OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Management Studies is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	142
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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change	71
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Ripples in the Pond: Product Portfolio Reconfiguration and Dynamism in the Competitive Environment	64
The Cost of Dancing with the Government: A Conservation of Resources Theory of Political Networking and CEO Burnout	63
Green Screening: Firm Environmental Strategy Amidst Policy Implementation Uncertainty in the European Union	62
Lay Theories of Expertise: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration	61
Caught in a Landslide? Exploring how Far the Increasing Focus on Big Data Benefits or Damages Theoretical Development in Management Studies	60
Temporal Dynamics in Acquisition Behavior: The Effects of Activity Load on Strategic Momentum	57
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis	55
What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?	52
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Correction to Catch Up with the Good and Stay Away from the Bad: CEO Decisions on the Appointment of Chief Sustainability Officers	44
Who Would be a Dean? Demonizing Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in our Business Schools	43
Getting Down to Business: Governing the Hybridization of UK Charities	43
Effective Firm Alignment with SIGEL Crises: The Temporal Mindsets of Decision Makers	43
Two Cheers for RRBM, Pasteur’s Quadrant, and an Application of RRBM to the Commercialization of Science and Technology Transfer	43
Competence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self‐Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity	42
‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination	42
Speaking Up to the Boss: The Effects of Top Management Team Members' Felt Trust and Perceived CEO Trustworthiness on Voice Behaviour in Family Firms	40
Messing up Visual Management Studies: A Problematizing Review	39
Stakeholder Existential Authenticity and Corporate Social Responsibility	38

Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID‐19	38
The Management of Socio‐Political Issues and Environments: Toward a Research Agenda for Corporate Socio‐Political Engagement	37
Coworker Support Exceeding Expectations as a Double‐Edged Sword: The Role of Workplace Status	36
Understanding Talent in Foreign Subsidiaries: A Review, Synthesis, and Way Forward	36
Middle‐Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms	36
‘We're all Born Naked and the Rest is Drag’: Spectacularization of Core Stigma in RuPaul's Drag Race	36
Issue Information	35
Do Female State Officials Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in their Jurisdictions? A Disadvantage‐Prohibiting Perspective	34
From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics	34
Configuring International Growth of Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: A Compositional Springboarding View in the Context of India	33
LMXSC Elicits Hubristic Pride and Social Undermining in Individuals with High Trait Dominance	33
Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward	33
Embodied Connection Work: The Role of the Lived Body in Routine Recreation in Extreme Contexts	32
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics	31
From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms	31
Preparing for a Day that May Never Come: Venturing in Limbo	30
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On Vulnerability, Coming out and Hiding	29
Shifting Gears Amid COVID‐19: Information Availability, Pandemic Imprints and Firms’ PPE Production	29
Rating Anticipation and Strategic Downward Selection in Consumer‐Generated Rating Systems: Evidence from a Peer‐to‐Peer Platform Market	29
Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early‐Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro‐Level Impact	29
Issue Information	28
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Institutional Logics and the Post‐Financing Relationship Between Investors and Entrepreneurs	26
Governing Corporations in National and Transnational Spaces: Cross‐Level Governmental Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Korea	26
Behavioural Agency and Firm Productivity: Revisiting the Incentive Alignment Qualities of Stock Options	26
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	26
Unpacking the Duality of Control and Trust in Inter‐Organizational Relationships through Action‐Reaction Cycles	25
Issue Information	25
Social Enterprise Referents: How Social Enterprises Help Organize Nascent Fields to Address Complex Societal Problems	25
How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices	24
Future Making as Emancipatory Inquiry: A Value‐Based Exploration of Desirable Futures	23
Attracted to the Hustle? An Impression Management Perspective on Entrepreneurial Hustle in New Venture Recruitment	23
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	23
An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures	23
Leave the Token, Take the Gavel: How National Quotas and Corporate Ownership Shape Gender Diversity on Major Board Committees	23
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	22
Disentangling Knowledge Diversity: The Interactive Effect of Heterogeneity‐Based Knowledge Diversity and Inequality‐Based Knowledge Diversity on Team Innovation	22
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	22
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies	21
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	21
Reframing Silence as Purposeful: Emotions in Extreme Contexts	21
Issue Information	21
The Role of Frictions due to Top Management in Alliance Termination Decisions: Insights from Established Bio‐Pharmaceutical Firms	21
