OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Relations is 11. 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
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	43
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	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
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
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions	23
Being and selling yourself: Unemployment, employability and the limits of identity regulation	22
Cultural trespassers or disruptors? Femininity reinvented and the career advancement strategies of Saudi women senior managers	21
Enacting responsible leadership in cross-sector partnerships: A dynamic choreography of power	21
Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency	20
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
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
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 power of lore: how occupational myths help precarious workers endure	18
‘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
The impact of father’s pregnancy discrimination on the work–family interface: An action-regulation approach	17
Creating ‘safe’ spaces through exclusionary boundaries: Examining employers’ treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	16
When ‘I’ becomes ‘we’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative	15
The dark side of illegitimate tasks: How revenge motives and moral identity shape deviant silence	15
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
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
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
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
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
Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens	12
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
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