OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Review is 18. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	240
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	227
Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’S Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”	179
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	133
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	131
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	97
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	96
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	96
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	92
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	81
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	79
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	78
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	73
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	72
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	67
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	60
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	59
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	54
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	51
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	50
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	50
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	48
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	45
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	43
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	41

Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	40
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	39
The Writer’s Room: An Extension to Willmott’s “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	38
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	37
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	34
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	34
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	33
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	33
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	32
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	32
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	31
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	31
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	30
The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed	30
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	29
Reflexive Quantitative Research	29
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	29
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	29
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	28
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	28
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	28
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	27
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	27
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
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	26
Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution	25
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	24
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	24
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
Institutional Resilience for Institutional Diversity: An Extension of Almandoz and Thornton’s “Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution”	23
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	22
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	20
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	20
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	19
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	19
Moral Ambiguity and Judgment: A Reply to “Acting to Know”	19
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
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	18
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	18