OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Organization & Environment is 6. 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
Out of Balance: Global–Local Tensions in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and the Emergence of Rival Initiatives in Producing Countries	175
Stock Market Reaction to Environmental Performance: The Role of Organizational Reputation as an Interpretive Lens	143
Circular Moonshot: Understanding Shifts in Organizational Field Logics and Business Model Innovation	59
Good Data, Good Questions: Leveraging Comprehensive, Direct-Observation Data Sets for Impactful Research on Organizations and the Environment	54
A Solid Foundation But What Will Be Built on It? Reviews of the Management, Organizations, and Environmental Sustainability Field	52
Fitting in by Talking Through: Reconciling Strategy-Image Tensions and Making Sustainability Fit Legacy	48
Does Shareholder Signaling Matter for Corporate Strategy? A Study of ESG- and Carbon-Related Proposals	47
Managing Organizations in the Natural Environment: Envisaging New Research Journeys	45
Institutional Pressures and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence From Chinese Public Enterprises	37
Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration	37
When Corporate Actions Do Not Lead to Purported Impact: Type II Greenwashing as a Barrier to Sustainability Mainstreaming	36
Stuck in Transition: Boundary Work, Banking Business Models, and the Challenge of Mainstreaming Sustainability	32
Systems Approaches for Corporate Sustainability: How a Certification Program Can Develop and Enact a Bridging Capacity	28
Digital Platforms for the Circular Economy: Exploring Meta-Organizational Orchestration Mechanisms	26
Regulatory Capture in Transboundary Waste Dumping: (Lack of) Accountability in the Global North–South Context	25
Co-creating or Confounding? Hybrid Legitimacy Evaluation of Circular Business Models in the U.K. Plastics Sector	24
Enablers and Barriers: The Conflicting Role of Institutional Logics in Business Model Change for Sustainability	22
Transitioning to a Circular Economy: Paradoxical Tensions of the Circular Business Model	21
Telling Fish Tales: The Role of Narratives in Social Ecological System Interventions	21
The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change	19
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Circular Economy: Leveraging Ecosystem Strategies for Circular Business Model Implementation	17
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Role of Place in Sustainability: Key Trends and Agenda for Future Research	16
Becoming a Circular Ecosystem: Altering Nested Identities, Positions, Capabilities, and Boundaries in Waste-Management Organizations	16
From Disclosure to Democracy? A Content Analysis of Stakeholder Engagement Processes in Sustainability Reports	16
The Past and Future of Corporate Sustainability Research	16

Buffering or Binding? Political Connections and Firms’ Sustainability Disclosure Strategies in China	14
Climate Action Through Governance Chains: Investor Coalitions and the Fallacy of Scale	13
Business Models for Sustainable Technology: Strategic Re-Framing and Business Model Schema Change in Internal Corporate Venturing	12
Between Circular Paralysis and Utopia: Organizational Transformations towards the Circular Economy	12
Earnings Pressure and Firms’ ESG Performance: Do Executive Environmental Experience and MBA Experience Matter?	12
Developing Sustainable Business Models: A Microfoundational Perspective	12
Forging the Future: Reconfiguring Value Chains Through Circular Economy Meta-Organizing	11
Can Climate Adaptation Be Sustainable?	10
Life-Affirming Organizations (LAOs): An Integrated Framework of Normative Foundations, Structural Reconfigurations, and Contextualized Enactment	9
Engaging Paradoxical Tensions in Cross-Sectoral Collaborative Business Model Development for Sustainability: A Case Study in the Urban Energy Transition	8
Business Response Strategies to Climate Change: An Integrative and Research Frontiers Outlook	8
Responding to a Wicked Problem: How Time, Sense of Place, and Organisational Boundaries Shape Companies’ Decarbonisation Strategies	8
Measuring Companies’ Environmental and Social Impacts: An analysis of ESG Ratings and SDG Scores	8
Nonfinancial Reporting and Real Sustainable Change: Relationship Status—It’s Complicated	8
What Counts as Environmental Work? How Gender Regimes Shape Organizational Practice	7
Organizational Sustainability Orientation: A Review	7
Building on Sand? Third-Party Sustainability Measures in the Business Literature	6
Orchestrating Circular Economy Ecosystem Emergence: A Case Study of Circular Textiles and Apparel	6
Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages: Towards a Better Understanding of MNEs’ Environmental Performance in the International Arena	6
Not My Business: How Individuals’ Role Identities Shape Sensegiving During Corporate Sustainability Initiatives	6