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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems76
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past56
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting44
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires43
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)40
Book Review: Alison Pullen, Jenny Helin and Nancy Harding (Eds.) Writing Differently, Dialogues in Critical Management Studies40
Media Review: Understanding Trust in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective34
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel34
Management Scholars of the World, Unite!33
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)30
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society29
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism27
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms26
Speciation in Nascent Markets: Collective learning through cultural and material scaffolding26
Keeping the Iron Cage from Closing: How clashes over shared principles elicit collective authoring26
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration24
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers24
Academic Voluntourism23
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates22
Call of Duty: When Scholars Organize in Extreme Contexts22
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization21
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being21
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare20
Media Review: New Laws of Robotics20
Effect of Time Pressure on Informal Advice Relations Across Organizational Units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team20
How the Malleability of Material Artefacts Contributes to Institutional Maintenance: The Guimard Metropolitan railway entrances, 1914–200020
Concrete Freedom at Work: Hegel’s normative conception of freedom and its relevance to organization studies19
Entrepreneurial imagining: How a small team of arts entrepreneurs created the world’s largest traveling carillon19
Media Review: Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action19
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach19
Editorial: A Special Forum on the Australian Black Summer Bushfires18
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It18
Issue Fields and Echo Chambers: Increasing field contestation fueled by moral emotions18
Category Change in Cultural Fields: Practice deviation and the discursive maintenance of category meanings in jazz music18
On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective18
Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth18
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation17
The time is right when you make it right: Coordinating routine clusters in sustained crises17
Observational Learning in Networks of Competition: How structures of attention among rivals can bring interpretive advantage17
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography17
In Plain Sight: Mechanisms of means–ends decoupling in impact investing17
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram16
Media Review: Algorithmic Bosses, Labor Exploitation, and Dignity Erosion16
Becoming Visible: Uncovering hidden entanglements of power, performativity and becoming subjectivities in a global bank16
Couchsurfing with Bateson: An ecology of digital platforms16
The Atmospherics of Creativity: Affective and spatial materiality in a designer’s studio16
New Order and Old Institutions: South Africa and the institutional work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission16
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences16
Media Review: Carl Rhodes Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy16
Editorial: Virtual books, person-books and new media artefacts: The expanding remit of the Organization Studies review section16
Media Review: The Value of Reputation15
Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation15
A Dynamic Perspective on Collaborative Innovation for Smart City Development: The role of uncertainty, governance, and institutional logics15
Digital Curation and Creative Brokering: Managing information overload in open organizing15
Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies14
On (Not) Fitting In: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents14
Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition14
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market14
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry14
Boundary Work in Response to Professionals’ Contextual Constraints: Micro-strategies in Interprofessional Collaboration14
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Cultures and Institutions: Dispositional and contextual explanations for country-of-origin effects in MNC ‘ethnocentric’ staffing practices13
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world13
Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research13
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management13
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy13
Vulnerable care: Temporality in collective action during the COVID-19 crisis13
Hackathons as Affective Circuits: Technology, organizationality and affect12
‘Little boxes all the Same’: Exploring and Contextualizing Paradoxes of Power in a Strategic Change Programme in a UK University12
Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain12
Embodied Shame and Organization Studies12
Enabling local solutions to global challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in a Non-Governmental Organization working in Uganda12
Who is the Responsible Corporation? A multimodal analysis of power in CSR videos of multinational companies12
The Performative Power of Frictions and New Possibilities: Studying power, performativity and process with Follett’s pragmatism12
Media Review: Richard Whittington, Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today11
Destigmatization Through Visualization: Striving to redefine refugee workers’ worth11
Media Review: Writing Differently11
Breaking Bottlenecks: Power distribution dynamics in industry evolution11
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement10
Exploring Religious Practice in Crisis: A non-Western tension-centred approach to meaningful work10
Media Review: Research Handbook of Responsible Management10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments10
Extending Meta-Organization Theory: A resource-flow perspective10
Communication and Strategy Work: How corporate magazines shape strategy10
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences10
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence10
On Measuring Social Science Impact10
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management9
Matter That Embodies: Agentive Flesh and Working Bodies/Selves9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Strategic Change in a Pluralistic Context: Change leader sensegiving9
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making9
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration9
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals9
Institutional Change, Entrepreneuring and Place: Building a Smart State9
A Dialogic Perspective on Managing Knowledge Differences: Problem-solving while building a nuclear power plant safety system9
Quagmires8
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices8
Organizing Tekhnē: Configuring processes and politics through craft8
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work8
Media Review: Organization and Time8
Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing8
Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses8
