OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Journal is 13. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling	186
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	125
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	122
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	119
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction	102
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	94
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	92
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	90
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	84
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	83
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	77
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	72
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	71
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	66
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West	65
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)	64
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	63
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	61
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	59
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	57
Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications	57
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	56
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity	53
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	53
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	53

Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?	52
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations	50
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure	49
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	48
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	48
From Grace to Violence: Stigmatizing the Medical Profession in China	48
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	46
Who Should Become a Business School Associate Dean? Individual Performance and Taking on Firm-Specific Roles	46
Understanding I-Deals Through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks	45
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	45
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work	42
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	42
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	41
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	41
The Catch-22 of Countering a Moral Occupational Stigma in Employee-Customer Interactions	41
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	40
Who Will Board a Sinking Ship? a Firm–Director Interdependence Perspective of Mutual Selection between Declining Firms and Director Candidates	40
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide	39
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions	39
From the Editors—Improving the Transparency of Empirical Research Published in AMJ	39
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts	38
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	37
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions	37
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	37
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	37
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	37
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	35
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	34
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	34
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	34
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change	34
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	34
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	34
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	34
Balancing the Yin and Yang: TMT Gender Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Firm Ambidextrous Strategic Orientation in Chinese High-Tech SMEs	33
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	32
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	32
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	32
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	32
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	31
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways	30
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness	30
Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences	29
The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis	29
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital	29
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability	29
Too Many Peas in a Pod? How Overlaps in Directors’ Local and Global Status Characteristics Influence Board Turnover in Newly Public Firms	28
When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt	27
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations	27
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation	27

Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance	26
Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it	26
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience	25
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation	25
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	25
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties	25
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence	24
Does Identification Hurt or Help Under Identity Threat? The Exacerbating Role of Identity Centrality on Feeling Offended and the Buffering Role of Coworker Solidarity on Identity-Protection Behaviors	24
Applying Coleman’s Boat in Management Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging Macro and Micro Theory	24
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy	24
Increasing Dispositional Legitimacy: Progressive Legitimation Dynamics in a Trajectory of Settlements	23
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation	23
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries	23
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation	23
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients	23
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity	23
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation	23
Constraints and Opportunities of Stigma: Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Sex Industry	23
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues	22
Understanding When and Why Cover-Ups Are Punished Less Severely	22
From the Editors—Publishing Impactful Research in AMJ: Winners of the 2020 and 2021 Impact Awards	22
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?	21
In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires	21
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions	21
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct	21
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance	20
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity	20
The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI	20
Getting the Picture Too Late: Handoffs and the Effectiveness of Idea Implementation in Creative Work	19
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work	19
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision	19
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks	19
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges	19
The Use of Agency Workers Hurts Business Performance: An Integrated Indirect Model	19
Social Network and Temporal Myopia	19
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification	19
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?	18
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience	18
Seeing Oneself as a Valued Contributor: Social Worth Affirmation Improves Team Information Sharing	18
Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation	18
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment	17
Institutional Intermediaries and Firm Choices in Response to Regulations	17
From the Editors—That’s Important, Interesting, and Generative: Winners of the AMJ 2021 Best Paper Award and 2022 Research Impact Award	17
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits	17
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits	17
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence	17
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management	17
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work	17
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values	16
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success	16
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity	16
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates	16
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness	16
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)	16
The Effects of Racial Diversity Congruence between Upper Management and Lower Management on Firm Productivity	16
The Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	16
Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Interorganizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars	15
Stakeholder Orientation and Divestiture Activity	15
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context	15
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form	15
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work	15
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers	14
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women	14
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives	14
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration	14
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions	14
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error	13
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment	13
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work	13
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea	13
From the Editors—Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ	13
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization	13
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance	13
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability	13
Performance Benefits of Reciprocal Vicarious Learning in Teams	13
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions	13
From the Editors—Achieving Fit and Avoiding Misfit in Qualitative Research	13