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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmentally specific transformational leadership and team pro-environmental behaviors: The roles of pro-environmental goal clarity, pro-environmental harmonious passion, and power distance	81
Survey response rates: Trends and a validity assessment framework	62
Identities in and around organizations: Towards an identity work perspective	52
Transforming corporate social responsibilities: Toward an intellectual activist research agenda for micro-CSR research	50
Thriving at work but insomniac at home: Understanding the relationship between supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee functioning	48
Be smart, play dumb? A transactional perspective on day-specific knowledge hiding, interpersonal conflict, and psychological strain	48
Identity work in refugee workforce integration: The role of newcomer support organizations	46
Rethinking history and memory in organization studies: The case for historiographical reflexivity	44
Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work	42
Microphones, not megaphones: Functional crowdworker voice regimes on digital work platforms	41
The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organization studies	33
The possibility of disalienated work: Being at home in alternative organizations	31
The dimensional structure of transparency: A construct validation of transparency as disclosure, clarity, and accuracy in organizations	30
Epistemic injustice and hegemonic ordeal in management and organization studies: Advancing Black scholarship	30
Strategy-in-Practices: A process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes	29
Neither timeless, nor placeless: Control of food delivery gig work via place-based working time regimes	29
Is the bottom line reached? An exploration of supervisor bottom-line mentality, team performance avoidance goal orientation and team performance	28
“Bloody Wonder Woman!”: Identity performances of elite women entrepreneurs on Instagram	27
The extensification of managerial work in the digital age: Middle managers, spatio-temporal boundaries and control	26
Hope labour and the psychic life of cultural work	26
The interactive effects of socialization tactics and work locus of control on newcomer work adjustment, job embeddedness, and voluntary turnover	25
Racialised professionals’ experiences of selective incivility in organisations: A multi-level analysis of subtle racism	24
Underemploying highly skilled migrants: An organizational logic protecting corporate ‘normality’	24
Organizational change failure: Framing the process of failing	22
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	21

How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work	21
Manifesto for a new Quality of Working Life	20
Shaping positive and negative ties to improve team effectiveness: The roles of leader humility and team helping norms	20
He aronga takirua: Cultural double-shift of Māori scientists	20
Human Relations virtual special issue: Flexible Work Practices and Work-Family Domain	19
Leader and organizational identification and organizational citizenship behaviors: Examining cross-lagged relationships and the moderating role of collective identity orientation	18
Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme	18
Contextualising intersectionality: A qualitative study of East Asian female migrant workers in the UK	18
Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy	16
Career challenges in smart cities: A sociotechnical systems view on sustainable careers	16
Workdays are not created equal: Job satisfaction and job stressors across the workweek	16
Management without morals: Construct development and initial testing of amoral management	15
Mitigating the psychologically detrimental effects of supervisor undermining: Joint effects of voice and political skill	15
Does “how” firms invest in corporate social responsibility matter? An attributional model of job seekers’ reactions to configurational variation in corporate social responsibility	14
Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty	14
Seeing others’ side to serve: Understanding how and when servant leadership impacts employee knowledge-hiding behaviors	14
‘Thriving instead of surviving’: A capability approach to geographical career transitions in the creative industries	14
Are outside directors on the small and medium-sized enterprise board always beneficial? Disclosure of firm-specific information in board-management relations as the missing mechanism	14
Agile work practices and employee proactivity: A multilevel study	14
Playful work design: Conceptualization, measurement, and validity	13
Exploring the dynamics of slack in extreme contexts: A practice-based view	13
A closer look at how managerial support can help improve patient experience: Insights from the UK’s National Health Service	13
From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions	12
The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance	12
Organizational socialization as kin-work: A psychoanalytic model of settling into a new job	12
The (mostly) robust influence of initial trustworthiness beliefs on subsequent behaviors and perceptions	12
Development and validation of the workplace hazing scale	12
Both a curse and a blessing? A social cognitive approach to the paradoxical effects of leader narcissism	11
No need to hide: Acknowledging the researcher’s intuition in empirical organizational research	11
How leader and follower prototypical and antitypical attributes influence ratings of transformational leadership in an extreme context	11
From empathic leader to empathic leadership practice: An extension to relational leadership theory	11
It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it: How callings influence constructive voice delivery	11
Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective	11
Between consumption, accumulation and precarity: The psychic and affective practices of the female neoliberal spiritual subject	10
The work is alive! Systems psychodynamics and the pursuit of pluralism without polarization in human relations	10
Organizing professional work and services through institutional complexity – how institutional logics and differences in organizational roles matter	10
The idealization of ‘compassion’ in trainee nurses’ talk: A psychosocial focus group study	10
Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing	10
Supervisor negative feedback and employee motivation to learn: An attribution perspective	10
Moved to speak up: How prosocial emotions influence the employee voice process	10
How and when does top management team regulatory focus influence firm environmental misconduct?	10
Job demands and burnout: The multilevel boundary conditions of collective trust and competitive pressure	10
Collective sensemaking in the local response to a grand challenge: Recovery, alleviation and change-oriented responses to a refugee crisis	10
What enables us to better experience our work as meaningful? The importance of awareness and the social context	9
Interplay for change in equality, diversity and inclusion studies	9
