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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	448
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	342
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	328
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	251
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	217
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	144
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	127
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	122
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	90
Property Rights, Owner-Management, and Value Creation	80
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	76
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	72
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	63
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	59
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	59
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	55
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	54
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	52
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	51
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	51
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	51
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	47
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	46
Why “Doing Well by Doing Good” Went Wrong: Getting Beyond “Good Ethics Pays” Claims in Managerial Thinking	46
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	45

Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	43
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	43
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	42
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	42
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research	41
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	41
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	41
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	40
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	38
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	37
Reflexive Quantitative Research	37
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	36
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	35
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	34
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	32
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	32
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	31
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	31
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”	31
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	30
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	30
What We Do While Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	29
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	28
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	27
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	24
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	24
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	24
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?”	23
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	23
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	23
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	23
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	21
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	21
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	21
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	20
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	20
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	20
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	19
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat	18
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	18
Remembering Donald E. Conlon	17
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	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
We Are Crisis: Runtime Errors in Programmatic Theory	15
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	15
Institutional Parasites	15
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	15
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	15
It’s Going to be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	14

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