OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Relations is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy	194
Too womanly or not manly enough? A review of work consequences experienced by counter-normative men	64
Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal	58
Silent entrepreneuring: Complying with and refusing entrepreneurial norms through practices of tactical subordination and shielding space	47
The micro-politics of collective bargaining: The case of gender equality	45
Building higher value-added firm practices in challenging contexts: Formal networks and talent management in Turkey	44
Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality	37
Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change	35
The (in)congruence effects of supervisor bottom-line mentality identity and reputation on group performance: A moderated mediation model	34
Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership	31
There and back again: The roles of morning- and evening commute recovery experiences for daily resources across the commute-, work-, and home domain	31
Homeward bound or urban aspirations? Unraveling rural–urban migrant workers’ decision to return through hometown embeddedness and city embeddedness	27
Mirroring and switching authoritative personae: A ventriloquial analysis of shareholder engagement on carbon emissions	27
Cultural trespassers or disruptors? Femininity reinvented and the career advancement strategies of Saudi women senior managers	25
Doing transgender ‘right’: Bodies, eroticism and spirituality in khwajasira work	25
Into the depths of the feminine: A Jungian perspective on postfeminist working life	24
Negotiating fit into host country work settings: Understanding the interplay between the past and the present in the accounts of skilled refugees	24
Critical theory in use: Organizing the Frankfurt School	24
Prefigurative imaginaries: Giving the unbanked in Kenyan informal settlements the power to issue their own currency	21
Re/searching leadership: A critique in two agonies and nine fits	21
Capturing a moving target: Developing research on and with AI for Human Relations	20
Struggling to make sense of it all: The emotional process of sensemaking following an extreme incident	20
Investigating the making of organizational social responsibility as a polyphony of voices: A ventriloquial analysis of practitioners’ interactions	19
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	19
Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy	19

Beautifying a stigmatized occupation: Occupational destigmatization of Indian beauty salons	18
‘And then I undress the work’: Materiality and embodied identity work among professional mothers	17
Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work	16
Rethinking Humanness: Human Relations in the age of AI and Technological Transformation	16
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	16
Creating ‘safe’ spaces through exclusionary boundaries: Examining employers’ treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India	16
The gaming of performance management systems in British universities	15
The impact of father’s pregnancy discrimination on the work–family interface: An action-regulation approach	15
How narcissism, promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective	15
When ‘I’ becomes ‘we’: An ethnographic study of power and responsibility in a large food retail cooperative	14
Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement	14
Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens	14
City governance and visual impression management: Visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena	14
Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity	14
Relations between reflexivity and institutional work: A case study in a public organisation	14
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency	14
Wrinkle of change? The reproduction of executive age profiles across CEO succession episodes	14
On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work	14
Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work	14
Resisting by not resisting: Constructing inconsistencies to resist dual mandated changes	14
On ableism and anthropocentrism: A canine perspective on the workplace inclusion of disabled people	14
Relative status and dyadic help seeking and giving: The roles of past helping history and power distance value	13
Talking about disappointments: Identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university	13
Effect of gender composition of committees	12
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	12
On alliance teams: Conceptualization, review, and future research agenda	12
Bad apples and sour grapes: How fruit and vegetable wholesalers’ fantasy mediates experienced stigma	12
Professional credibility under attack: Responses to negative social evaluations in newly contested professions	12
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	12
Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations	11
Feminism in women’s business networks: A freedom-centred perspective	11
A balanced view of supervisory family support: Effects on gratitude, indebtedness, and job crafting behaviors	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
When differentiated empowering leadership hurts team performance: The roles of information sharing and tenure diversity	10
Who is responsible—and for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal	10
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation?	9
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’: Recovering William H Whyte as the founder and future of groupthink research	9
I spoke up, did you hear? The impact of voice (in)congruence on employee-initiated constructive changes	9
‘I disdain the company of flatterers!’: How and when observed ingratiation predicts employees’ ostracism toward their ingratiating colleagues	9
Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality	9
Job demands and burnout: The multilevel boundary conditions of collective trust and competitive pressure	9
Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era	9
Swimming against the tide? Street-level bureaucrats and the limits to inclusive active labour market programmes in the UK	8
Official truth, applied deconstruction and post-inquiry sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash	8
‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university	8
Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store	8
The role of regulatory, affective, and motivational resources in the adverse spillover of sleep in the home domain to employee effectiveness in the work domain	8
From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions	8
Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring	8
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	8

I am My Work: New Lines of Inquiry in the Study of Identity Regulation in and Around Organizations	8
Human Relations 75th Anniversary Conference	8
Working around: Job crafting in the context of public and professional accountability	8
Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes	8
Repoliticizing spirituality: A collaborative autoethnography on Indigenous identity dynamics during an environmental conflict in a Mapuche community in Chile	7
Patient mistreatment and new nurse adjustment: The role of rumination and work engagement	7
Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty	7
Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives	7
Fifty years of fighting sex discrimination: Undermining entrenched misogynies through recognition and everyday resistance	7
A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality	7
The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces	7
The suspension of morality in organisations: Conceptualising organisational moral disengagement and testing its role in relation to unethical behaviours and silence	7
‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces	6
Paradoxical effects of narcissism on creative performance: Roles of leader–follower narcissism (in)congruence and follower identification with the leader	6
The double-edged sword of negative supervisor gossip: When and why negative supervisor gossip promotes versus inhibits feedback seeking behavior among gossip targets	6
Benefitting or suffering from a paradoxical leader? A self-regulation perspective	6
Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context	6
Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry	6
Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira	6
Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective	6
Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty	6
Ventriloquial reflexivity: Exploring the communicative relationality of the ‘I’ and the ‘it’	5
‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies	5
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2021	5
Institutions, resource dependence and the dual nature of corruption in firm internationalisation	5
Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing	5
21st century bridling: Non-disclosure agreements in cases of organizational misconduct	5
Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in corporate social responsibility	5
Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine	5
It’s the River’s call: Rethinking our relationship with nature through the embodied experience of sustainability professionals	5
Editorial: Introducing the Special Issue to mark the 75th Anniversary of Human Relations	5
A processual perspective on alternative organization: Reorienting critical research through a study of two political parties	5
Human Relations special issue call for papers	5
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work	5
Trickling out effects of abusive supervision: A social information processing perspective	5
Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization	5
Expression of Concern: “Understanding social responsibility and relational pressures in nonprofit organisations”	4
An event-oriented approach to the transmission of ex-leaders’ entrepreneurial endeavor to employees’ entrepreneurial intention	4
Organising populism: From symbolic power to symbolic violence	4
Between consumption, accumulation and precarity: The psychic and affective practices of the female neoliberal spiritual subject	4
The ties that bind us: Networks, projects and careers in British TV	4
Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose?	4
Leaders’ responses to receipt of proactive helping: Integrating theories of approach–avoidance and challenge–hindrance	4
Human Relations Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals	4
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2022	4
HUMAN RELATIONS Special Issue – Call for Critical Reviews (Targeted for 2026)	4
A colleague named Max: A critical inquiry into affects when an anthropomorphised AI (ro)bot enters the workplace	4
A process model of peer reactions to team member proactivity	4
Narratives of workplace resistance: Reframing Saudi women in leadership	4
Sometimes enough is enough: Nurses’ nonlinear levels of passion and the influence of politics	4
Drivers of career success among the visually impaired: Improving career inclusivity and sustainability in a career ecosystem	4