OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Culture and Organization 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Is physical co-presence a prerequisite for Durkheimian collective effervescence? Reflections on remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Intentionality, not just agency: bringing intended meaning back into the micro–macro institutionalization processes	12
Narrative glimpses of organizing	12
In choppy waters with a critical friend: the benefits of intimate reflexive encounters in participatory action research	12
Eudaimonic well-being: a socio-cultural perspective on narrative action	11
A break room as spatial and material order for interaction	10
The performativity and politics of emotions in NHS boards	10
Parkour’s interactional organization. The paradoxes of media representations and how traceurs cope through non-representational strategies	10
Caring to write, writing to care: a feminist care approach to doctoral supervision in the intimate encounters of co-writing	9
Re-reading Fatima Meer's Prison Diary and art through the lens of Saidiya Hartman's concept of ‘stealing away’	9
When work becomes home: an empirical study of the significance of belief and employee receptivity to spiritualised management in the UK	8
This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics	7
Philosophy is everywhere: a much-needed roadmap to finding it	7
Achieving active inclusion in an industrial community? Appropriating working-class culture in the local activation of unemployed	7
The creation of the stranger – the process of recreating immigrants as the Other in Canada’s government-produced texts	7
Response-able pedagogy: teaching through Shakespeare in a Higher Education (HE) transnational partnership	7
Towards a spatial understanding of identity play: coworking spaces as playgrounds for identity	6
Teoria organizacji i literatura piękna w jednym stoją domu?	6
Understanding responses to managerialism: face culture and university faculty working under the shadow of ‘Publish or Perish’	6
Why write about animals? Organization and the Daily Occurrences of London Zoo	6
Writing research-based theatre on aged care: the ethnodrama, After Aleppo	6
The atmospheric attunement of diversity interventions: learnings from a dance performance	6
The experiences of a transgender woman in Brazilian accounting: an autoethnography	5
A game of futures: the strategy of scenarios in a Danish medical company	5
Structuring for sustainability: overcoming challenges affecting the design and implementation of sustainable business models in start-ups	5

Writing with silent bodies: a pandemic play in three scenes	5
How do high-tech industry remote team employees learn to manage their emotions?	5
Using the relational approach to explore the representation of women through Brazilian popular music: 1880 to 1970	4
Voicing experiences of ageist nonrecognition in performance appraisal interaction: complexities in constructing stories that counteract organisational ignorance	4
Pinkwashing and mansplaining: individual and organizational experiences of gender inequality at work during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Universities under neoliberalism: ideologies, discourses and management practices	4
Researching culture and organization; what possibilities?	4
Happy objects at work: the circulation of happiness	4
Plotting a vision through platform cooperation	4
Habits, Infinite Jest and the recoveries of pragmatism	4
Discretion as inherent transgression – strategic overidentification as organizational resistance	3
‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop	3
Embracing relational vulnerabilities at the top: a study of managerial identity work amidst the insecurities of the self	3
Inner-focused Sage & Outer-Focused King: sustainable leadership research from two Chinese companies’ cases	3
The sonic side of organizing: theorizing acoustemology for blind and visually impaired people's inclusion in the workplace	3
Is Indie ‘the new black’?: The rise of an interstitial field between indie music and Quality TV in the US	3
In pursuit of ignorant university teachers and intellectually emancipated students	3
Who’s excellent now? The unspeakable nature of business excellence	3
Enterprising subjects and gendered-ageing: economization of gendered life course and career temporalities among Indian Information Technology employees	3
Toiling from the homespace, longing for the workplace: gendered workplace imaginaries in an (in)flexible work scenario	3
Tensions in implementing the tenure track system (TTS) in Pakistan’s higher education	3
If on a summer’s day a researcher: the implied author and the implied reader in writing differently	3
The meshwork of teaching against the grain: embodiment, affect and art in management education	3
Unpacking the ambiguous work of middle managers: on the ongoing becoming in liminality	3
Emotional rhythms of power: reframing emotion rules through aesthetic modes of embodied interaction	3
Backlash against wokeness in contemporary organizational fields: a critical discourse analysis of anti-woke discourses in relation to Flemish and Dutch academia	2
‘You're the one that I want’: differentiating between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations	2
Aesthetics and education for sustainability	2
Relationality, decolonisation and practice-based methods: developing narratives for future making practices	2
Inconvenient academic workers? Collective (Re)humanisation through the dialogue of a Freirean Reading Circle	2
Hip hop entrepreneurship: the poetics of the Hip Hop Mogul	2
In-betweenness of doctoral students in co-authoring with English L1 academics: an emotion-based duoethnography across languages	2
Neither work nor leisure: temporalities and life world realities of split shift work in the Austrian care sector	2
Like an Elephant in the room: the emergence of informal interactions in the workplace	2
When ‘struggling with English’ becomes ‘passivity’: how language asymmetries in higher education get masked as ‘cultural differences’	2
Notions of safety: observing cultural perspectives in a homeless youth hostel	2
‘It was the right thing to do’: pioneering LGBT inclusivity in a local group of companies in Sri Lanka	2
The worker-priests: care as a composition of love and solidarity	2
A tunnel to the other side of the world: what sort of writing can contribute to social change?	1
The Theatre of War: leader development between personal identity and person-in-role	1
Going pro in the business of influence: unfolding influencers’ trajectories through influencing capital	1
Beyond politics of difference: intersectionality across time and place	1
True encounters with the fictional university: collectively rewriting the script of filmic dark academia from the academic margins	1
Minor miracles – the play: a co-ethnographic exploration of intimate encounters at work by diverse bodies and minds	1
Subcultural variability and protean-identification in gun culture	1
Ann Rippin (1960–2023) – in memoriam	1
Building relationships with consumers: consumer research as formative objects	1
The corporate social media creep	1
The lived experience of organizational disidentification: how soldiers feel betrayed, dissociate, and suffer	1
Remaining neutral while conveying ‘the right picture’ of Sweden: governing agents navigating a neoliberally influenced social contract	1

Languaging organizational space: when Whitehead meets the Buddha	1
Dear vulnerability … writing toget- her to escape and resist the neoliberal university	1
Female soldiers maneuvering visibility in the Turkish Armed Forces	1
Naturalizing, normalizing and neutralizing: metaphors framing the global financial crisis in Nordic banks	1
Co-constructing new ways of working: relationality and care in post-pandemic academia	1
Teaching what is not there	1
Fragility of becoming together: renewing hope through letter writing	1
The hidden garden: cultivating relational writing through intimate encounters in the collective research journey	1
The politics of transforming social relations of work: making sense of a coworking hub in an outer-urban region	1
The evolution of management thought	1
The cognitive and sociopolitical categorization of contemporary art through the becoming of Diva	1
Meaningful work in a grocery store: a phenomenological sensemaking approach to job crafting among store workers	1
Sensing the breakdown: managing complexity at the railway	1
Teaching to read empirical sections from qualitative academic management literature as Literature	1
Taking experiences of disrespectful misrecognition in blended workgroups seriously	1
Trapped in the abject: prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour	1
Blurry service relationships – exploring recurrent encounters in personal training through photo-elicitation interviews	1
Organizing among thieves	1