OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 23. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	164
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	160
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	123
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	123
The impact of corporate support programs on environmental and social innovation: empirical insights from the food and beverage industry	120
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	107
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	104
Sustainable agriculture in developing countries: the role of operations and supply chain management in group initiatives	103
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	94
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	91
Retraction notice: Who sees what, why and how? Rethinking transparency and opacity in OSCM	78
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	71
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	71
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	67
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	64
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	62
Leveraging the circular economy with a closed-loop supply chain and a reverse omnichannel using blockchain technology and incentives	60
The stakeholder orientation paradox: implications for supplier sustainability risk and the role of institutional distance	59
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	58
Top management incentives and supply chain efficiency: a tournament theory perspective	56
Contractual provisions and supplier passive opportunism: the moderating role of virtual governance	54
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	51
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	50
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	49
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	48

Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	47
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	47
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	47
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	46
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	46
Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	46
Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	45
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	45
The influence of interpersonal relationships on interorganizational relationships in supply chains: the role of loyalty and conflict	45
Leveraging social capital for value creation in public procurement: the role of strategic purchasing integration	44
How lean routines shape a continuous improvement dynamic capability in hospitals	44
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	44
Beyond symbolism: revisiting the ESG–performance relationship through operational excellence	44
Digital service orientation: unlocking servitization in service operations and service sales	43
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	43
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	42
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	41
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	40
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	40
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	39
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	39
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	38
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	38
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	37
Examining innovation in digital platforms: unveiling the strategy of Zhongtai	37
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	36
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	36
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	36
Revisiting the value of data sharing in retail supply chain demand planning	36
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	36
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	36
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	35
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	34
Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives	33
Hospital diversity management programs: community diversity factors and patient experience outcomes	33
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	33
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	33
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	32
The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)	31
Swimming against the tide: supplier bridging roles in diffusing sustainability upstream and downstream in supply networks	31
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	30
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	30
From resource dependence to embeddedness: how the circular economy reshapes power and dependence dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships	29
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	29
African socio-cultural characteristics: enabling or hindering sustainability?	29
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	28
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	28
Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies	28
Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	28
Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	28

Publisher’s note	28
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	26
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	26
On sustainable operations and supply chain management: has the debate on diversity, equity and inclusion been settled	26
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	26
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	26
Public procurement as an attractive customer: a supplier perspective	26
Impact of supply chain transparency on the consumption of remanufactured consumer goods	26
Supply base complexity in times of crisis: moderating the negative impact of the Russia–Ukraine war	26
Impact pathways: on the grand challenge of forced displacement and how to address European refugee crises	26
Publisher’s note	26
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
Supply chains' sustainability trajectories and resilience: a learning perspective in turbulent environments	25
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	25
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	25
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	25
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	24
Institutionalization of a collaborative governance model to deliver large, inter-organizational projects	24
Does buyer digitalization boost supplier efficiency? The role of supplier absorption capacity and common institutional investors	24
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	24
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	23
Paradoxical tensions impacting small-series production implementation in high-cost contexts: insights from the EU apparel industry	23
Can digitalization transform conventional governance to curb supplier opportunism in emerging markets?	23
Change, champion or charity? Designing effective interventions in Pathogen Genomic Sequencing supply chains	23
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	23
Navigating supply chain disruptions: a purchasing portfolio matrix analysis of Chinese manufacturing SMEs in the context of COVID-19	23
Theorising circular economy and sustainable operations and supply chain management: a sustainability-dominant logic	23
Impact pathways: on the role and function of supply chain and operations management executives (SCOMEs)	23
Impact pathways: the hidden challenges of Scope 3 emissions measurement and management	23
Performance from building smart factories of small- and medium-sized enterprises: the moderating effects of product complexity and company size	23