OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Strategic Organization is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	110
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	78
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	52
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	39
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	37
Toward an attention-based view of crises	30
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	28
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	26
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	25
Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages	23
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	23
What’s the purpose? Meaning making, sensemaking, and the (mis)appropriation of purpose beyond profit	22
Reputation belongs in more strategic decision models (and some data to measure it)	21
Intrinsic speed capabilities and alliance partner attractiveness	19
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	19
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	17
Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	17
Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	16
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	16
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	14
Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	13
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	12
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	12
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	12
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	12

Coauthoring collaborative strategy when voices are many and authority is ambiguous	11
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	11
“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	11
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	11
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	10
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	10
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	10
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	9
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	9
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	8
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	8
Call for papers: Special issue of Strategic Organization: Impact Driven Strategy Research for Grand Challenges	8
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	8
Themed issue: Top management matters	8
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	7
Conflict or alignment? The role of return-oriented foreign shareholders and domestic relational shareholders in mitigating earnings management	7
Addressing racism and Islamophobia under the rules of colorblindness: When social movements engage in category work to reform the meanings of regulatory categories	7
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	7
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	6
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	6
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	6
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	6
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	6
Toward temporally complex collaboration in an interorganizational research network	6
The logic of strategic entrepreneurship	6
Organization and management scholars’ technological conservatism: Could we free ourselves from the shackles of paper-bound logic?	6
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	5
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	5
The short history and long future of research on market categories	5
The governance of learning: Carrots, sticks, and stones in acquisition capability development	5
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	5
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	5
Special issue of Strategic Organization: “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	5
The best broths are cooked in the oldest pans: An empirical test of the practice-based view in the wine industry	5
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	5
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	5
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	5
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	4
EXPRESS: The Effects of Local Community Characteristics on the Relationship Between Negative Performance Feedback and Downsizing Announcements	4
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	4
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	4
A business model pattern arrives … and then? A translation perspective on business model innovation in established firms	4
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	4
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	4
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	4
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	4
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	4
An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	4
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	4

Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers’ political ideologies on the efficacy of top management team vertical pay disparities	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3
“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	3
A Bayesian approach to nested data analysis: A primer for strategic management research	3
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3