Organization Studies

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates61
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being55
Media Review: The Value of Reputation50
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram41
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography33
How historical context shapes the construction of field-level frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates33
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel33
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda29
On Measuring Social Science Impact29
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale29
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity28
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times27
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice27
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement27
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen26
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants25
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises24
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization24
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies23
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses23
Media Review: Organization in Colour22
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit22
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning22
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective22
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’21
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F20
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam20
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work20
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling20
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace20
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk20
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis20
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine20
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism19
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster19
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael19
Misogyny and Organization Studies19
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers19
Degrowth and organization studies18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment17
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.17
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding17
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets17
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations17
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom16
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India16
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council16
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes16
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C16
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities15
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer14
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization14
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires14
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
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 hack14
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities14
Enacting aspirational modes of being: Oil and gas employees' subject formation and Telos under corporate environmentalism13
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies13
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare13
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue13
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)13
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process13
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process13
Academic Voluntourism13
Quagmires12
Co-Creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The Collaborative Work of Nascent Occupations12
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour11
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance11
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals11
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance11
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France11
Kafka and Organization Studies10
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration10
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action10
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.9
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies9
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2023. 133 min.9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17969
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers9
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible9
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