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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation80
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates67
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being50
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity47
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates43
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography40
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram39
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale38
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times38
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen35
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues35
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice33
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda32
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity31
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics31
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians30
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.29
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies29
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace29
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’28
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis28
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses27
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization27
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective26
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning26
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202426
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony25
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine25
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit24
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts24
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work24
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.23
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk23
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster23
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F22
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael22
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, 2024.22
Degrowth and Organization Studies22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets22
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations21
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives R. Trebor Scholz, Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet21
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding20
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism20
Misogyny and Organization Studies20
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council19
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 119
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes18
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing18
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery18
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C18
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective17
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India17
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism16
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)14
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Academic Voluntourism12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4212
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Quagmires11
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter9
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work9
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes9
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 209
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus9
“We have a building that is more than a building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Kafka and Organization Studies9
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action9
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change8
Organizing for Dignity8
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
Rehearsing Organization: Art, eutopia, pre-enactment7
Hyper-Organization and Myths of Community7
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence7
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 group7
Designing and Aligning Interprofessional Relations: Third-party ties and partnership formation in the silk industry of 18th-century Lyon7
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises7
Love Thy Neighbour: The impact of social cohesion on community economic resilience7
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership7
Let’s Eat Together! Rhythmanalysis of commensality and critique of everyday life in organizations7
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick7
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond7
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
Provisional Directionality: Unpacking the prospective dimension of organizational routines6
Mapping Heterotopia: Enjoyment as practice in two alternative spaces6
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
Media Review: Animal Suffering and Interspecies Entanglements in Animal Farm (Opera)6
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers6
Media Review: The ‘Objective Necessity’ of Resistance: Corporeal fragility against algocracy FlemingPeterCapitalism and Nothingness: Critical theory in unwanted timesLondon: Bloomsbury, 2026.6
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis6
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective6
Media Review: Organisational Mis behaviour AckroydStephenThompsonPaulOrganisational Misbehaviour, 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2022. xxviii + 322 pp.6
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone6
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies6
Seduced by Technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies6
Media Review: Organization and Time6
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings6
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts6
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing6
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty6
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy6
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme6
Media Review: How Can We Make Better Futures? MorganAndrewA Brief History of the FutureUSA: Futurific Studios and Untold, 20245
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems5
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
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation5
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence5
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry5
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
“PLUS ÉCOUTÉ•E•S MORT•E•S QUE VIVANT•E•S” : Gluing to organize the grievability of lives5
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work5
‘It Serves More Than One Purpose’: Pastoral power and the instrumentality of caring leadership5
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors5
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past5
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world5
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization5
Paradox and Power in Interorganizational Relationships: A study of social sustainability tensions in a global value chain5
Media Review: Writing Differently5
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
Media Review: Tough Cookies in UK Universities BurrellGibsonHartzRonaldHarvieDavidLightfootGeoffLilleySimon and friends Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universitie4
Media Review: Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea4
Enrolling Deceased Founders in Times of Change or Discontinuity: The evocative powers and perils of presentification4
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution4
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape4
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: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London4
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?4
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters4
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities4
‘Ella Says It’s the Secret to the Universe’: How eponymic claims ventriloquially constitute relational authority4
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions4
Media Review: Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–20304
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making4
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
Take My Word for It: How organizational vocabularies foster trust across boundaries4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 20244
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry3
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors3
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia3
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
Soothing Whispers: Shareholder engagement in the wake of stakeholder controversies3
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans3
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices3
Media Review: The Past as a Safe House, and the Afterlives of Clandestine Organizing AndersonPaul ThomasOne Battle after AnotherWarner Bros. Pictures3
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
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership: A methodological approach3
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability3
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy3
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work2
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination ParkerMartinThe Organization of Things: A Cabinet of CuriositiesAbingdon: Routledge, 2025, 302 pp.2
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk2
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets2
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society2
Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth2
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 University of Hope KosteraMonikaThe University of HopeOxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 202 pp.2
The Problem of Institutional Trust2
Media Review: The Stigma Matrix HusainFauziaThe Stigma Matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline womenStanford University Press, 2024. 290 pp.2
Caught in a “Triple Bind”: How the physical body experiences paradox2
Why and How Counting Counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies2
A Theory of Collective Stupidity in Organisations – and Possible Remedies2
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach2
Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue2
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism2
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management2
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept2
Media Review: Process Theorizing in a ‘Restless’ World NooteboomBartProcess philosophy: A synthesis.London, UK: Anthem Press, 2025; 128 pp2
Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society2
Media Review: Organizing Serendipity BuschChristianConnect the dots: The art and science of creating good luckNew York: Penguin Random House, 2022. 392 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
Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan2
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing2
Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition2
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