Organization Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Studies is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel82
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram59
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being46
Media Review: The Value of Reputation44
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography38
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences37
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda32
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice31
On Measuring Social Science Impact29
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants28
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen27
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement26
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times25
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale25
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization24
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling24
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises24
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity24
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine22
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam22
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses22
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning22
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies22
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit21
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’21
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts20
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis20
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective20
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace20
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness19
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work19
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations19
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets19
Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk19
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F19
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect19
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism18
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations18
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster18
Media Review: Crafting Traditions and Speculative Imaginaries Atmospheres of CraftPalazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, Italy, 27/05 to 30/06/2023, created and curated by D20 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael18
Misogyny and Organization Studies18
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers18
Media Review: Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C17
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment17
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes17
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council16
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power14
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization14
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation14
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)13
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue13
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack13
Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing13
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process13
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies13
Academic Voluntourism12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Media Review: Moral Laundering12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France11
Producing images and making judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work11
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It11
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality11
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator11
Quagmires11
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration11
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration10
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action10
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals10
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter10
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments10
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations9
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group9
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers9
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17969
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership9
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.9
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible9
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear9
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies9
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy9
Organizing for Dignity9
Designing and Aligning Interprofessional Relations: Third-party ties and partnership formation in the silk industry of 18th-century Lyon8
Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises8
What is the Purpose of this Meeting? The hidden meanings of the meeting announcement8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings7
Media Review: Slavery and the Bank: A commentary on historic corporate social responsibility Bank of England Museum Slavery & the BankBank of England, London (UK), April 2022–February 2024.7
Book Review: The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World7
Media Review: Organization and Time7
The Virus and Organization Studies: A changing episteme7
From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond7
Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis7
Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence7
Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone7
Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing7
Strategic Social Value Orientation and Sustainability Performance: A commensuration perspective7
Here’s What You Don’t Get About War: A footnote to Lipstick7
Days of Future Past: The tradition–novelty paradox and the endurance of heritage crafts7
How Does Embodiment Enable the Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations? From Polanyi to Merleau-Ponty7
Media Review: Organisational Misbehaviour7
Seduced by Technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies6
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies6
On (Not) Fitting In: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents6
‘We’re Not a White Fella Organization’: Hybridity and friction in the contact zone between local kinship relations and audit culture in an Indigenous organization6
Entrepreneurial imagining: How a small team of arts entrepreneurs created the world’s largest traveling carillon6
Seal of Approval? Trust signals and cultural distance in a global peer-to-peer platform market6
Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy6
When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle managers and the strategic use of the past5
Investigating the Complexity of Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A configurational analysis of organizational strain factors5
A Routine Dynamics Perspective on the ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires5
Tormented Selves: The social imaginary of the tortured artist and the identity work of creative workers5
How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making5
How Structural Empowerment Boosts Organizational Resilience: A case study in the Dutch home care industry5
Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic performativity in climate adaptation5
Boundary Work in Response to Professionals’ Contextual Constraints: Micro-strategies in Interprofessional Collaboration5
Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies5
Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking sustainability for a more-than-human world5
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work5
Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work5
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems5
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting5
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry5
Walking the Digital Tightrope: Diversity and voice in creative platform work5
Media Review: The Inhumane History of People-Centered Management Practices5
The Object of Inquiry and Organization Studies5
Strangers in the Dark: Navigating opacity and transparency in open online career-related knowledge sharing4
Media Review: Decolonizing Future Imaginaries4
Tearing at the Tapestry: An ethnography of solidaristic humour, academic strike action and a new management strategy4
What is ‘Neo-Craft’ Work, and Why it Matters4
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?4
Media Review: Writing Differently4
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management4
When Relationships Get in the Way: The emergence and persistence of care routines4
Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities4
Relational Solidarity on the Streets: Shared vulnerability in face-to-face encounters4
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions4
Making a Killing: Israel’s Military-Innovation Ecosystem and the Globalization of Violence4
Media Review: The Politics of Climate Change4
Media Review: The New Corporate Landscape4
Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives BáezFireleiTrust Memory Over History Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, October 5, 2023 – May 20, 20244
Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations HearnJeffAavikKadriCollinsonDavid L.ThymAnika (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, prac4
Media Review: Bifurquer, “il n’y a pas d’alternative”4
Media Review: Tough cookies in UK universities3
Freedom Behind Bars: The central role of emotions in naturalizing an analogy for social change3
Organizing for the Smart African City: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city3
Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society3
Exploring the Potential of Documentary in Organization Research3
From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms3
Soil and Organization Studies: Unearthing a ‘more-than-relational’ ethics towards non-humans3
Media Review: Tasting qualities: The past and future of tea3
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices3
Why and how counting counts: Perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies3
Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution3
Organizational Learning From Hidden Improvisation3
A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia3
Media Review: Organization, Culture and the Power of Imagination3
Exploring the Realization of Moments of Leadership. A Methodological Approach3
Media Review: Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–20303
Media Review: Arts and Crafts House Museums and the Organization of History and Society ManorKelmscott, Lechlade Emery Walker’s House, London3
Media Review: Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors3
Assessing and Driving Societal Impact: Introduction to the themed section on Overcoming Shortcomings of Measuring Organizational Sustainability3
Wage Theft, Secrecy, and Derealization of ‘Ideal Workers’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry3
Media Review: Apocalypse Managériale3
‘Civilized Dispossession’: Corporate accumulation at the dawn of modern capitalism2
‘Little Boxes All the Same’: Exploring and contextualizing paradoxes of power in a strategic change programme in a UK university2
How the Malleability of Material Artefacts Contributes to Institutional Maintenance: The Guimard Metropolitan railway entrances, 1914–20002
Couchsurfing with Bateson: An ecology of digital platforms2
Media Review: Affect in Organization and Management2
Making Sense of Hybrid Practices: The role of individual adherence to institutional logics in impact investing2
Media Review: Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk2
The Patterning of Interactive Organizational Identity Work2
Securing Meaningfulness in Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring meaning-making mechanisms via economies of worth2
Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism2
Feudal patriarchy, capitalist configurations, and workplace sexual harassment in Pakistan2
Introduction to the Special Issue on“Collective Action in Crisis?”2
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority2
Media Review: Callon’s Ode to Markets2
Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept2
Non-Wars and Emergence of New Organizational Forms Combining States, Markets and Civil Society2
Media Review: Epistemic Communities and Climate Activism2
Meaningful Work Through Craft: How workers in low-skilled roles engage in anomalous craft to gain autonomy and receive recognition2
Developing Capabilities in Smart City Ecosystems: A multi-level approach2
Becoming Visible: Uncovering hidden entanglements of power, performativity and becoming subjectivities in a global bank2
Closing the Gender Pay Gap: Analyst coverage, stakeholder attention, and gender differences in executive compensation2
The Problem of Institutional Trust2
Amplifying Stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium2
Effect of Time Pressure on Informal Advice Relations Across Organizational Units: Evidence from a study of collaboration within a Formula One racing team2
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