OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Manpower is 9. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Beneath the surface of social interactions: how informal networking fuels undercurrent conflict in Middle Eastern MNCs	154
Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature	109
Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy	79
The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation	79
Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms	74
Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies	68
Beyond the Griliches biases	50
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability	48
Green human resource management: the role of positive levers of control and environmental performance measures in managing performance	45
The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different?	42
Wage effects of educational mismatch in public and private sectors: evidence from Türkiye	40
When working from home leads to burnout: the role of work–family conflict, job stress and partner work practices	37
Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level	35
A human resources analytics and machine-learning examination of turnover: implications for theory and practice	35
Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement	34
The returns to returning to school	31
Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison	29
Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model	29
Social ties, absorptive capacity, and the adoption of green innovation: a social capital perspective	25
Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy	24
Understanding technostress and employee well-being in digital work: the roles of work exhaustion and workplace knowledge diversity	24
The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries	24
Human values and selection into supervisory positions: evidence from nine European countries	23
Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data	23
Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development	23

Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms	22
IJM 43.7 Obituary	21
The labor market effect of customer concentration: based on resource allocation perspective	20
Guest editors’ overview essay:Exploring the dark side of electronic-human resource management: towards a new PROMPT model	20
Synthetic Labor Market Index: construction and application to the Spanish case	20
Focus section guest editorial: Methodological advances in HR research	19
Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model	19
Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms	19
Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?	19
How have R&D investments and participation of high-skilled labour influenced the labour market in Taiwan ROC during the COVID-19 pandemic?	19
SCM and SME performance in Australia: the mediating role of HRM practices	19
The role of big data and predictive analytics in the employee retention: a resource-based view	18
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	18
Management innovation: the influence of institutional pressures and the impact on competitive advantage	18
Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns	18
Early career gender wage gaps among university graduates in Russia	18
Knowledge-oriented leadership and workers' performance: do individual knowledge management engagement and empowerment matter?	18
How and when high-involvement work practices influence employee innovative behavior	17
Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys	17
The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity	16
Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes	16
Do (gendered) ageism and ethnic minorities explain workplace bullying?	15
Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness	15
How do human resource practices help employees alleviate stress in enforced remote work during lockdown?	15
The rainbow reality: income difference and discrimination based on sexual orientation and occupations	15
Do labour hoarding practices stimulate training investments? Evidence from the Italian Great Recession	15
Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap	15
Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender	15
A multi-stakeholder ethical framework for AI-augmented HRM	14
A study of artificial intelligence on employee performance and work engagement: the moderating role of change leadership	14
Integrating push–pull dynamics for understanding the association between boundary control and work outcomes in the context of mandatory work from home	14
Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia	14
Are alternative work arrangements a substitute for standard employment? Evidence from worker-level data	14
The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination	13
The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis	13
The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification	13
Desired and obtained work values across 37 countries: a psychology of working theory perspective	12
Informal labor security in India and external and internal shocks: assessing the impacts of climate change, COVID-19, migration and political collusion	12
Explaining job satisfaction through the use of work–familybenefits and their impact on the employee’s family context	12
Which employers pay a higher college wage premium?	12
Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry	12
Cross-level effects of union practices on extra-role behaviors: the mediating role of industrial relations climate, union commitment and union instrumentality	12
Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale	11
How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers	11
Research trends in human resource management. A text-mining-based literature review	11
Gender pay gap in explaining female entrepreneurship – industry perspective of selected European countries	11
Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance	11
The gender wage gap across the unconditional wage distribution in a period of uncertainty: findings from Serbia	11
Employee’s intention to share knowledge: the impacts of learning organization culture and learning goal orientation	11
Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective	11

Empowering small farmers for sustainable agriculture: a human resource approach to SDG-driven training and innovation	10
Female directors’ monitoring and earnings quality: the moderating effect of political connections and family ownership	10
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival	10
Workplace bullying and job outcomes: intersectional effects of gender and culture	10
Re-expatriation inclinations among skilled female self-initiated repatriates in Asia's rapidly emerging markets	10
Identifying the factors of internal green marketing: a scale development and psychometric evaluation approach	10
The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model	10
Who uses deceptive impression management to succeed at job interviews? The role of ethical ideologies and work locus of control	10
Firm strategy, employee retention and organizational performance: a moderated mediation study of New Zealand SMEs	9
How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness	9
Sometimes it works: the effect of a reform of the short vocational track on school-to-work transition	9
Exploring the dark side of high-performance work systems: growing employee employability at the cost of retention?	9
Workplace accidents, economic determinants and underreporting: an empirical analysis in Italy	9
The emotional and social side of analytics professionals: an exploratory study of the behavioral profile of data scientists and data analysts	9
Has it gone down the drain? The influence of overeducation on the wages of young workers	9
Does investment in training help firms retain talent? Testing the commitment and human capital perspectives	9
Does working while studying affect education mismatch among youth? Evidence from Zambia	9