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

Article	Citations
Siloed Sustainability: How Paradox Management Unravels in Integrative Practice Implementation	373
Catalyzing Categories: Category Contrast and the Creation of Groundbreaking Inventions	185
Bridge Supervision: Correlates of a Boss on the Far Side of a Structural Hole	139
The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions	120
Longing for the Road Not Taken: The Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Forgone Identity Dwelling	113
Custodianship across Generations: Preserving the Practice of Vinyl Record Manufacturing	104
Fairness Judgments in the Context of Structural Sexism: The Role of Beliefs in Individual and Structural Causes of Success	99
Identity–Society (Mis)Alignment and the Instrumentalization of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction and Creative Reconstruction	80
Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan	75
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	72
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	72
Firm–Stakeholder Dialogue and the Media: The Evolution of Stakeholder Evaluations in Different Informational Environments	71
The Social Aftershocks of Voice: An Investigation of Employees’ Affective and Interpersonal Reactions after Speaking Up	71
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Pragmatic Adaptation in Large-Scale Creative Projects with Underspecified Product Concepts	68
Rekindling the Fire and Stoking the Flames: How and When Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization Facilitates Pride and Knowledge Sharing at Work	66
May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work–Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction	64
Mobilizing New Sources of Data: Opportunities and Recommendations	63
Who Avoids Punishment? How Discretion and Psychopathy Shape Leaders’ Responses to Misconduct	60
Analyzing Academy of Management Journal Operations with Artificial Intelligence (2006–2022)	58
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	56
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	56
Who’s Behind the Red Suit? Exploring Role Prototypicality within Calling Enactment among Professional Santas	53
Information Exchange in Negotiations: Trust Level, Trust Radius, and Harmony Concern in East Asia versus West	53
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	51
Interlacing Situated and Algorithmic Modes of Knowledge Work: A Workplace Jurisdiction Perspective	51

Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	50
Publishing Multimethod Research in AMJ: A Review and Best-Practice Recommendations	50
Happy Talk: Is Common Diversity Rhetoric Effective Diversity Rhetoric?	50
Information-Based Competition: The Case of Rival Owners in Rating Agencies	50
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	49
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	49
The Ties That Nurture: Expressive Simmelian Ties, Instrumental Brokerage, and Individual Performance	48
Understanding I-Deals through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks	47
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	47
With Head and Heart: How Emotions Shape Paradox Navigation in Veterinary Work	46
Corporate Proximity and Product Market Reentry: The Role of Corporate Headquarters in Business Unit Response to Product Failure	45
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	44
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	44
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	42
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	40
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	40
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	38
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	38
How Work Orientation Impacts Objective Career Outcomes via Managerial (Mis)perceptions	37
Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women’s Aspirations to Lead	36
Losing Control: The Uncertain Management of Concealable Stigmas When Work and Social Media Collide	35
A Tale of Two Signals: Partner CSR versus CSI and Alliance Formation	34
A Theory of Host Country Sentiments: An Illustration in Cross-Border Acquisitions	34
Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change	34
Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks	34
Balancing “Protective Disguise” with “Harmonious Advocacy”: Social Venture Legitimation in Authoritarian Contexts	34
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	33
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations	33
Now You See Me: How Status and Categorical Proximity Shape Misconduct Scandalization	33
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	32
When Conscientious Employees Meet Intelligent Machines: An Integrative Approach Inspired by Complementarity Theory and Role Theory	31
Paradox Peers: A Relational Approach to Navigating a Business–Society Paradox	31
Toward a Configural Theory of Job Demands and Resources	31
Anticipatory Impression Management for Potential Adverse Events: Positive Framing in the Wake of Short Seller Attacks on a Competitor	31
Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives	31
The Use of Strategic Noise in Reactive Impression Management: How Do Market Reactions Matter?	30
Who Is Leaving and Why? The Dynamics of High-Quality Human Capital Outflows	30
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Nonmetro Areas: Ecosystem Architects as Conduits of Knowledge Spillovers	30
Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California	30
When Helping Hurts Helpers: Anticipatory versus Reactive Helping, Helper’s Relative Status, and Recipient Self-Threat	30
“I” Am Affirmed, but Are “We”? Social Identity Processes Influencing Refugees’ Work Initiative and Community Embeddedness	29
Falling Off the Unicorn: The Maintenance of Unrealistic Startup Labor Narratives	29
Constructing Envelopes: How Institutional Custodians Can Tame Disruptive Algorithms	29
Going Viral or Growing Like an Oak Tree? Towards Sustainable Local Development Through Entrepreneurship	29
Intra-Individual Conflict and Task Performance in a Multiteam Context: Examining the Structural Elements of Conflict Experience	28
Emotional Signaling: How Helpers’ Emotional Expressions Affect Attributions of Motives, Relationship Quality, and Reciprocation	28
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways	28
The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research	27
Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance	27
Intermediated Legitimation: How Founders Build New Venture Legitimacy among Make-or-Break Audiences	27

Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties	27
Screening Theory and Its Boundaries: Investigation of Screen Credibility, Necessity, and Salience in the Context of Corporate Venture Capital	26
Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations	26
Impact, Interrupted: How and When Thwarted Prosocial Impact Undermines Employee Performance and Retention	25
The Paradox of Spatial and Relational Embeddedness: Tie Reinitiation after a Trust Violation	25
The Boundaries of Modern Slavery: The Role of Exemplars in New Category Formation	25
The Role of Discernment and Modulation in Enacting Occupational Values: How Career Advising Professionals Navigate Tensions with Clients	25
When the Symphony Does Jazz: How Resourcefulness Fosters Organizational Resilience during Adversity	25
It Is Not the Whole Story: Toward a Broader Understanding of Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Symbolic Differentiation	25
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy	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	23
Do I Dare? The Psychodynamics of Anticipated Image Risk, Leader-Identity Endorsement, and Leader Emergence	23
Seeing the Forestandthe Trees: Exploring the Impact of Inter- and Intra-Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Embeddedness on New Venture Creation	23
Betwixt and Between: National and Organizational Identification of Host Country Managers Working in MNE Subsidiaries	22
Advancing Reform: Embedded Activism to Develop Climate Solutions	22
Moderately Fast and Furious: A Screening and Behavioral Theory of New CEO Strategic Action Speed	22
The Moral Case Revisited: Moral Framing as a Double-Edged Sword for Motivating Majority Group Leaders to Support DEI	22
Joining Forces: How Can Founding Members’ Prior Experience Variety and Shared Experience Increase Startup Survival?	22
Avoidance and Aggression in Stakeholder Engagement: The Impact of CEO Paranoia and Paranoia-Relevant Cues	22
When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity	22
Mixed Messages: Crisis Communication–Dismissal (In)Coherence and Shareholder Trust Following Misconduct	22
Remaking Capitalism: The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corporation Certification	21
Vicarious Experimentation: Do Innovators Learn by Being Imitated?	21
When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance	21
The Fragility of Experts: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Expertise, Expert Identity Threat, and Overprecision	21
Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs about a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and “Professional-Class” Identities in Working-Class Jobs	21
Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges	20
On the Plurality and Politics of Ally Work: Liberalism and Self, Relational, and Organizational Ally Work	20
Public–Private and Private–Private Collaboration as Pathways for Socially Beneficial Innovation: Evidence from Antimicrobial Drug-Development Tasks	20
A Spillover Model of Dreams and Work Behavior: How Dream Meaning Ascription Promotes Awe and Employee Resilience	19
Left Behind? Understanding the Career Consequences of Collaborator Exits	19
The Grand Tour: The Role of Catalyzing Places for Industry Emergence	19
“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work	19
Signaling Legitimacy: Why Mixed-Gender Coalitions Outperform Single-Gender Coalitions in Advocating for Gender Equity	18
How Other- and Self-Compassion Reduce Burnout through Resource Replenishment	18
Not So Fast? Rapid Response to Voice Leads to Perceived Inauthenticity	18
Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital: Mobility Constraint or Enhancer?	18
Pay Transparency as a Moving Target: A Multistep Model of Pay Compression, I-Deals, and Collectivist Shared Values	18
The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates’ Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits	18
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management	18
Top Management Team Experiential Variety, Competitive Repertoires, and Firm Performance: Examining the Law of Requisite Variety in the 3D Printing Industry (1986–2017)	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 Analogical Construction of Stigma as a Moral Dualism: The Case of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	17
Stakeholder Political Ideology, Purpose of Business Beliefs, and Responses to CEO Activism: Introducing an Asymmetry Model	16
Forming Entrepreneurial Teams: Mixing Business and Friendship to Create Transactive Memory Systems for Enhanced Success	16
The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers	16
Ritual Work and the Formation of a Shared Sense of Meaningfulness	16
Socialization as a Political Arena: A Multi-Agent Interactionist Perspective to Understand Political Skill and Newcomer Socialization Rates	16
From Confusion to Fusion: A New Organizational Form and the Evaluation of Category Spanning in an Established Form	16
Revving Up or Backing Down? Cross-Level Effects of Firm-Level Tournaments on Employees’ Competitive Actions	16
From Paralysis to Publicization: How Victims of the UK Post Office Horizon IT Scandal Experienced and Confronted Organizational Harm	16
Distilling Authenticity: Materiality and Narratives in Canadian Distilleries’ Authenticity Work	16
Glue or Gasoline? The Role of Interorganizational Linkages in the Occurrence and Spillover of Competitive Wars	16
“Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Nonprototypicality of Black Women	15
When Do Novel Business Models Lead to High Performance? A Configurational Approach to Value Drivers, Competitive Strategy, and Firm Environment	15
Breaking Free or Locking In: How Socially Disadvantaged Individuals Achieve or Reject an Aspired Identity in an Entrepreneurial Context	15
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives	15
“Who Are You Going to Call?” Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration	15
From Sheltered to Included: The Emancipation of Disabled Workers from Benevolent Marginalization	15
Erring Professionals as Second Victims: Grappling with Guilt and Identity in the Aftermath of Error	14
From the Editors—Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ	14
Strategic Nepotism in Family Director Appointments: Evidence from Family Business Groups in South Korea	14
Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work	14
Leveraging Knowledge Diversity in Hierarchically Differentiated Teams: The Critical Role of Hierarchy Stability	14
From the Editors—Publishing Relevant and Trustworthy Empirical Research in AMJ: The 22nd Editorial Term during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
When People Build Networks That Hurt Their Performance: Structural Holes, Cognitive Style, and the Unintended Consequences of Person–Network Fit	13
Responding to Professional Knowledge Disruptions of Unmitigable Uncertainty: The Role of Emotions, Practices, and Moral Duty among COVID-19 Physicians	13
Faking It with the Boss’s Jokes? Leader Humor Quantity, Follower Surface Acting, and Power Distance	13
The Publicization of Organizational Misconduct: A Social Structural Approach	13
The Role of Attribution in Learning from Performance Feedback: Behavioral Perspective on the Choice between Alliances and Acquisitions	13
Collaborating on the Edge of Failure: Frame Alignment across Multiple Interaction Arenas in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships	13