OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 18. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	124
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	115
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	106
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	91
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	83
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	80
The impact of corporate support programs on environmental and social innovation: empirical insights from the food and beverage industry	80
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	73
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	64
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	63
Developing a learning-to-learn capability: insights on conditions for Industry 4.0 adoption	59
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	55
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	55
The stakeholder orientation paradox: implications for supplier sustainability risk and the role of institutional distance	54
Leveraging the circular economy with a closed-loop supply chain and a reverse omnichannel using blockchain technology and incentives	53
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	52
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	49
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	47
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	46
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	44
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	44
Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	44
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	41
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	41
Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	39

Breaking the mould: achieving high-volume production output with additive manufacturing	39
Modelling ragpickers’ productivity at the bottom of the pyramid: the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs)	39
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	38
The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing	37
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	35
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	35
Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	35
Preparing supply chain for the next disruption beyond COVID-19: managerial antecedents of supply chain resilience	35
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	34
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	34
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	34
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	34
Digital service orientation: unlocking servitization in service operations and service sales	33
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	33
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	33
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	32
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	32
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	32
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	32
Guest editorialEmerging research and future pathways in digital supply chain governance	31
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	30
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	29
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	29
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	29
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	28
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	28
Service modularity in e-learning programs: an analysis from the perceived usefulness perspective	28
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	27
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	27
The roles of performance measurement and management in the development and implementation of business ecosystem strategies	27
Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives	27
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	27
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	27
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	26
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	26
The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)	26
The effects of performance measurement system uses on organizational ambidexterity and firm performance	25
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	24
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	24
Swimming against the tide: supplier bridging roles in diffusing sustainability upstream and downstream in supply networks	24
Publisher’s note	23
Impact of supply chain transparency on the consumption of remanufactured consumer goods	23
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	22
Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	22
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	22
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	22
Public procurement as an attractive customer: a supplier perspective	22
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	22
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	21

Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	21
Direct and mediation effect of supply chain complexity drivers on supply chain performance: an empirical evidence of organizational complexity theory	21
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	21
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	21
Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies	21
Publisher’s note	21
Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer–supplier relationships: the role of close ties to the partner's partners	20
Institutionalization of a collaborative governance model to deliver large, inter-organizational projects	20
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	20
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	20
The impact of abandoning social responsibility certifications: evidence from the decertification of SA8000 standard	19
Supply chains' sustainability trajectories and resilience: a learning perspective in turbulent environments	19
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	19
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	19
Beyond Industry 4.0 – integrating Lean, digital technologies and people	19
Navigating supply chain disruptions: a purchasing portfolio matrix analysis of Chinese manufacturing SMEs in the context of COVID-19	19
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	19
Impact pathways: the hidden challenges of Scope 3 emissions measurement and management	18
Service supply chain resilience: a social-ecological perspective on last-mile delivery operations	18
Paradoxical tensions impacting small-series production implementation in high-cost contexts: insights from the EU apparel industry	18
Theorising circular economy and sustainable operations and supply chain management: a sustainability-dominant logic	18
Examining the link between integrated management systems and firm performance: do the integration strategies matter?	18
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	18
(Re)-discovering simulation as a critical element of OM/SCM research: call for research	18
Capability configurations for successful advanced servitization	18