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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram83
Media Review: The Value of Reputation69
Balancing Breadth and Depth in Qualitative Research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography52
War in Peace: Race, Organized Violence and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being52
How Historical Context Shapes the Construction of Field-Level Frames: A comparative study of France and Germany’s shale gas debates49
The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel44
Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity40
Experiencing Liminality as Unattainable Embodied Concern: Practice engagement of displaced Ukrainians40
Collectively Committing to ‘What Is Interesting’ in Qualitative Research: A methodological application of interactional sociolinguistics39
Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies38
Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale36
Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda35
Editorial: Reflections on Organizing in/for Peace and War Times35
Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity35
Space and the Dynamic Between Openness and Closure: Open strategizing in the TV series Borgen33
Competing With Smart Machines: The dark side of ‘conjoined agency’ in contemporary organizations32
Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice31
Your Silence Speaks Loudly: A ventriloquial approach to corporate silence about commitment in argumentative polylogues31
Building Bridges in the Digital Age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis30
Breaking with the Past to Face the Future? Organizational path dependence in family businesses30
From Fit to Fitting: A routine dynamics perspective on M&A synergy realization29
With Privilege Comes Responsibility: Why some privileged insiders transform institutions for societal benefit29
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts29
Social Diversity and Precarious Organizations: An intersectional feminist perspective29
Media Review: Exploring Paradox with Gail Fairhurst and Linda Putnam FairhurstGail T.PutnamLinda L.Performing Organizational ParadoxesNew York: Routledge, 202428
Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation in the Crafting of the New Peruvian Cuisine28
Media Review: Organization in Colour BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Toward a chromatics of the social. Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 pp.27
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’27
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace26
Contesting the Future: Utopian politics and the defence of fossil fuel hegemony25
Media Review: Gendering Place and Affect SimpsonAlexSimpsonRuthBakerDarren (Eds.) Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and BelongingBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 262 pp.24
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning24
Field Disasters, Routine Shifts, and Adaptation Performance: Evidence from the Chernobyl disaster24
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism24
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, 2024.23
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 (MarchesiniSergioRiviRaffael23
Collective Leadership as ‘Plumbing and Poetry’: Navigating Paradoxical Tensions Through Community Identity Work23
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations22
Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk22
Misogyny and Organization Studies22
Media Review: Trebor Scholz and the Unfinished Experiment of Platform Cooperatives R. Trebor Scholz, Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet22
Media Review: Extrapolations – A View from OS4F22
Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations22
Dialectical Emotional Labour in Digital Person-branding: The case of digital influencers22
Degrowth and Organization Studies21
The Green Hush: A foundational model of brownwashing and the impacts of greenwashing20
Reintroducing Light to the Study of Organizations: Affective montages from the Cluny monastery20
Media Review: Attuned Practice CozzaMichelaCarreriAnnaPoggioBarbara (Editors), Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in organization and management. New York: Routledge, 2025, 120
The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets20
Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India19
Detrimental Effects of Remaining Silent about Operational Concerns at Work: Implications for employee outcomes19
Institutional Stress: Academic freedom under attack by democratic backsliding19
Heat and Organization Studies: Organizing in a world approaching 50°C19
Societal Institutions and Contradictions in the Workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom19
Reactivity to Benchmarking Corporate Human Rights: A configurational perspective18
Sayings and Doings in Practices: Enhancing practice-driven institutionalism with insights from the philosophy of embodiment18
From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and repair-focused deinstitutionalization17
Media Review: Tár , Power of jouissance , jouissance of Pow17
Media Review: Can Elite-Driven Social Change Save the World?17
Transforming Visions into Actions: Strategic change as a future-making process17
Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack17
Why Art Matters for Organization Studies17
Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council17
Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires17
Relational Publics: Studying organizational possibilities17
Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing? WangWenqianLumineauFabriceSchilkeOliverBlockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational DesignCambridg16
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities16
From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness16
Navigating Place: Extending perspectives on place in organization studies15
Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation15
Breaking the Spell of the Necromancer15
Media Review: Moral Laundering RhodesCarlStinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good BillionaireBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. xvii+200 pp.15
Enacting Aspirational Modes of Being: Oil and gas employees’ subject formation and Telo s under corporate environmentalism15
Academic Voluntourism14
Media Review: Navigating the Tightrope Under Political Turmoil KucinskasJaime LeeThe Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing AutocracyColumbia University Press, 2025, 4214
Trajectories of Value Generation and Capturing by Public–Private Hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare14
What We Do in the Shadows: How expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’14
Co-creating Knowledge and Shaping Practice: The collaborative work of nascent occupations14
Accommodating Machine Learning Algorithms in Professional Service Firms13
‘Reason of State’ as an Organizing Stance for the World as we Find It12
Resonant Organizing and Thriving in the Post-growth Era: Diffractive entanglements in a case of social organizing12
Barbara Czarniawska (1948–2024)12
Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality KingMichelleThe Fix Podcast, 213 episodes12
Stuck in Temporal Translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration12
After the Crisis: Explaining stories of professional identity growth from collective action12
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)12
Tangled Up in ‘Life’: A qualitative study of enterprise, power and bio-resistance11
Media Review: Trust and Human–AI Interaction in The Creator EdwardsGareth The Creator Regency Enterprises, Entertainment One, New Regency, Bad Dreams, 2011
Producing Images and Making Judgement: The ongoing use of epistemic technologies in expert work10
‘He Pours Love and You Eat It’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Human Contact and Love in Affective Labour10
Kafka and Organization Studies10
“We have a building that is more than a building”: Spatial imaginaries of the Scottish Parliament10
‘. . . All Stakeholders Are Equally Unhappy’: The politics of frame consensus10
Organizing for Dignity9
“Letting the Uniform Take It”: Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance9
The Power Implications of the Shift to Customer Reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France9
Bureaucracy Meets Digital Reality: The unfolding of urban platforms in European municipal governments9
Enjoying the Betwixt and Between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter9
Quagmires9
Media Review: Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy ProvostClaireKennardMattSilent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew DemocracyLondon: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp.9
Juggling Ambiguity in Sustained Ignoring Work: The persistent dismissal of warnings at a university hospital9
Media Review: Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences9
Organizational imaginaries8
Prefiguring Alternative Organizing: Confronting marginalization through projective cultural adjustment and tempered autonomy8
Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization8
Rehearsing Organization: Art, eutopia, pre-enactment8
Cracking the Deck: National origins and promotions in the Dutch East India Company, 1700–17968
Deliberative Boundary Work for Sustainable Finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational magic as a contested process of revelation and concealment8
‘Making it Easy to Do Hard Things’: How experts help novices perceive craft as accessible8
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership8
Media Review: Cooking Up Organizational Change at The Bear8
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