OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Organization Studies 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
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram	60
Aγoρά: Our new format for debates	53
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being	50
Media Review: The Value of Reputation	47
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography	43
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel	40
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda	37
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale	32
On Measuring Social Science Impact	32
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity	30
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times	30
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice	29
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen	27
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises	27
How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants	27
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’	27
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement	27
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling	26
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization	25
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning	23
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam	23
Media Review: Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies	23
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit	22
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis	22
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective	22

Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine	21
Media Review: Organization in Colour	21
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace	21
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts	21
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses	20
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F	20
Misogyny and Organization Studies	20
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations	20
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations	20
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael	20
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work	20
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism	20
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster	20
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C	19
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk	19
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness	19
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect	19
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment	19
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers	19
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets	19
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India	18
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom	18
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council	17
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes	17
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg	17
Institutional stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding	17
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities	17
Media Review: Tár, Power of jouissance, jouissance of Power	16
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies	16
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer	16
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?	16
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities	16
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization	15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation	15
What is NORML? Sedimented Meanings in Ambiguous Organizational Identities	15
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process	15
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires	14
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness	14
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies	14
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack	14
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process	14
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)	13
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare	13
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing	13
Academic Voluntourism	13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It	13
Enacting aspirational modes of being: Oil and gas employees' subject formation and Telos under corporate environmentalism	13
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)	13
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’	13

Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.	12
Quagmires	12
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour	12
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences	12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration	12
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality	12
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work	12
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms	12
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance	12
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance	12
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator	11
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments	11
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter	11
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France	11
Organizing for Dignity	10
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt and Organization Studies	10
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration	10
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action	10
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy	10
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.	10
Media Review: Richard Lachmann First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers	10
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible	10
Feeling Rule Management and Relational Authority: Fostering patient compliance in palliative care consultations	10
Early Career Leadership Advancement: Evidence of incongruity penalties toward young, single women professionals	10
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–1796	10