OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Management is 2. 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
Editorial Board	31
Sustainability-in-the-making: Enduring commitment to socio-ecological matters of concern	29
What if the supervisor has a different gender? The roles of value fit, identification, and beliefs in gender equality	22
Meta-organizing on the fly in times of crisis: The emergence and morphing of COVID-END	19
The diminishing spaces for collegial work	19
Managing public value conflicts – Institutional strategies and the greening of public pension funds	17
Doing diversity in entrepreneurial accelerators: A mentor’s view of tools, translations, and the (re)production of social structures	16
Let me level with you: Brokerage work in the translation of management concepts	16
Entrepreneurship and metaphysics	15
Editorial Board	15
Unpacking researchers’ embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster	15
Organizational sustainability identity: Constructing oneself as sustainable	14
Editorial Board	14
Grandiose branding: World-class aim and its organizational consequences	14
Ideology, incompetence and reflexivity in a university incubator	14
The birth of a journal	14
Innovation ecosystems as a service: Exploring the dynamics between corporates & start-ups in the context of a corporate coworking space	13
‘Freedom from Pressing Cares'? The Four‐Day Work Week and three forms of leisure time	12
Cultural friction and motivational attitudes during cross border mergers and acquisitions: A revision of job characteristics theory	12
Brand museums, commodification of cultural heritage and cultural transfer: The case of IKEA museum	11
Key internal drivers for an SME’s dynamic ambidextrous growth strategy: A case study of a Norwegian seafood group	10
Reasoning bureaucracy in professional organisations: Enabling conditions for professional and bureaucratic values to merge in hospitals	10
Making sense in “less-hierarchical” forms of organizing	10
Russia, Ukraine and the climate crisis: Transforming circuits of power	10
Tracing the affective journey of an interorganizational network: Positive and negative cycles of relational energy in a network space	9

What is the “project”? A typology of approaches to the core concept in project studies	9
Anchoring the mission: A framework for understanding mission maintenance in professional service firms	9
(Re)thinking transcription strategies: Current challenges and future research directions	9
Mechanisms for establishing collaborative business models: A longitudinal case study	8
The effect of ethics education on managerial competencies in the executive education context: A qualitative vignette study	8
Shaping entrepreneurial gender play: Intersubjectivity and performativity among female entrepreneurs	8
From organised scepticism to research mission management? Introduction to the Great Reset of management and organization theory	8
Agile office work as embodied spatial practice: A spatial perspective on ‘open’ New Work environments	8
The interrelatedness of organizational identification and disidentification	8
The responsiveness-consistency paradox in professionalizing ventures: Employee agency, organizational structures, and unintended consequences	7
Going collective: worker takeovers, entrepreneurship and collective actions	7
‘How might we?’: Studying new venture ideation in and through practices	7
Grand challenges and the myth of entrepreneurship: A study of high-stakes translations of South African entrepreneurship support organizations and their funders	7
Antecedents to verbal reward salience	6
An identity work theory of temporary organizations: On tensions and temporalities	6
Visibility tensions in temporal work	6
The governmentality of dynamic capabilities discourse	6
Thirty years of temporary organizations research: A field reconnecting with its soul	6
Different ways of being generative. Exploring the motivational structure underlying generativity in life stories of entrepreneurial leaders	6
Book Review	5
Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness	5
Ctrl+Alt+Delete in the name of COVID-19: When a reset leads to misrecognition	5
Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change	5
The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach	5
Conditional openness to racio-ethnic otherness: Exploring white employers’ ambivalent self-Other constructions in the everyday work of reproducing whiteness	5
Role ambiguity as an antecedent to workplace bullying: Hostile work climate and supportive leadership as intermediate factors	5
Back to the future: ecocentrism, organization studies, and the Anthropocene	5
The liberated firm: An integrative approach involving sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization	4
Making sense of an impending failure: How grief becomes actionable hope in environmental campaigning	4
Decentering sensemaking: The Mann Gulch disaster revisited	4
Beyond the individualised organisation: The role of HRM in the (non)emergence of organisational and leadership practices for impact	4
“Oh Grandmother, what big teeth you have!” Incentives to spur scientific research at business schools have been treacherous	4
Mutuality between selves and others in social entrepreneurship: Not a mission impossible?	4
Routine dynamics and paradox: A revised research agenda	4
Avoiding the ‘God trick’: Internationalism and situated knowing in Scandinavian Journal of Management	4
The paradox of expertise: How resource conservation dynamics shape knowledge sharing and innovative behavior among experienced external new hires	4
State capacity in housing policy implementation: The role of active decision making in high-interest rate regimes	4
Innovating as chains of interrelated situations	3
At the critical moment: The rhizomatic organization and “Democracy to Come”	3
Reflecting on the past before moving ahead: Forty years with SJM	3
Understanding power change: The role of assimilation and contrast in the effect of structural power change on prosocial behavior	3
The economy doesn’t need a reset, and neither does management theory	3
Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes	3
Editorial Board	3
Reviewer Thank you List	3
Controlling big data? Unfolding the organisational quest for IT-enabled competitive advantage	3
Making sense of uncertainty – Interrogating conceptions of the New Normal	3
Paradoxical tensions at multiple levels: A model of unbalanced supranational coopetition	3
Affinity networks as diversity instruments. Three sociological dilemmas	3
In memory of Barbara Czarniawska (2nd December 1948–7th April 2024)	3

Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives	3
Transformational and transactional leadership: A job tenure perspective	3
Managerial pedagogy and organizational power dynamics in the context of neoliberal organizational transition	3
Deserving freedom: Symbolic violence in self-managing organizations	3
Editorial Board	2
What theory is – A late reply to Sutton and Staw 1995	2
Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al.	2
In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company	2
Linking ethical leadership to extra-role behaviors: The roles of communal orientation and harmonious work passion	2
Editorial Board	2
The theory of temporary organization three decades later: Re-visiting the 4 T framework, focusing tensions, adding project plasticity	2
Between Humboldt and Rockefeller: An organization design approach to hybridity in higher education	2
Understanding the resilience of strategic networks (SN): The case of an Italian 40-year-old SN	2
Book review	2
Organizing lived sociality as modes of co-presence: An ethnographic study of social dynamics in hybrid work arrangements	2
Editorial Board	2
Inter-organizational routine replication: Evidence from major football championships	2
Field dynamics and fields of entrepreneurial practice: Autonomizing process, self-help doxa, and homological action	2
Untangling business model innovation in family firms: Socioemotional wealth and corporate social responsibility perspectives	2