OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Long Range Planning is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	219
Organizational identity and performance: An inquiry into nonconforming company names	149
When are acquisitions a viable catch-up strategy? Some empirical evidence from China	138
Practice the purpose preach! Experimental evidence on the effect of corporate purpose on workers' willingness to go the extra mile	114
Family owners' fear of losing socio-emotional wealth: Implications for firm innovativeness	102
Adaptive emergence of platform governance in contexts of underdeveloped markets and informality	85
Mergers and acquisitions research: Time for a theory rejuvenation of the field	62
How does disruptive innovation influence the funding decisions of different venture capital investors? An empirical analysis on the role of startups' communication	55
Descendant CEOs and cross-border acquisitions in family firms: The moderating role of family involvement	54
Configurational conditions and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A fsQCA approach	45
Ecosystem leadership as a dynamic capability	42
Labour-cost retrenchment strategies in times of crisis: Comparing market reactions to flexible and rigid strategies	42
Emotions in the strategic management of family business organizations: Opening up the black box	42
Editorial Board	41
Editorial Board	40
Move fast and break things! innovation-intensive strategy, organizational permissiveness, and corporate wrongdoing	37
Outside vs. inside succession: Environmental and organizational contexts, strategic decision, and firm performance	36
Strategic responses of platform multinational enterprises: Rethinking competition policy through a comparative institutional perspective	35
Stars in the fog: Michelin-starred restaurants trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic	34
The boundary conditions for growth: Exploring the non-linear relationship between organic and acquisitive growth and profitability	32
The governance of gig platform organizations in developing countries	32
A call for action: The impact of business model innovation on business ecosystems, society and planet	31
Which partners become targets? The role of location in partner acquisitions	29
Why traditional firms from the same industry reject digital transformation: Structural constraints of perception and attention	27
Towards purposeful strategic planning: A mixed research synthesis across disciplines	27

Director tenure and contribution to board task performance: A time and contingency perspective	27
Discursive strategies for internal legitimacy: Narrating the alternative organizational form	27
Why some are less willing to share: Competitive domains and knowledge transfer in multi-unit organizations	26
The impact of firms’ going public mode and capital market liability of foreignness on their choice of jurisdiction in the United States	26
Political entrepreneurs and the perils of the top office	25
Institutional work of SMEs in coopetition: Developing competence diversity in a resource- scarce environment	25
Organizational learning in SMEs’ internationalization: A moderated mediating effect of absorptive capacity	24
Walking on thin ice: CEOs′ internationalization decisions in underperforming firms	24
Letting go or pushing forward: Director death and firm risk-taking	23
Family CEO affect and R&D investments of family firms: The moderation effect of family ownership structure	23
Editorial Board	23
Embracing outward FDI while continuing exports? The impact of heterogeneity and vulnerability in family firms	22
Creating high-quality innovations in China: The role of political ties and formal institutions	21
The dynamics of union-management collaboration during postmerger integration	20
Reaching beyond the acquirer-target dyad in M&A – Linkages to external knowledge sources and target firm valuation	20
Predicting acquisition specific goodwill write-downs	20
The competitive effects of financial and fiscal institutional arbitrage opportunities: Evidence from cross-border M&AS	20
How strategic alliances shape problemistic search intensity: Evidence from responses to social and historical underperformance	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	19
Boon or bane of open value creation: The impact of business model design and relational trust on competitive advantage	19
Strength in numbers: Scale, scope, and performance in multipartner alliances	19
Meaning is in the eye of the beholder: Reconciling business model design with customer meaning-making	18
Corporate decline and turnarounds in times of digitalization	18
Generalizing event studies using synthetic controls: An application to the Dollar Tree–Family Dollar acquisition	18
Do board interlocks affect the frequency and pace of cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms?	18
The multifaceted government influence on CSR activities: CSR decoupling in an emerging market	18
When less may be more: A dyadic view of franchise contracts	18
Conditioning the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Climate Policies, Transaction Costs, and Sunset Industry Firms’ Cross-Border Acquisitions	18
How family CEOs affect employees’ feelings and behaviors: A study on positive emotions	17
Editorial Board	17
The interactions of multidimensional corporate reputations and disaster donation strategies: How a firm can be known for its sense of social responsibility embodied in disaster donations	17
Editorial Board	17
The wisdom and madness of crowds: How information networks and board cognition help or hinder firm performance across the business cycle	17
Framing circularity in an AI ecosystem: Aligning purpose, strategy, and governance	16
Strategy as engagement: What organization strategy can learn from military strategy	16
To attack or not attack? The role of relative status, awareness, and motivation	16
What to teach when we teach digital strategy? An exploration of the nascent field	16
Fooled by the hype? The influence of technology hype on acquisition premiums in digital M&As	16
Strategic alliances for corporate sustainability innovation: The ‘how’ and ‘when’ of learning processes	16
Who sits at the table? LinkedIn exposure shapes managers’ situated attention and strategic preferences	15
Editorial Board	14
Home country institutions and nonmarket political strategy effects on EMNE foreign location choice	14
Resilience in Top Management Teams: Responding to crisis by focusing on the future	14
Willingness to include: Enabling pro-social strategies in private settings	14
