OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial Intelligence and Management: The Automation–Augmentation Paradox	384
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing	250
Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building	191
Generating Theory by Abduction	180
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Data Network Effects for Creating User Value	143
Reconceptualizing Necessity Entrepreneurship: A Contextualized Framework of Entrepreneurial Processes Under the Condition of Basic Needs	133
Bouncing Back Together: Toward a Theoretical Model of Work Team Resilience	119
Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations	117
CEO Sociopolitical Activism: A Stakeholder Alignment Model	114
Opportunities as Artifacts and Entrepreneurship as Design	95
Back to the Future: A Time-Calibrated Theory of Entrepreneurial Action	86
From Rugged Landscapes to Rugged Ecosystems: Structure of Interdependencies and Firms’ Innovative Search	85
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	77
The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment	76
When Is More Uncertainty Better? A Model of Uncertainty Regulation and Effectiveness	75
From the Editors—Why We Need a Theory of Stakeholder Governance—And Why This is a Hard Problem	75
Modelling the Micro-Foundations of the Audit Society: Organizations and the Logic of the Audit Trail	75
The Ontology of Organizational Paradox: A Quantum Approach	70
To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty	67
On the Mitigability of Uncertainty and the Choice between Predictive and Nonpredictive Strategy	63
Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies	58
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	58
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	53
Noncognitive Microfoundations: Understanding Dynamic Capabilities as Idiosyncractically Refined Sensitivities and Predispositions	53
When People Don’t Realize Their Career Desires: Toward a Theory of Career Inaction	52

Strategic Leadership Systems: Viewing Top Management Teams and Boards of Directors from A Multiteam Systems Perspective	48
The Theory Crisis in Management Research: Solving the Right Problem	47
On the Theory of Organizational Path Dependence: Clarifications, Replies to Objections, and Extensions	46
Standing Together or Falling Apart? Understanding Employees’ Responses to Organizational Identity Threats	45
Imagination, Indeterminacy, and Managerial Choice at the Limit of Knowledge	45
Ghost in the Machine: On Organizational Theory in the Age of Machine Learning	42
The Emergence of Moral Leadership	41
A Network Conceptualization of Team Conflict	38
A Bait-and-Switch Model of Corporate Social Responsibility	35
Finding Meaning in Relationships: The Impact of Network Ties and Structure on the Meaningfulness of Work	33
Recurring Nightmares and Silver Linings: Understanding How Past Abusive Supervision May Lead to Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth	33
Faster, Hotter, and More Linked In: Managing Social Disapproval in the Social Media Era	33
Creation Opportunities: Entrepreneurial Curiosity, Generative Cognition, and Knightian Uncertainty	32
Developing a Theory of the Firm for the 21st Century	32
CSR: Undertheorized or Essentially Contested?	32
From the Editors—Phenomenon-Based Theorizing	31
Shaping Possibilities: A Design Science Approach to Developing Novel Strategies	30
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	30
Niklas Luhmann’s Radical Communication Approach and Its Implications for Research on Organizational Communication	29
Ontology, Levels of Society, and Degrees of Generality: Theorizing Actors as Abstractions in Institutional Theory	29
More Than the Sum of My Parts: An Intrapersonal Network Approach to Identity Work in Response to Identity Opportunities and Threats	28
Rumor Communities, Social Media, and Forthcoming Innovations: The Shaping of Technological Frames in Product Market Evolution	27
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems	26
Reflections on the 2021 AMR Decade Award: Navigating Paradox Is Paradoxical	26
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	26
Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems	23
The Nature of the Social Firm: Alternative Organizational Forms for Social Value Creation and Appropriation	23
Taking Inequality Seriously	23
The Impact of Temporal Schemata: Understanding When Individuals Entrain Versus Resist or Create Temporal Structure	22
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	22
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	22
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	21
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	21
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	20
Editors’ Comments: The Future of Organizational Theory	20
Heuristic Methods for Updating Small World Representations in Strategic Situations of Knightian Uncertainty	20
