OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Manpower is 9. 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
Beneath the surface of social interactions: how informal networking fuels undercurrent conflict in Middle Eastern MNCs	163
The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different?	89
The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation	80
Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies	78
Beyond the Griliches biases	72
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability	55
Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy	48
Wage effects of educational mismatch in public and private sectors: evidence from Türkiye	46
When working from home leads to burnout: the role of work–family conflict, job stress and partner work practices	42
Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms	40
Green human resource management: the role of positive levers of control and environmental performance measures in managing performance	38
Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature	37
The returns to returning to school	36
Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement	36
Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model	32
Social ties, absorptive capacity, and the adoption of green innovation: a social capital perspective	31
The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries	31
Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level	27
A human resources analytics and machine-learning examination of turnover: implications for theory and practice	26
Understanding technostress and employee well-being in digital work: the roles of work exhaustion and workplace knowledge diversity	25
Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy	23
Unravelling high-skilled internal migration in Spain using network theory: a manpower linked to local economic development	23
Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison	23
Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data	22
Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms	21

Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development	20
Guest editors’ overview essay:Exploring the dark side of electronic-human resource management: towards a new PROMPT model	20
The impact of participation in global value chains on female employment: evidence from China	20
Synthetic Labor Market Index: construction and application to the Spanish case	20
IJM 43.7 Obituary	20
Human values and selection into supervisory positions: evidence from nine European countries	20
Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms	20
SCM and SME performance in Australia: the mediating role of HRM practices	19
Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?	19
Early career gender wage gaps among university graduates in Russia	18
How have R&D investments and participation of high-skilled labour influenced the labour market in Taiwan ROC during the COVID-19 pandemic?	18
Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model	18
The role of big data and predictive analytics in the employee retention: a resource-based view	18
Focus section guest editorial: Methodological advances in HR research	18
High-performance work system and knowledge hoarding: the mediating role of competitive climate and the moderating role of high-performance work system psychological contract breach	17
Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns	17
Knowledge-oriented leadership and workers' performance: do individual knowledge management engagement and empowerment matter?	17
The labor market effect of customer concentration: based on resource allocation perspective	16
Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys	16
Do labour hoarding practices stimulate training investments? Evidence from the Italian Great Recession	15
The rainbow reality: income difference and discrimination based on sexual orientation and occupations	15
The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity	15
Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender	15
Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes	14
Are alternative work arrangements a substitute for standard employment? Evidence from worker-level data	14
Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap	14
How and when high-involvement work practices influence employee innovative behavior	14
How do human resource practices help employees alleviate stress in enforced remote work during lockdown?	14
Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness	14
Management innovation: the influence of institutional pressures and the impact on competitive advantage	14
Do (gendered) ageism and ethnic minorities explain workplace bullying?	14
A study of artificial intelligence on employee performance and work engagement: the moderating role of change leadership	13
Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia	13
A multi-stakeholder ethical framework for AI-augmented HRM	13
Integrating push–pull dynamics for understanding the association between boundary control and work outcomes in the context of mandatory work from home	13
The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification	12
Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry	12
The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis	12
The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination	12
Explaining job satisfaction through the use of work–familybenefits and their impact on the employee’s family context	12
Employee’s intention to share knowledge: the impacts of learning organization culture and learning goal orientation	12
Desired and obtained work values across 37 countries: a psychology of working theory perspective	12
Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale	12
Which employers pay a higher college wage premium?	12
Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance	11
Informal labor security in India and external and internal shocks: assessing the impacts of climate change, COVID-19, migration and political collusion	11
Re-expatriation inclinations among skilled female self-initiated repatriates in Asia's rapidly emerging markets	11
Cross-level effects of union practices on extra-role behaviors: the mediating role of industrial relations climate, union commitment and union instrumentality	11
Who uses deceptive impression management to succeed at job interviews? The role of ethical ideologies and work locus of control	11
Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective	10

The gender wage gap across the unconditional wage distribution in a period of uncertainty: findings from Serbia	10
Research trends in human resource management. A text-mining-based literature review	10
How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers	10
Skill signaling, job mobility and wage dynamics: evidence from Ethiopia’s industrial parks	9
Identifying the factors of internal green marketing: a scale development and psychometric evaluation approach	9
Does investment in training help firms retain talent? Testing the commitment and human capital perspectives	9
The impact of employee support on labor investment efficiency: the mediating role of internal control weaknesses	9
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival	9
How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness	9
The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model	9
Workplace bullying and job outcomes: intersectional effects of gender and culture	9
Empowering small farmers for sustainable agriculture: a human resource approach to SDG-driven training and innovation	9