OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Journal is 26. 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
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
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity	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
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
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
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