OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Review is 18. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	490
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	369
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	159
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	141
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	135
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	105
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	93
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	89
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	83
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	74
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	62
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	60
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	60
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	57
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	56
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	52
Data Network Effects: Key Conditions, Shared Data, and the Data Value Duality	52
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	52
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	51
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	50
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	49
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	49
Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	47
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	46
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	46

Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	41
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	41
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	40
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	39
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	39
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	38
When Worlds Keep on Colliding: Exploring the Consequences of Organizational Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands	37
Open Theorizing in Management and Organization Studies	36
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	35
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	34
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	34
Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship Research	33
Reflexive Quantitative Research	32
Rethinking the “Necessity” in Necessity Entrepreneurship	32
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	31
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	31
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	26
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	25
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	25
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”	24
What We Do While Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	24
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	23
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	22
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	22
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	22
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	21
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	21
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	20
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	19
How Organizational is Interorganizational Trust?	19
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	19
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?”	18
An Assemblage Perspective on Hybrid Agency: A Commentary on Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	18
Continue the Story or Turn the Page? Coworker Reactions to Inheriting a Legacy	18