OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Management is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Take the prize, turn green: How and when do CEO awards stimulate firm green innovation?	1534
State dominance over the market: Reexamining the survival of China’s state-owned enterprises	83
Agentic, powerful, but unethical: New ventures’ ethical practices as the outcome of entrepreneurs’ networking behaviors and structural holes	74
Impact of the usage of robots on employee workplace objectification and helping behavior: the moderating role of collectivism	43
The impact of political ties on firms’ innovation capability: Evidence from China	42
Hearts at work: why do individuals with attachment anxiety experience more work-family enrichment and less work-family conflict?	41
When does justice drive alliance success? Direct and moderating effects based on transaction cost theory	40
Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China	33
The impact of entrepreneurial leadership and international explorative-exploitative learning on the performance of international new ventures	27
Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship: the case of the emerging field of positive psychology education	26
Doing good, feeling good? corporate social responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status	26
Organizational Agility and Communicative Actions for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from manufacturing firms in South Korea	25
Making the debt paid off: the effect of work contact during family time on unethical pro-family behavior	23
Navigating domestic and overseas performance with artificial intelligence: opportunity or threat?	21
Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader	20
The hidden costs of informal leadership: Examining the relationships between leadership emergence, role ambiguity, workload, and emotional exhaustion	19
Rectifying guanxi favoritism: towards a theory of guanxi inclusive leadership	19
Board political connections and financial fraud: The case of business groups in South Korea	19
Entrepreneurial socialist imprints and the philanthropy of privately-owned firms	18
Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets	17
Correction: The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	17
Blessing or curse? The link between firm CSR practices and leaders’ unethical decisions: The mediating role of moral cognition	17
The dichotomous effect of politician turnover on firm R&D: A fresh look through the lens of social capital	17
Navigating labor cost pressures: the impact of minimum wage increases on corporate social responsibility investments	17
A bibliometric analysis and meta-analytic review of the impact of legitimacy on performance	17

Same, same but different? A comparative study of women’s networking for career success in Germany and India	17
Organizational AI adoption: a bane or a boon for employee thriving at work?	16
Correction to: Participative leadership, ethical climate and responsible innovation perceptions: evidence from South Korea	15
CEO career horizon and corporate bribery: a strategic relationship perspective	15
Two PHD principles in management scholarship	15
One shero and/or a group of sheroes? Top executive gender and innovation in tech-based new venture	15
CSR for recruiting in emerging markets: examining the underlying mechanisms and interplay with foreign firms’ country of origin	15
A trailblazing scholar bridging East and West	15
The multilevel interplay of responsible leadership with leader identification and autonomous motivation to cultivate voluntary green behavior	14
Foreign subsidiary digitalization: responding to liability of foreignness	13
Born global: antecedents and consequences of innovation capabilities	13
The complexity of big brother: the impact of electronic performance monitoring on job crafting and bedtime procrastination	12
How does board social capital affect ambidextrous innovation?	12
Intersecting logics of inequality: purdah, gendered elasticity, and engineering work in Pakistan	12
Political connections and profit persistence in India	12
Protector or violator: Employees’ reactions to leader unethical pro-group behavior	12
Stretch yourself in the gig economy: exploring gig-based crafting and its effect on employees’ full-time job outcomes	12
Digital orientation and analyst recommendations: Evidence from China	11
Are born global firms environmentally more responsible? Evidence from the East Asia and Pacific region	11
Corporate philanthropy and bribery as distinctive responses to economic policy uncertainty: Do state-owned and private firms differ?	11
Who is likely to be ostracized? The easy target is the Dark Triad	11
The hidden cost of creative self-efficacy: how it exacerbates the adverse effects of organizational injustice	11
Managerial negative interpretation and environmental CSR: Evidence from China	11
Transgenerational control intentions and green innovation in family businesses: a perspective from regulatory orientation theory	10
Celebrating the 41st anniversary of APJM: reflection of our editorial journey	10
Leading via virtual communication: a longitudinal field experiment on work team creativity in an extreme context	10
The effects of ceos’ personality traits on firm’s internationalization rhythm	10
Revenge or forgiveness? The dual-path mechanism of employee coping with experienced incivility from an attribution perspective	9
The way, way back? workplace deviance and its subsequent reparative behaviors over time	9
The influence of major economic reforms on employee coping mechanisms and work response	9
Entrepreneurial overconfidence and the industry choice for new ventures: Novice vs. habitual entrepreneurs	9
Digitalisation, data-driven dynamic capabilities and responsible innovation: An empirical study of SMEs in China	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
Dividend payout of publicly listed family firms as a two-stage mixed gamble: Evidence from Korea	8
Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: The joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation	8
Gendered leadership and market reactions to corporate environmental strategies: differentiation vs. conformity in emerging markets	8
Will a fire at the gate bring disaster to the fish: The role of external corporate social responsibility in aggravating the risk of AI-induced downsizing on job seekers	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
Political context matters: a joint effect of coercive power and perceived organizational politics on abusive supervision and silence	8
Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China	8
Revisiting the board structure: how staggered board mitigates minority shareholders expropriation	8
Correction to: The impact of perceived overqualification and trait gratefulness on the development and consequences of newcomers’ organizational cynicism	8
Crafting roles, breaking biases: how algorithmic management alleviates workplace objectification	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
Beyond survival: necessity-based female entrepreneurship as a catalyst for job creation through dual legitimacy	7
Reconfiguring innovation ecosystem connectivity: how firms foster architectural and component innovations in response to U.S.-China technological decoupling	7
Social stratification and the philanthropy engagement strategy: Evidence from Chinese entrepreneurial firms	7
When political ties matter for firm performance? The role of CEO’s political utilization orientation and prosocial orientation	7
Blockholder rent appropriation and CEO compensation in an emerging economy: an examination of three types of blockholder–CEO relationships	7

Art of saying no: linking trust structural hole to knowledge hiding and creativity	7
Fuse and fracture? The janus face of proactive personality in ostracism	7
From women in management toward gender in management research and practice in the Chinese context: legitimacy and legitimation	7
Do CEOs’ names affect business ethics? Evidence from earnings manipulation	7
Entrepreneurial passion and organizational innovation: The moderating effects of events and the competence to exploit events	7
Generation of family CEO and outward FDI: an examination of Indian family firms	7