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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Doing good, feeling good? corporate social responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status	716
When does justice drive alliance success? Direct and moderating effects based on transaction cost theory	50
Why does counterproductive work behavior lead to pro-social rule breaking? The roles of impression management motives and leader-liking	47
Impact of the usage of robots on employee workplace objectification and helping behavior: the moderating role of collectivism	38
The impact of political ties on firms’ innovation capability: Evidence from China	32
State dominance over the market: Reexamining the survival of China’s state-owned enterprises	32
The impact of entrepreneurial leadership and international explorative-exploitative learning on the performance of international new ventures	31
Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China	28
Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education	26
Organizational Agility and Communicative Actions for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from manufacturing firms in South Korea	25
Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader	25
Board political connections and financial fraud: The case of business groups in South Korea	24
Rectifying guanxi favoritism: towards a theory of guanxi inclusive leadership	23
Correction: The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	19
A bibliometric analysis and meta-analytic review of the impact of legitimacy on performance	17
Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets	16
Blessing or curse? The link between firm CSR practices and leaders’ unethical decisions: The mediating role of moral cognition	16
Making the debt paid off: the effect of work contact during family time on unethical pro-family behavior	16
Regional expansion of emerging market SMEs: the roles of domestic market environmental uncertainty and international alliance partner diversity	15
CEO career horizon and corporate bribery: a strategic relationship perspective	15
One shero and/or a group of sheroes? Top executive gender and innovation in tech-based new venture	15
Protector or violator: Employees’ reactions to leader unethical pro-group behavior	14
Two PHD principles in management scholarship	13
The multilevel interplay of responsible leadership with leader identification and autonomous motivation to cultivate voluntary green behavior	13
A trailblazing scholar bridging East and West	13

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

Business group affiliation and entrepreneurial orientation: Contingent effect of level of internationalization and firm’s performance	6
Underperformance feedback and corporate environmental responsibility: coevolution with institutions	5
The “human side” of coopetition: the role of CEO mindsets in firm coopetition for innovation	5
Feeling proud but losing control: investigating Supervisor’s responses toward subordinate bootlegging	5
Investments during institutional transitions: Driven by problems or opportunities?	5
Shareholder reaction to corporate philanthropy after a natural disaster: an empirical exploration of the “signaling financial prospects” explanation	5
Are societal-level values still relevant measures in the twenty-first century businessworld? A 39-society analysis	5
Correction to: Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context	5
Cross-border investments and fundraising communication in entrepreneurship-through-acquisition: exploratory evidence from search fund entrepreneurs in Asia	4
Toward a theory of resource flow based on guanxi: Key stakeholders and dynamic process model	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
The virtue of a controlling leadership style: Authoritarian leadership, work stressors, and leader power distance orientation	4
How do authoritarian and benevolent leadership affect employee work–family conflict? An emotional regulation perspective	4
Too much of a good thing: the curvilinear relation between inclusive leadership and team innovative behaviors	4
Is failure the mother of success? Prior failure experience and cross-border M&A completion by emerging market firms	4
Visionary leadership and leaders’ burnout: a weekly diary analysis	4
Does public employment foster or inhibit entrepreneurial intentions?	4
Strategic configurations: exploring MNEs’ commitment reduction in an emerging economy	4
Strategic orientation, strategic renewal, and the international performance of born global firms	4
Moral cleansing or moral licensing? A study of unethical pro-organizational behavior’s differentiating Effects	4
Correction to: Perceived organizational exploitation and organizational citizenship behavior: a social identity perspective	4
Trickle-down effects of corporate social responsibility on employee outcomes: the mediating role of family-supportive supervisor behaviors	4
Are executive pay and firm performance related? Evidence-based on meta-regression analysis	4
Dominant-owner CEOs, board of directors and firm performance in emerging economies: Exploring the moderating impact of quad-qualified directors	4
