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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	232
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	222
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	163
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	128
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	128
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	95
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	94
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	92
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	87
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	78
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	75
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	75
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	71
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	70
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	65
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	60
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	58
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	52
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	50
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	49
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	48
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	44
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	42
The Writer’s Room: An Extension to Willmott’s “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	42
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	40

Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	39
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	37
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	35
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	33
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	33
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	33
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	33
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	31
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	30
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	30
Reflexive Quantitative Research	30
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	30
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	30
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	29
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	29
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	29
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	28
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	28
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	28
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	26
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	26
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”	26
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	26
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	25
Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution	25
Institutional Resilience for Institutional Diversity: An Extension of Almandoz and Thornton’s “Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution”	25
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	24
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	23
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	22
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	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
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	20
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?”	19
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	18
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	18
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	18
Should I? How Moral Ambiguity Shapes Entrepreneurial Action	18
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	18
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	18
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	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
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth through Social Identity Threat	16
Asymmetric Jeopardy through Dissonant Ties: An Extension of Brands and Kilduff’s “Multiplex Jeopardy”	16
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers	15

Remembering Donald E. Conlon	15
Designing Dual-Purpose Organizations: The Role of Soft Governance	15
Tackling the Complexity Challenge: When and How to Engage in Configurational and Hybrid Theorizing	14
Competitive Externalities in Acquisitions	14
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	14
Understanding Inclusion: The Role of Organization Member Prototypes	13
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	13
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	13
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing	13
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	13
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	12
It’s Going to Be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	12
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	12
Actualizing Desirable Futures Beyond the Individual: A Comment on Coffman et al.’s (2025) “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind”	12
Institutional Parasites	12
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	12
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	12
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt while Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	11
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	11
Competitive Dynamics are Alive with the Sound of Music: A Reply to “Time to Face the Music”	10
2025 Presidential Address: Activism, Impact, and Science: Management Scholarship in a Challenging Era	10
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	10
The Promise and Perils of Co-Construction: A Reply to “Co-Constructive Start-Up Illusions”	10
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	10
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	10
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	9
Theorizing with Microhistory	9
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	9
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	9
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	8
Copying the Wrong Winner? When Noisy Attribution Reverses Mutual Learning Prescriptions in Denrell, Christensen, Knudsen, and Liu’s “The Impact of Learning Mode and Speed on Mutual Learning”	8
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	8
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	8
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	8
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	8
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	8
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	8
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	7
Demystifying and Normalizing the Psychological Experience of Writing for AMR: A Qualitative Analysis of the Highs, Lows, and Suggested Coping Strategies	7
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship	7
Rethinking Necessity Entrepreneurship Beyond Binaries and Toward Communalism: A Commentary on Coffman et al.’s “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind”	7
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy	7
Moral Conviction as a Distinct Pathway in Resistance to Burdensome Role Expectations: An Extension of Yagil’s “I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations”	7
“MOB” Mentality?: On the Formation and Consequences of Moralized Opinion-Based Intergroup Conflict in Organizations	7
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches	7
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	6
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model	6
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	6
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	6
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	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
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success	6
Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions: An Extension of Lewis et al.’s “A Promise Not (Yet) Fulfilled”	6
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	6
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	6
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	5
How AI Reshapes Multimodal Theorization: An Extension of Kuric and Höllerer’s “Theorization as a Prerequisite for Diffusion”	5
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations	5
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	5
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	5
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites	5
How to R.E.S.P.O.N.D.: A Framework for Thoughtful Revisions and Scholarly Dialogue	5
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	5
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	5
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	5