OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Operations & Production Management is 20. 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
Improving group problem solving through awareness of members’ problem-solving preferences	139
How leadership for Quality 4.0 affects thriving at work: a multilevel study from the identification perspective	136
The impact of corporate support programs on environmental and social innovation: empirical insights from the food and beverage industry	104
(Un)Learning sustainability practices in a multi-tiered supply chain: an interpretive study	101
Do more concentrated supplier portfolios benefit firm innovation? The moderating roles of financial slack and growth opportunities	98
Project managers' reactions to project disruption: sponsor actions versus environmental uncertainty	95
Linking competitive priorities, smart manufacturing advancement and organizational microfoundations	88
Effects of supply chain quality event announcements on stock market reaction: an empirical study from China	83
Developing a learning-to-learn capability: insights on conditions for Industry 4.0 adoption	82
Impact pathways: managing relational risk in project operations	82
Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships: a systematic review across four disciplines	66
Sustainable agriculture in developing countries: the role of operations and supply chain management in group initiatives	64
Achieving resilient supply chains: managing temporary healthcare supply chains during a geopolitical disruption	63
Do ride-hailing drivers' psychological behaviors influence operational performance?	57
Top management incentives and supply chain efficiency: a tournament theory perspective	55
Let's talk about it: the impact of nurses' implicit voice theories on individual agility and quality of care	54
The stakeholder orientation paradox: implications for supplier sustainability risk and the role of institutional distance	53
How do governmental wage subsidies enhance SME resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic?	53
Bridging sustainability knowledge management and supply chain learning: evidence through buyer selection	52
Leveraging the circular economy with a closed-loop supply chain and a reverse omnichannel using blockchain technology and incentives	52
Fostering workplace safety with a gender-diverse workforce	48
What are the root causes of material delivery schedule inaccuracy in supply chains?	46
How do customers’ environmental efforts diffuse to suppliers: the role of customers’ characteristics and suppliers’ digital technology capability	46
Sociopolitical and financial goals in state-owned manufacturers' expansion of production capacity: evidence from China	45
Coordinating multi-level collective action: how intermediaries and digital governance can help supply chains tackle grand challenges	45

Linking government interventions to firm performance: the influence of stringency and support during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Additive manufacturing in the medical sector: from an empirical investigation of challenges and opportunities toward the design of an ecosystem model	44
The spillover effects of supply chain corruption practices on stock returns	43
Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management	42
How do engineering suppliers create project value for buyers? A micro-foundational perspective	41
The role of absorptive capacity in the adoption of Smart Manufacturing	41
Modelling ragpickers’ productivity at the bottom of the pyramid: the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs)	41
Digital service orientation: unlocking servitization in service operations and service sales	40
Supplier–supplier coopetition and buyer innovation: a perspective of learning and competitive tension within the focal buyer's supplier network	40
Supply chain network structures and firm financial performance: the moderating role of international relations	40
Leveraging social capital for value creation in public procurement: the role of strategic purchasing integration	39
Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case	39
Impact pathways: unravelling the hybrid food supply chain – identifying the relationships and processes to drive change	38
Impact pathways: improving supply chain sustainability by due diligence acts? Insights from a German case	38
Impact pathways: walking a tightrope—unveiling the paradoxes of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in sales and operations planning	38
Lean supply chain management: a contextual contingent reconceptualization and Delphi method study	38
Unboxing product returns: What drives return policy leniency in the fashion industry?	38
Testing service infusion in manufacturing through machine learning techniques: looking back and forward	37
Balancing structural IT capabilities for organizational agility in digital transformation: a resource orchestration view	37
Global value chains, trade facilitation and the use of environmental management practices in SMEs	35
Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death	35
Complex supply chain structures and multi-scope GHG emissions: the moderation effect of reducing equivocality	35
Examining innovation in digital platforms: unveiling the strategy of Zhongtai	35
Navigating through geopolitical risk: the role of supply chain concentration	35
Guest editorial: EurOMA 2023 – a systems lens on operations	34
Front- and back-end employee satisfaction during service transition	34
To complete or terminate smart manufacturing projects: a prospect theory perspective	34
Revisiting the value of data sharing in retail supply chain demand planning	34
Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?	33
Understanding competition, cooperation and their interplay in supplier network: implication on manufacturer’s innovation	32
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience	31
Service modularity in e-learning programs: an analysis from the perceived usefulness perspective	31
Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives	31
The metaverse as a breakthrough for operations and supply chain management: implications and call for action	30
How does supplier digitalization improve customer resource allocation efficiency? The role of supply chain entrainment	30
The relational focus of small and medium sized actors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF)	29
Are common directors guilty of corporate fraud contagion from the customer side?	29
From resource dependence to embeddedness: how the circular economy reshapes power and dependence dynamics in buyer-supplier relationships	29
Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective	29
How performance measurement systems enable or hinder organizational ambidexterity	29
Swimming against the tide: supplier bridging roles in diffusing sustainability upstream and downstream in supply networks	28
African socio-cultural characteristics: enabling or hindering sustainability?	28
Publisher’s note	28
From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges	28
Why project managers’ knowledge hiding is harmful to NPD projects: resilient team resource caravans as an explanatory mechanism	27
Impact of supply chain transparency on the consumption of remanufactured consumer goods	27
Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises	26
Sustainability of transport and logistics companies: an empirical evidence from a developing country	26
Supply base complexity in times of crisis: moderating the negative impact of the Russia–Ukraine war	25
Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value	24

Public procurement as an attractive customer: a supplier perspective	24
Impact pathways: on the grand challenge of forced displacement and how to address European refugee crises	24
Carbon neutral announcements and Chinese stock market reaction: a supply chain network-based perspective	24
Social enterprises in supply chains: driving systemic change through social impact	24
Direct and mediation effect of supply chain complexity drivers on supply chain performance: an empirical evidence of organizational complexity theory	24
The interplay of integration, flexibility and coordination: a dynamic capability view to responding environmental uncertainty	24
Configurations of financing instruments for supply chain cost reduction: evidence from Chinese manufacturing companies	24
Supplier selection at the base of the chain: navigating competing institutional logics for shared mutual value	23
Supply chains' sustainability trajectories and resilience: a learning perspective in turbulent environments	23
Realizing operational and innovation benefits in buyer–supplier relationships: the role of close ties to the partner's partners	23
The role of digital technologies in configuring circular ecosystems	23
Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions	23
Publisher’s note	23
Institutionalization of a collaborative governance model to deliver large, inter-organizational projects	23
A chief supply chain officer matters – but only when you are in trouble!	22
More or complex actions? Effects of supply networks on firms' competitive aggressiveness	22
Is there a theory of supply chain resilience? A bibliometric analysis of the literature	21
Navigating supply chain disruptions: a purchasing portfolio matrix analysis of Chinese manufacturing SMEs in the context of COVID-19	21
Beyond Industry 4.0 – integrating Lean, digital technologies and people	21
Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing	21
To err is human: developing error competence and driving innovation in manufacturing operations	21
Paradoxical tensions impacting small-series production implementation in high-cost contexts: insights from the EU apparel industry	20
Change, champion or charity? Designing effective interventions in Pathogen Genomic Sequencing supply chains	20
Impact pathways: the hidden challenges of Scope 3 emissions measurement and management	20
Impact pathways: on the role and function of supply chain and operations management executives (SCOMEs)	20