Organization Studies

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation80
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates67
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being50
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity47
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas 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
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times38
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale38
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues35
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen35
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice33
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations32
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity31
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics31
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians30
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace29
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.29
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies29
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’28
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis28
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization27
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses27
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202426
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective26
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning26
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine25
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony25
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work24
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit24
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts24
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster23
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.23
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk23
Degrowth and Organization Studies22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets22
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F22
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael22
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, 2024.22
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives R. Trebor Scholz, Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet21
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations21
Misogyny and Organization Studies20
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding20
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism20
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 119
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council19
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C18
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes18
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing18
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery18
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India17
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective17
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism16
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires16
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization15
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4212
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Academic Voluntourism12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Quagmires11
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work9
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes9
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 209
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus9
“We have a building that is more than a building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Kafka and Organization Studies9
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action9
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter9
Organizing for Dignity8
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change8
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