OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Organization Studies is 9. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Behavioral Visibility: A new paradigm for organization studies in the age of digitization, digitalization, and datafication	154
Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing	65
Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research	49
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement	40
Matter That Embodies: Agentive Flesh and Working Bodies/Selves	39
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies	36
Organizational Memory Studies	35
Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies	34
Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making	33
Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain	31
The Contemporary Resonances of Classical Pragmatism for Studying Organization and Organizing	29
From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms	29
Interpersonal Connectivity Work: Being there with and for geographically distant others	27
From People to Objects: The digital transformation of fields	27
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy	26
How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship	25
Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue	23
How Structural Empowerment Boosts Organizational Resilience: A case study in the Dutch home care industry	23
Hackathons as Affective Circuits: Technology, organizationality and affect	23
Heart, Mind and Body: #NoMorePage3 and the Replenishment of Emotional Energy	22
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies	22
Connectivity in and around Organizations: Waves, tensions and trade-offs	22
Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer	21
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems	20
Multidirectional Idea Travelling Across an Organizational Field	19

Secrecy in Practice: How Middle Managers Promote Strategic Initiatives behind the Scenes	19
Ten Theses on Technology and Organization: Introduction to the Special Issue	19
Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division, and Displacement: Introduction to the Special Issue	19
Organizational Learning From Hidden Improvisation	19
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration	19
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling	18
After the Pain: Reflexive Practice, Emotion Work and Learning	18
Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance	18
Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses	17
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority	17
Data and Organization Studies: Aesthetics, emotions, discourse and our everyday encounters with data	17
Precarity, Hospitality, and the Becoming of a Subject That Matters: A Study of Syrian Refugees in Lebanese Tented Settlements	16
On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective	16
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness	16
Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart City Development in Mexico City: An institutional logics approach	16
‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices	16
Biomateriality and Organizing: Towards an Organizational Perspective on Food	15
Responding to stigmatization: How to resist and overcome the stigma of unemployment	15
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences	15
Technology and Dis/Organization: Digital data infrastructures as partial connections	15
The Ethics of Organizational Ethics	14
Regulating Nimbus and Focus: Organizing Copresence for Creative Collaboration	14
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?	14
The Becoming of Online Healthcare through Entangled Power and Performativity: A posthumanist agential realist perspective	14
Research on Grand Challenges: Adopting an Abductive Experimentation Methodology	14
Do We Still Need Professional Boundaries? The multiple influences of boundaries on interprofessional collaboration	14
Institutional Change, Entrepreneuring and Place: Building a Smart State	14
‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector	13
Feminist Theories and Activist Practices in Organization Studies	13
‘Evolution from the inside out’: Revisiting the impact of (re)productive resistance among ultra-orthodox female entrepreneurs	13
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management	13
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process	13
Investigating how the Clock–Event Time Dialectic Shapes the Doing of Time in Organizational Change	12
Splintering Organizational Subjectivities: Older workers and the dynamics of recognition, vulnerability and resistance	12
Speciation in Nascent Markets: Collective learning through cultural and material scaffolding	12
Are We All Activists?	12
Workplace Humiliation and the Organization of Domestic Work	12
The Atmospherics of Creativity: Affective and spatial materiality in a designer’s studio	12
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue	12
Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations	12
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants	12
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers	12
Countering Indeterminate Temporariness: Sheltering work in refugee camps	11
Marriage to the Same Kind: Organizational Political Ideology and Mergers and Acquisitions	11
On (Not) Fitting In: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents	11
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism	11
No End In Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement	11
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises	11
Destigmatization Through Visualization: Striving to redefine refugee workers’ worth	11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration	11

Making Space for Garbage Cans: How emergent groups organize social media spaces to orchestrate widescale helping in a crisis	11
Organizing for the Smart African City: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city	11
Space and Sensemaking in High-Reliability Task Contexts: Insights from a maritime mass rescue exercise	11
Strangers in the Dark: Navigating opacity and transparency in open online career-related knowledge sharing	11
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world	11
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India	11
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia	11
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept	10
Embracing Paradox: TMT paradoxical processes as a steppingstone between TMT reflexivity and organizational ambidexterity	10
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism	10
Philosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte?	10
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen	10
Political Parties and Organization Studies: The party as a critical case of organizing	10
Digital Curation and Creative Brokering: Managing information overload in open organizing	10
The effect of repertoire, routinization and enacted complexity: Explaining task performance through patterns of action	9
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group	9
Breaking a Path by Creating a New One: How Organizational Change Boosts Children’s Cancer Care	9
Boundary Work in Response to Professionals’ Contextual Constraints: Micro-strategies in Interprofessional Collaboration	9
Caring Leader Identity Between Power and Powerlessness	9