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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	35
Processes of non-identification: Business school brands and academic faculty	26
What if the supervisor has a different gender? The roles of value fit, identification, and beliefs in gender equality	25
Sustainability-in-the-making: Enduring commitment to socio-ecological matters of concerns	23
The diminishing spaces for collegial work	20
Doing diversity in entrepreneurial accelerators: A mentor’s view of tools, translations, and the (re)production of social structures	19
Managing public value conflicts – Institutional strategies and the greening of public pension funds	18
Let me level with you: Brokerage work in the translation of management concepts	16
Meta-organizing on the fly in times of crisis: The emergence and morphing of COVID-END	15
Editorial Board	13
Entrepreneurship and metaphysics	12
Unpacking researchers’ embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster	12
Editorial Board	12
Grandiose branding: World-class aim and its organizational consequences	11
Innovation ecosystems as a service: Exploring the dynamics between corporates & start-ups in the context of a corporate coworking space	11
The birth of a journal	11
Organizational sustainability identity: Constructing oneself as sustainable	11
Cultural friction and motivational attitudes during cross border mergers and acquisitions: A revision of job characteristics theory	10
Ideology, incompetence and reflexivity in a university incubator	10
Brand museums, commodification of cultural heritage and cultural transfer: The case of IKEA museum	10
Reasoning bureaucracy in professional organisations: Enabling conditions for professional and bureaucratic values to merge in hospitals	10
Tracing the affective journey of an interorganizational network: Positive and negative cycles of relational energy in a network space	9
Making sense in “less-hierarchical” forms of organizing	9
Key internal drivers for an SME’s dynamic ambidextrous growth strategy: A case study of a Norwegian seafood group	9
Agile office work as embodied spatial practice: A spatial perspective on ‘open’ New Work environments	7

(Re)thinking transcription strategies: Current challenges and future research directions	7
From organised scepticism to research mission management? Introduction to the Great Reset of management and organization theory	7
Going collective: worker takeovers, entrepreneurship and collective actions	7
Anchoring the mission: A framework for understanding mission maintenance in professional service firms	7
What is the “project”? A typology of approaches to the core concept in project studies	7
Editorial Board	7
Reviewer Thank you List	7
Shaping entrepreneurial gender play: Intersubjectivity and performativity among female entrepreneurs	7
Russia, Ukraine and the climate crisis: Transforming circuits of power	7
The interrelatedness of organizational identification and disidentification	7
Getting the timing right: Kairos as the rhetorical framing of time	6
The effect of ethics education on managerial competencies in the executive education context: A qualitative vignette study	6
Organizational expulsion: How boundary work produces inequality in German airports	6
‘How might we?’: Studying new venture ideation in and through practices	6
An identity work theory of temporary organizations: On tensions and temporalities	5
Antecedents to verbal reward salience	5
Different ways of being generative. Exploring the motivational structure underlying generativity in life stories of entrepreneurial leaders	5
Conditional openness to racio-ethnic otherness: Exploring white employers’ ambivalent self-Other constructions in the everyday work of reproducing whiteness	5
Ctrl+Alt+Delete in the name of COVID-19: When a reset leads to misrecognition	5
Thirty years of temporary organizations research: A field reconnecting with its soul	5
Visibility tensions in temporal work	5
On the use and usefulness of theories and perspectives: A reply to Brunsson	4
Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness	4
The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach	4
Beyond the individualised organisation: The role of HRM in the (non)emergence of organisational and leadership practices for impact	4
Why do firms launch corporate change programs? A contingency perspective on strategic change	4
Book Review	4
Enacting the entrepreneurial self: Public-private innovation as an actualization of a neoliberal market dispositive	4
Routine dynamics and paradox: A revised research agenda	4
Back to the future: ecocentrism, organization studies, and the Anthropocene	4
Managerial pedagogy and organizational power dynamics in the context of neoliberal organizational transition	3
Making sense of an impending failure: How grief becomes actionable hope in environmental campaigning	3
The liberated firm: An integrative approach involving sociocracy, holacracy, spaghetti organization, management 3.0 and teal organization	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
Role ambiguity as an antecedent to workplace bullying: Hostile work climate and supportive leadership as intermediate factors	3
Decentering sensemaking: The Mann Gulch disaster revisited	3
Mutuality between selves and others in social entrepreneurship: Not a mission impossible?	3
Reviewer Thank you List	2
Translating management ideas: Imitation modes and translation outcomes	2
Making sense of uncertainty – Interrogating conceptions of the New Normal	2
The economy doesn’t need a reset, and neither does management theory	2
Transformational and transactional leadership: A job tenure perspective	2
Diversity clauses in job advertisements: Organisational reproduction of inequality?	2
Reflecting on the past before moving ahead: Forty years with SJM	2
Editorial Board	2
In memory of Barbara Czarniawska (2nd December 1948–7th April 2024)	2
Affinity networks as diversity instruments. Three sociological dilemmas	2
Can they trust us? The relevance debate and the perceived trustworthiness of the management scholarly community	2
Reset and restoration. The looming conservative turn of management theory: An extension of Foss et al.	2

Between Humboldt and Rockefeller: An organization design approach to hybridity in higher education	2
At the critical moment: The rhizomatic organization and “Democracy to Come”	2
Innovating as chains of interrelated situations	2
Paradoxical tensions at multiple levels: A model of unbalanced supranational coopetition	2
Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives	2
Controlling big data? Unfolding the organisational quest for IT-enabled competitive advantage	2
Understanding power change: The role of assimilation and contrast in the effect of structural power change on prosocial behavior	2
Liability of smallness in SMEs – Using co-creation as a method for the ‘fuzzy front end’ of HRM practices in the forest industry	2
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Untangling business model innovation in family firms: Socioemotional wealth and corporate social responsibility perspectives	1
Editorial Board	1
What theory is – A late reply to Sutton and Staw 1995	1
The reputation costs of executive misconduct accusations: Evidence from the #MeToo movement	1
Pastoral control in remote work	1
Book review	1
Linking ethical leadership to extra-role behaviors: The roles of communal orientation and harmonious work passion	1
Editorial Board	1
In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company	1
Field dynamics and fields of entrepreneurial practice: Autonomizing process, self-help doxa, and homological action	1
Editorial Board	1
The theory of temporary organization three decades later: Re-visiting the 4 T framework, focusing tensions, adding project plasticity	1
Inter-organizational routine replication: Evidence from major football championships	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