OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Relations is 9. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt	132
The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces	81
The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence	51
Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work	46
Constructing promissory futures to defer moral scrutiny: The dilemma of healthcare austerity	41
Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics: The threat of high-stakes organizations in precarious times	39
Relations between reflexivity and institutional work: A case study in a public organisation	38
Movement-oriented labor organizations in an authoritarian regime: The case of China	35
Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem	34
Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?	32
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2022	31
Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens	28
Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty	26
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	25
Institutionalized affect in organizations: Not an oxymoron	25
Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy	24
Thinking outside Pandora’s box: Revealing differential effects of coping with physical and psychological menopause symptoms at work	22
Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement	22
The extensification of managerial work in the digital age: Middle managers, spatio-temporal boundaries and control	21
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	21
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	20
When can display of authenticity at work facilitate coworker interactions? The moderating effect of perception of organizational politics	19
Inspired to be transformational: The interplay between employee voice type and manager construal level	18
Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership	17
The act of (de/re)growing: Prefiguring alternative organizational landscapes of socioecological transformations	17

Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal	17
What enables us to better experience our work as meaningful? The importance of awareness and the social context	17
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	17
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	16
The hazards of performance management: An investigation into its effects on employee absenteeism and presenteeism	15
Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement	15
Looking over your shoulder: Embodied responses to contamination in the emotional dirty work of prison officers	15
A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality	15
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	15
Mobilizing landscapes of practice to address grand challenges	14
Corrigendum	14
Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity	14
Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance	14
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	14
Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes	13
Silent entrepreneuring: Complying with and refusing entrepreneurial norms through practices of tactical subordination and shielding space	13
Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership	13
Understanding meaningful work in the context of technostress, COVID-19, frustration, and corporate social responsibility	13
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy	13
Strategic, episodic and truncated orientations to planning in post-redundancy career transitions	13
Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile	12
The micro-politics of collective bargaining: The case of gender equality	12
Professional boundaries in action: Using reflective spaces for boundary work to incorporate a new healthcare role	12
From empathic leader to empathic leadership practice: An extension to relational leadership theory	11
Cracking the box or stretching its walls? Exploiting institutional plasticity in Iranian creative advertising	11
‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university	11
‘Brazil must be a country for entrepreneurs and workers, not scoundrels’: Personal branding mechanisms underpinning CEO activism	11
Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty	10
How and when do work stressors and peer norms impact career entrants’ alcohol-related behavior and its consequences?	10
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism: The case of management trainees in Hong Kong	10
HUMAN RELATIONS Special Issue – Call for Critical Reviews (Targeted for 2026)	10
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	10
Once a job crafter, always a job crafter? Investigating job crafting in organizations as a reciprocal self-concordant process across time	10
Effect of gender composition of committees	10
City governance and visual impression management: Visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena	10
Evidence-based practice and the ethics of care: ‘What works’ or ‘what matters’?	10
Leaders’ responses to receipt of proactive helping: Integrating theories of approach–avoidance and challenge–hindrance	10
Of charities and choice: Researching the choices of the long-term unemployed on third-sector employability programmes	10
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency	9
A colleague named Max: A critical inquiry into affects when an anthropomorphised AI (ro)bot enters the workplace	9
The political economy of accountability: Philanthropy’s ‘double dispossession’ of racial justice organizations under racial capitalism	9
Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work	9
Organizational responses to political sanctions: Voluntary state co-optation and strategic acquiescence in China’s futures market	9
‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces	9
An event-oriented approach to the transmission of ex-leaders’ entrepreneurial endeavor to employees’ entrepreneurial intention	9
Algorithmic governmentality and the space of ethics: Examples from ‘People Analytics’	9