Under the spotlight: contextualizing the firm vs. industry debate through the introduction of neighborhood effects	4
Corporate misconduct in Japan: a view from comparative corporate governance	4
Toward an institution-based paradigm	3
Buddhist leaders and family firms’ acquisition behavior	3
How voluntary sector experience as a unique institutional catalyst shapes general entrepreneurial alertness and intentions	3
CEO organizational identification and firm strategic change: an AMC framework	3
Ordinary capabilities and firm performance: The role of capital market development	3
Responsible innovation in emerging markets’ SMEs: The role of alliance learning and absorptive capacity	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
Female entrepreneurs’ narcissism and new venture performance in high-tech sectors: the moderating roles of gender discrimination and political connections	3
You may not reap what you sow: How and when ethical leadership promotes subordinates’ online helping behavior	3
Double-edged sword effect of stretch goal: is stretch goal a burden or boost to employees?	3
Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurial research themes in China: A combination analysis of co-word and critical event	3
Knowledge Collaboration in Global Value Chains: A Comparison of Supplier Selection between a Forerunner and a Latecomer	3
Explaining the relationship between ethnicity and depressive symptoms: The roles of climate for inclusion, job self-efficacy, and job demands	3
Exploring the impact of entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence on creative self-efficacy: A global perspective	3
Green-eyed coworkers in service organizations: The impact of being envied by coworkers on employee service outcomes	3
Innovation through internationalization: A systematic review and research agenda	3
Spinoffs’ alliance network growth beyond parental ties: performance diminishing, then performance enhancing	3
Time to get your hands dirty: Bricolage or pro-organizational unethical response to entrepreneurial adversity	3
The price of kindness: perceived bribery pervasiveness and coping mechanisms in an emerging market	2
Double-edged effect of female directors on strategic change: more monitoring but less risk-taking	2
How does organizational slack influence firm performance? A replication and extension of Peng, Li, Xie, and Su (2010)	2
Correction to: Green finance and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of green insurance in China	2
Nexus of digital platforms, innovation capability, and strategic alignment to enhance innovation performance in the Asia Pacific region: a dynamic capability perspective	2
The complexity of Machiavellian leaders: how and when leader Machiavellianism impacts abusive supervision	2
Financial resources, corporate social responsibility, and ownership type: Evidence from India	2
Team Diversity in Chinese Organizations: A Review and a Qualitative Study	2
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
Why and for whom cyber incivility affects task performance? Exploring the intrapersonal processes and a personal boundary condition	2
Navigating the balance: how congruence between authoritative and benevolent leadership enhances employee thriving via relational identification	2
Is an informal leader always popular? The curvilinear relationships between informal leadership, threat to peers, and helping from peers	2
How firm digitalization affects targeted poverty alleviation participation: a capability-based view	2
Back to the roots: The homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China	2
Are we all in the same boat? Appropriate response strategies to collective CSR crises	2
Corporate philanthropy, political connections, and external corporate venturing: Evidence from a transitional economy	2
Do political ties facilitate or inhibit firm innovation in China? An examination of the institutional structure	2
The curvilinear effects of training participation on job performance through organizational support: The moderating role of entity self-beliefs	2
Completion of high-tech M&As by chinese firms: knowledge distance, industry attractiveness and government involvement	2
Participative leadership, ethical climate and responsible innovation perceptions: evidence from South Korea	2
Implications of inclusive leadership for individual employee outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation of the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions	2
Correction to: Born global: antecedents and consequences of innovation capabilities	2
Social sustainability practice innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: A mechanism for Vietnamese handicraft companies	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
Business group affiliation and competitive repertoire	2
Are resources always beneficial? The three-way interaction between slashies’ role stress, self-efficacy and job autonomy	2
Alert during what? Beyond the “Big O” to a culturally-cognizant, process view of entrepreneurial alertness	2
To cheat when continuously missing aspirations: Does CEO experience matter?	2
Ashamed of conducting UPB: how ethical leadership influences employees’ reactions to prior UPB	2