 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
Silent entrepreneuring: Complying with and refusing entrepreneurial norms through practices of tactical subordination and shielding space	154
When can display of authenticity at work facilitate coworker interactions? The moderating effect of perception of organizational politics	100
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	60
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	55
Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal	54
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	46
Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership	41
The micro-politics of collective bargaining: The case of gender equality	39
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy	37
Agile work practices and employee proactivity: A multilevel study	31
Homeward bound or urban aspirations? Unraveling rural–urban migrant workers’ decision to return through hometown embeddedness and city embeddedness	31
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions	30
There and back again: The roles of morning- and evening commute recovery experiences for daily resources across the commute-, work-, and home domain	30
Doing transgender ‘right’: Bodies, eroticism and spirituality in khwajasira work	29
Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees	25
Critical theory in use: Organizing the Frankfurt School	24
Cultural trespassers or disruptors? Femininity reinvented and the career advancement strategies of Saudi women senior managers	23
Federal employees or rogue rangers: Sharing and resisting organizational authority through Twitter communication practices	23
Into the depths of the feminine: A Jungian perspective on postfeminist working life	22
Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits	21
Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency	21
Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations	19
Struggling to make sense of it all: The emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	19
Critical essay: Blinding faith – Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review	18
Investigating the making of organizational social responsibility as a polyphony of voices: A ventriloquial analysis of practitioners’ interactions	18

Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	17
When ‘I’ becomes ‘we’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative	17
Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy	17
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	16
The (mostly) robust influence of initial trustworthiness beliefs on subsequent behaviors and perceptions	15
The impact of father’s pregnancy discrimination on the work–family interface: An action-regulation approach	15
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work	15
Creating ‘safe’ spaces through exclusionary boundaries: Examining employers’ treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	15
The gaming of performance management systems in British universities	14
How narcissism, promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective	14
Epistemic injustice and hegemonic ordeal in management and organization studies: Advancing Black scholarship	14
Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement	13
Wrinkle of change? The reproduction of executive age profiles across CEO succession episodes	13
Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity	13
Relations between reflexivity and institutional work: A case study in a public organisation	13
On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work	13
Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work	13
City governance and visual impression management: Visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena	12
Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens	12
Talking about disappointments: Identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university	12
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency	12
On ableism and anthropocentrism: A canine perspective on the workplace inclusion of disabled people	12
Resisting by not resisting: Constructing inconsistencies to resist dual mandated changes	12
Effect of gender composition of committees	11
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	11
Relative status and dyadic help seeking and giving: The roles of past helping history and power distance value	11
Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal	11
Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective	10
A balanced view of supervisory family support: Effects on gratitude, indebtedness, and job crafting behaviors	10
On alliance teams: Conceptualization, review, and future research agenda	10
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	10
Professional credibility under attack: Responses to negative social evaluations in newly contested professions	10
When differentiated empowering leadership hurts team performance: The roles of information sharing and tenure diversity	10
Bad apples and sour grapes: How fruit and vegetable wholesalers’ fantasy mediates experienced stigma	10
Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations	10
Job demands and burnout: The multilevel boundary conditions of collective trust and competitive pressure	9
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation?	9
‘I disdain the company of flatterers!’: How and when observed ingratiation predicts employees’ ostracism toward their ingratiating colleagues	9
Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era	9
Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality	9
I spoke up, did you hear? The impact of voice (in)congruence on employee-initiated constructive changes	9
“Commit professional suicide or take up my pilgrim’s staff again?”: A cultural examination of how female managers resolve shock events in developing regions	9
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’: Recovering William H Whyte as the founder and future of groupthink research	9
From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions	9
Official truth, applied deconstruction and post-inquiry sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash	8
Swimming against the tide? Street-level bureaucrats and the limits to inclusive active labour market programmes in the UK	8
The role of regulatory, affective, and motivational resources in the adverse spillover of sleep in the home domain to employee effectiveness in the work domain	8
I am My Work: New Lines of Inquiry in the Study of Identity Regulation in and Around Organizations	8
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	7
Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store	7

Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance	7
A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality	7
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	7
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	7
Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile	7
The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence	7
‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university	7
Working around: Job crafting in the context of public and professional accountability	7
Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring	7
Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes	7
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	7
The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces	7
Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty	6
Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty	6
Cracking the box or stretching its walls? Exploiting institutional plasticity in Iranian creative advertising	6
‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces	6
Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira	6
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	6
Benefitting or suffering from a paradoxical leader? A self-regulation perspective	6
The double-edged sword of negative supervisor gossip: When and why negative supervisor gossip promotes versus inhibits feedback seeking behavior among gossip targets	6
A processual perspective on alternative organization: Reorienting critical research through a study of two political parties	6
Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement	6
Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective	6
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry	6
Paradoxical effects of narcissism on creative performance: Roles of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence and follower identification with the leader	6
Ventriloquial reflexivity: Exploring the communicative relationality of the ‘I’ and the ‘it’	6
Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe	5
‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies	5
Human Relations special issue call for papers	5
Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine	5
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	5
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2021	5
21st century bridling: Non-disclosure agreements in cases of organizational misconduct	5
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work	5
Between consumption, accumulation and precarity: The psychic and affective practices of the female neoliberal spiritual subject	4
Trickling out effects of abusive supervision: A social information processing perspective	4
Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing	4
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2022	4
Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership	4
HUMAN RELATIONS Special Issue – Call for Critical Reviews (Targeted for 2026)	4
When being oneself is socially rewarded: Social identification qualifies the effect of authentic behavior at work	4
‘And we gossip about my life as if I am not there’: An autoethnography on recovery from infidelity and silence in the academic workplace	4
Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility	4
Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence	4
Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?	4
Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem	4
#Knowyourworth: How influencers commercialise meaningful work	4
Editorial: Introducing the Special Issue to mark the 75th Anniversary of Human Relations	4
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization	4
Sometimes enough is enough: Nurses’ nonlinear levels of passion and the influence of politics	4
Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers	4
The ties that bind us: Networks, projects and careers in British TV	4
The political economy of accountability: Philanthropy’s ‘double dispossession’ of racial justice organizations under racial capitalism	4