OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Journal of Management 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of political ties on firms’ innovation capability: Evidence from China	397
Task conflict and team creativity: The role of team mindfulness, experiencing tensions, and information elaboration	58
With higher leverage comes greater responsibility? Excess leverage and corporate social responsibility in China: the moderating role of CEO characteristics	52
Managing minority employees in organizations in Asia Pacific: Towards a more inclusive workplace?	39
The way, way back? workplace deviance and its subsequent reparative behaviors over time	35
How boards’ factional faultlines affect corporate financial fraud	35
Network centrality and negative ties in feminine and masculine occupations	30
Antecedents and consequence of frugal and responsible innovation in Asia: through the lens of organization capabilities and culture	28
Responsible innovation in Asia: A systematic review and an agenda for future research	28
Investments during institutional transitions: Driven by problems or opportunities?	26
Correction to: Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations	25
The influence of founders’ membership status on transgenerational succession intention in family business: Evidence from China	23
Why does counterproductive work behavior lead to pro-social rule breaking? The roles of impression management motives and leader-liking	23
Taming the black swan: CEO with military experience and organizational resilience	23
Correction to: Understanding the effects of performance pressure on fluctuations in pro-environmental behavior: a threat rigidity perspective	23
Doing good, feeling good? corporate social responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status	22
The price of kindness: perceived bribery pervasiveness and coping mechanisms in an emerging market	21
International R&D cooperation and Chinese firms’ exploitative and exploratory innovation in a bifurcated world	20
A review of strategic management research on India	19
Listing pathway, industry competition and internationalization: the case of Chinese family firms	19
The “human side” of coopetition: the role of CEO mindsets in firm coopetition for innovation	17
Correction to: Green finance and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of green insurance in China	16
Responsible innovation in organisations – unpacking the effects of leader trustworthiness and organizational culture on employee creativity	16
Trickle-down effects of corporate social responsibility on employee outcomes: the mediating role of family-supportive supervisor behaviors	16
When does justice drive alliance success? Direct and moderating effects based on transaction cost theory	15

Foreign venture capital investing strategies in transition economies: The case of China	15
Innovation and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Aspirant Markets: An Institutional Environment Approach	15
Bouncing back from failure: Digital technology capability, entrepreneurial alertness, and reentry intention	14
Shareholder reaction to corporate philanthropy after a natural disaster: an empirical exploration of the “signaling financial prospects” explanation	14
Correction to: Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context	14
Implications of inclusive leadership for individual employee outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation of the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions	14
Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China	13
Underperformance feedback and corporate environmental responsibility: coevolution with institutions	13
Correction to: Perceived organizational exploitation and organizational citizenship behavior: a social identity perspective	12
Does corporate social responsibility reduce idiosyncratic risk? The contingent role of opportunity costs	12
Why and for whom cyber incivility affects task performance? Exploring the intrapersonal processes and a personal boundary condition	12
Is too much as bad as too little? The S-curve relationship between corporate philanthropy and employee performance	11
Participative leadership, ethical climate and responsible innovation perceptions: evidence from South Korea	11
State dominance over the market: Reexamining the survival of China’s state-owned enterprises	11
Too much of a good thing: the curvilinear relation between inclusive leadership and team innovative behaviors	11
Toward a theory of resource flow based on guanxi: Key stakeholders and dynamic process model	11
The more you exploit, the more expedient I will be: A moral disengagement and Chinese traditionality examination of exploitative leadership and employee expediency	10
The impact of entrepreneurial leadership and international explorative-exploitative learning on the performance of international new ventures	9
Board diversity and dividend policy in India	9
Advancing entrepreneurial alertness research: theoretical, empirical, and Asia Pacific perspectives	9
Antecedents and outcomes of authentic leadership across culture: A meta-analytic review	9
Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: The joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation	9
Are executive pay and firm performance related? Evidence-based on meta-regression analysis	9
Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education	9
Social sustainability practice innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: A mechanism for Vietnamese handicraft companies	9
A bibliometric analysis and meta-analytic review of the impact of legitimacy on performance	8
Is failure the mother of success? Prior failure experience and cross-border M&A completion by emerging market firms	8
Blessing or curse? The link between firm CSR practices and leaders’ unethical decisions: The mediating role of moral cognition	8
Working with stigma: the buffering role of self-compassion	8
High Task Performers Reduce Labor: A Self-Consistency Model of Organizational Exploitation	8
Is there an illusion of symmetry in cultural distance from Asia–pacific Emnes? the role of business groups in navigating cultural distance through ambidextrous learning	7
Due diligence speed in technology acquisitions: the impact of top management team’s social capital	7
Board political connections and financial fraud: The case of business groups in South Korea	7
Research on the micro-foundations of sustainable development by overseas innovation ecosystems: a dynamic capabilities view	7
Ashamed of conducting UPB: how ethical leadership influences employees’ reactions to prior UPB	7
Let’s Talk about AI: Talking about AI is Positively Associated with AI Crafting	7
To lead or not? The role theory perspective on the moderating roles of transformational and laissez-faire leadership in shared leadership teams	7
Linking individual entrepreneurial orientation to entrepreneurial alertness	7
Team-medical staff incongruence in patient orientation and medical service quality: A moderated mediation model	6
Stuck in Limbo: how sensemaking discrepancy over strategy-related performance leads to disjointed collaboration in an international joint venture	6
Moral cleansing or moral licensing? A study of unethical pro-organizational behavior’s differentiating Effects	6
Managing the hearts of boundary spanners: CEO organizational identification and international joint venture performance	6
Correction: The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	5
Correction to: Assessing the belt and road initiative as a narrative: Implications for institutional change and international firm strategy	5
Organizational Agility and Communicative Actions for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from manufacturing firms in South Korea	5
The double-edged sword of narcissism: influences of university students’ grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on entrepreneurial intention	5
Entrepreneurial alertness: A mechanism for innovation and growth in an emerging economy	5
Entrepreneurial passion, role models and self-perceived creativity as antecedents of e-entrepreneurial intention in an emerging Asian economy: The moderating effect of social media	5
The dark side effects of CEO general managerial skills on corporate overinvestment	5
The affect-proactive performance link and its reciprocal process: a hedonic contingency theory perspective	5

Excess IPO funds as an imprint: An imprinting perspective of acquisition activity	5
Doing well by doing good: unpacking the black box of corporate social responsibility	5
The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	5
Correction to: The double-edged sword of narcissism: influences of university students’ grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on entrepreneurial intention	5
Visionary leadership and leaders’ burnout: a weekly diary analysis	4
Correction to: The impact of perceived overqualification and trait gratefulness on the development and consequences of newcomers’ organizational cynicism	4
Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader	4
Sympathy or distress? The moderating role of negative emotion differentiation in helping behavior	4
Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets	4
Cross-border investments and fundraising communication in entrepreneurship-through-acquisition: exploratory evidence from search fund entrepreneurs in Asia	4
Nexus of digital platforms, innovation capability, and strategic alignment to enhance innovation performance in the Asia Pacific region: a dynamic capability perspective	4
How do authoritarian and benevolent leadership affect employee work–family conflict? An emotional regulation perspective	4
To cheat when continuously missing aspirations: Does CEO experience matter?	4
Be cautious or win in danger? Firms’ economic policy uncertainty perception and green technology innovation	4
Recalibrating S&T collaborations under the decoupling -evidence from Chinese ICT firms	4
Political context matters: a joint effect of coercive power and perceived organizational politics on abusive supervision and silence	4
Is behaving unethically for organizations a mixed blessing? A dual-pathway model for the work-to-family spillover effects of unethical pro-organizational behavior	4
