OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 19. 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
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	134
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	129
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	128
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	99
Developing a learning-to-learn capability: insights on conditions for Industry 4.0 adoption	90
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	89
The impact of corporate support programs on environmental and social innovation: empirical insights from the food and beverage industry	89
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	80
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	77
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	76
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	68
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	62
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	59
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	59
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	56
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	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	52
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	51
Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	50
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	49
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	49
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	46
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	42
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	42

Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	42
Modelling ragpickers’ productivity at the bottom of the pyramid: the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs)	42
Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Preparing supply chain for the next disruption beyond COVID-19: managerial antecedents of supply chain resilience	40
The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing	40
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	40
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	39
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	39
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	38
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	38
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	38
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	37
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	37
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	35
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	35
Digital service orientation: unlocking servitization in service operations and service sales	35
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	35
Leveraging social capital for value creation in public procurement: the role of strategic purchasing integration	35
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	35
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	34
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	33
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	33
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	33
Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives	32
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	32
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	32
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	31
Service modularity in e-learning programs: an analysis from the perceived usefulness perspective	31
The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)	31
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	31
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	31
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	31
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	31
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	30
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	30
From resource dependence to embeddedness: how the circular economy reshapes power and dependence dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships	28
Swimming against the tide: supplier bridging roles in diffusing sustainability upstream and downstream in supply networks	28
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	27
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	27
Impact of supply chain transparency on the consumption of remanufactured consumer goods	27
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	26
Public procurement as an attractive customer: a supplier perspective	26
Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies	26
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	26
Publisher’s note	26
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	25
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	25
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	25
Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	24
Supply base complexity in times of crisis: moderating the negative impact of the Russia–Ukraine war	23

Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	23
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	23
Supply chains' sustainability trajectories and resilience: a learning perspective in turbulent environments	22
Institutionalization of a collaborative governance model to deliver large, inter-organizational projects	22
Publisher’s note	22
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	22
Direct and mediation effect of supply chain complexity drivers on supply chain performance: an empirical evidence of organizational complexity theory	22
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	21
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	21
Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer–supplier relationships: the role of close ties to the partner's partners	21
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	21
Beyond Industry 4.0 – integrating Lean, digital technologies and people	21
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	21
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	21
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	21
Examining the link between integrated management systems and firm performance: do the integration strategies matter?	20
Impact pathways: the hidden challenges of Scope 3 emissions measurement and management	20
Theorising circular economy and sustainable operations and supply chain management: a sustainability-dominant logic	20
Navigating supply chain disruptions: a purchasing portfolio matrix analysis of Chinese manufacturing SMEs in the context of COVID-19	20
(Re)-discovering simulation as a critical element of OM/SCM research: call for research	20
Paradoxical tensions impacting small-series production implementation in high-cost contexts: insights from the EU apparel industry	20
Service supply chain resilience: a social-ecological perspective on last-mile delivery operations	19
Governance, cooperation and coordination in large inter-organisational project networks: a viable system perspective	19
Quality functions' use of customer feedback as activation triggers for absorptive capacity and value co-creation	19
An experimental investigation of environmental knowledge sharing in a supply chain coopetition situation	19
Performance from building smart factories of small- and medium-sized enterprises: the moderating effects of product complexity and company size	19
Can digitalization transform conventional governance to curb supplier opportunism in emerging markets?	19
Capability configurations for successful advanced servitization	19