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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	246
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	240
Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’s Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”	195
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	137
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	136
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	103
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	103
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	101
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	100
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	90
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	86
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	81
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	77
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	74
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	70
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	65
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	63
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	55
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	55
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	53
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	53
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	52
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	48
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	44
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	41

Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	41
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	40
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	39
The Writer’s Room: An Extension to Willmott’s “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	39
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	38
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	37
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	37
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	35
The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed	34
Reflexive Quantitative Research	33
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	33
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	32
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	32
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	32
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	31
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	31
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	30
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	30
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	30
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	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”	29
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	29
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	27
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	27
Institutional Resilience for Institutional Diversity: An Extension of Almandoz and Thornton’s “Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution”	26
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	26
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	25
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	25
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	25
Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution	25
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	23
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	23
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	21
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	21
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	20
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?”	20
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	19
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	18
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”	18
Moral Ambiguity and Judgment: A Reply to “Acting to Know”	18