Organization Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Organization Studies is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Media Review: The Value of Reputation80
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates67
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being50
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity47
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates43
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography40
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram39
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale38
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times38
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues35
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen35
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice33
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations32
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity31
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics31
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians30
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace29
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.29
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies29
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’28
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis28
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization27
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses27
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202426
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective26
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning26
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine25
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony25
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work24
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit24
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts24
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster23
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.23
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk23
Media Review: Home and Climate Risk BaldassariErin (host) SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America (Series 3, Episodes 5, 6, 7, & 8)USA: KQED Podcasts, NPR, 2024.22
Degrowth and Organization Studies22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets22
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F22
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael22
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives R. Trebor Scholz, Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet21
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations21
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism20
Misogyny and Organization Studies20
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations20
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding20
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 119
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council19
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C18
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes18
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing18
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery18
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power17
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India17
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective17
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities17
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom17
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies16
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism16
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer16
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires16
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process15
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?15
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization15
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)14
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies14
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’13
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms12
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4212
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare12
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
Academic Voluntourism12
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences11
Quagmires11
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance10
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance10
“We have a building that is more than a building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Kafka and Organization Studies9
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action9
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter9
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour9
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work9
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes9
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 209
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
Doing Is Believing: How the interplay among multimodal practices influences frame change8
Organizing for Dignity8
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
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