Organization Studies

Article	Citations
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates	62
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being	57
Media Review: The Value of Reputation	52
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography	41
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel	37
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram	35
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates	35
On Measuring Social Science Impact	33
Experiencing liminality as unattainable embodied concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians	32
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda	32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity	30
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale	30
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen	29
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times	28
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement	27
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice	26
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis	25
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam	25
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization	25
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit	23
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies	23
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective	23
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine	21
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’	21
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning	21

Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace	21
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F	20
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses	20
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises	20
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers	20
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work	20
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling	20
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael	20
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.	20
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts	20
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster	19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness	19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk	19
Misogyny and Organization Studies	19
Degrowth and organization studies	18
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets	18
Reintroducing Light to the study of Organizations. Affective Montages from the Cluny Monastery.	17
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations	17
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.	17
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment	17
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism	17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India	17
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding	17
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations	17
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes	16
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom	16
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C	15
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council	15
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power	15
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities	15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities	15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?	15
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg	15
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies	15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer	15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation	14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness	14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process	14
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue	14
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires	14
Co-Creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The Collaborative Work of Nascent Occupations	13
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process	13
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism	13
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities	13
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack	13
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms	13
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization	13
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies	13
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)	12
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It	12

Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare	12
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)	12
Academic Voluntourism	12
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’	12
Quagmires	11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration	11
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour	11
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing	11
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences	11
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.	11
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality	10
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France	10
Kafka and Organization Studies	10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance	10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action	10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration	10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments	10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance	10
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2023. 133 min.	10
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter	10
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals	10
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.	9
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy	9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work	9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–1796	9
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers	9
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations	9
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear	8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment	8
What is the Purpose of this Meeting? The hidden meanings of the meeting announcement	8
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies	8
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership	8
Doing is believing: how the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change	8
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible	8
Designing and Aligning Interprofessional Relations: Third-party ties and partnership formation in the silk industry of 18th-century Lyon	8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization	8
Hyper-organization and myths of community	8
Organizing for Dignity	8
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings	7
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick	7
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts	7
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond	7
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises	7
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis	7
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
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group	7
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective	7
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence	7
Media Review: Organisational Misbehaviour	7
On (Not) Fitting In: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents	6
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone	6
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing	6
Seduced by Technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies	6
Media Review: Organization and Time	6
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme	6
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires	6
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies	6
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty	6
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers	5
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence	5
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work	5
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past	5
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy	5
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market	5
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting	5
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world	5
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices	5
Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work	5
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation	5
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry	5
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization	5
The Object of Inquiry and Organization Studies	5
Media Review: Writing Differently	5
Strangers in the Dark: Navigating opacity and transparency in open online career-related knowledge sharing	5
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors	5
Boundary Work in Response to Professionals’ Contextual Constraints: Micro-strategies in Interprofessional Collaboration	5
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems	5
When Relationships Get in the Way: The emergence and persistence of care routines	4
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management	4
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries	4

Take My Word for it: How organizational vocabularies foster trust across boundaries	4
CEO construal level, cognitive flexibility, and firm ambidexterity	4
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?	4
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work	4
Enrolling deceased founders in times of change or discontinuity: The evocative powers and perils of presentification	4
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape	4
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities	4
‘Ella says it’s the secret to the universe’: How eponymic claims ventriloquially constitute relational authority	4
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia	4
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making	4
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change	4
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters	4
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions	4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters	4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 2024	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.	3
Why and How Counting Counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies	3
Media Review: Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–2030	3
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy	3
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution	3
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans	3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors	3
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research	3
Media Review: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London	3
Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations HearnJeffAavikKadriCollinsonDavid L.ThymAnika (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, prac	3
Organizing for the Smart African City: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city	3
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership: A methodological approach	3
Media Review: Tough Cookies in UK Universities BurrellGibsonHartzRonaldHarvieDavidLightfootGeoffLilleySimon and friends Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universitie	3
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry	3
Media Review: Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea	3
Freedom Behind Bars: The central role of emotions in naturalizing an analogy for social change	3
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices	3
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
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability	3
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing	2
Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society	2
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination ParkerMartinThe Organization of Things: A Cabinet of CuriositiesAbingdon: Routledge, 2025, 302 pp.	2
The Problem of Institutional Trust	2
Media Review: The University of Hope KosteraMonikaThe University of HopeOxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 202 pp.	2
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management	2
Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition	2
Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium	2
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets	2
Media Review: Process Theorizing in a ‘Restless’ World NooteboomBartProcess philosophy: A synthesis.London, UK: Anthem Press, 2025; 128 pp	2
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society	2
Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan	2
Couchsurfing with Bateson: An ecology of digital platforms	2
Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation	2
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept	2
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work	2
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk	2
A Theory of Collective Stupidity in Organisations – and Possible Remedies	2
How the Malleability of Material Artefacts Contributes to Institutional Maintenance: The Guimard Metropolitan railway entrances, 1914–2000	2
Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach	2