OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Academy of Management Review is 19. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
It Takes Two to Untangle: Illuminating How and Why Some Workplace Relationships Adapt While Others Deteriorate after a Workplace Microaggression	429
Unpacking the Role of Organizational Actorhood in Interorganizational Trust: A Reply to “Looking Behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s ‘How Organizatio	326
Professional Network Identification: Searching for Stability in Transient Knowledge Work	316
Better to Be Loved By Some? Firm Flaunting as an Impression Management Strategy	247
The Social Nature of Stakeholder Utility	211
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	138
A Place in the World: Vulnerability, Well-Being, and the Ubiquitous Evaluation That Animates Participation in Institutional Processes	123
Looking behind the Continuum: An Institutional Economics Perspective on Schilke and Lumineau’s “How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?”	121
A Symbiotic PORTAL to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	114
Why Theory on “How Theory Fits Together” Benefits Management Scholarship	101
Imagine All the People: A Motivated Model of Work-Related Imagined Interactions	86
Parasitized Functionaries: An Extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	78
Power and Dominant Coalitions in Family Business	74
Keeping Movement in Mind: Workplace Identification and Mobilities Theorizing	68
Theorizing Time in Management and Organizations	62
Corporate Diversification, Economies of Scope, and the Risk–Return Relationship	59
A Meta-Theory of Global Work Encounters	53
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	52
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	52
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	52
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	52
Hybrid Problem-Solving with Large Language Models: A Reply to “Iterative Alternative Evaluation” and “An Assemblage Perspective”	50
Shaping the Opportunity Structure of Deviance: A Commentary on Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites”	49
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	47
Antigone: On Phronesis and How to Make Good and Timely Leadership Decisions	47

Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Trade-Offs in Dual-Purpose Companies	45
“Pay-What-You-Want” Pricing: Creating and Capturing Value Through Social Exchange	44
A Typological Theory of Domestic Employees’ Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization	43
Algorithm Envelopment in Platform Markets	42
Iterative Alternative Evaluation within Human–Artificial Intelligence Problem-Solving: An Extension to Raisch and Fomina’s “Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence”	42
Where Do Stakeholders Come From? Positive vs. Subjectivist Worldviews	42
The Ghost in the Machine, or the Ghost in Organizational Theory? A Complementary View on the Use of Machine Learning	41
Reconceptualizing Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurship: A Needs-Based View of Entrepreneurial Motivation	41
Theorizing for Positive Impact	41
On Valuing Women: Advancing an Intersectional Theory of Gender Diversity in Organizations	39
Are the Futures Computable? Knightian Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence	39
Cooperation Among Strangers: Algorithmic Enforcement of Reciprocal Exchange with Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts	35
History Matters for Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Influences from the Past	35
2020 Presidential Address a Year to Remember: An Extraordinary Journey onto a Promising Path of Inclusion and Agility	35
To Be or Not to Be (Typical): Evaluation-Mode Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Organizations	35
Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation	35
The Theory Crisis in Management Research: Solving the Right Problem	34
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	30
The Corporate Social Responsibility Price Premium as an Enabler of Substantive CSR	30
The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment	30
The Social Contract in Miniature: How Virtual Bargaining Supports Team Production	29
The Social Ontology of Purpose: How Organizations Can Have Goals and Intentions Without Having a Mind	29
Remembering Andy Van de Ven	28
Introduction to the Special Topic Forum on New Theoretical Perspectives on Market-Based Economic Systems	28
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	28
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	27
From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting Started	27
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	27
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	24
Reducing Bias through Board Decision-Making: An Information-Processing Model of Board Decision Synergy	24
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	24
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	22
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	21
The Evolving Science of Organization: Theory Matters	21
The AMR Origins Series: Demystifying the Theory-Building Process	21
When Things Get Odd: Exploring the Interactional Choreography of Taken-for-Grantedness	21
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	21
Quantum Approach to Organizational Paradox: A Copenhagen Perspective	19
Reflections on the 2023 AMR Decade Award: Revisions and Extensions of the Theory of Purposeful Work Behavior	19