OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Management is 6. 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
Organizational Agility and Communicative Actions for Responsible Innovation: Evidence from manufacturing firms in South Korea	23
Correction: The role of altruistic behavior and genetic influence of DRD4 in resource gain and resource loss spirals	23
A bibliometric analysis and meta-analytic review of the impact of legitimacy on performance	22
Blessing or curse? The link between firm CSR practices and leaders’ unethical decisions: The mediating role of moral cognition	21
Survival tactics for distressed firms in emerging markets	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
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
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
Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China	9
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
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
Finding the silver lining: why and when abusive supervision improves the objective service performance of abused employees	6
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