Employee proactive goal regulation and job performance: The role modeling and interacting effects of leader proactive goal regulation	9
Career capital in global versus second-order cities: Skilled migrants in London and Newcastle	9
Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem	9
Delivering bad news fairly: The influence of core self-evaluations and anxiety for the enactment of interpersonal justice	9
How does policy alienation develop? Exploring street-level bureaucrats’ agency in policy context shift in UK telehealthcare	8

The moderating role of a city’s institutional capital and people’s migration status on career success in China	8
Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe	8
The work of conflict mediation: Actors, vectors, and communicative relationality	8
City context and subjective career success: How does creative workers’ need for recognition filter city identity?	8
Careers advancement of women: Applying a multi-level relational perspective in the context of Turkish banking organisations	8
No family left behind: Flexibility i-deals for employees with stigmatized family identities	8
On ableism and anthropocentrism: A canine perspective on the workplace inclusion of disabled people	8
Managing liminal time in the fly-in fly-out work camp	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
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation?	8
‘You are free to choose . . . are you?’ Organisational punishment as a productivity incentive in the social science literature	8
Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership	8
Unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms	7
Academic labour as professional service work? A psychosocial analysis of emotion in lecturer–student relations under marketization	7
Struggling to make sense of it all: The emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	7
Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics: Examples from ‘People Analytics’	7
No such thing as a free ride: The impact of disability labels on relationship building at work	7
The impact of Chinese investments on western multinational enterprises’ work and employment practices: A consideration of institutional, political and dominance effects	7
The effect of intra-workplace pay inequality on employee trust in managers: Assessing a multilevel moderated mediation effect model	7
Human Relations virtual special issue: Virtual Working	7
Dynamic relationships between leader–member exchange and employee role-making behaviours: The moderating role of employee emotional ambivalence	7
Extending organizational socialization theory: Empirical evidence from volunteer work for refugees in France and Australia	7
Power crafting at work: A phenomenological study on individual differences	6
More than just an angry face: A critical review and theoretical expansion of research on leader anger expression	6
Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies	6
Normative collusion in the industry ecosystem: Explaining women’s career pathways and outcomes in investment management	6
How biopower puts freedom to work: Conceptualizing ‘pivoting mechanisms’ in the neoliberal university	6
The role of organizational settings in social learning: An ethnographic focus on food-delivery platform work	6
Bottom-line mentality from a goal-shielding perspective: Does bottom-line mentality explain the link between rewards and pro-self unethical behavior?	6
Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics: The threat of high-stakes organizations in precarious times	6
Knocking sovereign customers off their pedestals? When contact staff educate, amateurize, and penalize deviant customers	6
Family matters: The impact of family functioning on co-worker outcomes	6
‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies	6
Challenging the cross-national transfer of diversity management in MNCs: Exploring the ‘identity effects’ of diversity discourses	6
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	6
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry	5
Thinking outside Pandora’s box: Revealing differential effects of coping with physical and psychological menopause symptoms at work	5
Mitigating the harms of abusive supervision on employee thriving: The buffering effects of employees’ social-network centrality	5
Business as service? Human Relations and the British interwar management movement	5
Service-oriented high-performance work systems and service role performance: Applying an integrated extended self and psychological ownership framework	5
When the past is strongly involved in the present: Examining the transference effects of past psychological contract violation on present deviance	5
Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?	5
Institutionalized affect in organizations: Not an oxymoron	5
Scarred objects and time marks as memory anchors: The significance of scuffs and stains in organisational life	5
Navigating turbulent waters: Crafting learning trajectories in a changing work context	5
Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits	5
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism: The case of management trainees in Hong Kong	5
Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?	5
Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence	5
The gaming of performance management systems in British universities	5
The affective extension of ‘family’ in the context of changing elite business networks	5
Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains	5
When being oneself is socially rewarded: Social identification qualifies the effect of authentic behavior at work	4
Development as freedom? Insights from a farmer-led sustainable agriculture non-governmental organisation in the Philippines	4
Social courage promotes organizational identification via crafting social resources at work: A repeated-measures study	4
Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations	4
Cracking the box or stretching its walls? Exploiting institutional plasticity in Iranian creative advertising	4
Movement-oriented labor organizations in an authoritarian regime: The case of China	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
Changing times for digitalization: The multiple roles of temporal shifts in enabling organizational change	4
Critical essay: Blinding faith – Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review	4
Federal employees or rogue rangers: Sharing and resisting organizational authority through Twitter communication practices	4
The micro-politics of collective bargaining: The case of gender equality	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
Untangling the team social capital–team innovation link: The role of proportional task conflict as well as group- and differentiated individual-focused transformational leadership	4
Doing inclusion as counter-conduct: Navigating the paradoxes of organizing for refugee and migrant inclusion	4
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’: Recovering William H Whyte as the founder and future of groupthink research	4
Doing transgender ‘right’: Bodies, eroticism and spirituality in khwajasira work	4
When can display of authenticity at work facilitate coworker interactions? The moderating effect of perception of organizational politics	4