Promote the digital transformation of traditional enterprise by resetting organizational identification	3
Why do CSR ratings of firms diverge in China? The role of CSR information cues and non-CSR information	3
Does public employment foster or inhibit entrepreneurial intentions?	3
Exploring the longitudinal effects of emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence on knowledge management processes	3
Corporate philanthropy, political connections, and external corporate venturing: Evidence from a transitional economy	3
The contingent effect of private entrepreneur foreign-study experience on firm innovation in China	3
Strategic configurations: exploring MNEs’ commitment reduction in an emerging economy	3
Strategic orientation, strategic renewal, and the international performance of born global firms	3
Blockholder rent appropriation and CEO compensation in an emerging economy: an examination of three types of blockholder–CEO relationships	3
Responsible innovation in emerging markets’ SMEs: The role of alliance learning and absorptive capacity	3
Alert during what? Beyond the “Big O” to a culturally-cognizant, process view of entrepreneurial alertness	3
Team Diversity in Chinese Organizations: A Review and a Qualitative Study	3
I just don’t want to lose face: A self-image reparative response framework of how and when abused subordinates improve their performance	3
Exploring the journey of Responsible Business Model Innovation in Asian companies: A review and future research agenda	3
Inward FDI spillovers and emerging multinationals’ outward FDI in two directions	3
Interfirm trust and subsidiary performance of emerging market multinational enterprises: an examination of contingent factors	3
Buddhist leaders and family firms’ acquisition behavior	3
The antecedents of moral identity: A meta-analytic review	3
Attraction versus competition: A tale of two similarity effects in director selection of Chinese firms	3
Distributor whistleblowing: The effects of manufacturer trustworthiness, opportunism, and transaction contexts	2
The virtue of a controlling leadership style: Authoritarian leadership, work stressors, and leader power distance orientation	2
Combining cognition and context: entrepreneurial alertness and the microfoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems	2
Correction to: How Yin-Yang cognition affects organizational ambidexterity: the mediating role of strategic flexibility	2
Decomposition of the growth drivers and its spatial distribution characteristics of responsible innovation: A study of Chinese industrial enterprises	2
CEO age and entry timing within industry merger waves: Evidence from China	2
Bribery in emerging economies: an integration of institutional and non-market position perspective	2
The divergent effects of employees’ sense of power on constructive and defensive voice behavior: A cross-level moderated mediation model	2
Effects of sexual harassment on work–family enrichment: the roles of organization-based self-esteem and Polychronicity	2
Completion of high-tech M&As by chinese firms: knowledge distance, industry attractiveness and government involvement	2
Board interlock and the diffusion of corporate social responsibility among Chinese listed firms	2
When political ties matter for firm performance? The role of CEO’s political utilization orientation and prosocial orientation	2
Different functions of the essential and nurturing elements of mindfulness training programs: the role of self-concept clarity	2
Management and organizational research in Asia Pacific: insights from a 40th anniversary review of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management	2
The consequences of sibling rivalry: Board chair birth order and corporate misconduct	2
One shero and/or a group of sheroes? Top executive gender and innovation in tech-based new venture	2
The curvilinear effects of training participation on job performance through organizational support: The moderating role of entity self-beliefs	2
Dominant-owner CEOs, board of directors and firm performance in emerging economies: Exploring the moderating impact of quad-qualified directors	2
Correction to: The affect-proactive performance link and its reciprocal process: a hedonic contingency theory perspective	2
Belt and Road Initiative, globalization and institutional changes: implications for firms in Asia	2
Regional expansion of emerging market SMEs: the roles of domestic market environmental uncertainty and international alliance partner diversity	2
Remember to say “thanks” when rejecting others: the moderating role of leader gratitude expression in the relationship between leader voice rejection and employees’ subsequent upward voice	2
CEO career horizon and corporate bribery: a strategic relationship perspective	2
How and when does family motivation decrease job performance through work-family conflict? The functions of role integration and segmentation preference	2
Under the spotlight: contextualizing the firm vs. industry debate through the introduction of neighborhood effects	2
Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China	2