Organization Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Studies is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation85
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being84
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography56
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates56
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity53
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel53
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram44
Utopias-dystopias as sources of organizations and organizing43
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians42
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics40
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times38
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale38
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice36
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda36
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies35
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations34
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues34
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity32
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit31
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202429
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine29
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts26
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis26
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.26
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’26
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization26
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony26
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning25
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses25
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace25
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.24
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster24
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work23
Media Review: Home and Climate Risk BaldassariErin (host) SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America (Series 3, Episodes 5, 6, 7, & 8)USA: KQED Podcasts, NPR, 2024.23
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael23
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives ScholzR. TreborOwn This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic InternetLondon:Verso, 2023. 234pp23
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations23
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F23
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk22
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets22
Misogyny and Organization Studies22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations21
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery21
Degrowth and Organization Studies21
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council21
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom20
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment20
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes20
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C19
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India18
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding18
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective18
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors) Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 1018
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing17
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?17
Organized epistemic deception: Imagining the utopia-dystopia of contemporary digital surveillance through fiction17
Building Support: How outsider CEO reputation and framing impact middle management acceptance of strategic change17
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
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Media Review: Tár , Power of jouissance , jouissance of Pow16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization15
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process15
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires15
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It13
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.13
Academic Voluntourism13
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4212
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations12
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter11
“We Have a Building That Is More Than a Building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament11
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms11
Quagmires11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2010
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action10
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work9
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance9
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus9
Kafka and Organization Studies9
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.8
Organizational imaginaries8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change8
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
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Media Review: De-romanticism and Neo-romanticism WilliamS. GilbertArthurSullivanUtopia, Limited: or, The Flowers of ProgressLondon: Chappell, 1893. 155 pp.José MaríaSánchez-VerdúAtlas – Islands of Uto8
Let’s Eat Together! Rhythmanalysis of commensality and critique of everyday life in organizations8
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
Organizing for Dignity8
Rehearsing Organization: Art, eutopia, pre-enactment8
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick8
Hyper-Organization and Myths of Community8
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond7
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective7
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme7
Media Review: Organisational Mis behaviour AckroydStephenThompsonPaulOrganisational Misbehaviour, 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2022. xxviii + 322 pp.7
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings7
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence7
Media Review: Animal Suffering and Interspecies Entanglements in Animal Farm (Opera) AlexanderRaskatov (2023). Animal Farm (2 hours and 35 minutes, inclu7
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone7
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts7
The Artificial Intelligence Con: The commodification of theory and the new and improved credibility crisis7
Love Thy Neighbour: The impact of social cohesion on community economic resilience7
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises7
Media Review: Performance Art à la Marina Abramović - Revealing the invisible in organizing by working with and through visuals AbramovićMarinaThe Artist Is Present (2010/2022)BinyuanLiBreakdown (20247
Media Review: Organization and Time7
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis7
Media Review: The ‘Objective Necessity’ of Resistance: Corporeal fragility against algocracy FlemingPeterCapitalism and Nothingness: Critical theory in unwanted timesLondon: Bloomsbury, 2026.6
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty6
Media Review: The Work to Make AI Work CasilliAntonio A.CasilliWaiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of AutomationChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 309 pp.6
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires6
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past6
