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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China	515
Doing good, feeling good? corporate social responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status	59
When does justice drive alliance success? Direct and moderating effects based on transaction cost theory	43
Impact of the usage of robots on employee workplace objectification and helping behavior: the moderating role of collectivism	39
Why does counterproductive work behavior lead to pro-social rule breaking? The roles of impression management motives and leader-liking	37
The impact of entrepreneurial leadership and international explorative-exploitative learning on the performance of international new ventures	31
State dominance over the market: Reexamining the survival of China’s state-owned enterprises	30
Responsible innovation in organisations – unpacking the effects of leader trustworthiness and organizational culture on employee creativity	28
The impact of political ties on firms’ innovation capability: Evidence from China	27
Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education	26
Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader	25
Correction: The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	23
Organizational Agility and Communicative Actions for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from manufacturing firms in South Korea	23
A bibliometric analysis and meta-analytic review of the impact of legitimacy on performance	22
Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets	21
Blessing or curse? The link between firm CSR practices and leaders’ unethical decisions: The mediating role of moral cognition	21
Board political connections and financial fraud: The case of business groups in South Korea	19
Regional expansion of emerging market SMEs: the roles of domestic market environmental uncertainty and international alliance partner diversity	18
CEO career horizon and corporate bribery: a strategic relationship perspective	17
One shero and/or a group of sheroes? Top executive gender and innovation in tech-based new venture	17
Protector or violator: Employees’ reactions to leader unethical pro-group behavior	17
The multilevel interplay of responsible leadership with leader identification and autonomous motivation to cultivate voluntary green behavior	16
A trailblazing scholar bridging East and West	16
Correction to: Participative leadership, ethical climate and responsible innovation perceptions: evidence from South Korea	16
Born global: antecedents and consequences of innovation capabilities	16

Two PHD principles in management scholarship	15
Political connections and profit persistence in India	14
Digital orientation and analyst recommendations: Evidence from China	14
Who is likely to be ostracized? The easy target is the Dark Triad	13
Are born global firms environmentally more responsible? Evidence from the East Asia and Pacific region	13
Foreign investment or divestment as a near-term solution to performance shortfalls? The moderating role of vicarious learning	13
Corporate philanthropy and bribery as distinctive responses to economic policy uncertainty: Do state-owned and private firms differ?	13
Responsible I(m)ovation in Asia Pacific regions	13
Correction to: Sympathy or distress? The moderating role of negative emotion differentiation in helping behavior	12
Managerial negative interpretation and environmental CSR: Evidence from China	12
Revenge or forgiveness? The dual-path mechanism of employee coping with experienced incivility from an attribution perspective	11
Celebrating the 41st anniversary of APJM: reflection of our editorial journey	11
Correction to: Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations	10
A review of strategic management research on India	10
Innovation and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Aspirant Markets: An Institutional Environment Approach	10
Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context	10
Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: The joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation	10
The way, way back? workplace deviance and its subsequent reparative behaviors over time	10
Digitalisation, data-driven dynamic capabilities and responsible innovation: An empirical study of SMEs in China	10
Political context matters: a joint effect of coercive power and perceived organizational politics on abusive supervision and silence	9
Is behaving unethically for organizations a mixed blessing? A dual-pathway model for the work-to-family spillover effects of unethical pro-organizational behavior	9
The affect-proactive performance link and its reciprocal process: a hedonic contingency theory perspective	9
Gendered leadership and market reactions to corporate environmental strategies: differentiation vs. conformity in emerging markets	9
Sympathy or distress? The moderating role of negative emotion differentiation in helping behavior	9
Correction to: The impact of perceived overqualification and trait gratefulness on the development and consequences of newcomers’ organizational cynicism	9
Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China	9
CEO age and entry timing within industry merger waves: Evidence from China	8
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	8
Blockholder rent appropriation and CEO compensation in an emerging economy: an examination of three types of blockholder–CEO relationships	8
Social network and institution-based strategy research	8
When political ties matter for firm performance? The role of CEO’s political utilization orientation and prosocial orientation	8
Workplace Diversity in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research	8
Success of Crowdfunding: A Trustworthiness Perspective	7
Art of saying no: linking trust structural hole to knowledge hiding and creativity	7
Social stratification and the philanthropy engagement strategy: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurial firms	7
Entrepreneurial passion and organizational innovation: The moderating effects of events and the competence to exploit events	7
The impact of long-term orientation on the resilience of niche leaders	7
Beyond survival: necessity-based female entrepreneurship as a catalyst for job creation through dual legitimacy	7
How to motivate employee green behavior in the Chinese context: a configurational study integrating the AMO framework with regulatory focus theory	6
The impact of management power on digital transformation	6
A four-factor model of knowledge agglomeration	6
Leveraging the Asia-Pacific context to advance management research	6
Fuse and fracture? The janus face of proactive personality in ostracism	6
Business group affiliation and entrepreneurial orientation: Contingent effect of level of internationalization and firm’s performance	6
Board gender diversity and firm performance: A complexity theory perspective	6
Finding the silver lining: why and when abusive supervision improves the objective service performance of abused employees	6
Unveiling the role of corporate social responsibility on the efficiency of capital investments and their speed of adjustment: Insights from India	5
Toward a theory of resource flow based on guanxi: Key stakeholders and dynamic process model	5
The “human side” of coopetition: the role of CEO mindsets in firm coopetition for innovation	5
Underperformance feedback and corporate environmental responsibility: coevolution with institutions	5

Cross-border investments and fundraising communication in entrepreneurship-through-acquisition: exploratory evidence from search fund entrepreneurs in Asia	5
Shareholder reaction to corporate philanthropy after a natural disaster: an empirical exploration of the “signaling financial prospects” explanation	5
Feeling proud but losing control: investigating Supervisor’s responses toward subordinate bootlegging	5
Correction to: Perceived organizational exploitation and organizational citizenship behavior: a social identity perspective	5
Correction to: Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context	5
Too much of a good thing: the curvilinear relation between inclusive leadership and team innovative behaviors	5
Are executive pay and firm performance related? Evidence-based on meta-regression analysis	5
Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations	5
Are societal-level values still relevant measures in the twenty-first century businessworld? A 39-society analysis	5
Investments during institutional transitions: Driven by problems or opportunities?	5
Trickle-down effects of corporate social responsibility on employee outcomes: the mediating role of family-supportive supervisor behaviors	5
Visionary leadership and leaders’ burnout: a weekly diary analysis	5
Managing the hearts of boundary spanners: CEO organizational identification and international joint venture performance	5
Strategic configurations: exploring MNEs’ commitment reduction in an emerging economy	4
Is failure the mother of success? Prior failure experience and cross-border M&A completion by emerging market firms	4
Strategic orientation, strategic renewal, and the international performance of born global firms	4
Does public employment foster or inhibit entrepreneurial intentions?	4
Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurial research themes in China: A combination analysis of co-word and critical event	4
How do authoritarian and benevolent leadership affect employee work–family conflict? An emotional regulation perspective	4
Moral cleansing or moral licensing? A study of unethical pro-organizational behavior’s differentiating Effects	4
Under the spotlight: contextualizing the firm vs. industry debate through the introduction of neighborhood effects	4
Buddhist leaders and family firms’ acquisition behavior	4
Time to get your hands dirty: Bricolage or pro-organizational unethical response to entrepreneurial adversity	4
Exploring the journey of Responsible Business Model Innovation in Asian companies: A review and future research agenda	4
Correction to: The affect-proactive performance link and its reciprocal process: a hedonic contingency theory perspective	4
