OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Management Inquiry is 1. 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
From the Field to the Field: Mapping a Landscape of Qualitative Research Through Scholars’ Personal Letters	51
JMI Revisionist History of Workplace Deviance	41
When Does It Become Overkill and Exploitation?	35
Showing Legitimacy: The Strategic Employment of Visuals in the Legitimation of New Organizations	31
We Are Boiling: Management Scholars Speaking Out on COVID-19 and Social Justice	26
Bringing My Selves to Work: A Revisionist History of an Academic Career	23
Wake up! Advancing the Conversation on Woke Labeling	22
Pet Peeves and Sensemaking at Work	22
In the Boardroom: How Do Cognitive Frames Shape American and Dutch Hospitals’ Responses to the Pressure of Adopting Governance Best Practices?	21
The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship	17
Following up on “A Letter to the Male Good Apples”	17
Societal Duty or Pragmatic Paradox? Exploring Midwives’ Experiences of Contradictory Work Demands During COVID-19 Lockdowns	17
Honing the Craft of Qualitative Data Collection in Extreme Contexts	14
A Critical Examination of Corporate Environmental and Social Impact Measurement and Valuation	13
Beyond the Buzz: Scholarly Approaches to the Study of Work	12
Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-Institutional Projects	12
Don't Panic: Remaining El Capitan While Navigating Unpreparedness in Response to Extreme Events	8
Making Sense of the New PhD Student Experience: Adapting to the First Year of Doctoral Studies Program	8
Tactics of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Ways of Operating in the Contested Terrain of Green Architecture	7
Collaboration for Tackling Grand Challenges: A Curated Conversation	7
Motivation Bathroom the Best Bathroom: Doing Community Through Graffiti-Writing in a Liminal Space	7
It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane: How and When HR Executives Use Jesting Techniques to Trickle Up Paradoxical Tensions	7
Conceptualising Silence in External Corporate Communication: A Case Study of Pakistan	6
Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back?	6
Superpower CorruptsAntagonistic Superpowers Corrupt Absolutely	6

“When Henry Met Fritz”: Rules As Organizational Frameworks For Emergent Strategy Process	6
Taboo Trade-Offs in the Community Business: The Case of Coworking	5
Editor’s Introduction	4
Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research	4
“It Had to Be Us”: The Rudolph Effect and the Inclusion of Unconventional Leaders	4
Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact Through Practice-Based Scholarship	4
How Muriel's Tea Stained Management Research Through Statistical Significance Tests	4
Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives	3
Seven Mantras for Board Chair Effectiveness—An Enlightened Approach for the 21st Century	3
The Life/Blood of a Management Scholar: What a Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me About the Profession	3
That's Interesting! A Flawed Article Has Influenced Generations of Management Researchers	3
Historical Narratives and the Defense of Stigmatized Industries	3
Spoiled Apples: A Letter to White Scholars Eager to “Adopt” Black Scholars	3
Collective Stupidity	3
Odyssey of a Socialist in the Business School World	2
Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation	2
Is There Still a Place for Space in Organization Studies?	2
The UN Global Compact and the Ulama (Religious Scholars of Islam): A Missing Voice in Islamic Business Ethics	2
Who Do They Think We Are? Reflexivity and Participant Constructions of the Researcher	2
The Mortality of Family Business Leaders: Using a Palliative Care Model to Re-imagine Letting Go	2
Revisiting “Resistance to Change”: Recognizing the Tenuous Nature of a Taken-for-Granted Construct	2
The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations	1
Family Owner–Nonfamily CEO Relational Practices Shaping CEO Succession: Handling Equivocality and Relational Balancing	1
‘Running Towards the Bullets’: Moral Injury in Critical Care Nursing in the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Organizational Trust in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Shifts in the Form, Production, and Targets of Trust	1
Navigating Temporary Organizations: A Narrative Perspective	1
How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope	1
How Buddhist Monks Use Historical Narratives to Delegitimize a Dominant Institutional Logic: The Case of a Korean Buddhist Organizational Field, 1910–1962	1
Managing Social Impact Bonds: Intermediary Work and Designing Institutional Infrastructure	1
Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative	1
A Call for Greater Humility in Management Research	1
The Process of Becoming Prefigurative: Fighting for Organizational Values to Transform Organizational Structures	1
Editor's Anonymous: A Safe Place to Think About Journal Provocations	1
The Future of Research in an Artificial Intelligence-Driven World	1
Grounding and Developing the Design Perspective on Entrepreneurship: From Individual–Opportunity Nexus to Artifact-Centered Triad	1
Transcendental and Material Silence: A Multimodal Study on Silence in Team Meetings	1
Truth and the Science of Management: Does the “Emperor” Still Have Any Clothes?	1
Grappling with Grand Crises: An Ecosystem Approach	1