OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Strategic Management Journal 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Firm growth and stagnation in the United States: Key trends and new data opportunities	319
The new argonauts: The international migration of venture‐backed companies	257
Borrowing networks for innovation: The role of attention allocation in secondhand brokerage	177
Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms' innovation	152
Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how # MeToo ‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of p	142
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Kingdom or fandom? YouTube and the changing role of gatekeeping in digital cultural markets	97
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Performance feedback and change in R&D alliance portfolio breadth: The moderating role of economic conditions	81
Disentangling the corporate effect on subsidiary performance	71
Corporate social responsibility at the margins: Firms' responses to marginal inclusion on the Vault Law 100 ranking	71
Bribery, insecurity, and firm performance: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency in	70
How much does the firm's alliance network matter?	61
Human resource redeployability and entrepreneurial hiring strategy	57
Do boards learn to hire? The effect of board experience with CEO replacement on CEO performance	53
A database of chief financial officer turnover and dismissal in S&P 1500 firms, 2000–2022	53
Corporate directors as heterogeneous network pipes: How director political ideology affects the interorganizational diffusion of governance practices	52
Hunting for talent: Firm‐driven labor market search in the United States	50
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Perceptions of political Self‐Dealing ? An empirical investigation of market returns surrounding the disclosure of politician stock purchases	46
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From margins to mainstream: The narrative dilemma in scaling social ventures	40

What keeps the market ticking? The role of third‐party audiences and cognitive embeddedness in shaping competitive dynamics in luxury watchmaking	40
Curating 1000 flowers as they bloom: Leveraging pluralistic initiatives to diffuse social innovations	39
Disentangling audiences' reactions to creative content and creative packaging	38
Achieving cultural resonance: Four strategies toward rallying support for entrepreneurial endeavors	37
How media coverage elicits strategic change: The moderating role of the business model design	36
Getting heard? How employees learn to gain senior management attention in inclusive strategy processes	36
Changes in industry and corporate effects in the United States, 1978–2019	36
Common purpose advantage: Reviving a managerial theory of the firm?	35
Firm climate risk, risk management, and bank loan financing	35
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How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos	33
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Are boards reluctant to remove poorly performing successors to interim CEOs?	33
On the heels of giants: Internal network structure and the race to build on prior innovation	33
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Defending knowledge abroad	33
The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources	31
Decision authority and the returns to algorithms	31
Caveat emptor as an obstacle to business transfers: Effect of product line liability exceptions on acquisitions, entry, and exit	30
Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions	28
The effects of CEO activism: Partisan consumer behavior and its duration	28
The extent and drivers of internal agglomeration of U.S. multi‐unit firms	28
Positioning for optimal distinctiveness: How firms manage competitive and institutional pressures under dynamic and complex environment	27
Do managers capture the value they create? Drivers of managers' value capture in a large retail chain	27
Blood diamonds? Responses of open‐source software developers to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal	26
When colleagues compete outside the firm	26
Contracting to (dis)incentivize? An integrative transaction‐cost approach on how contracts govern specific investments	26
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Hedge fund activism in family firms	25
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The tangled webs we weave: Examining the effects of CEO deception on analyst recommendations	24
Bottom‐up effects of female strategic leadership: Firm performance effects through employees	24
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Concentration in cross‐border research collaborations and MNCs' knowledge creation in a host country	24
The role of information in the gender gap in the market for top managers: Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	24
Low profile, high impact: How the visibility of political agents shapes corporate political influence	24
Aspiration formation and attention rules	24
Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?	24
Whatever you want, whatever you like: How incumbents respond to changes in market information regimes	23
Diverse knowledge exploration and diffusion in MNCs	23
Learning by doing and corporate diversification	23
Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk	23
New sheriff in town: A quad model approach to examining the consequences of selecting a qualified lead independent directors	22
TRIPS and knowledge diffusion from low‐ and middle‐income countries	22
The racial gap in entrepreneurship and opportunities inside established firms	22
Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act	22
Investors' attention and the paradox of technologically related diversification: Evidence of stock market mispricing	22
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data	22
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When ideologies align: Progressive corporate activism and within‐firm ideological alignment	22

Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations	20
Do employees' views matter in corporate governance? The relationship between employee approval and CEO dismissal	20
Does corporate social responsibility increase access to finance? A commentary on Cheng et al. (2014)	20
Breakthrough invention and problem complexity: Evidence from a q uasi‐experiment	20
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Defending the throne: The influence of performance feedback on CEO succession in family‐controlled firms	20
Stakeholder treatment disparity and employee whistleblowing: A multi‐stakeholder, multidimensional framework of social comparison	19
How do investors really react to the appointment of Black CEOs ?	19
Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge	19
Inventor CEO involvement and firm exploitative and exploratory innovation	18
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The option value in complements within platform‐based ecosystems	18
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Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?	18
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How does worker mobility affect business adoption of a new technology? The case of machine learning	17
Technology differentiation, product market rivalry, and M&A transactions	17
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The allocation of resource control within the corporate structure: Evidence from post‐acquisition patent reassignments	17
The influence of media scrutiny on firms' strategic eschewal of lobbying	17
Dual careers and the willingness to consider employment in startup ventures	17
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Bad medicine: Litigation, competition, and the marketing of prescription opioids	17
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Contracting for innovation: Designing contracts that account for exchange hazards and the need for innovation	16
Fostering positive CEO‐board relationships: Board synchronization skill and relationship cycles in new ventures	16
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Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis	16
Does imitation increase or decrease demand for an original product? Understanding the opposing effects of discovery and substitution	15
Network advantage: Uncontested structural holes and organizational performance in market crises	15
Collaborations that hurt firm performance but help employees’ careers	15
The influence of patent assertion entities on inventor behavior	15
Measuring the commercial potential of science	15
Collaborative structure and post‐mobility knowledge spillovers: A dyadic approach	15
Dynamic capabilities and governance: An empirical investigation of financial performance of the higher education sector	15
Experimentation and appropriability in early‐stage ventures: Evidence from the US software industr	15
Unpacking the inertia in resource allocation adjustments of multi‐business firms	15
When do firms learn by hiring? How complexity moderates the value of new knowledge	15
Delegation of decision rights and capital reallocation: Evidence from US municipalities	15
How does a partner's acquisition affect the value of the firm's alliance with that partner?	14
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The favela effect: Spatial inequalities and firm strategies in disadvantaged urban communities	14
Precarious situations: A prelude to hiring more hubristic chief executive officers	14
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Mitigating ingroup bias in regulatory firms: The role of inspector professionalism	14
Distributed decision‐making in the shadow of hierarchy: How hierarchical similarity biases idea evaluation	14
Beyond the finish line: How losing in patent race drives post‐race innovation	14
Corporate social responsibility in the age of activist directorships	14
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The growth of hierarchy in organizations: Managing knowledge scope	14
External knowledge sourcing, knowledge spillovers, and internal collaboration: The effects of intrafirm linkages on firm‐university co‐authorship linkages	14
Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non‐practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies	14
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A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension	14
Giving up learning from failures? An examination of learning from one's own failures in the context of heart surgeons	14