OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Manpower is 10. 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
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability	183
Beyond the Griliches biases	132
Beneath the surface of social interactions: how informal networking fuels undercurrent conflict in Middle Eastern MNCs	99
Wage effects of educational mismatch in public and private sectors: evidence from Türkiye	96
When working from home leads to burnout: the role of work–family conflict, job stress and partner work practices	82
Green human resource management: the role of positive levers of control and environmental performance measures in managing performance	72
Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies	66
The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation	63
The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different?	62
Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms	61
Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy	58
Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature	50
Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement	47
Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model	44
Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level	42
The returns to returning to school	40
The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries	40
Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison	39
Social ties, absorptive capacity, and the adoption of green innovation: a social capital perspective	38
Understanding technostress and employee well-being in digital work: the roles of work exhaustion and workplace knowledge diversity	36
A human resources analytics and machine-learning examination of turnover: implications for theory and practice	36
IJM 43.7 Obituary	33
Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms	32
Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy	31
Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data	31

Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development	29
Guest editors’ overview essay:Exploring the dark side of electronic-human resource management: towards a new PROMPT model	28
The role of big data and predictive analytics in the employee retention: a resource-based view	27
Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?	27
Knowledge-oriented leadership and workers' performance: do individual knowledge management engagement and empowerment matter?	26
SCM and SME performance in Australia: the mediating role of HRM practices	24
Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns	23
Focus section guest editorial: Methodological advances in HR research	22
Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms	22
High-performance work system and knowledge hoarding: the mediating role of competitive climate and the moderating role of high-performance work system psychological contract breach	21
Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model	21
How have R&D investments and participation of high-skilled labour influenced the labour market in Taiwan ROC during the COVID-19 pandemic?	20
Early career gender wage gaps among university graduates in Russia	20
Do labour hoarding practices stimulate training investments? Evidence from the Italian Great Recession	19
Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys	19
Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender	19
Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness	19
The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity	18
Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes	18
Management innovation: the influence of institutional pressures and the impact on competitive advantage	18
The rainbow reality: income difference and discrimination based on sexual orientation and occupations	18
How and when high-involvement work practices influence employee innovative behavior	18
Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia	17
Does gender matter for the unemployment hysteresis effect among Asian countries?	17
Preliminary development and validation of the perceived strengths-based human resource system scale	17
How do human resource practices help employees alleviate stress in enforced remote work during lockdown?	16
Are alternative work arrangements a substitute for standard employment? Evidence from worker-level data	16
Do (gendered) ageism and ethnic minorities explain workplace bullying?	16
Integrating push–pull dynamics for understanding the association between boundary control and work outcomes in the context of mandatory work from home	16
Which employers pay a higher college wage premium?	15
Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap	15
Explaining job satisfaction through the use of work–familybenefits and their impact on the employee’s family context	15
A multi-stakeholder ethical framework for AI-augmented HRM	15
Employee’s intention to share knowledge: the impacts of learning organization culture and learning goal orientation	15
A study of artificial intelligence on employee performance and work engagement: the moderating role of change leadership	15
Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry	14
Cross-level effects of union practices on extra-role behaviors: the mediating role of industrial relations climate, union commitment and union instrumentality	14
Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale	14
The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis	14
Gender pay gap in explaining female entrepreneurship – industry perspective of selected European countries	14
Desired and obtained work values across 37 countries: a psychology of working theory perspective	14
Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance	13
The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification	13
Research trends in human resource management. A text-mining-based literature review	13
The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination	13
The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model	13
Exploring the impact of green human resource management on environmental performance: the roles of perceived organizational support and innovative environmental behavior	13
Re-expatriation inclinations among skilled female self-initiated repatriates in Asia's rapidly emerging markets	12
Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective	12
Female directors’ monitoring and earnings quality: the moderating effect of political connections and family ownership	12

Who uses deceptive impression management to succeed at job interviews? The role of ethical ideologies and work locus of control	12
How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers	12
The emotional and social side of analytics professionals: an exploratory study of the behavioral profile of data scientists and data analysts	11
Empowering small farmers for sustainable agriculture: a human resource approach to SDG-driven training and innovation	11
Does investment in training help firms retain talent? Testing the commitment and human capital perspectives	11
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival	11
Identifying the factors of internal green marketing: a scale development and psychometric evaluation approach	11
The impact of training on productivity and wages in Tunisia	11
Workplace bullying and job outcomes: intersectional effects of gender and culture	11
Exploring the dark side of high-performance work systems: growing employee employability at the cost of retention?	10
Does LMX always promote employee voice? A dark side of migrant working in Saudi Arabia	10
Does working while studying affect education mismatch among youth? Evidence from Zambia	10
Chinese entrepreneurs and workers at the crossroad: the role of social networks in ethnic industrial clusters in Italy	10
Sometimes it works: the effect of a reform of the short vocational track on school-to-work transition	10
How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness	10
Firm strategy, employee retention and organizational performance: a moderated mediation study of New Zealand SMEs	10
Has it gone down the drain? The influence of overeducation on the wages of young workers	10
How curiosity affects contextual performance: an emotional daily dynamics perspective	10