OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Review is 20. 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
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	59
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	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
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	51
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
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
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	42
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	42
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	41
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	41
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research	41
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	40
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	38
Reflexive Quantitative Research	37
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	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
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	32
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	32
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
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	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
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	24
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
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	23
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
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	21
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	21
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	21
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
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	20