OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Management Inquiry 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
JMI Revisionist History of Workplace Deviance	56
When Does It Become Overkill and Exploitation?	46
From the Field to the Field: Mapping a Landscape of Qualitative Research Through Scholars’ Personal Letters	39
Turning Fear Into a Weapon for Change in Response to Threats: A Partnership Approach	33
Showing Legitimacy: The Strategic Employment of Visuals in the Legitimation of New Organizations	26
We Are Boiling: Management Scholars Speaking Out on COVID-19 and Social Justice	25
Bringing My Selves to Work: A Revisionist History of an Academic Career	25
Wake up! Advancing the Conversation on Woke Labeling	24
Pet Peeves and Sensemaking at Work	21
In the Boardroom: How Do Cognitive Frames Shape American and Dutch Hospitals’ Responses to the Pressure of Adopting Governance Best Practices?	18
The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship	16
Honing the Craft of Qualitative Data Collection in Extreme Contexts	14
A Critical Examination of Corporate Environmental and Social Impact Measurement and Valuation	13
Societal Duty or Pragmatic Paradox? Exploring Midwives’ Experiences of Contradictory Work Demands During COVID-19 Lockdowns	10
Making Sense of the New PhD Student Experience: Adapting to the First Year of Doctoral Studies Program	9
Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-Institutional Projects	9
Don't Panic: Remaining El Capitan While Navigating Unpreparedness in Response to Extreme Events	7
It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane: How and When HR Executives Use Jesting Techniques to Trickle Up Paradoxical Tensions	7
Beyond the Buzz: Scholarly Approaches to the Study of Work	7
Collaboration for Tackling Grand Challenges: A Curated Conversation	7
Motivation Bathroom the Best Bathroom: Doing Community Through Graffiti-Writing in a Liminal Space	5
Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back?	5
Conceptualising Silence in External Corporate Communication: A Case Study of Pakistan	5
Superpower CorruptsAntagonistic Superpowers Corrupt Absolutely	4
Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research	4

Collective Stupidity	4
How Muriel's Tea Stained Management Research Through Statistical Significance Tests	4
Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact Through Practice-Based Scholarship	4
Seven Mantras for Board Chair Effectiveness—An Enlightened Approach for the 21st Century	4
Tactics of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Ways of Operating in the Contested Terrain of Green Architecture	4
Taboo Trade-Offs in the Community Business: The Case of Coworking	4
The Life/Blood of a Management Scholar: What a Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me About the Profession	4
“It Had to Be Us”: The Rudolph Effect and the Inclusion of Unconventional Leaders	4
Who Do They Think We Are? Reflexivity and Participant Constructions of the Researcher	3
Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives	3
The Mortality of Family Business Leaders: Using a Palliative Care Model to Re-imagine Letting Go	3
Spoiled Apples: A Letter to White Scholars Eager to “Adopt” Black Scholars	3
That's Interesting! A Flawed Article Has Influenced Generations of Management Researchers	3
Odyssey of a Socialist in the Business School World	2
Revisiting “Resistance to Change”: Recognizing the Tenuous Nature of a Taken-for-Granted Construct	2
Navigating Temporary Organizations: A Narrative Perspective	2
The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations	2
Is There Still a Place for Space in Organization Studies?	2
The UN Global Compact and the Ulama (Religious Scholars of Islam): A Missing Voice in Islamic Business Ethics	2
Editor's Anonymous: A Safe Place to Think About Journal Provocations	2
How Buddhist Monks Use Historical Narratives to Delegitimize a Dominant Institutional Logic: The Case of a Korean Buddhist Organizational Field, 1910–1962	2
Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation	2
Grappling with Grand Crises: An Ecosystem Approach	2
How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope	2
The Process of Becoming Prefigurative: Fighting for Organizational Values to Transform Organizational Structures	2
The Tip of the Iceberg: A Roadmap for Management Research on Tipping	1
Family Owner–Nonfamily CEO Relational Practices Shaping CEO Succession: Handling Equivocality and Relational Balancing	1
Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative	1
A Call for Greater Humility in Management Research	1
Back to the Future: What We’d Change in “Social Identity Theory and the Organization” (Academy of Management Review, 1989, 14, 20–39)	1
Fueling Market Growth Through Collective Political Action: Shaping Favorable Public Policy in Regulated Markets	1
Advocacy and the Search for Truth in Management Scholarship: Can the Twain Ever Meet?	1
Transcendental and Material Silence: A Multimodal Study on Silence in Team Meetings	1
‘Running Towards the Bullets’: Moral Injury in Critical Care Nursing in the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Managing Social Impact Bonds: Intermediary Work and Designing Institutional Infrastructure	1
The Future of Research in an Artificial Intelligence-Driven World	1
Monday Mourning: A Call for the Study of Bereavement in the Workplace	1
The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion	1
Psychedelics, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Employees’ Wellbeing	1
Truth and the Science of Management: Does the “Emperor” Still Have Any Clothes?	1
Grounding and Developing the Design Perspective on Entrepreneurship: From Individual–Opportunity Nexus to Artifact-Centered Triad	1
Organizational Trust in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Shifts in the Form, Production, and Targets of Trust	1
Exploring the Process of Policy Overreaction: The COVID-19 Lockdown Decisions	1
Building Perspective-Taking as an Organizational Capability: A Change Intervention in a Health Care Setting	1