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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Why and How Societal Crises Give Rise to Extreme Growth Outliers: A Theory of External Enablement	240
What Is Next? Moving Beyond a Rejection From AMR by Repurposing Your “Theory”	227
Interpreting the Chorus: A Reply to “Leaders on the Other Side of Voice: Extending Black et al.’S Integrative Theory of Collective Voice”	179
How Crisis Management Strategies Address Stakeholders’ Sociocognitive Concerns and Organizations’ Social Evaluations	133
Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic Climate	131
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: An Interactional Framing Theory of Work Social Sexual Behavior	97
Far From Void: How Institutions Shape Growth in Informal Economies	96
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	96
Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy	92
A Theory of the Start-Up Workforce	81
Reflections on the 2022 AMR Decade Award: Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search	79
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	78
Reading The Technological Society to Understand the Mechanization of Values and Its Ontological Consequences	73
The Problems and Promise of Entrepreneurial Partnerships: Decision-Making, Overconfidence, and Learning in Founding Teams	72
The Role of Cognition and Motivation in Understanding Internal Governance and Hierarchical Failure: A Discriminating Alignment Analysis	67
From Hoax to Kayfabe: Reframing Willmott’s Metaphor for Management Theory	60
Trust and Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Killoran, Park, and Kietzmann	59
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: How Michael Polanyi’s Theory of Knowledge Illuminates Theory Development in Organizational Research	54
Eigenzeit: A New Lens on Temporal Complexity	51
Taming Artificial Intelligence: A Theory of Control-Accountability Alignment among AI Developers and Users	50
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation: Opportunities and Perils	50
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities	48
2022 Presidential Address: This Is Our Celebration	45
Navigating Uncharted Waters: How Executives Originate High-Quality Ideas for Strategic Responses to Unprecedented Shocks	43
Leaving Necessity Entrepreneurship Behind: How Entrepreneurs Actualize Desirable Futures	41

Reconciling Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness with Sustainable Development: A Reply to “Surviving to Long-Term Thriving through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness”	40
How Underdogs Succeed and Fail: An Integrated Model of the Workplace Underdog’s Trajectories	39
The Writer’s Room: An Extension to Willmott’s “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?”	38
How Music Theory Can Inform Competitive Dynamics: Anticipatory Awareness and Successful Preemption	37
Beyond Primacy: A Stakeholder Theory of Corporate Governance	34
Star Light, but Why Not So Bright? A Process Model of How Incumbents Influence Star Newcomer Performance	34
The Machine Hums! Addressing Ontological and Normative Concerns Regarding Machine Learning Applications in Organizational Scholarship	33
Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity	33
In Defense of Diversity in Theory-Building Approaches	32
2024 Presidential Address: Transforming Lives Through Scholarship and Community: The Power of the Academy of Management	32
Commercializing the Practice of Voyeurism: How Organizations Leverage Authenticity and Transgression to Create Value	31
Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization	31
Abductive Theorizing Is More Than Idea Generation: Disciplined Imagination and a Prepared Mind	30
The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed	30
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	29
Reflexive Quantitative Research	29
I Don’t Want To: The Violation of Burdensome Role Expectations	29
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	29
Feminist Value Creation: The Pursuit of Gender Equality	28
When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability	28
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	28
The Role of Human Managers within Algorithmic Performance Management Systems: A Process Model of Employee Trust in Managers through Reflexivity	27
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	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
Reconceptualizing Conceptual Engineering	26
Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution	25
The Art of Blending Stakeholders: “Bootlegger and Baptist” Coalitions in Corporate Constituency-Building	24
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions”	24
Financial Reporting Choices, Governance Structures, and Strategic Assets: A Transaction Cost Perspective	23
Corrective Governance in the Boardroom: A Negotiated Order Perspective	23
Nonprofit Organizations as Multisided Platforms	23
Institutional Resilience for Institutional Diversity: An Extension of Almandoz and Thornton’s “Understanding Institutional Environments: An Institutional Logics Model of Societal Evolution”	23
A Symbiotic Portal to Engaging Early-, Mid-, and Late-Career Workers: Progression, Off-Loading, Relevance, Teachings, Advice, Legacy	22
Uncertain Learning Curves: Implications for First-Mover Advantage and Knowledge Spillovers	22
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	22
In Defense of Objectivity: Beyond False Binaries and Manufactured Divides	20
The Programming of Programming: When Simulations Are Not the Right Tool	20
Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution	20
Moral Ambiguity and Judgment: A Reply to “Acting to Know”	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?”	19
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	19
Navigating the Gray Areas: Ethical Considerations When Writing and Publishing Conceptual Papers	19
Programs of Experimentation and Pivoting for (Overconfident) Entrepreneurs	18
How Organizational Is Interorganizational Trust?	18