OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Strategic Management Journal is 16. 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
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Firm growth and stagnation in the United States: Key trends and new data opportunities	173
Fast learning and sustained exploration: The role of timely performance feedback	111
Performance feedback and change in R&D alliance portfolio breadth: The moderating role of economic conditions	107
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy	89
Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation	82
Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets	80
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking	76
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in	72
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance	66
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies	61
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage	60
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases	54
Issue Information	54
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Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations	52
From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures	52
What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking	51
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance	48
Flying high or crashing down: Pre‐entry knowledge, post‐entry learning, and the distribution of startup performance	48
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes	46
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–2022	46

Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging	45
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design	45
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States	43
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit	42
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How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos	42
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation	41
Issue Information	38
Are boards reluctant to remove poorly performing successors to interim CEOs?	37
Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?	37
Defending knowledge abroad	36
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Persuasion in the political marketplace: How firms snitch on rivals to encourage regulatory enforcement	36
The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms	34
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment	34
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration	33
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions	33
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources	33
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms	33
Issue Information	32
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	31
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Hedge fund activism in family firms	31
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Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal	30
The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations	29
When colleagues compete outside the firm	29
Bottom‐up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees	29
Families in venture capital	28
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?	27
TRIPS and knowledge diffusion from low‐ and middle‐income countries	27
Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs ' knowledge creation in a host country	27
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors	27
Issue Information	27
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act	26
Beyond coal: When can outsider stakeholders drive transformative change?	25
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal	25
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk	25
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data	25
When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment	25
Local regulatory anticipation and GHG emissions	25
Information‐seeking lobbying and strategic stockpiling under trade policy uncertainty	25
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence	25
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing	25
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs	24
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms	24
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Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations	23

Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)	23
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Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms	22
Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?	22
The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems	22
Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge	22
Ethnic integration and the value of innovation	22
Business is personal: How CEO personality influences agency costs	22
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures	21
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Issue Information	21
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation	21
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison	21
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How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?	21
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Regulated versus unregulated competition: How drug shortages boost illegal pharmacy sales	20
Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids	20
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying	20
Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs	19
Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools	19
How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning	19
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions	19
The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments	19
Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr	19
Putting a price on mission: Social responsibility orientation and startup employment	19
Social comparison and the value of performance trajectory information: A field experiment in the workplace	18
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution	18
Issue Information	18
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Beyond feasibility filters: How expertise heterogeneity enables innovation recognition	18
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures	18
Patent regime shift and firm innovation strategy: Evidence from the Second Amendment to China's Patent Law	17
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation	17
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises	17
Issue Information	17
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation	17
Measuring the commercial potential of science	17
Issue Information	17
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers	17
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms	17
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers	16
Unwind the clock? Temporal distance and user interactions on a digital platform	16
Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices	16
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities	16
Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism	16
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector	16