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 2021-11-01 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
Emotion, Persuasion, and Team Adaptation: Advancing Theory Through Cinema	67
Understanding Perpetrator Reactions to Bystander Intervention in Interpersonal Workplace Aggression	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
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
Back to Which Future? Recalibrating the Time-Calibrated Narratives of Entrepreneurial Action to Account for Nondeliberative Dynamics	27
What We Do while Waiting: The Experience of Vulnerability in Trusting Relationships	26
Pluralism and Triangulation: A Reply to Willmott’s “Pluralism Not Triangulation”	26
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
Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing Advice	25
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
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
Integrating the Shadow Within “Us” to Strengthen Our Field	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?”	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
Taking a “Leap”: How Workplace Allyship Initiatives Shape Leader Anxiety, Allyship, and Power Dynamics That Contribute to Workplace Inequality	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