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour7
Collective Identity Development Amid Institutional Chaos: Boundary Evolution in a Women’s Rights Movement in Post Gaddafi Libya7
Secrecy in Practice: How Middle Managers Promote Strategic Initiatives behind the Scenes7
Media Review: Epistemic Communities and Climate Activism7
Media Review: John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry Measuring Culture7
Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work7
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? How corporations maintain hegemony by using counterinsurgency tactics to undermine activism7
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times7
Biomateriality and Organizing: Towards an Organizational Perspective on Food7
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants7
Media Review: Aesthetic Organizing at the Gutenberg Museum7
Media Review: Materially and Ethically Engaged Methods for Organizational Scholarship7
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work7
How Structural Empowerment Boosts Organizational Resilience: A case study in the Dutch home care industry7
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale7
Book Review: Melissa Tyler Judith Butler and Organization Theory7
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance6
The Object of Inquiry and Organization Studies6
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action6
The Becoming of Online Healthcare through Entangled Power and Performativity: A posthumanist agential realist perspective6
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen6
Media Review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification5
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter5
Cultural entrepreneurship and field dynamics: Narrative strategies for distinctive identities in unsettled fields.5
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam5
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity5
Triviality and the Search for Scholarly Impact5
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice5
Media Review: Handbook of Historical Methods for Management5
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator5
Strangers in the Dark: Navigating opacity and transparency in open online career-related knowledge sharing5
Spacing leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materialising ‘story-so-far’5
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality5
Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer4
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries4
Is Managerial Homeworking New? Assessing strategic, technological and political influences before, during and after coronavirus4
Media Review: Competition: What it is and why it happens4
“Our flight suits are not just plain blue”: The co-production of coordination and bodies in a military air display squadron4
Organizing for Smart City Development: Research at the crossroads. Introduction to the Special Issue4
When Relationships Get in the Way: The emergence and persistence of care routines4
Invi(α)gorating Reflexivity in Research: (Un)Learnings from α Field4
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities4
From Dust to Buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation4
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies4
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization4
The Affective Micropolitics of Craftivism: Organizing social change through the minor gesture4
Feminist Theories and Activist Practices in Organization Studies4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices4
Valuing What You Risk and Risking What You Value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies4
Media Review: Bifurquer, “il n’y a pas d’alternative”4
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning4
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17964
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine4
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace3
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit3
Media Review: The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication3
The Desire to Rethink Power AND Performativity AND Process3
Media Review: Forensic Science: A captive occupation3
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises3
Organizing, Researching, and Writing about Peacebuilding from the ‘Wrong’ Side of the Conflict3
Media Review: The University and the Global Knowledge Society3
Organizing Sustainably: Introduction to the Special Issue3
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape3
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change3
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses3
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations3
Understanding Frameworking for Smart and Sustainable City Development: A configurational approach3
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy3
Organizing for Dignity3
Lipstick on the Pig3
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible3
Investments in Nascent Project-Based Enterprises: The interplay between role-congruent reputations and institutional endorsement3
Politics in Organization Studies: Multi-disciplinary traditions and interstitial positions3
Space and Sensemaking in High-Reliability Task Contexts: Insights from a maritime mass rescue exercise3
When States Build Markets: Policy support as a double-edged sword in the UK social investment market3
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies3
Regulating Nimbus and Focus: Organizing Copresence for Creative Collaboration3
Follow the Leader Or Not: Firms’ renaming strategy in nascent and growth stages of a global digital field3
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts2
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy2
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions2
Prosocial Organizing and the Distance between Core and Community Work2
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective2
Signaling trustworthiness of internal whistleblowing channels in organizations: temporality matters!2
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster2
Media Review: The Gender of Capital2
Media Review: Strategy and its Demons2
From People to Objects: The digital transformation of fields2
Strategy Performation to Avoid Degeneration: How producer cooperatives can achieve social and economic goals2
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers2
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling2
Dynamic persistence of institutions: Modeling the historical endurance of Red Vienna’s public housing utopia2
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk2
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear2
Media Review: Entrepreneurship as Networking2
How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship2
Countering Indeterminate Temporariness: Sheltering work in refugee camps2
Do We Still Need Professional Boundaries? The multiple influences of boundaries on interprofessional collaboration2
Assembling a Zero-Waste World: From situated to distributed prefiguration2
Mutual Constitution of Genre and Knowledge: The case of genre resistance in the French diplomatic occupational community2
Media Review: The Happy Worker – Or How Work Was Sabotaged2
Maintaining the Meritocracy Myth: A critical discourse analytic study of leaders’ talk about merit and gender in academia2
Unpacking Organizational Agency in Institutional Change: The Role of Executives’ Political Connections and Shareholders’ Investment Horizons2
Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division, and Displacement: Introduction to the Special Issue2
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