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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	250
Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’s Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”	205
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	142
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	141
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	116
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	105
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	105
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	103
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	93
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	87
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	86
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	83
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	75
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	74
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	70
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	66
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	60
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	59
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	55
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	55
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	51
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	44
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	44
The Writer’s Room: An Extension to Willmott’s “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	42
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	42

Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	40
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	40
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	39
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	37
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	37
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	37
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	35
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	35
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	33
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	33
Reflexive Quantitative Research	32
Issues of Deception and Complicity: Replies to the Commentaries on “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	32
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	31
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	31
The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed	31
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	31
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	31
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	30
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	30
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	29
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	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”	27
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	26
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	26
Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution	25
Institutional Resilience for Institutional Diversity: An Extension of Almandoz and Thornton’s “Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution”	25
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	25
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	24
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	24
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	24
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	24
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	21
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	21
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	21
A Stakeholder Governance Framework for Public–Private Partnerships	20
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	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
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	20
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	20
Moral Ambiguity and Judgment: A Reply to “Acting to Know”	19
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	19
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	18