OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Management Reviews is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation	214
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Career success and geographical location: A systematic review and future research agenda	153
Issue information	126
The power of a stewardship mind: Reorienting organizations around the duty to care to better address grand challenges	117
The physical office work environment and employee wellbeing: Current state of research and future research agenda	107
Putting humour to work: To make sense of and constitute organizations	103
Interactional governing activities: A novel perspective on how actors co‐develop field governance	89
Hybrid organization deconstructed: A bibliographic investigation into the origins, development, and future of the research domain	86
Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature	86
Innovative conceptual contributions—Raising the game for theory‐driven reviews	75
The attention‐based view: Review and conceptual extension towards situated attention	74
The good, the bad and the evil: A unified conceptualization of negative leadership behaviour	69
Divide and conquer: Relating patent quality and value in a conceptual framework based on a systematic review	57
The role of emotions during mergers and acquisitions: A review of the past and a glimpse into the future	53
Board governance of Strategic Change: An assessment of the literature and avenues for future research	42
Issue information	42
Challenging the ‘dirty worker’—‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualizing worker‐client relations in dirty work	40
Strategy in the digitalization era	38
How workers meet new expertise needs throughout their careers: An integrative review revealing a dynamic process model of flexpertise	37
Embracing the paradox of customer experiences in the hospitality and tourism industry	36
Examining the Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO) framework in HRM research: Conceptualization, measurement and interactions	34
A review of the physical context of creativity: A three‐dimensional framework for investigating the physical context of creativity	33
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An integrated framework of remote work from organizational adoption to employee outcomes: A systematic literature review	29

Using review articles to address societal grand challenges	28
Employee green behaviour: A review and recommendations for future research	27
Alliance management capabilities in sustainability‐oriented collaboration: Problematization and new research directions	26
The evolution of employee engagement: Towards a social and contextual construct for balancing individual performance and wellbeing dynamically	26
Issue information	25
Correction to “Towards a heuristic view of managerial heuristics: Integrating divergent perspectives”	23
One name for two concepts: A systematic literature review about meta‐organizations	21
Reflecting back and looking forward: A systematic literature review of SME–university collaborations	21
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Nurses’ well‐being and implications for human resource management: A systematic literature review	20
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Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda	20
See something, say something: A meta‐analytic review of safety voice	18
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The panopticon, an emblematic concept in management and organization studies: Heaven or hell?	18
Digital ecosystems and their impact on organizations—A dynamic capabilities approach	18
Demystifying the impact of moderators in the corporate sustainability performance and firm performance relationship: A meta‐analysis study	17
Open strategy and digital transformation: A framework and future research agenda	17
Dogmatic, instrumental and paradoxical frames: A pragmatic research framework for studying organizational sustainability	16
What is (and is not) stakeholder dialogue in CSR? A review and research agenda	16
Design in entrepreneurship: Unveiling multiple interpretations and philosophical underpinnings	16
Guidelines for Bibliometric‐Systematic Literature Reviews: 10 steps to combine analysis, synthesis and theory development	14
Disentangling the ‘digital’: A critical review of information technology capabilities, information technology–enabled capabilities and digital capabilities in business research	14
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Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	12
Traduttore, traditore? Gains and losses from the translation of the economies of worth	12
Theorizing the Linkage between Place Branding and Sustainable Destinations: An Integrative and Generative Review	12
A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review	11
Issue information	11
Relational dynamics in information technology outsourcing: An integrative review and future research directions	11
Design science in operations management: A review and synthesis of the literature	11
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Entrepreneurship as an Academic Field: Taking Stock and New Directions	11
Corruption dynamics: Integrating structure, agency and institutional logics across contexts	10
Explaining differences in internationalization between emerging and developed economy born global firms: A systematic literature review and the way forward	9
Advancing a relational perspective on leadership between neurotypical leaders and neurodivergent followers: An integrated systematic review and research agenda	9
Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science	9
Digital‐sustainable business models: Definition, systematic literature review, integrative framework and research agenda from a strategic management perspective	9
Conceptualising SME brand co‐creation	9
Issue information	8
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A paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip	8
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	7
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Dynamic capabilities measurement safari: A roadmap	6
Rethinking network embeddedness in international business: A review and view in space and time	6
How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management	6
Towards a 4P framework of financial statement fraud: A systematic literature review	6
Advancing literature review methodology through rigour, generativity, scope and transparency	5
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