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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel82
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram59
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being46
Media Review: The Value of Reputation44
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography38
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences37
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda32
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice31
On Measuring Social Science Impact29
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants28
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen27
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement26
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times25
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale25
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises24
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity24
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization24
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling24
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning22
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies22
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine22
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam22
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses22
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’21
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit21
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis20
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective20
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace20
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts20
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets19
Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk19
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F19
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness19
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work19
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations19
Misogyny and Organization Studies18
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers18
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism18
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations18
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster18
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment17
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes17
Media Review: Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council16
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power14
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities14
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process14
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
Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing13
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process13
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies13
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue13
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
Academic Voluntourism12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Media Review: Moral Laundering12
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator11
Quagmires11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration11
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France11
Producing images and making judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work11
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It11
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality11
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare11
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter10
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals10
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration10
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear9
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies9
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy9
Organizing for Dignity9
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations9
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group9
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17969
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership9
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.9
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible9
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