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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
How market conditions affect new ventures’ propensity to engage in category spanning	102
The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research	67
Toward an attention-based view of crises	57
A framework of generative impact-driven research: An introduction to the special issue	43
The disease of indifference: How relational systems provide the attentional infrastructure for organizational resilience	40
The art of persuasion: Theorizing as argumentation	37
On solid grounds: Dynamic emplacement and category construction in US specialty coffee, 1974–2016	32
Transaction cost economics in the digital economy: A research agenda	29
The strategy–identity nexus: The relevance of their temporal interplay to climate change	28
AI-human learning systems: Investigating the strategic role of AI for organizational learning	27
What’s the purpose? Meaning making, sensemaking, and the (mis)appropriation of purpose beyond profit	25
Reputation belongs in more strategic decision models (and some data to measure it)	25
On the absence of conservative sociopolitical activism by CEOs: Explanations and implications	21
Disparities in minority executive dismissal: A contingency perspective	19
Microfoundations of ecosystems: The theory-led firm and capability growth	18
Emplacing category dynamics: Houselessness and the emergence of transitional micro-housing villages	18
How and why alpha should depend on sample size: A Bayesian-frequentist compromise for significance testing	16
Reaching for the stars and knowing how to get there: CEO promotion focus, CEO organizational experience, and strategy uniqueness	16
Themed issue: Methodological pluralism and innovation to advance strategic organization research in organizations and fields	16
Emotions and attentional engagement in the attention-based view of the firm	15
Organizational learning lens: Does intelligent technology make organizations more or less intelligent?	15
Navigating moral markets: How strategic sensegiving and category membership shape media sentiment following acquisitions in the US food processing industry	14
Is LGBT inclusion motivated by organizational performance? Exploring the relationships between performance feedback and LGBT inclusion in firms	13
EXPRESS: Cross-border Organizational Strategies for Knowledge Appropriation: Codified and Complex Technologies	13
Routine dynamics: Toward a critical conversation	12

Action research for impact in addressing the grand challenges	12
“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory	11
Constructing an organizational identity with political ideology: The case of Huawei, 1987–2020	11
Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work	11
Coauthoring collaborative strategy when voices are many and authority is ambiguous	11
The Long March: The quest for valid text-based indicators of exploration and exploitation	10
Performing while transforming: Andrew H. Van de Ven’s enduring contributions to management scholarship	10
From loss to recovery: Spin-outs and parents’ innovation	10
The strategic organization of innovation: State of the art and emerging challenges	10
Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations	10
2024 news and announcements from the co-editors	10
Attentional control systems for emergent strategic issues in the post-Chandlerian world	9
Open up! An appeal for dialog between scholars of corporate political activity and open strategy	9
Is there a strategic organization in the behavioral theory of the firm? Looking back and looking forward	9
Themed issue: Top management matters	8
Call for papers: Special issue of Strategic Organization: Impact Driven Strategy Research for Grand Challenges	8
Addressing racism and Islamophobia under the rules of colorblindness: When social movements engage in category work to reform the meanings of regulatory categories	7
Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue	7
Putting categories in their place: A research agenda for theorizing place in category research	7
Conflict or alignment? The role of return-oriented foreign shareholders and domestic relational shareholders in mitigating earnings management	7
Themed issue: Changing business, how we work, and how we think	6
Why embrace a double-edged sword? A behavioral theory of board political capital building	6
Exploring the development of heterogeneous contracting capabilities: The role of organizational design	6
The increasing value of status in low-performing organizations: Evidence from the video game industry	6
Strategic organization, dynamic capabilities, and the external environment	6
The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions	6
The logic of strategic entrepreneurship	6
Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: The moderating effects of the task environment	6
Changing focus: How status affects reputation-based comparisons in the evaluation of organizations	6
Organization and management scholars’ technological conservatism: Could we free ourselves from the shackles of paper-bound logic?	6
EXPRESS: The Business Case for Human-Centric Organizing: Implications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption	6
Environmental sensing, strategic-orientation evolution, and founding imprint: Rethinking strategic fit in dynamic capabilities research	6
The short history and long future of research on market categories	6
Special issue of Strategic Organization: “The question of intelligent technology: implications for strategy and organization”	6
Its name suggests it belongs here: The power of a community namesake in decreasing founding rates during industry emergence	5
Demystifying serendipity: How mundane practices enable the identification and pursuit of extraordinary discoveries	5
A business model pattern arrives … and then? A translation perspective on business model innovation in established firms	5
Orchestrating ongoing interaction flows of strategy formation in and between meetings	5
Pivots as strategic responses to crises: Evidence from Italian companies navigating Covid-19	5
The effects of local community characteristics on the relationship between negative performance feedback and downsizing announcements	5
Firms, activist attacks, and the forward-looking management of reputational risks	5
The best broths are cooked in the oldest pans: An empirical test of the practice-based view in the wine industry	5
2025 news and announcements from the co-editors	5
To see, or not to sea: Differing performance outcomes from visible and private health inspections in the U.S. cruise travel industry	5
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future	5
We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges	4
Riding on information-based advantages: Business group affiliation and cross-border acquisition completion	4
“We made a mistake”: How top executives dialectically narrate strategic errors in situations of strategic change	4
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors	4
Special Issue of Strategic Organization Collective Strategy: Exploring the Contemporary Landscape of How Organizations Strategize Together	4

An alter-centric perspective on status disparity and newcomer additions in multiparty syndicates	4
Different strokes for different folks: The moderating effect of top managers’ political ideologies on the efficacy of top management team vertical pay disparities	4
Complexity as a domain between order and chaos: Implications for organizational scholarship	4
Up in smoke? The lingering influence of history on community identity dynamics	4
A Bayesian approach to nested data analysis: A primer for strategic management research	4
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20	3
(Re)focusing on planetary boundaries for corporate sustainability research	3
Themed issue: Political strategy in and by organizations	3
Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles	3
Context and how it matters: Mobilizing spaces for organization-community sustainable change	3
A behavioral theory of Leviathan Inc: State firms’ responses to performance shortfalls	3
Generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven scholars addressing grand challenges	3
Institutional entrepreneurship and digital transformation: The role of outsider CEOs	3
Themed issue: Performance beyond performance	3
Tall or flat: The microfoundational bathtub and the water of practices	3