OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 24. 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
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	179
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	145
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	143
Retraction notice: Who sees what, why and how? Rethinking transparency and opacity in OSCM	113
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	112
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	102
Sustainable agriculture in developing countries: the role of operations and supply chain management in group initiatives	79
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	79
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	75
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	68
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	68
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	67
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	63
Top management incentives and supply chain efficiency: a tournament theory perspective	62
The stakeholder orientation paradox: implications for supplier sustainability risk and the role of institutional distance	62
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	60
The impact of digital twin innovation on firm operational performance: a knowledge-based perspective	56
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	55
Subnational political risk and supplier adjustment: evidence from the US manufacturing industry	55
Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	54
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	54
Contractual provisions and supplier passive opportunism: the moderating role of virtual governance	53
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	53
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	52
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	51

Exploring the differences between violations and accidents: how do companies learn to provide safe workplaces?	51
Orchestrating transformative resilience in resource-constrained environments: a supply chain perspective	50
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	48
Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	47
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	47
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	46
The influence of interpersonal relationships on interorganizational relationships in supply chains: the role of loyalty and conflict	46
A typology of crises and innovation configurations: a paradoxical perspective	44
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	44
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	44
Leveraging social capital for value creation in public procurement: the role of strategic purchasing integration	44
Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	44
Examining innovation in digital platforms: unveiling the strategy of Zhongtai	43
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	43
How lean routines shape a continuous improvement dynamic capability in hospitals	42
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	42
Beyond symbolism: revisiting the ESG–performance relationship through operational excellence	42
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	41
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	40
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	40
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	39
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	39
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	38
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	37
Digital service orientation: unlocking servitization in service operations and service sales	37
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	37
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	36
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	35
Hospital diversity management programs: community diversity factors and patient experience outcomes	35
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	35
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	34
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	34
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	34
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	33
Revisiting the value of data sharing in retail supply chain demand planning	33
When AI ethics fail and trigger negative spillovers on customer firms: evidence from event study and fsQCA	33
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	33
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	33
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	33
African socio-cultural characteristics: enabling or hindering sustainability?	33
From resource dependence to embeddedness: how the circular economy reshapes power and dependence dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships	32
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	32
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	31
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	31
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	31
Publisher’s note	30
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	30
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	29
Impact pathways: on the grand challenge of forced displacement and how to address European refugee crises	29

Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	29
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	29
Impact of supply chain transparency on the consumption of remanufactured consumer goods	28
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	28
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	27
Cognitive trap: how digital transformation misalignment erodes supplier innovation efficiency	27
Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	27
Tone manipulation and its implications for trade credit misallocation in supply chains	27
Supply base complexity in times of crisis: moderating the negative impact of the Russia–Ukraine war	27
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	27
Publisher’s note	26
Does buyer digitalization boost supplier efficiency? The role of supplier absorption capacity and common institutional investors	26
On sustainable operations and supply chain management: has the debate on diversity, equity and inclusion been settled	26
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	25
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	25
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	25
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	25
Beyond Industry 4.0 – integrating Lean, digital technologies and people	25
Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer–supplier relationships: the role of close ties to the partner's partners	25
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	25
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	24
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	24