OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Journal is 27. 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
The Benefits and Burdens of Work Moralization on Creativity	72
How Much Inequity Do You See? Structural Power, Perceptions of Gender and Racial Inequity, and Support for Diversity Initiatives	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
How Founder Human Capital and Founding Conditions Shape New Firm Performance: A Study of Necessity Entrepreneurship during Times of Economic Crisis	56
Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale	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
Interlacing Situated and Algorithmic Modes of Knowledge Work: A Workplace Jurisdiction Perspective	51
A Diversity Signal Set Perspective: Examining Interactive Effects of Diversity Practices on Women and Racialized Non-Leader and Leader Turnover	51

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
Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges	50
The Effects of Between-Group Pay Dispersion	49
Prosocial Occupations, Work Autonomy, and the Origins of the Social Class Pay Gap	49
The Ties That Nurture: Expressive Simmelian Ties, Instrumental Brokerage, and Individual Performance	48
External Disruption Following CEO Succession: How Human and Social Capital Changes May Attract Competitive Attacks	47
Understanding I-Deals through the Social Ledger Lens: The Role of Trust and Hindrance Networks	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
Turning Work into a Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Personal, Grief-Inducing Events	44
The Social Structure of Insiders and Outsiders: Toward a Network Community Perspective on Firm Performance	44
Expanding AMJ’S Manuscript Portfolio: Research Methods Articles Designed to Advance Theory and Span Boundaries	42
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Patenting Activity of Chinese Firms	40
The Relational Dynamics of Issue-Selling: Enacting Different Genres for Dealing with Discontent	40
From the Editors—An Innovative Journal during Transformational Times: Embarking on the 23rd Editorial Term	38
Communication Miscalibration: The Price Leaders Pay for Not Sharing Enough	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
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
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
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
Resource Idling and Capability Erosion	33
Before Birth: How Provisional Spaces Shape the Localized Emergence of New Organizational Forms	32
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Navigating Mental Illness at Work Using Disengagement and Engagement Pathways	28
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
Reaching for the Stars: How Gender Influences the Formation of High-Status Collaboration Ties	27
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