Why “Doing Well by Doing Good” Went Wrong: Getting Beyond “Good Ethics Pays” Claims in Managerial Thinking	20
Explaining the Persistence of Informal Institutions: The Role of Informal Networks	20
A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Employee Job Performance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective	20
Reconceptualizing Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurship: A Needs-Based View of Entrepreneurial Motivation	19
Integrator or Gremlin? Identity Partnerships and Team Newcomer Socialization	19
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	19
Bringing the Great Outdoors Into the Workplace: The Energizing Effect of Biophilic Work Design	19
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	19
Dark Knights: When and Why an Employee Becomes a Workplace Vigilante	19
Branching and Anchoring: Complementary Asset Configurations in Conditions of Knightian Uncertainty	18
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	18
A Place in the World: Vulnerability, Well-Being, and the Ubiquitous Evaluation That Animates Participation in Institutional Processes	17
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	16
Corporate Strategy and Network Change	16

Business and Peace: The Impact of Firm–Stakeholder Relational Strategies on Conflict Risk	16
An Event-System Perspective on Disruption: Theorizing the Pandemic and Other Discontinuities Through Historical and Fictional Accounts of the Plague	15
Masculinity at the Negotiation Table: A Theory of Men’s Negotiation Behaviors and Outcomes	15
When Things Get Odd: Exploring the Interactional Choreography of Taken-for-Grantedness	15
Mitigating versus Managing Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty	14
Design as an Isolating Mechanism for Capturing Value from Innovation: From Cloaks and Traps to Sabotage	14
Commitment System Theory: The Evolving Structure of Commitments to Multiple Targets	14
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	13
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	13
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	13
Property Rights, Owner-Management, and Value Creation	13
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	13
Probability Logic Fails in Immitigable Uncertainty, But Strategic Logic Does Not	13
A World Changed: What Post-9/11 Stories Tell Us about the Position of America, Purpose of Business, and Meaning of Work	12
Theorizing with Microhistory	12
Optimizing Concepts: Conceptual Engineering in the Field of Management—The Case of Routines Research	12
The Model Minority and the Limits of Workplace Inclusion	11
A Theory of Ethical Accounting and Its Implications for Hypocrisy in Organizations	11
Forbearance: Strategic Nonresponse to Competitive Attacks	11
Capitalism and Management Research: The Worst of Times, The Best of Times	11
Solving Paradox by Reducing Expectation	11
A Theory of Organizational Purpose	11
“What is an Opportunity?”: From Theoretical Mystification to Everyday Understanding	10
Origins and Destinations, Distances and Directions: Accounting for the Journey in the Emotion Regulation Process	10
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	10
Carving the Nature of Uncertainty at Its Joints	10
On the Irony of Being Certain on How to Deal with Uncertainty	10
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	10
Quantum Approach to Organizational Paradox: A Copenhagen Perspective	10
How a Firm’s Value Capture Affects Value Creation in Its Ecosystem	9
The Evolving Science of Organization: Theory Matters	9
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	9
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	9
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	9
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	9
2019 Presidential Address—Management Scholars, End Users, and the Power of Thinking Small	9
On the Practicality of Resisting Pragmatic Paradoxes	9
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	9
On the Ontology of Action: Actors are Not “Abstractions”	8
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	8
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	8
Designing Online Platforms for Customized Goods and Services: A Market Frictions–Based Perspective	7
The Generativity Mindsets of Chief Executive Officers: A New Perspective on Succession Outcomes	7
Professional Network Identification: Searching for Stability in Transient Knowledge Work	7
Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Theory of Situated AI	7
Guidance for AMR Authors about Making Formal Theory Accessible	7
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	7
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	7
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	7
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	7
Working to the Beat: A Self-Regulatory Framework Linking Music Characteristics to Job Performance	7
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	7