OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review is 4. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A Place in the World: Vulnerability, Well-Being, and the Ubiquitous Evaluation That Animates Participation in Institutional Processes	363
Unpacking the Role of Organizational Actorhood in Interorganizational Trust: A Reply to “Looking Behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s ‘How Organizatio	277
Professional Network Identification: Searching for Stability in Transient Knowledge Work	267
Power and Dominant Coalitions in Family Business	216
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	179
The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment	112
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	99
A Symbiotic PORTAL to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	96
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	96
Why Theory on “How Theory Fits Together” Benefits Management Scholarship	87
2021 Presidential Address a Year to Remember: An Extraordinary Journey onto a Promising Path of Inclusion and Agility	68
Imagine All the People: A Motivated Model of Work-Related Imagined Interactions	67
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	66
On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations	55
Cooperation Among Strangers: Algorithmic Enforcement of Reciprocal Exchange with Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts	52
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	46
Theorizing Time in Management and Organizations	45
The Ghost in the Machine, or the Ghost in Organizational Theory? A Complementary View on the Use of Machine Learning	45
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	43
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	42
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	42
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	37
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	37
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	36
Are the Futures Computable? Knightian Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence	35

Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	34
Hybrid Problem-Solving with Large Language Models: A Reply to “Iterative Alternative Evaluation” and “An Assemblage Perspective”	34
History Matters for Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Influences from the Past	34
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	33
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	33
Shaping the Opportunity Structure of Deviance: A Commentary on Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	33
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	33
Theorizing for Positive Impact	32
“Pay-What-You-Want” Pricing: Creating and Capturing Value Through Social Exchange	32
The Theory Crisis in Management Research: Solving the Right Problem	32
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	31
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	31
Reconceptualizing Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurship: A Needs-Based View of Entrepreneurial Motivation	31
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	28
Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies	28
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	26
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	25
The Social Contract in Miniature: How Virtual Bargaining Supports Team Production	23
The Social Ontology of Purpose: How Organizations Can Have Goals and Intentions Without Having a Mind	23
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	22
Commitment System Theory: The Evolving Structure of Commitments to Multiple Targets	22
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations	21
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	21
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	21
Remembering Andy Van de Ven	21
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	19
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	19
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	18
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	18
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	18
Theorizing with Microhistory	17
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	17
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	17
When Things Get Odd: Exploring the Interactional Choreography of Taken-for-Grantedness	16
The Evolving Science of Organization: Theory Matters	15
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	15
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	15
The AMR Origins Series: Demystifying the Theory-Building Process	15
Taking Inequality Seriously	14
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	14
Excusing Corporate Wrongdoing and the State of Nature	14
Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian	14
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	14
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	14
Property Rights, Owner-Management, and Value Creation	13
Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building	12
Capitalism and Management Research: The Worst of Times, The Best of Times	12
Quantum Approach to Organizational Paradox: A Copenhagen Perspective	12
Shaping Possibilities: A Design Science Approach to Developing Novel Strategies	12

A Quantum Approach to Paradox Entails neither Preexisting Tensions nor Asymmetry: Response to Xin Li	11
The Generativity Mindsets of Chief Executive Officers: A New Perspective on Succession Outcomes	11
Basic Needs as the Boundary Condition for a Reconceptualization of Necessity Entrepreneurship across Contexts	11
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	11
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	11
When the Principal Is the Firm’s Problem: Principal Costs and Their Corporate Governance Implications	11
Getting Away with It (Or Not): The Social Control of Organizational Deviance	10
Cultural Contingencies of Resources: (Re)conceptualizing Domestic Employees in the Context of Globalization	10
Artificial Intelligence, Trust, and Perceptions of Agency	10
Group Flow: A Theory of Group Member Interactions in the Moment and over Time	9
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	9
Business and Peace: The Impact of Firm–Stakeholder Relational Strategies on Conflict Risk	9
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	9
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	9
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	9
CSR: Undertheorized or Essentially Contested?	8
Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas	8
More Than the Sum of My Parts: An Intrapersonal Network Approach to Identity Work in Response to Identity Opportunities and Threats	8
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	8
Fighting with the Fourth Estate: A Theoretical Framework of Organization–Media Rivalry for Narrative Control Following a Transgression	8
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	8
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing	8
Reflections on the 2021 AMR Decade Award: Navigating Paradox Is Paradoxical	7
Humanistic Organizing: The Transformative Force of Mindful Organizational Communication	7
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	7
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	7
On the Practicality of Resisting Pragmatic Paradoxes	7
Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: An Extension to Mcmullen’s “Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from	7
A Theory of Organizational Purpose	6
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	6
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?”	6
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	5
Guidance for AMR Authors about Making Formal Theory Accessible	5
Why “Doing Well by Doing Good” Went Wrong: Getting Beyond “Good Ethics Pays” Claims in Managerial Thinking	5
Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations	5
After the Collapse: Spontaneous Institutionalization and the Emergence of Market Institutions	5
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	5
Managers’ Perceptions and Microfoundations of Contract Design	5
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	5
A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Employee Job Performance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective	5
A Circadian Theory of Paradoxical Leadership	5
How a Firm’s Value Capture Affects Value Creation in Its Ecosystem	4
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	4
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	4
Editors’ Comments: Voices from the Periphery: Barriers to Publication in AMR and Opportunities for Inclusion	4
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	4
Entrepreneurial Choice as the Genesis of Stakeholder Emergence	4
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Acountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	4
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	4
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	4
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	4
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	4
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	4
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	4
Cultural Purity as in Utopias, (De)globalization as Externalities, and Typologies as Parsimonious Models of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation Responses	4