OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Organization Studies 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Behavioral Visibility: A new paradigm for organization studies in the age of digitization, digitalization, and datafication	125
Algorithmic Surveillance in the Gig Economy: The Organization of Work through Lefebvrian Conceived Space	118
(Un)Sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement	94
Caste and Organization Studies: Our Silence Makes Us Complicit	59
Managing by Data: Algorithmic Categories and Organizing	54
Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing	53
Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research	37
Matter That Embodies: Agentive Flesh and Working Bodies/Selves	32
Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies	29
In the Shadow of Social Stereotypes: Gender diversity on corporate boards, board chair’s gender and strategic change	27
Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain	26
Organizational Memory Studies	26
Work Design for Global Professionals: Connectivity demands, connectivity behaviors, and their effects on psychological and behavioral outcomes	26
Political Capital and MNE Responses to Institutional Voids: The case of Chinese state-owned enterprises in Africa	25
From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a prehistory of digital platforms	25
Imagining Futures: Theorizing the Practical Knowledge of Future-making	25
Interpersonal Connectivity Work: Being there with and for geographically distant others	24
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement	23
The Contemporary Resonances of Classical Pragmatism for Studying Organization and Organizing	23
From People to Objects: The digital transformation of fields	23
Policing Work: Emotions and Violence in Institutional Work	22
How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship	21
Professional Fluidity: Reconceptualising the Professional Status of Self-Employed Neo-professionals	21
Affective Control in New Collaborative Work: Communal Fantasies of Purpose, Growth and Belonging	21
Speaking about vision, talking in the name of so much more: A methodological framework for ventriloquial analyses in organization studies	20

Connectivity in and around Organizations: Waves, tensions and trade-offs	20
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy	20
Startup Responses to Unexpected Events: The impact of the relative presence of improvisation	20
Professional Values and Managerialist Practices: Values work by nurses in the emergency department	20
Multidirectional Idea Travelling Across an Organizational Field	19
Living in a Post-truth World? Research, Doubt andOrganization Studies	19
Serving Magically Perfect Fruit Globally: Local nesting in translating multiple standards	19
Hackathons as Affective Circuits: Technology, organizationality and affect	19
Queering Control and Inclusion in the Contemporary Organization: On ‘LGBT-friendly control’ and the reproduction of (queer) value	18
Inventing Culinary Heritage through Strategic Historical Ambiguity	18
Heart, Mind and Body: #NoMorePage3 and the Replenishment of Emotional Energy	17
Resourcing Under Tensions: How frontline employees create resources to balance paradoxical tensions	17
Ten Theses on Technology and Organization: Introduction to the Special Issue	17
Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer	17
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority	16
Organizing for Social and Institutional Change in Response to Disruption, Division, and Displacement: Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies	16
Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Biomateriality and Organizing: Towards an Organizational Perspective on Food	15
Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance	15
Secrecy in Practice: How Middle Managers Promote Strategic Initiatives behind the Scenes	15
How Structural Empowerment Boosts Organizational Resilience: A case study in the Dutch home care industry	15
Data and Organization Studies: Aesthetics, emotions, discourse and our everyday encounters with data	14
The Street and Organization Studies	14
‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices	14
After the Pain: Reflexive Practice, Emotion Work and Learning	13
Technology and Dis/Organization: Digital data infrastructures as partial connections	13
The Becoming of Online Healthcare through Entangled Power and Performativity: A posthumanist agential realist perspective	13
Responding to stigmatization: How to resist and overcome the stigma of unemployment	13
Orchestrating Open Innovation through Punctuated Openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems	13
Tasting the Difference: A Relational-Epistemic Approach to Aesthetic Collaboration in Haute Cuisine	12
Navigating an Identity Playground: Using sociomateriality to build a theory of identity play	12
The Politics of Reactivity: Ambivalence in corporate responses to corporate social responsibility ratings	12
Organizational Learning From Hidden Improvisation	12
Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses	12
The Hidden Paths of Category Research: Climbing new heights and slippery slopes	12
Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart City Development in Mexico City: An institutional logics approach	12
Precarity, Hospitality, and the Becoming of a Subject That Matters: A Study of Syrian Refugees in Lebanese Tented Settlements	12
Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration	12
From Pitching to Briefing: Extending entrepreneurial storytelling to new audiences	12
Research on Grand Challenges: Adopting an Abductive Experimentation Methodology	11
Role Distancing and the Persistence of Long Work Hours in Professional Service Firms	11
On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective	11
The Integrative Potential of Process in a Changing World: Introduction to a special issue on power, performativity and process	11
Confidential Gossip and Organization Studies	10
Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations	10
Embracing Paradox: TMT paradoxical processes as a steppingstone between TMT reflexivity and organizational ambidexterity	10
Do We Still Need Professional Boundaries? The multiple influences of boundaries on interprofessional collaboration	10
The Atmospherics of Creativity: Affective and spatial materiality in a designer’s studio	10
“Trust But Verify”: How middle managers in a multinational use proverbs to translate an imported management concept	10

A Hopeful Manifesto for a More Humane Academia	10
Turning to Mystery in Institutional Theory: The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises	10
Resistance as a Way of Life: How a group of workers perpetuated insubordination to neoliberal management	10
‘Evolution from the inside out’: Revisiting the impact of (re)productive resistance among ultra-orthodox female entrepreneurs	10
Investigating how the Clock–Event Time Dialectic Shapes the Doing of Time in Organizational Change	10
The Political Dynamics of Opening Participation in Strategy: The role of strategy specialists’ legitimacy and disposition to openness	10
Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneuring: Arborescent and rhizomatic assembling	10
Institutional Change, Entrepreneuring and Place: Building a Smart State	10
Marriage to the Same Kind: Organizational Political Ideology and Mergers and Acquisitions	9
Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue	9
The Ethics of Organizational Ethics	9
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism	9
No End In Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement	9
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration	9
Office Design, Neoliberal Governmentality and Professional Service Firms	9
Organizing for the Smart African City: Leveraging the urban commons for exerting the right to the city	9
Space and Sensemaking in High-Reliability Task Contexts: Insights from a maritime mass rescue exercise	9
Making Space for Garbage Cans: How emergent groups organize social media spaces to orchestrate widescale helping in a crisis	9
Are We All Activists?	9
Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss army knife or double-edged sword?	9
Splintering Organizational Subjectivities: Older workers and the dynamics of recognition, vulnerability and resistance	9