OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Management Reviews is 4. 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
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The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation	130
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Putting humour to work: To make sense of and constitute organizations	87
The physical office work environment and employee wellbeing: Current state of research and future research agenda	79
Career success and geographical location: A systematic review and future research agenda	77
Hybrid organization deconstructed: A bibliographic investigation into the origins, development, and future of the research domain	76
Innovative conceptual contributions—Raising the game for theory‐driven reviews	67
Interactional governing activities: A novel perspective on how actors co‐develop field governance	67
Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature	67
Issue information	58
Tensions as a framework for managing work in collaborative workplaces: A review of the empirical studies	58
The attention‐based view: Review and conceptual extension towards situated attention	58
Board governance of Strategic Change: An assessment of the literature and avenues for future research	55
Divide and conquer: Relating patent quality and value in a conceptual framework based on a systematic review	54
The role of emotions during mergers and acquisitions: A review of the past and a glimpse into the future	52
The good, the bad and the evil: A unified conceptualization of negative leadership behaviour	42
Issue information	40
Challenging the ‘dirty worker’—‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualizing worker‐client relations in dirty work	38
Embracing the paradox of customer experiences in the hospitality and tourism industry	37
How workers meet new expertise needs throughout their careers: An integrative review revealing a dynamic process model of flexpertise	35
A review of the physical context of creativity: A three‐dimensional framework for investigating the physical context of creativity	35
Examining the Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO) framework in HRM research: Conceptualization, measurement and interactions	34
Intermediaries in the relevance‐gap debate: A systematic review of consulting roles	32
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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	27
The evolution of employee engagement: Towards a social and contextual construct for balancing individual performance and wellbeing dynamically	25
Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda	22
Issue information	22
Reflecting back and looking forward: A systematic literature review of SME–university collaborations	22
Nurses’ well‐being and implications for human resource management: A systematic literature review	20
One name for two concepts: A systematic literature review about meta‐organizations	20
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Digital ecosystems and their impact on organizations—A dynamic capabilities approach	19
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Making sense of sensory brand experience: Constructing an integrative framework for future research	18
Mapping women's involvement in family firms: A review based on bibliographic coupling analysis	17
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Righting the balance: Understanding introverts (and extraverts) in the workplace	16
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The panopticon, an emblematic concept in management and organization studies: Heaven or hell?	15
Open strategy and digital transformation: A framework and future research agenda	15
What is (and is not) stakeholder dialogue in CSR? A review and research agenda	14
Design in entrepreneurship: Unveiling multiple interpretations and philosophical underpinnings	14
Disentangling the ‘digital’: A critical review of information technology capabilities, information technology–enabled capabilities and digital capabilities in business research	14
Dogmatic, instrumental and paradoxical frames: A pragmatic research framework for studying organizational sustainability	13
Social media and luxury: A systematic literature review	13
Place and corporate philanthropy: A systematic review	12
Guidelines for Bibliometric‐Systematic Literature Reviews: 10 steps to combine analysis, synthesis and theory development	12
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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review	11
Issue information	11
Situating service work in action: A review and a pragmatist agenda for analysing interactive service work	11
Traduttore, traditore? Gains and losses from the translation of the economies of worth	11
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Design science in operations management: A review and synthesis of the literature	10
Conceptualising SME brand co‐creation	10
Relational dynamics in information technology outsourcing: An integrative review and future research directions	10
A paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip	10
Absolute autonomy, respectful recognition and derived dignity: Towards a typology of meaningful work	9
Explaining differences in internationalization between emerging and developed economy born global firms: A systematic literature review and the way forward	9
Digital‐sustainable business models: Definition, systematic literature review, integrative framework and research agenda from a strategic management perspective	8
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	8
Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science	8
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Dynamic capabilities measurement safari: A roadmap	7
Issue information	7
A meme‐based research programme for management and organization studies	6
How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management	6
Taking the entrepreneur out of entrepreneurship	6
Linking individuals’ resources with (perceived) sustainable employability: Perspectives from conservation of resources and social information processing theory	6
Future‐proofing IJMR as a leading management journal: Reach, relevance and reputation	6

Advancing literature review methodology through rigour, generativity, scope and transparency	5
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A review of organizational research on acculturation from a nonwork–work spillover perspective: Content analysis and future research guidelines	4
Managing the external financing constraints of social enterprises: A systematic review of a diversified research landscape	4
Uncovering the impact of digital technologies on strategising: Evidence from a systematic literature review	4
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Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	4
Connecting content and structure: A review of mechanisms in entrepreneurs’ social networks	4
Issue information	4