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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Relationship between Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Differences, Similarities, and Implications for Social Issues in Management	207
Management Research that Makes a Difference: Broadening the Meaning of Impact	151
Strategic Human Resource Management and COVID‐19: Emerging Challenges and Research Opportunities	129
Sensemaking in the Time of COVID‐19	113
The Future of the Corporation and the Economics of Purpose	108
Researching for Desirable Futures: From Real Utopias to Imagining Alternatives	96
Stakeholder Governance for Responsible Innovation: A Theory of Value Creation, Appropriation, and Distribution	96
Indigenous Theory Uses, Abuses, and Future	93
Decolonizing Management Theory: A Critical Perspective	87
Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age	87
Chief Digital Officers: An Analysis of the Presence of a Centralized Digital Transformation Role	84
Grand Societal Challenges and Responsible Innovation	80
How COVID‐19 Informs Business Sustainability Research: It’s Time for a Systems Perspective	77
Contextualizing Management Research: An Open Systems Perspective	69
Corporate Social Responsibility Research in the Journal of Management Studies: A Shift from a Business‐Centric to a Society‐Centric Focus	64
Corporate Purpose Needs Democracy	59
COVID‐19 and Global Governance	57
A Few Implications of the COVID‐19 Pandemic for International Business Strategy Research	56
Narrow‐Framing and Risk Preferences in Family and Non‐Family Firms	56
Family Business Restructuring: A Review and Research Agenda	54
From Attention to Action: The Influence of Cognitive and Ideological Diversity in Top Management Teams on Business Model Innovation	53
Complexity and COVID‐19: Leadership and Followership in a Complex World	51
Corporate Governance Research in the Wake of a Systemic Crisis: Lessons and Opportunities from the COVID‐19 Pandemic	46
How do Intermediaries Build Inclusive Markets? The Role of the Social Context	45
The Impact of Quarantines, Lockdowns, and ‘Reopenings’ on the Commercialization of Science: Micro and Macro Issues	44

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Family Business: Learning Across Domains	43
Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship	43
Overcoming the Early‐stage Conundrum of Digital Platform Ecosystem Emergence: A Problem‐Solving Perspective	39
Technological Frames in the Digital Age: Theory, Measurement Instrument, and Future Research Areas	39
Assessing Trust and Risk Perceptions in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Study	39
Paradoxical Leadership, Subjective Ambivalence, and Employee Creativity: Effects of Employee Holistic Thinking	35
Bridging Caste Divides: Middle‐Status Ambivalence, Elite Closure, and Lower‐Status Social Withdrawal	35
The Relationship Between Team Deep‐Level Diversity and Team Performance: A Meta‐Analysis of the Main Effect, Moderators, and Mediating Mechanisms	34
The Sharing Economy and Business Model Design: A Configurational Approach	33
The Distinctive Domain of the Sharing Economy: Definitions, Value Creation, and Implications for Research	33
A Critical Review of the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Empirical Literature on Cognition‐Based and Affect‐Based Trust	33
Middle Managers' Struggle Over Their Subject Position in Open Strategy Processes	32
Resource Orchestration and Scaling‐up of Platform‐Based Entrepreneurial Firms: The Logic of Dialectic Tuning	29
Temporal Strategies and Firms’ Speedy Responses to COVID‐19	29
COVID‐19 and the Future of Management Studies. Insights from Leading Scholars	29
Do Economic Sanctions Work? Evidence from the Russia‐Ukraine Conflict	28
Pyramidal Ownership and SOE Innovation	28
Paradox, Dialectics or Trade‐Offs? A Double Loop Model of Paradox	27
International Management as Management of Diversity: Reconceptualizing Distance as Diversity	27
System‐Spanning Values Work and Entrepreneurial Growth in Family Firms	26
Social Entrepreneurship’s Solutionism Problem	26
Complex Times, Complex Time: The Pandemic, Time‐Based Theorizing and Temporal Research in Management and Organization Studies	26
Organisational Change in a (Post‐) Pandemic World: Rediscovering Interests and Values	25
Polycentric Governance of Privately Owned Resources in Circular Economy Systems	25
Synergy Evaluation in Mergers and Acquisitions: An Attention‐Based View	25
From ‘Publish or Perish’ to Societal Impact: Organizational Repurposing Towards Responsible Innovation through Creating a Medical Platform	24
Hard and Soft Integration: Towards a Dynamic Model of Post‐Acquisition Integration	24
Scaling‐up: Building, Leading and Sustaining Rapid Growth Over Time	24
From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity	23
Algorithms and their Affordances: How Crowdworkers Manage Algorithmic Scores in Online Labour Markets	22
Covid‐19 and The Study of Professionals and Professional Work	22
Contextualizing the Sharing Economy	22
First Impressions Stick: Market Entry Strategies and Category Priming in the Digital Domain	22
Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age: Expert Sentiment and Corporate Capital Allocation	22
Both Diversity and Meritocracy: Managing the Diversity‐Meritocracy Paradox with Organizational Ambidexterity	21
Signalling Strategies of Exporters on Internet Business‐to‐Business Platforms	21
Rhetorical History as Institutional Work	20
Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking	20
Are There Limits to Diversification in Emerging Economies? Distinguishing between Firm‐Level and Business Group Strategies	20
A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing New Perspectives for Management Research	20
Selecting Innovation Projects: Do Middle and Senior Managers Differ When It Comes to Radical Innovation?	19
Temporal Orientation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Evidence	19
Re‐Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western‐Centred Knowledge?	19
Inequality in the Time of Corona Virus	19
Understanding Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility in Business and Management Research	19
Why Difference Makes a Difference: Diversity, Inequality, and Institutionalization	18
