OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Organization Studies is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation	85
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being	84
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography	56
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates	56
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity	53
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel	53
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram	44
Utopias-dystopias as sources of organizations and organizing	43
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians	42
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics	40
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times	38
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale	38
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice	36
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda	36
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies	35
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations	34
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues	34
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective	32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity	32
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit	31
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 2024	29
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine	29
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis	26
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 realization	26
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony	26
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts	26
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses	25
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace	25
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning	25
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 disaster	24
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work	23
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael	23
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. 234pp	23
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations	23
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F	23
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk	22
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets	22
Misogyny and Organization Studies	22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers	22
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations	21
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery	21
Degrowth and Organization Studies	21
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council	21
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom	20
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment	20
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes	20
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C	19
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India	18
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding	18
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective	18
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors) Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 10	18
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing	17
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?	17
Organized epistemic deception: Imagining the utopia-dystopia of contemporary digital surveillance through fiction	17
Building Support: How outsider CEO reputation and framing impact middle management acceptance of strategic change	17
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg	16
Media Review: Tár , Power of jouissance , jouissance of Pow	16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities	16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies	16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer	15
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization	15
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism	15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process	15
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires	15
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness	14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies	14
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack	14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation	14
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities	14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)	13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It	13

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 Voluntourism	13
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 42	12
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations	12
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare	12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing	12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)	12
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter	11
“We Have a Building That Is More Than a Building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament	11
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms	11
Quagmires	11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration	11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 20	10
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes	10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance	10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action	10
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France	9
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments	9
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital	9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work	9
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance	9
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus	9
Kafka and Organization Studies	9
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences	9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.	8
Organizational imaginaries	8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment	8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change	8
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 leadership	8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–1796	8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy	8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization	8
Media Review: De-romanticism and Neo-romanticism WilliamS. GilbertArthurSullivanUtopia, Limited: or, The Flowers of ProgressLondon: Chappell, 1893. 155 pp.José MaríaSánchez-VerdúAtlas – Islands of Uto	8
Let’s Eat Together! Rhythmanalysis of commensality and critique of everyday life in organizations	8
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group	8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear	8
Organizing for Dignity	8
Rehearsing Organization: Art, eutopia, pre-enactment	8
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible	8
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick	8
Hyper-Organization and Myths of Community	8