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry6
Provisional Directionality: Unpacking the prospective dimension of organizational routines6
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation6
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing6
“PLUS ÉCOUTÉ·E·S MORT·E·S QUE VIVANT·E·S”: Gluing to organize the grievability of lives6
Media Review: How Can We Make Better Futures? MorganAndrewA Brief History of the FutureUSA: Futurific Studios and Untold, 2024.6
Mapping Heterotopia: Enjoyment as practice in two alternative spaces6
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies6
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization6
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy6
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting6
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors6
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work5
‘Ella Says It’s the Secret to the Universe’: How eponymic claims ventriloquially constitute relational authority5
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change5
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters5
Paradox and Power in Interorganizational Relationships: A study of social sustainability tensions in a global value chain5
Media Review: Writing Differently5
‘It Serves More Than One Purpose’: Pastoral power and the instrumentality of caring leadership5
Take My Word for It: How organizational vocabularies foster trust across boundaries5
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape5
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions5
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making5
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market5
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices5
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence5
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries5
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities5
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world5
Enrolling Deceased Founders in Times of Change or Discontinuity: The evocative powers and perils of presentification5
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution4
Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations HearnJeffAavikKadriCollinsonDavid L.ThymAnika (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, prac4
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy4
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans4
Media Review: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 20244
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices4
Media Review: Tough Cookies in UK Universities BurrellGibsonHartzRonaldHarvieDavidLightfootGeoffLilleySimon and friends Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universitie4
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability4
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research4
CEO Construal Level, Cognitive Flexibility, and Firm Ambidexterity4
Media Review: Organizational Paradoxes GaimMedhanieCleggStewart R.Pina e CunhaMiguelOrganizational Paradoxes: Theory & PracticeLondon: Sage Publications, 2024. 128 pp.4
Media Review: The Past as a Safe House, and the Afterlives of Clandestine Organizing AndersonPaul ThomasOne Battle after AnotherWarner Bros. Pictures4
Media Review: The Art of Knowledge Translation RøvikKjell ArneA Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer: Learning Across Organizational BordersNew York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp.4
Media Review: Apocalypse Managériale de Vaujany Apocalypse ManagérialeFrançois-Xavier. Promenade à Manhattan de 1941 à 1946 puis au-delàParis: Les Belles Lettres, 2022. 596 pp.4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
Why and How Counting Counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies3
Caught in a “Triple Bind”: How the physical body experiences paradox3
A Theory of Collective Stupidity in Organisations – and Possible Remedies3
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing3
Soothing Whispers: Shareholder engagement in the wake of stakeholder controversies3
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry3
Media Review: The Stigma Matrix HusainFauziaThe Stigma Matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline womenStanford University Press, 2024. 290 pp.3
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination ParkerMartinThe Organization of Things: A Cabinet of CuriositiesAbingdon: Routledge, 2025, 302 pp.3
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership: A methodological approach3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors3
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk3
Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation2
The Problem of Institutional Trust2
Emancipatory agency and rebalancing of power in algorithmic systems – a Simondonian perspective2
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism2
Triviality and the Search for Scholarly Impact2
Media Review: A Holographic Map for Deaths in Custody of Australian First Nations People MooreArchiekith and kin Australian National Pavilion, 60 th 2
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach2
Effect of Time Pressure on Informal Advice Relations Across Organizational Units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team2
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work2
Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society2
Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium2
Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth2
Destigmatization Through Visualization: Striving to redefine refugee workers’ worth2
Communication and Strategy Work: How corporate magazines shape strategy2
Media Review: Conclave: The Liminalities of Democratic Organizing BergerEdwardConclaveUnited States: FilmNation Entertainment2
Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue2
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society2
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management2
Media Review: Process Theorizing in a ‘Restless’ World NooteboomBartProcess philosophy: A synthesis.London, UK: Anthem Press, 2025; 128 pp2
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets2
Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan2
‘Little Boxes All the Same’: Exploring and contextualizing paradoxes of power in a strategic change programme in a UK university2
Innovation Learning-Outcome Variability: A convergence-divergence model for population-level learning2
Breaking Bottlenecks: Power distribution dynamics in industry evolution2
Balancing Anticipatory and Deliberative Governance in Public–Private Partnerships for Responsible Innovation: The role of corporate innovation capabilities2
Media Review: Epistemic Communities and Climate Activism SkoglundAnnikaBöhmSteffenClimate Activism: How Communities Take Renewable Energy Actions Across Business and SocietyCambridge: Cambridge Univer2
Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition2
Media Review: The University of Hope KosteraMonikaThe University of HopeOxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 202 pp.2
Media Review: Unpacking Corporate Purpose with Tim Kuhn KuhnTimothyWhat Do Corporations Want? Communicative capitalism, corporate purpose and a new theory of the firmBristol: Bristol University Press,2
Media Review: Organizing Serendipity BuschChristianConnect the dots: The art and science of creating good luckNew York: Penguin Random House, 2022. 392 pp.2
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