Theorizing Diversity in Management Studies: New Perspectives and Future Directions	18
Relational Expertise: What Machines Can't Know	18
The Rise and Fall of Structural Contingency Theory: A Theory’s ‘autopsy’	18
Organizational Demographic Faultlines: Their Impact on Collective Organizational Identification, Firm Performance, and Firm Innovation	18

Same Old Song with a Different Melody: The Paradox of Market Reach and Financial Performance on Digital Platforms	18
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Social License? A Sentiment and Emotion Analysis	18
Using Macro Archival Databases to Expand Theory in Micro Research	17
Behind the Stigma Shield: Frontline Employees’ Emotional Response to Organizational Event Stigma at Work and at Home	17
Stakeholder Management & The Value of Human‐Centred Corporate Objectives	17
Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization	17
Non‐Market Strategies and Credit Benefits: Unpacking Heterogeneous Political Connections in Response to Government Anti‐Corruption Initiatives	17
The Corporate Objective Revisited: The Shareholder Perspective	16
Populist Syndrome and Nonmarket Strategy	16
You Speak, I Speak: The Social‐Cognitive Mechanisms of Voice Contagion	16
Transactional Dependence and Technological Upgrading in Global Value Chains	16
The Role of Space and Place in Organizational and Institutional Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature	16
The Lived Experience of Managerialization: Understanding Values Conflict in Non‐profits through a Pragmatic Institutionalism	16
Stigma as Moral Insurance: How Stigma Buffers Firms from the Market Consequences of Greenwashing	16
The Heuristics and Biases of Top Managers: Past, Present, and Future	15
Understanding interorganizational big data technologies: How technology adoption motivations and technology design shape collaborative dynamics	15
A Multi‐Level Model of I‐deals in Workgroups: Employee and Coworker Perceptions of Leader Fairness, I‐Deals and Group Performance	15
A Simple Rule is Born: How CEOs Distill Heuristics	15
(When) Are Dynamic Capabilities Routine? A Mixed‐Methods Configurational Analysis	15
Stakeholder Orientation and Experiential Learning: Evidence from Corporate Acquisitions	15
On Gendered Justification: A Framework for Understanding Men's and Women's Entrepreneurial Resource‐Acquisition	15
The Endurance of Shareholder Value Maximization as the Preferred Corporate Objective	15
Organizational Stigma: Taking Stock and Opening New Areas for Research	14
Business Model Research: Past, Present, and Future	14
Speed and Scaling: An Investigation of Accelerated Firm Growth	14
Organizational Dischronization: On Meaning and Meaninglessness, Sensemaking and Nonsensemaking	14
Strategic Venturing as Legitimacy Creation: The Case of Sustainability	14
Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	13
Opportunity or Threat? Exploring Middle Manager Roles in the Face of Digital Transformation	13
Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?	13
How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work	13
How Country Reputation Differentials Influence Market Reaction to International Acquisitions	13
Problem Solving or Responsibility Avoidance? The Role of CEO Internal Attribution Tendency in Shaping Corporate Downsizing in Response to Performance Shortfalls	13
Perceived Organizational Purpose: Systematic Literature Review, Construct Definition, Measurement and Potential Employee Outcomes	13
Linking Experience to Intuition and Cognitive Versatility in New Venture Ideation: A Dual‐Process Perspective	13
Helping While Competing? The Complex Effects of Competitive Climates on the Prosocial Identity and Performance Relationship	13
Let’s Fix our Own Problem: Quelling the Irresponsible Research Perfect Storm	13
Reverse Knowledge Flows: How and When Do Preparation and Reintegration Facilitate Repatriate Knowledge Transfer?	13
Under the Radar: Institutional Drift and Non‐Strategic Institutional Change	13
Recalibrating Management Research for the Post‐COVID‐19 Scientific Enterprise	12
Coming Apart While Scaling Up – Adoption of Logics and the Fragmentation of Organizational Identity in Science‐Based Ventures	12
Pursuing Gains or Avoiding Losses: The Contingent Effect of Transgenerational Intentions on Innovation Investments	12
Workers' Rites: Ritual Mediations and the Tensions of New Management	12
Once a Founder, Always a Founder? The Role of External Former Founders in Corporate Boards	12
Integrating Diversity into Distance Research for Added Rigor, Parsimony, and Relevance	12
Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action	11
Floodlight or Spotlight? Public Attention and the Selective Disclosure of Environmental Information	11
The Impact of Sustainable Investing: A Multidisciplinary Review	11
Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization	11
How Does CEO Decision Style Influence Firm Performance? The Mediating Role of Speed and Innovativeness in New Product Development	11
Algorithmic Routines and Dynamic Inertia: How Organizations Avoid Adapting to Changes in the Environment	11
Host Country Politics and Internationalization: A Meta‐Analytic Review	11
The Tragic Failings of Political CSR: A Damning Verdict from the Indigenous Pehuenche Highlands in Chile	10
Can you Speak Covid‐19? Languages and Social Inequality in Management Studies	10
Shifting Team Research after COVID‐19:Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change	10
Organizational Goals, Outcomes, and the Assessment of Performance: Reconceptualizing Success in Management Studies	10
No Need to Know It All: Implications of COVID‐19 for Corporate Communication Research	10
Missing the Impact in Impact Investing Research – A Systematic Review and Critical Reflection of the Literature	10
Professional Identity Threats in Interprofessional Collaborations: A Case of Architects in Professional Service Firms	10
Distance as Diversity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	10
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process	10
Embracing non‐Western Contexts in Management Scholarship	10
Employee‐CSR Tensions: Drivers of Employee (Dis)Engagement with Contested CSR Initiatives	10