OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Organization Science is 17. 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
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact	295
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity	176
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team	167
Architectural Search and Innovation	165
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas	121
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies	110
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies	99
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence	86
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States	78
Editorial Board	76
Editorial Board	72
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering	65
CROSSROADS—Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics	60
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids	59
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry	57
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks	56
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors	55
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms	53
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday	52
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment	50
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change	50
CROSSROADS—Organization Research as an Applied Science: Lessons from Fields That Shape Practice and Policy	48
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective	47
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search	44
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes	43

Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions	43
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues	42
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion	39
Full of It: Strategic Lying, Epistemic Conflict, and Issue Field Polarization	38
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes	37
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?	37
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety	36
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection	35
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations	35
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy	34
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions	33
Editorial Board	33
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes	32
Editorial Board	32
To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis	32
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?	32
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority	32
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect	31
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection	31
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders	30
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control	30
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention	30
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity	29
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations	29
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?	28
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats	28
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees	28
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving	27
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies	27
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship	27
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms	27
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying	26
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments	26
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms	26
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes	26
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement	26
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs	26
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status	26
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation	26
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships	26
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni	25
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes	25
Editorial Board	25
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment	25
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts	25
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion	25
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market	25
Complementarity in Future Selves: How Networks of Future-Oriented Cognitive Representations Influence Individuals’ Ability to Proactively and Adaptively Manage Their Career	24
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance	24
Margin or Mission? Understanding the Relationship Between Multilevel Functional Subgroups and Pricing	23

Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics	23
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse	23
The Misfit Bias	23
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups	23
Demystifying Organization Science	23
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities	22
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space	22
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science	22
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria	22
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams	22
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms	21
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies	21
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts	21
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection	21
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective	21
Cooperation Beyond the Network	21
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America	20
Status-Amplified Deterrence: Paul Manafort’s Prosecution Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act	20
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions	20
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs	20
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers	20
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work	20
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups	19
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment	19
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations	19
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition	19
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices	19
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions	19
When Do Firms Trade Patents?	19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance	19
Editorial Board	19
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work	18
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry	18
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions	18
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition	18
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities	18
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts	18
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform	18
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm	18
Editorial Board	17
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success	17
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes	17
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	17
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility	17
Seeing Both Sides: How Shared Experience Can Improve Entrepreneur Evaluations of Investors Through Perceived Empathy	17
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error	17
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability	17
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers	17
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures	17