OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Management is 1. 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 if the supervisor has a different gender? The roles of value fit, identification, and beliefs in gender equality	37
Editorial Board	27
Sustainability-in-the-making: Enduring commitment to socio-ecological matters of concern	24
Doing diversity in entrepreneurial accelerators: A mentor’s view of tools, translations, and the (re)production of social structures	22
The diminishing spaces for collegial work	19
Meta-organizing on the fly in times of crisis: The emergence and morphing of COVID-END	18
Managing public value conflicts – Institutional strategies and the greening of public pension funds	15
Let me level with you: Brokerage work in the translation of management concepts	13
Unpacking researchers’ embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	12
Grandiose branding: World-class aim and its organizational consequences	12
The birth of a journal	12
Entrepreneurship and metaphysics	12
‘Freedom from Pressing Cares'? The Four‐Day Work Week and three forms of leisure time	11
Making sense in “less-hierarchical” forms of organizing	11
Ideology, incompetence and reflexivity in a university incubator	11
Organizational sustainability identity: Constructing oneself as sustainable	11
Reasoning bureaucracy in professional organisations: Enabling conditions for professional and bureaucratic values to merge in hospitals	10
Cultural friction and motivational attitudes during cross border mergers and acquisitions: A revision of job characteristics theory	10
Brand museums, commodification of cultural heritage and cultural transfer: The case of IKEA museum	10
Innovation ecosystems as a service: Exploring the dynamics between corporates & start-ups in the context of a corporate coworking space	9
Russia, Ukraine and the climate crisis: Transforming circuits of power	8
Agile office work as embodied spatial practice: A spatial perspective on ‘open’ New Work environments	8
What is the “project”? A typology of approaches to the core concept in project studies	8

Tracing the affective journey of an interorganizational network: Positive and negative cycles of relational energy in a network space	8
Shaping entrepreneurial gender play: Intersubjectivity and performativity among female entrepreneurs	8
From organised scepticism to research mission management? Introduction to the Great Reset of management and organization theory	7
Anchoring the mission: A framework for understanding mission maintenance in professional service firms	7
Key internal drivers for an SME’s dynamic ambidextrous growth strategy: A case study of a Norwegian seafood group	7
The interrelatedness of organizational identification and disidentification	7
(Re)thinking transcription strategies: Current challenges and future research directions	7
The effect of ethics education on managerial competencies in the executive education context: A qualitative vignette study	6
An identity work theory of temporary organizations: On tensions and temporalities	6
Conditional openness to racio-ethnic otherness: Exploring white employers’ ambivalent self-Other constructions in the everyday work of reproducing whiteness	6
Going collective: worker takeovers, entrepreneurship and collective actions	6
‘How might we?’: Studying new venture ideation in and through practices	6
Different ways of being generative. Exploring the motivational structure underlying generativity in life stories of entrepreneurial leaders	6
Reviewer Thank you List	6
Thirty years of temporary organizations research: A field reconnecting with its soul	6
Back to the future: ecocentrism, organization studies, and the Anthropocene	5
The liberated firm: An integrative approach involving sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization	5
Visibility tensions in temporal work	5
The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach	5
Book Review	5
Antecedents to verbal reward salience	5
Enacting the entrepreneurial self: Public-private innovation as an actualization of a neoliberal market dispositive	5
Ctrl+Alt+Delete in the name of COVID-19: When a reset leads to misrecognition	5
Managerial pedagogy and organizational power dynamics in the context of neoliberal organizational transition	4
On the use and usefulness of theories and perspectives: A reply to Brunsson	4
Beyond the individualised organisation: The role of HRM in the (non)emergence of organisational and leadership practices for impact	4
Mutuality between selves and others in social entrepreneurship: Not a mission impossible?	4
Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change	4
Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness	4
Decentering sensemaking: The Mann Gulch disaster revisited	4
Role ambiguity as an antecedent to workplace bullying: Hostile work climate and supportive leadership as intermediate factors	4
Routine dynamics and paradox: A revised research agenda	4
Making sense of an impending failure: How grief becomes actionable hope in environmental campaigning	4
The paradox of expertise: How resource conservation dynamics shape knowledge sharing and innovative behavior among experienced external new hires	3
Innovating as chains of interrelated situations	3
Paradoxical tensions at multiple levels: A model of unbalanced supranational coopetition	3
In memory of Barbara Czarniawska (2nd December 1948–7th April 2024)	3
Avoiding the ‘God trick’: Internationalism and situated knowing in Scandinavian Journal of Management	3
“Oh Grandmother, what big teeth you have!” Incentives to spur scientific research at business schools have been treacherous	3
Reflecting on the past before moving ahead: Forty years with SJM	2
Making sense of uncertainty – Interrogating conceptions of the New Normal	2
At the critical moment: The rhizomatic organization and “Democracy to Come”	2
Transformational and transactional leadership: A job tenure perspective	2
Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al.	2
Inter-organizational routine replication: Evidence from major football championships	2
Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes	2
Reviewer Thank you List	2
Can they trust us? The relevance debate and the perceived trustworthiness of the management scholarly community	2
Understanding power change: The role of assimilation and contrast in the effect of structural power change on prosocial behavior	2
Between Humboldt and Rockefeller: An organization design approach to hybridity in higher education	2

Controlling big data? Unfolding the organisational quest for IT-enabled competitive advantage	2
The economy doesn’t need a reset, and neither does management theory	2
Affinity networks as diversity instruments. Three sociological dilemmas	2
Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives	2
Editorial Board	2
Diversity clauses in job advertisements: Organisational reproduction of inequality?	2
Book review	2
Editorial Board	1
Pastoral control in remote work	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Linking ethical leadership to extra-role behaviors: The roles of communal orientation and harmonious work passion	1
Untangling business model innovation in family firms: Socioemotional wealth and corporate social responsibility perspectives	1
Theorizing as scholarly meaning-making practice: The value of a pragmatist theory of theorizing	1
Forms of theorising in entrepreneurship – The case of effectuation as a theory	1
Tensions and vulnerabilities in projectified selves: Exploring gender and projectification in neoliberal academic cultures	1
What theory is – A late reply to Sutton and Staw 1995	1
Editorial Board	1
Strategy as practice or parody? A case study of the strategic plan in a university	1
The rubber band effect: Managing the stability-change paradox in routines	1
Shifting from an analytical paradigm to a systems paradigm: A fundamentally systemic approach of the business model concept to tackling complexity	1
Hybridity is in the ‘Soul’ of temporary supply chains: Towards understanding its influence on collaboration	1
The reputation costs of executive misconduct accusations: Evidence from the #MeToo movement	1
Field dynamics and fields of entrepreneurial practice: Autonomizing process, self-help doxa, and homological action	1
The theory of temporary organization three decades later: Re-visiting the 4 T framework, focusing tensions, adding project plasticity	1
Editorial Board	1
In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company	1