OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Management Journal is 13. 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.)

Article	Citations
Dysfunctional rules in organizations: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization in the relationship between red tape and employees’ outcomes	397
The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study	192
Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization	138
Social media entrepreneurship: A study on follower response to social media monetization	115
Effects of constructive politics and market turbulence on entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship: A moderated mediation model	114
Meta-analytic review, synthesis, and directions for the future of entrepreneurial passion research	112
Perceived technological turbulence and individual ambidexterity – The moderating role of formalization	104
Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management	104
The mixed blessing of servant leadership: Investigating the moderating role of followers’ attributed motives in emotional and behavioral reactions to servant leadership	95
Career capital development in global work: The roles of job scope, career adaptability, and gender dynamics	93
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective	87
How co-working spaces self-organise to novel outcomes: A comparison and contrast study from an ecosystem perspective	75
Information visualization and strategic problem comprehension as drivers of strategic decisions	72
Bringing the design perspective to coworking-spaces: Constitutive entanglement of actors and artifacts	69
The politics of sensemaking: Framing contests in border control during the EU “migration crisis”	67
Control yourselves! Linking impulse-control demands to production deviance: The role of burnout and health-specific leadership	61
Mergers and acquisitions research — A bibliometric analysis	60
The impact of distance on acquisition performance	57
Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards 2022	55
The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes	50
A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective	49
Leaders as change executors: The impact of leader attitudes to change and change-specific support on followers	47
Unlocking the recipe for organizational resilience: A review and future research directions	46
Advancing relational primary healthcare: Four triadic components of the digital face-to-face professional service encounter	46
How does decision-making involvement affect perceptions of speed during post-merger integration?	46

Loner or team player: How firms allocate orchestrator tasks amongst ecosystem actors	43
Green entrepreneurial orientation and corporate environmental performance: A systematic literature review	42
Editorial Board	41
Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting	40
The leadership gap between full-time and part-time female employees	40
Addressing the gender data gap to advance theory, interventions, and equity for women	40
Closer than ever: Growing business-level connections between Australia and Europe	39
Behavioral analysis of ChatGPT users based on the ABC model: Focusing on a socio-technical approach	38
Fuelling perceived employability through Leader's expert power: Role of empowerment climate and thriving	36
Complementarity between CSR dimensions and innovation: behaviour, objective or both?	36
Thwarted by fear of failure, reignited by psychological resilience: Entrepreneurs’ responses to a health crisis (COVID-19) and passion for developing	36
From pursuit of self-interest to pursuit of happiness: Complementary or contradictory readings of “wealth of nations” and “theory of moral sentiments”?	35
CEO overconfidence, customer satisfaction, and firm value: An investigation of mediating and moderating effects	35
Customer integration, fairness perceptions, and silent endurance in digital versus human service interactions	35
A rainbow of colors: The value of embeddedness for understanding actor entrepreneurship in organizational LGBTQ+ communities	33
Critical mass of female directors, ownership structure and dividend payments	32
Interactions between formal structures and knowing communities: What does open source community involvement mean?	32
Do Employees boost opportunities to compete abroad? A longitudinal study of family and non-family firms	30
Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability	29
Curbing unethical pro-organizational behavior with high-performance work systems: Test of an uncertainty reduction mechanism	29
Is data-driven decision-making driven only by data? When cognition meets data	28
Framing strategy under high complexity: Processes and practices of ongoing reframing in the becoming of strategy	28
Labor process theory and critical HRM: A systematic review and agenda for future research	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
Beyond the numbers: Reflections from three Global South countries using the global gender gap index	26
Digital transformation: A review and research agenda	26
Theory of dogmatism, personality traits and shopping behavior	26
Exploring the effects of reduced load work arrangements (RLWAs): The role of individual autonomy and workplace level justice perceptions	26
Contextual complexity: Understanding unique appraisal reactions of top subsidiary managers	26
Are skilled contingent workers neglected? Evidence from a cross-sector multiple case study on organizational career management practices	25
Intertemporal tradeoffs in family firms’ R&D investments: The role of transgenerational succession intention	25
Editorial Board	25
The new normal of corporate sustainability: A post-pandemic perspective on greenwashing discourse and manager perceptions	25
The role of organizational innovation in the development of green innovations in Spanish firms	25
How organizational AI adoption profits top leaders’ self-concept and behavior	25
Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective	25
Multilevel empirical research: A call for more mixed-methods approaches	24
Shedding light on the dark: Distrust as a distinct concept in stakeholder relationships	24
Paradoxical behavior toward innovation: Knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, and career sustainability interactions	24
Overcoming organizational constraints: The role of organizational commitment and job crafting in relation to employee performance	23
Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work	23
Need to choose between cutting people and pay? A work sector may matter if maintaining work attitudes is your concern	22
Breaking promises, breaking trust: How psychological contract breach relates to trust trajectories and performance	22
Between markets and morality—Exploring Adam Smith as a figure for contemporary European management	22
Advancing theory by addressing the Gender Data Gap	22
Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion	22
CEO incentive pay and corporate social performance: Evidence from French companies	22
Pre-merger acquisition capabilities: A study of two successful serial acquirers	22
The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations	21

