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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram83
Media Review: The Value of Reputation69
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being52
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates49
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel44
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity40
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians40
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics39
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies38
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale36
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda35
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times35
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity35
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen33
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations32
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice31
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues31
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis30
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses30
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization29
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit29
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts29
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective29
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202428
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine28
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.27
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’27
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace26
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony25
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning24
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster24
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism24
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.24
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
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
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations22
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk22
Misogyny and Organization Studies22
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives R. Trebor Scholz, Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet22
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F22
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
Degrowth and Organization Studies21
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing20
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery20
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 120
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets20
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India19
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes19
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding19
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C19
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom19
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment18
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization17
Media Review: Tár , Power of jouissance , jouissance of Pow17
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?17
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process17
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack17
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies17
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council17
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires17
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities17
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.15
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism15
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies15
Academic Voluntourism14
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4214
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’14
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations14
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)12
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2011
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus10
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour10
Kafka and Organization Studies10
“We have a building that is more than a building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter9
Quagmires9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.9
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital9
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences9
Organizing for Dignity9
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
Organizational imaginaries8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Rehearsing Organization: Art, eutopia, pre-enactment8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change7
THE AI CON: THE COMMODIFICATION OF THEORY AND THE NEW AND IMPROVED CREDIBILITY CRISIS7
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis7
Love Thy Neighbour: The impact of social cohesion on community economic resilience7
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises7
Provisional Directionality: Unpacking the prospective dimension of organizational routines7
Hyper-Organization and Myths of Community7
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 2024.7
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts7
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond7
Mapping Heterotopia: Enjoyment as practice in two alternative spaces7
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick7
Let’s Eat Together! Rhythmanalysis of commensality and critique of everyday life in organizations7
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective7
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence7
Media Review: De-romanticism and Neo-romanticism WilliamS. GilbertArthurSullivanUtopia, Limited: or, The Flowers of ProgressLondon: Chappell, 1893. 155 pp.José MaríaSánchez-VerdúAtlas – Islands of Uto7
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings7
Media Review: The ‘Objective Necessity’ of Resistance: Corporeal fragility against algocracy FlemingPeterCapitalism and Nothingness: Critical theory in unwanted timesLondon: Bloomsbury, 2026.7
Seduced by Technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies6
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone6
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world6
‘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
Media Review: Animal Suffering and Interspecies Entanglements in Animal Farm (Opera) AlexanderRaskatov (2023). Animal Farm (2 hours and 35 minutes, inclu6
Media Review: Organisational Mis behaviour AckroydStephenThompsonPaulOrganisational Misbehaviour, 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2022. xxviii + 322 pp.6
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme6
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems6
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation6
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty6
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 (20246
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing6
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies6
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers6
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past6
Media Review: Organization and Time6
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy5
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.5
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors5
Paradox and Power in Interorganizational Relationships: A study of social sustainability tensions in a global value chain5
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence5
‘Ella Says It’s the Secret to the Universe’: How eponymic claims ventriloquially constitute relational authority5
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices5
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry5
Media Review: How Can We Make Better Futures? MorganAndrewA Brief History of the FutureUSA: Futurific Studios and Untold, 20245
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market5
Enrolling Deceased Founders in Times of Change or Discontinuity: The evocative powers and perils of presentification5
‘It Serves More Than One Purpose’: Pastoral power and the instrumentality of caring leadership5
CEO Construal Level, Cognitive Flexibility, and Firm Ambidexterity5
Media Review: Writing Differently5
“PLUS ÉCOUTÉ•E•S MORT•E•S QUE VIVANT•E•S” : Gluing to organize the grievability of lives5
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting5
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires5
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making5
Take My Word for It: How organizational vocabularies foster trust across boundaries5
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries5
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work5
Media Review: The Past as a Safe House, and the Afterlives of Clandestine Organizing AndersonPaul ThomasOne Battle after AnotherWarner Bros. Pictures4
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 20244
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters4
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability4
Media Review: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London4
Media Review: Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–20304
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia4
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices4
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution4
Media Review: Organizational Paradoxes GaimMedhanieCleggStewart R.Pina e CunhaMiguelOrganizational Paradoxes: Theory & PracticeLondon: Sage Publications, 2024. 128 pp.4
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?4
Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations HearnJeffAavikKadriCollinsonDavid L.ThymAnika (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, prac4
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change4
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities4
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions4
Media Review: Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea4
Media Review: Tough Cookies in UK Universities BurrellGibsonHartzRonaldHarvieDavidLightfootGeoffLilleySimon and friends Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universitie4
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.3
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership: A methodological approach3
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors3
Why and How Counting Counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies3
Soothing Whispers: Shareholder engagement in the wake of stakeholder controversies3
Caught in a “Triple Bind”: How the physical body experiences paradox3
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.3
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans3
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research3
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept3
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: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society2
A Theory of Collective Stupidity in Organisations – and Possible Remedies2
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination ParkerMartinThe Organization of Things: A Cabinet of CuriositiesAbingdon: Routledge, 2025, 302 pp.2
Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium2
Effect of Time Pressure on Informal Advice Relations Across Organizational Units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team2
Senselistening and the Reorganisation of Collective Action During Crisis Management: The Notre-Dame de Paris fire2
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism2
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
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work2
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets2
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk2
The Problem of Institutional Trust2
Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation2
Media Review: A Holographic Map for Deaths in Custody of Australian First Nations People MooreArchiekith and kin Australian National Pavilion, 60 th 2
Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan2
Destigmatization Through Visualization: Striving to redefine refugee workers’ worth2
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management2
Media Review: Organizing Serendipity BuschChristianConnect the dots: The art and science of creating good luckNew York: Penguin Random House, 2022. 392 pp.2
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing2
Media Review: The Stigma Matrix HusainFauziaThe Stigma Matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline womenStanford University Press, 2024. 290 pp.2
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach2
Media Review: Process Theorizing in a ‘Restless’ World NooteboomBartProcess philosophy: A synthesis.London, UK: Anthem Press, 2025; 128 pp2
Communication and Strategy Work: How corporate magazines shape strategy2
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society2
Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue2
Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth2
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