OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Management Journal is 12. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How co-working spaces self-organise to novel outcomes: A comparison and contrast study from an ecosystem perspective	275
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization	154
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study	122
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes	108
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management	100
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics	99
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model	99
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	91
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization	88
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization	78
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research	77
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective	75
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter	71
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions	64
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”	60
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes	60
Intercultural differences in issue interpretation: Effects of emotions and framing	55
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts	54
The impact of distance on acquisition performance	52
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 2022	52
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective	50
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions	48
Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors	42
Control yourselves! Linking impulse-control demands to production deviance: The role of burnout and health-specific leadership	42
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers	41

Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review	39
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?	39
Editorial Board	39
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe	39
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis	39
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?	39
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach	38
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?	38
Addressing the gender data gap to advance theory, interventions, and equity for women	38
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting	38
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving	37
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees	34
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing	34
Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability	33
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research	33
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects	32
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities	32
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy	32
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions	32
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?	31
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism	30
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data	29
It’s all about culture! Institutional context and ownership concentration across Europe	28
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments	28
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms	27
Migration of skilled professionals across the border: Brain drain or brain gain?	27
A resource-based view on SMEs regarding the transition to more sophisticated stages of industry 4.0	27
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda	27
Editorial Board	26
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention	26
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions	26
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance	26
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms	25
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior	25
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work	25
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions	25
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers	24
Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study	24
Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective	24
Beyond the numbers: Reflections from three Global South countries using the global gender gap index	24
Are skilled contingent workers neglected? Evidence from a cross-sector multiple case study on organizational career management practices	23
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches	22
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions	22
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies	21
The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations	21
Breaking promises, breaking trust: How psychological contract breach relates to trust trajectories and performance	21
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion	21
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers	21
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management	21
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap	20

Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges	20
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern	19
Legitimacy by association? How citizens form propriety beliefs through horizontal spillovers in public–private partnerships	19
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization	19
Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues	19
Productive engagement in virtual teams: How team relational climates shape virtual team performance over time	18
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength	18
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review	18
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective	18
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?	18
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)	18
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions	17
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders	17
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective	17
Organization as the abuser: Introducing & operationalizing organizational mistreatment	17
The intertwined effect of HRM practices and transformational leadership on employees’ attitudes in an M&A context: Evidence from a collaborative and mixed-methods study	17
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens	17
Editorial Board	17
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis	16
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract	16
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience	16
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions	16
Forty years of European Management Journal: A bibliometric overview	16
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness	15
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms	15
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses	15
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management	15
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach	15
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes	15
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field	15
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?	15
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers	14
Societal effects of social media in organizations: Reflective points deriving from a systematic literature review and a bibliometric meta-analysis	14
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management	14
The services field: A cornucopia filled with potential management topics	13
Periphery–core relations and the knowledge domain of international management: New contingencies, characterizations and theories	13
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing	13
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times	13
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	12
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees	12
Mobilising materiality for strategy work: the role of organisational spaces	12
The ebb and flow of identity: How sustainable entrepreneurs deal with their hybridity	12
Job crafting and well-being among school principals: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration	12
Editorial Board	12
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets	12
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda	12
Orchestrating the bounce back: Resourceful boards, competent owners, and organizational resilience	12
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance	12
Big data analytics and supply chain learning: A serial mediation model for enhancing resilience and financial performance	12
Government policy innovation in spurring nascent entrepreneurship during pandemic	12
Satisfaction with HR practices and employee performance: A moderated mediation model of engagement and health	12