OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	490
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	369
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	159
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	141
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	135
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	105
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	93
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	89
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	83
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	74
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	62
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	60
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	60
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	57
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	56
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	52
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	52
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	52
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	51
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	50
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	49
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	49
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	47
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	46
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	46

Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	41
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	41
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	40
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	39
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	39
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	38
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	37
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	36
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	35
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	34
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	34
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research	33
Reflexive Quantitative Research	32
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	32
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	31
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	31
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	26
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	25
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	25
The Challenge and Opportunity of a Quantum Mechanics Metaphor in Organization and Management Research: A Response to Shelef, Wuebker, and Barney’s “Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas”	24
What We Do While Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	24
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	23
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	22
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	22
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	22
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	21
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	20
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	19
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	19
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	19
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	18
A Dynamic Model of CEO Humor as Social Information for Infomediaries’ Social Evaluations of Organizations: An Extension to König et al.’s “Good Fun or Laughingstock?”	18
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	18
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	17
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	17
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat	17
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	17
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	16
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	16
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers	16
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing	16
Remembering Donald E. Conlon	16
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	16
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	16
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	15
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	15

We Are Crisis: Runtime Errors in Programmatic Theory	15
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems	15
Institutional Parasites	14
Ghost in the Machine: On Organizational Theory in the Age of Machine Learning	14
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	13
It’s Going to Be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	13
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	13
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	12
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	12
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	12
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	12
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	12
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	12
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	11
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	10
Theorizing with Microhistory	10
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	10
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	10
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	10
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	10
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	10
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	10
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	10
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing	9
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	9
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	9
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	9
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship	8
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	8
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	8
Demystifying and Normalizing the Psychological Experience of Writing for AMR: A Qualitative Analysis of the Highs, Lows, and Suggested Coping Strategies	8
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches	8
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy	8
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	8
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success	7
Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions: An Extension of Lewis Et al.’s “A Promise Not (Yet) Fulfilled”	7
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	7
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	7
Optimizing Concepts: Conceptual Engineering in the Field of Management—The Case of Routines Research	7
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	7
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model	7
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	7
Generating Theory by Abduction	7
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	6
Time to Face the Music: A Commentary on Lee, Busenbark, Withers, and Zajac’s “How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics”	6
The PSI Model for Predicting Activist Engagements: Toward a Theory of Shareholder Activism	6
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	5
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations	5
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites	5
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	5
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	5
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	5
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	5
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	5
Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian	5
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	5