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The Double‐Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self‐Disclosure Perspective	20
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Investors’ Reactions to Alliance‐Engendered Acquisition Ambiguity: Evidence from U.S. Technology Deals	20
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	20

Generating, Grading, and Ghosting: How Organizing Experts Shapes Expertise	19
The Fire to Inspire: A Multilevel and Multimethod Investigation of How and When CEO Passion for Organizational Development Impacts Employee Creativity	19
Invisible Iterations: How Formal and Informal Organization Shape Knowledge Networks for Coordination	19
Forged at Workforce Entry? CEO Imprinting, Information Uncertainty and Merger Wave Timing	19
Issue Information	18
Smart Tech is all Around us – Bridging Employee Vulnerability with Organizational Active Trust‐Building	18
Causal Mechanisms in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management: A Meta‐Synthesis of Micro‐CSR Research	18
Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges	18
The Effect of Side‐Hustle Thriving on Full‐Time Work Performance: A Conservation of Resources Perspective	18
Issue Information	18
What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use Name‐Based Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations	17
Decomposing the Drivers of Innovation Performance	17
Not the Time to be Humble! When and Why Leader Humility Enhances and Deteriorates Evaluations on Leader Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Leader	17
Foreign Market Investment as a Locus of Response to Adverse Performance	17
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	17
Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation	17
Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin‐Offs	16
Take it from the Top: How Intensity ofTMTJoint Problem Solving and Levels of Interdependence Influence Quality of Strategy Implementation Coordination and Firm Performance	16
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios	16
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work	16
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	16
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The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’	15
Place in Entrepreneurial Storytelling: A Study of Cultural Entrepreneurship in a Deprived Context	15
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity	15
How Do Innovation Ecosystems Emerge? The Case of Nanotechnology in Israel	15
Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research	14
What is the Strategy of Strategy to Tackle Climate Change?	14
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	14
List of Reviewers for this Special Issue	13
A Contingency View of Impression Management: Heterogeneous Investor Responses to CEO Positive Portrayal of Mergers and Acquisitions	13
Dissonance, Reflection and Reframing: Unpacking the Black Box of Motivation Internalization	13
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	13
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Set & Done? Trade‐offs between Stakeholder Expectation and Attainment Pressures in Corporate Carbon Target Management	12
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking	12
Correction to “Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research”	12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	12
Hybridity in Non‐profits: Innovating for Social Value Creation	12
How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation	12
List of People Who Reviewed for this Special Issue	12
List of People Who Reviewed for JMS in 2021	12
Passion Amid the Pandemic: Applying a Person‐Centered Approach to Examine Cross‐Domain Multi‐Passion Profiles during a Crisis	12
Transforming How Ambivalence About DEI Work is Managed in Organizations	12
Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy	12
Imitation of Location Choices for Foreign Investments: The Role of Subnational Foreign Locations' Cultural Tightness	12
A Selfless Integrator or a Selfish Quasi‐Professional? Relational Tactics for Organizational Professionals’ Durable Influence	12
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Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions	12
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Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches	11
Pace Layering as a Metaphor for Organizing in the Age of Intelligent Technologies: Considering the Future of Work by Theorizing the Future of Organizing	11
How Deep‐Level and Surface‐Level Board Diversity, Formal and Informal Social Structures Affect Innovation	11
Theorizing Waste as a Technique of Power in Capitalistic Stakeholder Relations	11
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work	11
Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward more Equitable Pathways to Impact	11
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation	11
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	11
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	10
Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis	10
Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti	10
Algorithmic Embeddedness and the ‘Gig’ Characteristics Model: Examining the Interplay between Technology and Work Design in Crowdwork	10
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View	10
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Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns	10
Incomplete Institutional Change and the Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Contestation of Institutional Misalignment in South Africa*	10
Issue Information ‐ Notes for Contributors	10
Being Aware of Death: How and when Mortality Cues Incite Leader Expediency Versus Servant Leadership Behaviour	10
The Role of Informative Names in Niche Dynamics and Product Survival in a High‐Velocity Industry	10