Dominant-owner CEOs, board of directors and firm performance in emerging economies: Exploring the moderating impact of quad-qualified directors	4
Responsible innovation in emerging markets’ SMEs: The role of alliance learning and absorptive capacity	4
The virtue of a controlling leadership style: Authoritarian leadership, work stressors, and leader power distance orientation	4
Toward an institution-based paradigm	3
Green-eyed coworkers in service organizations: The impact of being envied by coworkers on employee service outcomes	3
Spinoffs’ alliance network growth beyond parental ties: performance diminishing, then performance enhancing	3
Exploring the impact of entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence on creative self-efficacy: A global perspective	3
Local Support for the Corporate New Investment Project: The Roles of Corporate Reputation, Project’s CSR Behavior and Residential Income Level	3
Is an informal leader always popular? The curvilinear relationships between informal leadership, threat to peers, and helping from peers	3
You may not reap what you sow: How and when ethical leadership promotes subordinates’ online helping behavior	3
Knowledge Collaboration in Global Value Chains: A Comparison of Supplier Selection between a Forerunner and a Latecomer	3
Ordinary capabilities and firm performance: The role of capital market development	3
Innovation through internationalization: A systematic review and research agenda	3
How voluntary sector experience as a unique institutional catalyst shapes general entrepreneurial alertness and intentions	3
Correction to: Born global: antecedents and consequences of innovation capabilities	3
Double-edged sword effect of stretch goal: is stretch goal a burden or boost to employees?	3
Frugal entrepreneurship: A way to seize business opportunities for low-income customers	3
Fostering team adaptivity under uncertain environment: comprehensive decision-making under paradoxical leadership	3
Explaining the relationship between ethnicity and depressive symptoms: The roles of climate for inclusion, job self-efficacy, and job demands	3
Female entrepreneurs’ narcissism and new venture performance in high-tech sectors: the moderating roles of gender discrimination and political connections	3
How firm digitalization affects targeted poverty alleviation participation: a capability-based view	3
Double-edged effect of female directors on strategic change: more monitoring but less risk-taking	3
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	2
Alert during what? Beyond the “Big O” to a culturally-cognizant, process view of entrepreneurial alertness	2
Are resources always beneficial? The three-way interaction between slashies’ role stress, self-efficacy and job autonomy	2
The curvilinear effects of training participation on job performance through organizational support: The moderating role of entity self-beliefs	2
Team Diversity in Chinese Organizations: A Review and a Qualitative Study	2
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	2
Participative leadership, ethical climate and responsible innovation perceptions: evidence from South Korea	2
Correction to: Green finance and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of green insurance in China	2
Ashamed of conducting UPB: how ethical leadership influences employees’ reactions to prior UPB	2
Back to the roots: The homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China	2
Completion of high-tech M&As by chinese firms: knowledge distance, industry attractiveness and government involvement	2
Corporate philanthropy, political connections, and external corporate venturing: Evidence from a transitional economy	2
Nexus of digital platforms, innovation capability, and strategic alignment to enhance innovation performance in the Asia Pacific region: a dynamic capability perspective	2
Is too much as bad as too little? The S-curve relationship between corporate philanthropy and employee performance	2
Why and for whom cyber incivility affects task performance? Exploring the intrapersonal processes and a personal boundary condition	2
How and why job crafting influences creative performance? A resource allocation explanation of the curvilinear moderated relations	2
The price of kindness: perceived bribery pervasiveness and coping mechanisms in an emerging market	2
Social sustainability practice innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: A mechanism for Vietnamese handicraft companies	2
Financial resources, corporate social responsibility, and ownership type: Evidence from India	2
Correction to: Antecedents and outcomes of authentic leadership across culture: A meta-analytic review	2
To cheat when continuously missing aspirations: Does CEO experience matter?	2
Implications of inclusive leadership for individual employee outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation of the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions	2
Feeling obliged or happy to be a good soldier? Employee cognitive and affective reactions to receiving reactive and proactive help	2
How does organizational slack influence firm performance? A replication and extension of Peng, Li, Xie, and Su (2010)	2