OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Relations is 5. 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
The (in)congruence effects of supervisor bottom-line mentality identity and reputation on group performance: A moderated mediation model	236
Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership	70
Advancing inclusive recruitment: A practice lens on navigating barriers to refugee employment	69
Too womanly or not manly enough? A review of work consequences experienced by counter-normative men	58
Silent entrepreneuring: Complying with and refusing entrepreneurial norms through practices of tactical subordination and shielding space	55
Human Relations Paper of the Year 2025	54
Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal	47
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	46
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	40
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy	35
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions	35
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	35
There and back again: The roles of morning- and evening commute recovery experiences for daily resources across the commute-, work-, and home domain	35
Homeward bound or urban aspirations? Unraveling rural–urban migrant workers’ decision to return through hometown embeddedness and city embeddedness	34
Multilevel theorizing in strategic human resource management research: A systematic and critical review	32
Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees	30
Critical theory in use: Organizing the Frankfurt School	28
Cultural trespassers or disruptors? Femininity reinvented and the career advancement strategies of Saudi women senior managers	26
Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits	25
Into the depths of the feminine: A Jungian perspective on postfeminist working life	25
The inclusive potential of activity-based working: The case of disability	23
Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations	23
Enacting responsible leadership in cross-sector partnerships: A dynamic choreography of power	22
Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency	22
Investigating the making of organizational social responsibility as a polyphony of voices: A ventriloquial analysis of practitioners’ interactions	20

Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	20
Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy	20
Beautifying a stigmatized occupation: Occupational destigmatization of Indian beauty salons	19
The impact of father’s pregnancy discrimination on the work–family interface: An action-regulation approach	18
Rethinking Humanness: Human Relations in the age of AI and Technological Transformation	18
‘And then I undress the work’: Materiality and embodied identity work among professional mothers	18
How narcissism, promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective	18
Creating ‘safe’ spaces through exclusionary boundaries: Examining employers’ treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	18
When ‘I’ becomes ‘we’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative	18
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work	17
Wrinkle of change? The reproduction of executive age profiles across CEO succession episodes	16
On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work	16
Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work	15
Resisting by not resisting: Constructing inconsistencies to resist dual mandated changes	15
Relations between reflexivity and institutional work: A case study in a public organisation	15
Time is hunting: Investigating time pressure and bottom-line mentality with an eye-tracking approach	15
Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement	15
Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity	15
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency	15
Relative status and dyadic help seeking and giving: The roles of past helping history and power distance value	14
Talking about disappointments: Identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university	14
Effect of gender composition of committees	14
Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens	13
City governance and visual impression management: Visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena	13
Bad apples and sour grapes: How fruit and vegetable wholesalers’ fantasy mediates experienced stigma	13
Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective	12
When differentiated empowering leadership hurts team performance: The roles of information sharing and tenure diversity	12
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	12
On alliance teams: Conceptualization, review, and future research agenda	12
Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality	11
‘I disdain the company of flatterers!’: How and when observed ingratiation predicts employees’ ostracism toward their ingratiating colleagues	11
Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal	11
Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations	11
A balanced view of supervisory family support: Effects on gratitude, indebtedness, and job crafting behaviors	11
A Theory of Aberrant Work-Life Navigation	11
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation?	10
I am My Work: New Lines of Inquiry in the Study of Identity Regulation in and Around Organizations	10
Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era	10
From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions	10
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’: Recovering William H Whyte as the founder and future of groupthink research	10
“Commit professional suicide or take up my pilgrim’s staff again?”: A cultural examination of how female managers resolve shock events in developing regions	10
Can’t get you o u t of my head: The stress-driven dual effects of LMX Ambivalence	10
I spoke up, did you hear? The impact of voice (in)congruence on employee-initiated constructive changes	10
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	9
Official truth, applied deconstruction and post-inquiry sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash	9
Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement	9
Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance	9
Toward a typology of boundaries in crisis management	9
Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store	9
A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality	9

Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring	9
Working around: Job crafting in the context of public and professional accountability	9
‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university	9
The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence	8
Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile	8
Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes	8
Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty	8
The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces	8
Benefitting or suffering from a paradoxical leader? A self-regulation perspective	7
The double-edged sword of negative supervisor gossip: When and why negative supervisor gossip promotes versus inhibits feedback seeking behavior among gossip targets	7
The flailing self: A study of how young women become workers	7
Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty	7
‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces	7
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry	7
Paradoxical effects of narcissism on creative performance: Roles of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence and follower identification with the leader	7
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	7
Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective	7
Ventriloquial reflexivity: Exploring the communicative relationality of the ‘I’ and the ‘it’	6
Precarious work: A critical review and a proposal for future research	6
Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility	6
Institutions, resource dependence and the dual nature of corruption in firm internationalisation	6
Trickling out effects of abusive supervision: A social information processing perspective	6
Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira	6
21st century bridling: Non-disclosure agreements in cases of organizational misconduct	6
Human Relations special issue call for papers	6
Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine	6
It’s the River’s call: Rethinking our relationship with nature through the embodied experience of sustainability professionals	6
Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing	6
A processual perspective on alternative organization: Reorienting critical research through a study of two political parties	6
‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies	6
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization	6
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work	6
Vulnerability in high-performing newcomers: Weighing benefits and drawbacks in the socialization process	6
Expression of Concern: “Understanding social responsibility and relational pressures in nonprofit organisations”	5
Editorial: Introducing the Special Issue to mark the 75th Anniversary of Human Relations	5
Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence	5
Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem	5
Indigenous employees’ experiences of work: An interdisciplinary review	5
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	5
Mastanocracy: The legitimization of criminal governance and violence in Bangladesh’s garment industry	5
Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership	5
HUMAN RELATIONS Special Issue – Call for Critical Reviews (Targeted for 2026)	5
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2022	5
Sometimes enough is enough: Nurses’ nonlinear levels of passion and the influence of politics	5
Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?	5
Corrigendum to “Poles and Germans: An international business relationship”	5