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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial Intelligence and Management: The Automation–Augmentation Paradox	538
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing	342
Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building	264
Generating Theory by Abduction	254
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Data Network Effects for Creating User Value	199
Reconceptualizing Necessity Entrepreneurship: A Contextualized Framework of Entrepreneurial Processes Under the Condition of Basic Needs	163
Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations	161
CEO Sociopolitical Activism: A Stakeholder Alignment Model	146
Back to the Future: A Time-Calibrated Theory of Entrepreneurial Action	103
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	102
The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment	96
Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies	89
Modelling the Micro-Foundations of the Audit Society: Organizations and the Logic of the Audit Trail	85
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	83
The Ontology of Organizational Paradox: A Quantum Approach	80
The Theory Crisis in Management Research: Solving the Right Problem	67
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	62
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	52
From the Editors—Phenomenon-Based Theorizing	51
Ghost in the Machine: On Organizational Theory in the Age of Machine Learning	47
Reflections on the 2021 AMR Decade Award: Navigating Paradox Is Paradoxical	46
Faster, Hotter, and More Linked In: Managing Social Disapproval in the Social Media Era	42
A Bait-and-Switch Model of Corporate Social Responsibility	42
More Than the Sum of My Parts: An Intrapersonal Network Approach to Identity Work in Response to Identity Opportunities and Threats	40
CSR: Undertheorized or Essentially Contested?	40

Shaping Possibilities: A Design Science Approach to Developing Novel Strategies	38
Taking Inequality Seriously	37
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	34
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems	34
Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems	33
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	32
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	32
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	32
Explaining the Persistence of Informal Institutions: The Role of Informal Networks	31
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	31
The Impact of Temporal Schemata: Understanding When Individuals Entrain Versus Resist or Create Temporal Structure	31
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	31
Why “Doing Well by Doing Good” Went Wrong: Getting Beyond “Good Ethics Pays” Claims in Managerial Thinking	30
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	29
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	29
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	28
A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Employee Job Performance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective	28
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	28
Heuristic Methods for Updating Small World Representations in Strategic Situations of Knightian Uncertainty	26
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	26
Reconceptualizing Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurship: A Needs-Based View of Entrepreneurial Motivation	25
Business and Peace: The Impact of Firm–Stakeholder Relational Strategies on Conflict Risk	23
Integrator or Gremlin? Identity Partnerships and Team Newcomer Socialization	23
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	23
Corporate Strategy and Network Change	23
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	22
Bringing the Great Outdoors Into the Workplace: The Energizing Effect of Biophilic Work Design	22
An Event-System Perspective on Disruption: Theorizing the Pandemic and Other Discontinuities Through Historical and Fictional Accounts of the Plague	21
Capitalism and Management Research: The Worst of Times, The Best of Times	21
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	21
A Place in the World: Vulnerability, Well-Being, and the Ubiquitous Evaluation That Animates Participation in Institutional Processes	21
A Theory of Organizational Purpose	21
Commitment System Theory: The Evolving Structure of Commitments to Multiple Targets	19
Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Theory of Situated AI	18
Masculinity at the Negotiation Table: A Theory of Men’s Negotiation Behaviors and Outcomes	18
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	17
Design as an Isolating Mechanism for Capturing Value from Innovation: From Cloaks and Traps to Sabotage	17
Theorizing with Microhistory	17
The Model Minority and the Limits of Workplace Inclusion	17
Property Rights, Owner-Management, and Value Creation	17
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	16
The Role of Temporality in Institutional Stabilization: A Process View	16
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	15
“What Is an Opportunity?”: From Theoretical Mystification to Everyday Understanding	15
When Things Get Odd: Exploring the Interactional Choreography of Taken-for-Grantedness	15
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	15
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	14
How a Firm’s Value Capture Affects Value Creation in Its Ecosystem	14
Forbearance: Strategic Nonresponse to Competitive Attacks	14
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	14

Optimizing Concepts: Conceptual Engineering in the Field of Management—The Case of Routines Research	14
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	13
Solving Paradox by Reducing Expectation	12
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	12
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	12
A Theory of Ethical Accounting and Its Implications for Hypocrisy in Organizations	12
A Circadian Theory of Paradoxical Leadership	12
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	12
The Evolving Science of Organization: Theory Matters	11
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	11
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	11
Quantum Approach to Organizational Paradox: A Copenhagen Perspective	11
Aspirations, Beliefs and a NewIdea: Building on March’s Other Model of Performance Feedback	10
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	10
The Virtues of Joint Production: Ethical Foundations for Collaborative Organizations	10
Guidance for AMR Authors about Making Formal Theory Accessible	10
Mutable Reality and Unknowable Future: Revealing the Broader Potential of Pragmatism	9
The Generativity Mindsets of Chief Executive Officers: A New Perspective on Succession Outcomes	9
Designing Online Platforms for Customized Goods and Services: A Market Frictions–Based Perspective	9
On the Practicality of Resisting Pragmatic Paradoxes	9
Compete, Cooperate, or Both? Integrating the Demand Side into Patent Deployment Strategies for the Commercialization and Licensing of Technology	9
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	9
Professional Network Identification: Searching for Stability in Transient Knowledge Work	9
On the Ontology of Action: Actors are Not “Abstractions”	8
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	8
Organizational Underdog Narratives: The Cultivation and Consequences of a Collective Underdog Identity	8
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	8
Open Team Production, the New Cooperative Firm, and Hybrid Advantage	8
An Active Learning Approach to Diversity Training	8
Federated Corporate Social Responsibility: Constraining the Responsible Corporation	7
On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations	7
Why I Rejected Your Paper: Common Pitfalls in Writing Theory Papers and How to Avoid Them	7
The Ghost in the Machine, or the Ghost in Organizational Theory? A Complementary View on the Use of Machine Learning	7
Private Equity as an Intermediary in the Market for Corporate Assets	7
Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance	7
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	6
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	6
Fighting with the Fourth Estate: A Theoretical Framework of Organization–Media Rivalry for Narrative Control Following a Transgression	6
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	6
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	5
“Clipping an Angel’s Wings”: On the Value and Limitations of Philosophy in Management Research	5
Editor’s Comments: Intentional Inclusion of Diverse Voices and Global Perspectives at AMR	5
The Social Ontology of Purpose: How Organizations Can Have Goals and Intentions Without Having a Mind	5
Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence: Hybrid Problem-Solving in Organizations	5
It Takes a Village: A Practical Guide to Reviewing for AMR	5
A Quantum Approach to Paradox Entails neither Preexisting Tensions nor Asymmetry: Response to Xin Li	5
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	5
Creating Opportunities: Heuristic Reasoning in Proactive Dynamic Capability Deployment	5
Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective	5
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	5
Power and Dominant Coalitions in Family Business	5