Systematic literature review on networks of innovative teams: Current trends and future research avenues	21
Artificial intelligence and HRM: HR managers’ perspective on decisiveness and challenges	21
Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization	21
Acquired middle managers’ strategy roles and value creation in cross-border acquisitions	20
Collaboration-based HR systems and innovative work behaviors: The role of information exchange and HR system strength	20
The impact factor-in-chief: Recollections of a former European Management Journal editor (2006–2012)	20
Drivers and mechanisms for online communities performance: A systematic literature review	20
Gender Data Gap and its impact on management science — Reflections from a European perspective	20
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	20
Legitimacy by association? How citizens form propriety beliefs through horizontal spillovers in public–private partnerships	19
Daily transformational leadership: A source of inspiration for follower performance?	18
Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders	18
Productive engagement in virtual teams: How team relational climates shape virtual team performance over time	18
Sourcing for high technology innovation: Engaging to absorb knowledge pre-contract	17
Editorial Board	17
Managing with communities for innovation, agility, and resilience	17
Supportive relations and worker retention in platform work: Toward a relational platform ecosystem perspective	17
Co-creating innovations with users: A systematic literature review and future research agenda for project management	17
Organization as the abuser: Introducing & operationalizing organizational mistreatment	17
A journey into women's managerial career development through the social cognitive career lens	17
Boundary spanning and boundary breaking research in M&A: Taking stock and moving forward to reinvent the field	17
Perceptions of ethical climate and organizational justice as antecedents to employee performance: The mediating role of employees' attributions of leader effectiveness	17
Expanding on individual resilience in organizational contexts: The case of reconciling the work–eldercare conflict of middle-aged women	16
The effects of JDC model on burnout and work engagement: A multiple interaction analysis	16
Reciprocity in organizational behavior studies: A systematic literature review of contents, types, and directions	16
Understanding knowledge transfer in M&As: An integration of resource orchestration and social capital theories and evidence from UK acquiring firms	16
Editorial Board	15
Imagining and enacting radical transformations for sustainable organizing	15
Letter from the Outgoing Editor in Chief: Journal curating through difficult times	15
The importance of employee bodily movements in everyday organizational life	14
Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management	14
Organizational risk culture: A literature review on dimensions, assessment, value relevance, and improvement levers	14
Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses	14
Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?	14
Editorial Board	14
Intercultural competence in the context of intercultural service encounters: A multilevel and dynamic approach	14
Orchestrating the bounce back: Resourceful boards, competent owners, and organizational resilience	13
“Holy curiosity of inquiry”: An investigation into curiosity and work performance of employees	13
Mapping the interdisciplinary landscape of management and organization studies: A big data bibliometric-systematic literature review	13
To be or not to be corporate heritage oriented? A study of managers’ corporate heritage mindsets	13
Mobilising materiality for strategy work: the role of organisational spaces	13
A fit perspective to family supportive supervisor behaviors: Exploring the role of protean career orientation on employee outcomes	13
Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance	13
Evolution of industry 4.0 and international business: A systematic literature review and a research agenda	13
Big data analytics and supply chain learning: A serial mediation model for enhancing resilience and financial performance	13
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	13
Expansion-oriented job crafting and employee performance: A self-empowerment perspective	13
Strategic communication in organizational change: Exploring the impact of two-sided messages on legitimacy judgments and commitment to change	13