OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Academy of Management Review 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	475
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	363
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	352
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	274
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	234
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	155
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	137
Property Rights, Owner-Management, and Value Creation	132
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	102
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	91
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	81
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	79
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	77
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	71
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	61
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	59
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	59
Why “Doing Well by Doing Good” Went Wrong: Getting Beyond “Good Ethics Pays” Claims in Managerial Thinking	56
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	56
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	54
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	52
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	50
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	50
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	49
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	48

Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	48
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	46
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	46
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	46
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	45
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	45
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	43
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	41
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	40
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	40
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research	39
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	38
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	38
Reflexive Quantitative Research	37
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”	35
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	35
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	34
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	32
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	32
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	32
What We Do While Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	32
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	32
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	31
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	29
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	29
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	29
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	25
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	25
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	25
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	24
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	24
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	24
Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management	23
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	22
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?”	22
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	22
Beyond Backlash: Advancing Dominant-Group Employees’ Learning, Allyship, and Growth Through Social Identity Threat	21
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	21
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	20
Highly Oppositional Occupations and Cognitive Behavioral Script-Based Mechanisms of Work–Home Conflict	20
Social Objectivity and Entrepreneurial Opportunities	19
Practices of Periodization: Toward a Critical Perspective on Temporal Division in Organizations	19
Conceptual Engineering: The Assessment of Rigor and Rudimentary Recommendations for Theory Developers	18
Path Nets: Concurrence and Recurrence in the Dynamics of Organizing	18
From the Evaluator’s Perspective: A Functional Approach to Social Judgments	18
Remembering Donald E. Conlon	18
Boundary Transitions in Dynamic Teamwork	17
Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies	17
Institutional Parasites	17
It’s Going to be Fun: Toward a Multilevel, Multidisciplinary, and Multi-Contextual Dialogue on CEO Humor	16

Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	16
We Are Crisis: Runtime Errors in Programmatic Theory	16
Toward the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Organizing Early-Phase New Venture Creation Support Systems	16
Ghost in the Machine: On Organizational Theory in the Age of Machine Learning	16
Editor’s Comments: Taking Steps to Level the Playing Field	16
Toward a Meta-Theory of Creativity Forms: How Novelty and Usefulness Shape Creativity	16
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	15
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	15
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	15
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	15
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	14
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	13
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	13
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Approach to Producing Value Out of Uncertainty	12
The Ontology of the Corporate Mind	12
Taking Situatedness Seriously in Theorizing About Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: A Response to Kemp’s “Competitive Advantages Through Artificial Intelligence”	12
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	12
Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity	12
In the Eye of the Beholder: An Extension of Jukka Rintamäki, Simon Parker, and Andre Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	12
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	12
Theorizing with Microhistory	12
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment	12
First-Mover Advantages versus First-Mover Benefits: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?	11
A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Employee Job Performance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective	11
From Bouncing Back to Bouncing Forward: A Temporal Trajectory Model of Organizational Resilience	10
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change	10
Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Life Cycles, and Value	10
My Place: How Workers Become Identified with Their Workplaces and Why It Matters	10
Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing	9
On the Limitations of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Anti-Intellectualist Philosophy	9
Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations	9
Demystifying and Normalizing the Psychological Experience of Writing for AMR: A Qualitative Analysis of the Highs, Lows, and Suggested Coping Strategies	9
Human Capital Resources Emergence Theory: The Role of Social Capital	8
Substituting Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning: Implications for Organizational Learning	8
Moral Character Development: The “Moral Moments” Model	8
Dances with Avatar: How Creators Can Reduce the Novelty of Their Work to Achieve More Creative Success	8
Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship	8
Generating Theory by Abduction	8
Optimizing Concepts: Conceptual Engineering in the Field of Management—The Case of Routines Research	8
Idea Generation in Abductive Thinking: Not One but Three Approaches	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”	8
Entrepreneurs as Scientists: A Pragmatist Alternative to the Creation-Discovery Debate	8
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	7
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	7
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	7
Time to Face the Music: A Commentary on Lee, Busenbark, Withers, and Zajac’s “How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics”	7
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	7
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	7
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	7
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	6
Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites	6
Contracting with Strangers: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective on Gregory, Beck, Henfridsson, and Yaraghi’s “Cooperation among Strangers”	6
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	6
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	6
Connected but Conflicted: Separating Incompatible Roles in Organizations	6