OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	172
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	171
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	156
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	132
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	109
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	100
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	76
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	67
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	67
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	66
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	64
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	62
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	61
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	59
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	57
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	55
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	54
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	53
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	52
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	52
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	51
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	50
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	50
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	49
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	44

Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	40
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	39
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	39
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	37
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	37
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	36
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	35
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	35
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	35
Reflexive Quantitative Research	29
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	29
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	27
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	27
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	27
The Challenge and Opportunity of a Quantum Mechanics Metaphor in Organization and Management Research: A Response to Shelef, Wuebker, and Barney’s “Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas”	27
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	26
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	26
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	25
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	25
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	25
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	23
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	23
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	23
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	21
A Dynamic Model of CEO Humor as Social Information for Infomediaries’ Social Evaluations of Organizations: An Extension to König et al.’s “Good Fun or Laughingstock?”	21
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	21
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	20
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	20
Multiplex Jeopardy: Dissonant Ties Promote Gender Bias in Workplace Social Networks	19
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat	19
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	19
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	19
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	18
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	18
Remembering Donald E. Conlon	18
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	18
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	17
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers	17
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	16
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing	16
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	15
We Are Crisis: Runtime Errors in Programmatic Theory	15
It’s Going to Be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	15
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	15
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems	14

Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	14
Institutional Parasites	14
Actualizing Desirable Futures Beyond the Individual: A Comment on Coffman et al.’s (2025) “Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind”	14
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	14
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	14
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	13
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	13
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	13
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	12
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	12
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	12
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	12
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	12
Theorizing with Microhistory	12
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	11
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	11
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	11
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	11
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	10
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	10
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	10
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	10
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success	9
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy	9
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	9
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches	9
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	9
Demystifying and Normalizing the Psychological Experience of Writing for AMR: A Qualitative Analysis of the Highs, Lows, and Suggested Coping Strategies	9
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	9
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship	8
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	8
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	8
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	8
“MOB” Mentality?: On the Formation and Consequences of Moralized Opinion-Based Intergroup Conflict in Organizations	8
Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions: An Extension of Lewis Et al.’s “A Promise Not (Yet) Fulfilled”	7
Time to Face the Music: A Commentary on Lee, Busenbark, Withers, and Zajac’s “How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics”	7
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	7
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	7
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model	7
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	6
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	6
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	6
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	6
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	6
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	6
The PSI Model for Predicting Activist Engagements: Toward a Theory of Shareholder Activism	6
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	6
Where Do Stakeholders Come From?	5
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites	5
Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: An Extension to Mcmullen’s “Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from	5
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	5
Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian	5
Entrepreneurial Choice as the Genesis of Stakeholder Emergence	5
Humanistic Organizing: The Transformative Force of Mindful Organizational Communication	5
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations	5
Flowing with the Current and Making Waves: A Model of Personal Control and Institutional Migration	5
A Circadian Theory of Paradoxical Leadership	5