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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	250
Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’s Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”	205
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	142
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	141
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	116
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	105
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	105
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	103
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	93
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	87
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	86
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	83
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	75
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	74
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	70
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	66
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	60
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	59
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	55
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	55
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	51
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	44
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	44
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	42

Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	40
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	40
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	39
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	37
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	37
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	37
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	35
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	35
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	33
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	33
Reflexive Quantitative Research	32
Issues of Deception and Complicity: Replies to the Commentaries on “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	32
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	31
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	31
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	31
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	31
The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed	31
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	30
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	30
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	29
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	29
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”	27
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	26
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	26
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
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	25
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	24
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	24
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	24
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	24
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	21
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	21
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	21
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	20
A Stakeholder Governance Framework for Public–Private Partnerships	20
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	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?”	20
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	20
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	19
Moral Ambiguity and Judgment: A Reply to “Acting to Know”	19
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	18
Asymmetric Jeopardy through Dissonant Ties: An Extension of Brands and Kilduff’s “Multiplex Jeopardy”	17
Should I? How Moral Ambiguity Shapes Entrepreneurial Action	17
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	17
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth through Social Identity Threat	16
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	16
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	16
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	16

Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	16
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers	15
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	15
Remembering Donald E. Conlon	15
Understanding Inclusion: The Role of Organization Member Prototypes	15
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	15
Designing Dual-Purpose Organizations: The Role of Soft Governance	14
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing	14
It’s Going to Be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	13
Competitive Externalities in Acquisitions	13
Tackling the Complexity Challenge: When and How to Engage in Configurational and Hybrid Theorizing	13
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	13
Extending the Study of Competitive Externalities in Acquisitions: A Reply to “Boundary Conditions and Juxtaposition of Externalities”	12
Opening and Closing the Configurational Theorizing Gateway with Explicit Decision Rules—An Extension of Campbell and Fiss’ “Tackling the Complexity Challenge: When and How to Engage in Configurational	12
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	12
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt while Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	11
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	11
Institutional Parasites	11
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	11
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	11
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	11
Actualizing Desirable Futures Beyond the Individual: A Comment on Coffman et al.’s (2025) “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind”	11
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	10
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	10
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	10
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	10
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	9
The Promise and Perils of Co-Construction: A Reply to “Co-Constructive Start-Up Illusions”	9
Competitive Dynamics Are Alive with the Sound of Music: A Reply to “Time to Face the Music”	9
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	9
Theorizing with Microhistory	9
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”	9
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	9
2025 Presidential Address: Activism, Impact, and Science: Management Scholarship in a Challenging Era	9
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	8
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	8
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	8
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	8
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	8
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	8
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	8
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success	7
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches	7
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	7
Rethinking Necessity Entrepreneurship Beyond Binaries and Toward Communalism: A Commentary on Coffman et al.’s “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind”	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
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy	7
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	6
How AI Reshapes Multimodal Theorization: An Extension of Kuric and Höllerer’s “Theorization as a Prerequisite for Diffusion”	6
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model	6
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	6
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship	6
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	6
How to R.E.S.P.O.N.D.: A Framework for Thoughtful Revisions and Scholarly Dialogue	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
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	6
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	6
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	6
A Theory of the Temporal Embeddedness of Firms in Entrepreneurs’ Lives	6
“MOB” Mentality?: On the Formation and Consequences of Moralized Opinion-Based Intergroup Conflict in Organizations	6
The PSI Model for Predicting Activist Engagements: Toward a Theory of Shareholder Activism	5
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	5
Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian	5
Time to Face the Music: A Commentary on Lee, Busenbark, Withers, and Zajac’s “How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics”	5
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	5
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites	5
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	5
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	5