Organization Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Organization Studies is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates69
Media Review: The Value of Reputation58
Aγoρά: Our new format for 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
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel32
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being32
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda30
On Measuring Social Science Impact30
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale29
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times29
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen27
Competing with Smart Machines: The Dark Side of ‘Conjoined Agency’ in Contemporary Organizations26
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity25
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians24
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.24
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice24
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam24
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses23
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’22
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis22
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts22
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine22
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective22
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization21
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace21
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work21
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning21
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F21
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit21
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises21
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael20
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.20
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster20
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations19
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism19
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations19
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers19
Degrowth and Organization Studies19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness19
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C18
Misogyny and Organization Studies18
Media Review: Home and Climate Risk18
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding18
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment17
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India17
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes17
The Green Hush: A Foundational Model of Brownwashing and the Impacts of Greenwashing17
Media Review: Attuned Practice17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom16
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process14
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack13
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue13
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process13
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies13
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities13
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations12
Academic Voluntourism12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It12
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2023. 133 min.11
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour11
Quagmires11
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments11
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals11
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes10
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter10
Kafka and Organization Studies10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
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