OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Long Range Planning is 14. 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
Editorial Board	321
When are acquisitions a viable catch-up strategy? Some empirical evidence from China	276
Monitoring the monitor: Enabling strategic change when the former CEO stays on the board	135
Organizational identity and performance: An inquiry into nonconforming company names	122
Family owners' fear of losing socio-emotional wealth: Implications for firm innovativeness	110
Practice the purpose preach! Experimental evidence on the effect of corporate purpose on workers' willingness to go the extra mile	87
Board of directors structure and firm financial performance: A qualitative comparative analysis	87
Top management team characteristics and digital innovation: Exploring digital knowledge and TMT interfaces	84
Mergers and acquisitions research: Time for a theory rejuvenation of the field	78
Descendant CEOs and cross-border acquisitions in family firms: The moderating role of family involvement	67
How does disruptive innovation influence the funding decisions of different venture capital investors? An empirical analysis on the role of startups' communication	65
Ecosystem leadership as a dynamic capability	63
Configurational conditions and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A fsQCA approach	61
Labour-cost retrenchment strategies in times of crisis: Comparing market reactions to flexible and rigid strategies	54
Move fast and break things! innovation-intensive strategy, organizational permissiveness, and corporate wrongdoing	54
Outside vs. inside succession: Environmental and organizational contexts, strategic decision, and firm performance	53
Editorial Board	51
Editorial Board	48
Editorial Board	44
The boundary conditions for growth: Exploring the non-linear relationship between organic and acquisitive growth and profitability	43
The governance of gig platform organizations in developing countries	41
Emotions in the strategic management of family business organizations: Opening up the black box	41
A call for action: The impact of business model innovation on business ecosystems, society and planet	40
Which partners become targets? The role of location in partner acquisitions	36
Towards purposeful strategic planning: A mixed research synthesis across disciplines	34

Why traditional firms from the same industry reject digital transformation: Structural constraints of perception and attention	33
Director tenure and contribution to board task performance: A time and contingency perspective	32
Discursive strategies for internal legitimacy: Narrating the alternative organizational form	32
Leadership and business model innovation in late internationalizing SMEs	31
Organizational learning in SMEs’ internationalization: A moderated mediating effect of absorptive capacity	30
Fast and rigorous: Configurational determinants of strategic decision-making balance	29
Managing C-suite conflict: The unique impact of internal and external governance interfaces on top management team reflexivity	29
Political entrepreneurs and the perils of the top office	25
Walking on thin ice: CEOs′ internationalization decisions in underperforming firms	25
Family CEO affect and R&D investments of family firms: The moderation effect of family ownership structure	24
Internal and external interfaces of the executive suite: Advancing research on the porous bounds of strategic leadership	24
Why some are less willing to share: Competitive domains and knowledge transfer in multi-unit organizations	24
Letting go or pushing forward: Director death and firm risk-taking	23
Predicting acquisition specific goodwill write-downs	23
The competitive effects of financial and fiscal institutional arbitrage opportunities: Evidence from cross-border M&AS	22
Editorial Board	22
Reaching beyond the acquirer-target dyad in M&A – Linkages to external knowledge sources and target firm valuation	22
The dynamics of union-management collaboration during postmerger integration	22
Boon or bane of open value creation: The impact of business model design and relational trust on competitive advantage	21
Strategizing in a digital world: Overcoming cognitive barriers, reconfiguring routines and introducing new organizational forms	21
Chief digital officers: An exploratory analysis of their emergence, nature, and determinants	20
Scale-up modes: Profiling activity configurations in scaling strategies	20
When less may be more: A dyadic view of franchise contracts	19
Editorial Board	19
The multifaceted government influence on CSR activities: CSR decoupling in an emerging market	18
Meaning is in the eye of the beholder: Reconciling business model design with customer meaning-making	18
Do board interlocks affect the frequency and pace of cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms?	18
Generalizing event studies using synthetic controls: An application to the Dollar Tree–Family Dollar acquisition	18
How strategic alliances shape problemistic search intensity: Evidence from responses to social and historical underperformance	18
Strength in numbers: Scale, scope, and performance in multipartner alliances	18
Editorial Board	17
Home country institutions and nonmarket political strategy effects on EMNE foreign location choice	17
Corporate decline and turnarounds in times of digitalization	17
The interactions of multidimensional corporate reputations and disaster donation strategies: How a firm can be known for its sense of social responsibility embodied in disaster donations	17
Strategic alliances for corporate sustainability innovation: The ‘how’ and ‘when’ of learning processes	16
The wisdom and madness of crowds: How information networks and board cognition help or hinder firm performance across the business cycle	15
Strategy as engagement: What organization strategy can learn from military strategy	15
How family CEOs affect employees’ feelings and behaviors: A study on positive emotions	14
Friend or Foe? CEO gender, political ideology, and gender-pay disparities in executive compensation	14
What to teach when we teach digital strategy? An exploration of the nascent field	14
To attack or not attack? The role of relative status, awareness, and motivation	14