OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Review is 19. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	172
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	171
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	156
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	132
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	109
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	100
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	76
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	67
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	67
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	66
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	64
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	62
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	61
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	59
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	57
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	55
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	54
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	53
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	52
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	52
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	51
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	50
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	50
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	49
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	44

Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	40
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	39
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	39
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	37
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	37
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	36
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	35
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	35
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	35
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	29
Reflexive Quantitative Research	29
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	27
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	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
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	27
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	26
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	26
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	25
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	25
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	25
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	23
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	23
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	23
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	21
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	21
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?”	21
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	20
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	20
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat	19
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	19
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	19
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	19