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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation68
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates50
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel45
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram42
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates37
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity36
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography34
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being33
On Measuring Social Science Impact31
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times30
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda30
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity30
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale27
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians27
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen26
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations26
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam25
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice25
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.24
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’24
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises24
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit23
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning23
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine23
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace23
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses22
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective22
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization22
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts22
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis22
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work21
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael21
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster21
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations20
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets20
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers20
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism20
Degrowth and Organization Studies20
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.20
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
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, 2024.19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk19
Misogyny and Organization Studies19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment18
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C18
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding18
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes18
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery18
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing18
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
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 117
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power15
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies14
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization14
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing13
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.13
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4213
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It13
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations13
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 Firms13
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Academic Voluntourism12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences12
Quagmires12
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour12
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France11
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes11
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter11
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
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
Kafka and Organization Studies10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance9
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17969
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers9
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals9
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