Organization Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Studies is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram60
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being49
Media Review: The Value of Reputation46
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences42
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography37
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel34
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda31
On Measuring Social Science Impact30
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants29
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale27
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times26
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice26
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity26
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen26
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling25
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement25
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization24
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises24
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam23
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning22
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit22
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies22
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses21
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine21
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace21
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective21
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect20
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’20
Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges20
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts20
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work19
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster19
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers19
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk19
Misogyny and Organization Studies19
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness19
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism18
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets18
Media Review: Crafting Traditions and Speculative Imaginaries Atmospheres of CraftPalazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, Italy, 27/05 to 30/06/2023, created and curated by D20 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment17
Media Review: Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet17
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council17
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes16
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India16
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies15
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization15
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue14
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack14
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process14
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)13
Academic Voluntourism13
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing13
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
Quagmires12
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour11
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals11
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator11
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter11
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action11
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance11
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations10
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–179610
Organizing for Dignity10
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France10
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.10
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy10
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies10
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration10
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible10
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group9
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises9
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization9
Designing and Aligning Interprofessional Relations: Third-party ties and partnership formation in the silk industry of 18th-century Lyon9
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment9
What is the Purpose of this Meeting? The hidden meanings of the meeting announcement9
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear9
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership9
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick8
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis8
Media Review: Slavery and the Bank: A commentary on historic corporate social responsibility Bank of England Museum Slavery & the BankBank of England, London (UK), April 2022–February 2024.8
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond8
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts8
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings8
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence8
Book Review: The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World7
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty7
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing7
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market7
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone7
Media Review: Organisational Misbehaviour7
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective7
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies7
Boundary Work in Response to Professionals’ Contextual Constraints: Micro-strategies in Interprofessional Collaboration7
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme7
Media Review: Organization and Time7
Seduced by Technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies7
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization7
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires7
Entrepreneurial imagining: How a small team of arts entrepreneurs created the world’s largest traveling carillon6
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry6
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting6
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past6
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers6
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world6
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation6
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management5
The Object of Inquiry and Organization Studies5
Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies5
Media Review: Writing Differently5
How Structural Empowerment Boosts Organizational Resilience: A case study in the Dutch home care industry5
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries5
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work5
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices5
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors5
On (Not) Fitting In: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents5
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy5
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence5
When Relationships Get in the Way: The emergence and persistence of care routines5
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions5
Strangers in the Dark: Navigating opacity and transparency in open online career-related knowledge sharing5
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work5
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems5
Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work5
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making5
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change5
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape5
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities5
Media Review: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London4
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia4
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters4
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution4
Media Review: Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–20304
Media Review: Tough cookies in UK universities4
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?4
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 20244
Organizing for the Smart African City: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city4
Freedom Behind Bars: The central role of emotions in naturalizing an analogy for social change4
Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations HearnJeffAavikKadriCollinsonDavid L.ThymAnika (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, prac4
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy4
Media Review: Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea4
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors3
Organizational Learning From Hidden Improvisation3
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing3
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination3
‘Civilized Dispossession’: Corporate accumulation at the dawn of modern capitalism3
Why and how counting counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies3
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk3
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research3
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership: A methodological approach3
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets3
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work3
From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms3
Media Review: Apocalypse Managériale3
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority3
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry3
Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society3
Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium3
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept3
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