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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Fooling Them, Not Me? How Fake News Affects Evaluators’ Reputation Judgments and Behavioral Intentions	288
Revisiting Home in Home-Based Work: A Call for Epistemic Compassion	60
Growing Green: On the Moral Pluralism of Individual and Collective Ecological Embeddedness	39
“She Understands the Weaving Dance:” Textiles, Values, and Profitability	38
Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates	35
Broad or Narrow Stakeholder Management? A Signaling Theory Perspective	30
Efficient, Explicatory, and Equitable: Why Qualitative Researchers Should Embrace AI, but Cautiously	29
Big Profits, Big Harm? Exploring the Link Between Firm Financial Performance and Human Rights Misbehavior	28
Toward Humanistic Business Ethics	27
The Impact of Employee Stakeholder Orientation on Job Satisfaction and Perspective-Taking	27
“Empathy Code”: The Dangers of Automating Empathy in Business	27
Finding the Tipping Point: When Heterogeneous Evaluations in Social Media Converge and Influence Organizational Legitimacy	27
Firm Heterogeneity and Inequality: A Regional Perspective	26
The Effect of Country Economic Institutions and Cultural Values on Government Policy and Societal Compliance in the Covid-19 Pandemic	24
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement	23
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy	23
Leaving the Cold Behind: The Role of Emotions and Cognitive Biases in Business Adaptation to Climate Change	22
If the Body Keeps the Score, What Happens When You Bring the Body to Work? Exploring the Health Effects of Trauma on Human Capital	22
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals’ Sensemaking in Social Enterprises	22
The Engagement and Disengagement of Heterogeneous Stakeholders: A Relational Practice Perspective on Strategy Development	21
Explicitization of Corporate Social Responsibilities at the National Institutional Level	20
How Users Assess Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things: The Role of Framing, Comparing, and Educating	19
Corporate Tax Responsibility: Expectations of Implicit and Explicit CSR in the U.K. Media	19
Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications	18
Moral Intensity, Perceived Impacts, and Task Motivation: Evidence From Volunteers	18

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

An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions	5
Sociological Structures and Accounting Misbehavior: An Institutional Anomie Theory Explanation of Restatements in Family Firms	5
Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Peace: The Role of Inclusion and Value Creation	5
Courageous Role Model or Threatening Villain: A Parallel Mediation Model of Corporate Activism and Citizen Political Engagement	5
Do All Roads Lead to Rome? How Three Process Pathways Contribute to Transformative Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships	5
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	5
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory	5
“I’m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella”: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation	4
Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Call to Action for Multispecies Inclusivity	4
Do Sustainability Signals Diverge? An Analysis of Labeling Schemes for Socially Responsible Investments	4
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship	4
A Processual Model of CEO Activism: Activities, Frames, and Phases	4
Bribe Payments and State Ownership: The Impact of State Ownership on Bribery Propensity and Intensity	4
Why the Super-Rich Will Not Be Saving the World: Philanthropy and “Privatization Creep” in Global Development	4
As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines	4
Departures of Tainted Outside Directors: A Threshold Approach From Two Competing Theoretical Perspectives	4
Leadership for Inclusion and Impact: A Renewed Vision for Business & Society	4
Ethics Reviews Meet the Global South: Hidden Barriers to Contextualized Knowledge Generation	4
Corporate Philanthropy and CEO Outside Directorships Under Authoritarian Capitalism	4
Making Impact Investing More Than Just Well-Meaning Capital	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
Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Purpose in Certified B Corps: Minimizing Conflict and Fostering Collaboration	3
Beyond Fixing Women: In Pursuit of Women Leaders for Responsible Leadership	3
How to Achieve Impact With Innovative Publication Formats: Taking Stock of Business & Society’s Commentary Section	3
Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices	3
Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers	3
Demystifying Essays as an “A-Typical” Publication Format	3
Cultivating Sustainability Thinkers: Analyzing the Routes to Psychological Ownership in Local Business Units of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)	3
Is Technology Uniquely Placed to Solve Our Problems? An Examination Into Technosolutionism, What It Entails and What It Predicts	3
Evaluations of Organizational Configurations: Does Hybrid Form or Logic Content Matter?	3
“All by Myself”: Navigating the Lonely Odyssey of Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Business and Society Domain	3
Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”	3
Institutional Imprints and Corporate Misconduct: Unravelling the Interplay of Economic History and Firm Choices on Earnings Manipulation in an Emerging Economy	3
Business and Human Rights as Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Framework for Organizational Translation	3
Conceptualizing, Theorizing, and Measuring the Contributions of Business to Refugee Crises	3
Expectations Meet Reality: Leader Sensemaking and Enactment of Stakeholder Engagement in Multistakeholder Social Enterprises	3
Corporate Accountability for PFAS Chemicals: The Translation of Private Rules in the Swedish Food Packaging Supply Chain	3
How Do New Forms of Organizations Manage Institutional Voids? Social Enterprises’ Quest for Sociopolitical Legitimacy	3
Acting Green? Private Environmental Coalitions in the United States	3
Environment and Umwelt: Grand Challenges and Intelligent Self-Limitation	3
Inequality and Entrepreneurial Agency: How Social Class Origins Affect Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy	3
Democracy in Political Corporate Social Responsibility: A Dynamic, Multilevel Account	3