OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Business & Society 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	341
“She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability	67
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	45
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	44
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	39
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	38
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	37
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	36
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	32
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	31
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	30
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy	28
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	28
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	28
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	24
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	24
If the Body Keeps the Score, What Happens When You Bring the Body to Work? Exploring the Health Effects of Trauma on Human Capital	23
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	23
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	23
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	22
Age-Inclusive Digital Responsibility: A New Form of Responsibility in the Resonance of Aging and Digitalization	22
Community-Based Enterprise Creation in Base of the Pyramid Environments: A Sharing Economy Perspective	22
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	21
Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	21
How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	20

Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	18
Who Do I Want to Be Now That I’m Here? Refugee Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Acculturation	18
Walking, Talking, or Standing Still? Climate Commitment and Performance in Publicly Listed Firms in Five Major Economies	17
Mapping Liability of Origin and Mimetism in MNE Engagement Across the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of Sustainability Reports	17
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	17
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing “Executive Wisdom” as a Framework for Business Leadership: A Grounded Theory Approach	16
Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future	16
In the Multitude of Words, Sin is Not Lacking: Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Corporate Responsibility or Providing Legal Shields?	16
Relational or Transactional? The Importance of Distinguishing Two Types of Community-Supported Business Models	16
Learning or Leaking? Enforcement Spillover Effects Within and Beyond the Firm	15
Majority-Minority Boards of Directors and Decision Making: The Effects of Homophily on Lending Decisions	15
Being Reassuring About the Past While Promising a Better Future: How Companies Frame Temporal Focus in Social Responsibility Reporting	14
Power in the Process of Reversing Mission Drift in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of a French Multinational Worker Co-operative	13
Hello From the Other Side: External Stakeholder Paradoxes Matter for Organizational Ambidexterity	13
Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect	13
Political Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Lebanon’s Garbage Mountain	13
Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR	12
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights: Evidence From Conflict Mineral Ratings	12
New Perspectives on Base of the Pyramid Strategies	12
Adam Smith’s Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society	12
SES Resilience in a Disrupted Earth System: Developing Systemic Attention to Emerging Ecological Adversity in Collaborative Governance Organizations	12
From Trailing Behind to Shaping the Curve: Researching Rare and Impactful Events for Societal Benefit	12
Circular Economy and Business Models: Managing Efficiency in Waste Recycling Firms	11
Retail Businesses’ Commitment to Public Health: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Moving Beyond “Facts Are Facts”: Managing Emotions and Legitimacy After a Fake News Attack	11
Moral CSR	11
Decontesting Corporate Responsibility for Collaboration: A Case Study of a Cross-Sector Coalition Lobbying for Human Rights Regulation	10
Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years of Business & Society	10
Navigating Firm–Stakeholder Conflicts of Values: A Deweyan Ethical Perspective	10
Erratum to “Health is Everyone’s Business: Integrating Business and Public Health for Lasting Impact”	9
The Influence of Strategic Disclosure on Corporate Climate Performance Ratings	9
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma	9
From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis	9
For What It’s Earth: Transcending the Human–Nature Dualism Through “Deep Nature Connection”	8
Does Multimarket Contact Dampen Corporate Philanthropy? A Study on the Geographic Allocation of Corporate Philanthropy	8
Exit, Voice, or Both: Why Organizations Engage With Stakeholders	8
Defiance and Sympathy: Heterogeneity of Experiences Among Members of a Stigmatized Organization	8
Bargaining and Nonbargaining Nonmarket Strategies: A General Model and Data From Post-Communist Countries	8
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Leveraging Management Research on Grand Challenges	8
Advisory Governance Policy, Shareholder Voice, and Board Responsiveness: The Case of Majority Vote in Director Elections	8
Co-opting Business Models at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP): Microentrepreneurs and Multinational Enterprises in Ghana	8
How Do Political and Nonpolitical Ties Affect Corporate Regulatory Participation? A Regulatory Capture Perspective	8
Navigating Populism: A Study of How German and Swedish Corporations Articulate the Refugee Situation in 2015–2016	7
Advancing a Contextualized, Community-Centric Understanding of Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	7
Political CSR and Populism: Toward an Information-Based Theory of Political CSR	7
Finding the “Sweet Spot”: The Politics of Alignment in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Refugees	7
Buffering or Backfiring? A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility on Firm Risk	7
The Evolving Political Marketplace: Revisiting 60 Years of Theoretical Dominance Through a Review of Corporate Political Activity Scholarship in Business & Society and Major Management Jour	6
Unpacking Indigenous Social Mobility: Entrepreneurs, Social Networks, and Connections to Culture	6
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	6

Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	6
An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	6
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	6
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	6
Clearing Opacity: Change Management via Leader Transparency in Native American Neotraditional Organizations	6
Strategy Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Substitute and Complement	6
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	6
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	5
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	5
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	5
A Taxonomy of Hybrid Value Logics—How Social Enterprises Combine Institutional Logics Differently	5
Ethics Reviews Meet the Global South: Hidden Barriers to Contextualized Knowledge Generation	5
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	5
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	5
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	5
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	5
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	5
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	5
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	4
Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers	4
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	4
Desk Rejection: When the Musical Notes Just Don’t Come Together	4
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	4
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	4
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	4
Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy	4
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	4
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	3
Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises	3
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	3
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain	3
How Collaborating with NGOs Makes Green Innovations More Desirable	3
Unmasking the Info War: The Communication Dynamics of Reliable and Misinformation Sources During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States	3
Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration	3
How Do New Forms of Organizations Manage Institutional Voids? Social Enterprises’ Quest for Sociopolitical Legitimacy	3
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3
Beyond Fixing Women: In Pursuit of Women Leaders for Responsible Leadership	3
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises	3
Do Firms Adjust Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement After a Focal Change in Credit Ratings?	3
Is Technology Uniquely Placed to Solve Our Problems? An Examination Into Technosolutionism, What It Entails and What It Predicts	3
Rethinking Business School Education: A Call for Epistemic Humility Through Reflexivity	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter?	3
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	3
Enacting a Grand Challenge for Business and Society: Theorizing Issue Maturation in the Media-Based Public Discourse on COVID-19 in Three National Contexts	3
Navigating Disruptive Times: How Cross-Sector Partnerships in a Development Context Built Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak	3
Participating By Choice or Command? When Ideals of Stakeholder Engagement Clash With a Prevailing Strategy Discourse	3
Poverty Porn as Humanitarian Business: The Effects of Framing, Affect Intensity, and Spokesperson Characteristics	3