OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Relations is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Human Relations Paper of the Year 2025	85
The (in)congruence effects of supervisor bottom-line mentality identity and reputation on group performance: A moderated mediation model	70
Advancing inclusive recruitment: A practice lens on navigating barriers to refugee employment	66
Too womanly or not manly enough? A review of work consequences experienced by counter-normative men	52
Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership	45
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	43
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	43
Silent entrepreneuring: Complying with and refusing entrepreneurial norms through practices of tactical subordination and shielding space	40
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	35
Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal	33
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy	31
There and back again: The roles of morning- and evening commute recovery experiences for daily resources across the commute-, work-, and home domain	25
Multilevel theorizing in strategic human resource management research: A systematic and critical review	25
Homeward bound or urban aspirations? Unraveling rural–urban migrant workers’ decision to return through hometown embeddedness and city embeddedness	24
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions	23
Critical theory in use: Organizing the Frankfurt School	23
Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees	23
Being and selling yourself: Unemployment, employability and the limits of identity regulation	22
Enacting responsible leadership in cross-sector partnerships: A dynamic choreography of power	21
Cultural trespassers or disruptors? Femininity reinvented and the career advancement strategies of Saudi women senior managers	21
Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency	20
Investigating the making of organizational social responsibility as a polyphony of voices: A ventriloquial analysis of practitioners’ interactions	19
Into the depths of the feminine: A Jungian perspective on postfeminist working life	19
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	19
The inclusive potential of activity-based working: The case of disability	19

Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations	19
The power of lore: how occupational myths help precarious workers endure	18
Beautifying a stigmatized occupation: Occupational destigmatization of Indian beauty salons	18
‘And then I undress the work’: Materiality and embodied identity work among professional mothers	18
The impact of father’s pregnancy discrimination on the work–family interface: An action-regulation approach	17
‘We are the backbone of the community’: Precarious multiple employment and the complex dynamics of dignity in, out and between work	17
Organizational telework access dispersion and firm performance	17
Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy	17
Creating ‘safe’ spaces through exclusionary boundaries: Examining employers’ treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	16
The dark side of illegitimate tasks: How revenge motives and moral identity shape deviant silence	15
When ‘I’ becomes ‘we’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative	15
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work	14
Relations between reflexivity and institutional work: A case study in a public organisation	14
Rethinking Humanness: Human Relations in the age of AI and Technological Transformation	14
Wrinkle of change? The reproduction of executive age profiles across CEO succession episodes	14
Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement	14
How narcissism, promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective	14
Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity	14
Talking about disappointments: Identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university	13
City governance and visual impression management: Visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena	13
Effect of gender composition of committees	13
On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work	13
Time is hunting: Investigating time pressure and bottom-line mentality with an eye-tracking approach	13
Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work	13
Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens	12
From pre-disruption success to disruption survival: The role of pre-disruption job performance evaluation in work outcomes during disruption	12
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency	12
Relative status and dyadic help seeking and giving: The roles of past helping history and power distance value	11
A balanced view of supervisory family support: Effects on gratitude, indebtedness, and job crafting behaviors	11
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	11
Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal	11
Resisting by not resisting: Constructing inconsistencies to resist dual mandated changes	11
Bad apples and sour grapes: How fruit and vegetable wholesalers’ fantasy mediates experienced stigma	11
On alliance teams: Conceptualization, review, and future research agenda	11
“Commit professional suicide or take up my pilgrim’s staff again?”: A cultural examination of how female managers resolve shock events in developing regions	10
A Theory of Aberrant Work-Life Navigation	10
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	10
Can’t get you o u t of my head: The stress-driven dual effects of LMX Ambivalence	10
When differentiated empowering leadership hurts team performance: The roles of information sharing and tenure diversity	10
Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality	10
‘I disdain the company of flatterers!’: How and when observed ingratiation predicts employees’ ostracism toward their ingratiating colleagues	10
Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era	10
Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations	10
I spoke up, did you hear? The impact of voice (in)congruence on employee-initiated constructive changes	10
I am My Work: New Lines of Inquiry in the Study of Identity Regulation in and Around Organizations	10
‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university	9
Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store	9
Working around: Job crafting in the context of public and professional accountability	9
Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance	9
Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring	9

Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	9
Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes	9
Toward a typology of boundaries in crisis management	9
The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces	9
The flailing self: A study of how young women become workers	8
The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence	8
‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces	8
Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement	8
A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality	8
The double-edged sword of negative supervisor gossip: When and why negative supervisor gossip promotes versus inhibits feedback seeking behavior among gossip targets	8
Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile	8
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry	8
‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies	7
Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira	7
Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective	7
Playing with trash: How gamification fostered the early adoption of zero-waste practices	7
Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty	7
Benefitting or suffering from a paradoxical leader? A self-regulation perspective	7
Paradoxical effects of narcissism on creative performance: Roles of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence and follower identification with the leader	7
Legacy imprints and categorisation shifts: How interpretations of job demands and resources change in abrupt transitions to virtual work	7
21st century bridling: Non-disclosure agreements in cases of organizational misconduct	6
Silent struggle: How older employees’ relational age and voice behavior shape co-worker trust and performance in professional teams	6
Trickling out effects of abusive supervision: A social information processing perspective	6
Precarious work: A critical review and a proposal for future research	6
Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine	6
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization	6
Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility	6
A processual perspective on alternative organization: Reorienting critical research through a study of two political parties	6
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work	6
It’s the River’s call: Rethinking our relationship with nature through the embodied experience of sustainability professionals	6
The communicative constitution of calling: From individual possession to relational processes of meaningful work	5
Mastanocracy: The legitimization of criminal governance and violence in Bangladesh’s garment industry	5
TMT cognitive and affective trust, psychological safety and corporate entrepreneurship	5
Editorial: Introducing the Special Issue to mark the 75th Anniversary of Human Relations	5
Vulnerability in high-performing newcomers: Weighing benefits and drawbacks in the socialization process	5
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	5
Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence	5
Institutions, resource dependence and the dual nature of corruption in firm internationalisation	5
Sometimes enough is enough: Nurses’ nonlinear levels of passion and the influence of politics	5
Proverbs as other-than-human actants in corporate social responsibility communication: A ventriloquial analysis of corporate-community dialogues	5