Strategy dynamics in multilayered networks: Investment, location, and internationalisation decisions during systemic shocks	14
An evolutionary perspective on capabilities for fluid product-markets: The contingent effects of routinization and renewal in marketing, R&D, and operations	13
Editorial Board	13
Target CEO’s optimism, acquisition pricing and completion	13
Hierarchy alignment and incremental innovation in professional service firms: The case of the U.S. legal industry	13

Editorial Board	13
The impact of digitalization on internationalization from an internalization theory lens	12
A review of cognitive biases in strategic decision making	12
Editorial Board	12
Red or blue: The influence of CEO political orientation and situational context on acquisition behavior	12
Rethinking new venture growth: A time series cluster analysis of biotech startups’ heterogeneous growth trajectories	12
Career concerns of young and old CEOs: Their effect on R&D spending in the software industry	11
Learning ‘from’ vs. learning ‘about’ partners in pre-acquisition strategic alliances: The role of familiarity	11
Editorial Board	11
Towards a more inclusive notion of values in acquisition research	11
Bounded-born globals: Rethinking internationalization in the platform economy	11
Strategic renewal: Can it be done profitably?	11
Project managers and decision making: Conditional cognitive switching and rationally stepping up	11
Follow the Tide? Firms’ exploration and spatial competition in the product space	11
Emotion in strategic management: A review and future research agenda	10
Metaverse alchemy: Connecting NFTs, crypto-tokens, and social media in Web3 platform multinationals’ success	10
Enhancing scenario originality: A conceptual framework for leveraging self-transcending knowledge in scenario development	10
In the eye of the beholder: Stakeholder perceived value in sustainable business models	10
From start to stardom: The impact of resource allocation strategies on new venture survival and growth	10
How does digital new venture's customer orientation enhance strategic agility? The roles of strategic learning	10
The regional and temporal nature of hypercompetition	10
How do shareholders influence international firms’ environmental strategies? The differential impact of strategic and financial investors	10
Managing coopetition in diversified firms: Insights from a qualitative case study	10
The value of a firm’s engagement in ESG practices: Are we looking at the right side?	10
Operating synergy and post-acquisition integration in corporate acquisitions: A resource reconfiguration perspective	10
Editorial Board	9
Business model diversification: Demand relatedness, entry sequencing, and curvilinearity in the diversification-performance relationship	9
Editorial Board	9
How digitalization affects the effectiveness of turnaround actions for firms in decline	9
Acquisition integration capabilities and organizational design	8
Editorial Board	8
Recovering the divide: A review of the big data analytics—strategy relationship	8
Managerial cognition and data-related capability evolution in growth firms	8
Digital platforms, internal digitalization, and internationalization of SMES	8
Does big three ownership affect the strategic propensity to reinvest or distribute cash flow? Evidence from the UK and Sweden	8
Deliberate simple rule creation and use: Activities and challenges	7
How international physical presence and infrastructure differences moderate the link between digital internationalization and MNE performance	7
The dual-edged sword effect of reciprocal information exchanges within partnerships on performance: The mediating role of creativity	7
International production in the age of platform multinationals	7
Exploring the boundaries of business model innovation and firm performance: A meta-analysis	7
Multiple goal conflicts and exploratory innovation: Does alignment between team and organization help or hurt?	7
Strategic governance of blockchain platforms: From centralized to open source control systems	7
Too much of a good thing: Addressing the shape of relationship between positive media sentiment and IPO performance	7
Investment attributes and learning from failure in foreign direct investments	7
Mission statement and social impact: Shedding light on the contribution of Italian B corps to society	7
Managing open strategy in public-private sector business model innovation: Closing to open and opening to close as intertemporal dualities	6
The origins of SWOT analysis	6
Identifying and managing persisting tensions affecting strategic learning from projects	6
Sustaining authenticity while enabling adaptation: Discursively navigating strategy-identity tensions over time	6
Scratching the surface: Multinational enterprises and federalist political systems	6
What drives integration teams to achieve high integration process performance in absorption acquisitions? A configurational analysis	6
A turn of events: The case of the repurchase of Champagne Taittinger	6
Neither complements nor substitutes: Examining the case for coalignment of contract-based and relation-based alliance governance mechanisms in coopetition contexts	6
Absorptive capacity components: Performance effects in related and unrelated diversification	6
The canary in the cage: How do platform investors in China influence investee firms?	5
Dynamics in strategic management research: An agenda for LRP	5
To be different or to be the same when you are a small firm? Competitive interdependence as a boundary condition of the strategic balance perspective	5
Between obligation and action: The linguistic architecture of corporate ethics codes and its ESG impact	5
Commentary on formulating strategy from the outside in	5
Rivalry enablers in ecosystems: The role of dominant operating system platform openness across diverse national contexts	5
Speeds of post-merger integration: The roles of chronos and kairos in M&As	5
Performance implications of a corporate political strategy in Chinese firms: State versus market logics in different institutional settings	5
TMT functional complementarity and post-IPO performance: Evidence from the U.S. biotechnology industry	5
Horizontal acquisitions and rival stock returns: A competitive dynamics perspective	5
Firm failure and the exploration/exploitation dilemma: The role of firm life cycle	5
Managing non-family employees’ emotional connection with the family firms via shifting, compensating, and leveraging approaches	5
Sourcing smart through project manager structures: The role of managerial direction multiplicity in Korean popular music industry	5
Editorial Board	5