OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Management Inquiry is 2. 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
When Does It Become Overkill and Exploitation?	65
From the Field to the Field: Mapping a Landscape of Qualitative Research Through Scholars’ Personal Letters	55
JMI Revisionist History of Workplace Deviance	48
Turning Fear Into a Weapon for Change in Response to Threats: A Partnership Approach	40
Showing Legitimacy: The Strategic Employment of Visuals in the Legitimation of New Organizations	36
Is Serendipity Serendipitous?	32
We Are Boiling: Management Scholars Speaking Out on COVID-19 and Social Justice	30
Pet Peeves and Sensemaking at Work	26
Wake up! Advancing the Conversation on Woke Labeling	19
Bringing My Selves to Work: A Revisionist History of an Academic Career	16
In the Boardroom: How Do Cognitive Frames Shape American and Dutch Hospitals’ Responses to the Pressure of Adopting Governance Best Practices?	15
Honing the Craft of Qualitative Data Collection in Extreme Contexts	13
The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship	10
A Critical Examination of Corporate Environmental and Social Impact Measurement and Valuation	9
Societal Duty or Pragmatic Paradox? Exploring Midwives’ Experiences of Contradictory Work Demands During COVID-19 Lockdowns	9
Beyond the Buzz: Scholarly Approaches to the Study of Work	8
Making Sense of the New PhD Student Experience: Adapting to the First Year of Doctoral Studies Program	8
Don't Panic: Remaining El Capitan While Navigating Unpreparedness in Response to Extreme Events	7
Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-Institutional Projects	7
Collaboration for Tackling Grand Challenges: A Curated Conversation	6
Motivation Bathroom the Best Bathroom: Doing Community Through Graffiti-Writing in a Liminal Space	6
It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane: How and When HR Executives Use Jesting Techniques to Trickle Up Paradoxical Tensions	6
Tactics of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Ways of Operating in the Contested Terrain of Green Architecture	5
Superpower CorruptsAntagonistic Superpowers Corrupt Absolutely	5
Conceptualising Silence in External Corporate Communication: A Case Study of Pakistan	5

Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back?	5
Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research	4
Seven Mantras for Board Chair Effectiveness—An Enlightened Approach for the 21st Century	4
Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact Through Practice-Based Scholarship	4
Taboo Trade-Offs in the Community Business: The Case of Coworking	4
Collective Frames of Wrongdoing During Emergency: The Dilution of the Care Facilities’ Contagion Scandal in Italy During the COVID-19 Emergency	4
Collective Stupidity	4
“It Had to Be Us”: The Rudolph Effect and the Inclusion of Unconventional Leaders	4
How Muriel's Tea Stained Management Research Through Statistical Significance Tests	4
Spoiled Apples: A Letter to White Scholars Eager to “Adopt” Black Scholars	4
The Life/Blood of a Management Scholar: What a Cancer Diagnosis Taught Me About the Profession	4
The Mortality of Family Business Leaders: Using a Palliative Care Model to Re-imagine Letting Go	3
Who Do They Think We Are? Reflexivity and Participant Constructions of the Researcher	3
Odyssey of a Socialist in the Business School World	3
Beyond Ownership As Usual: The Implications of Steward-Ownership For Management Research	3
Revisiting “Resistance to Change”: Recognizing the Tenuous Nature of a Taken-for-Granted Construct	3
Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives	3
Is There Still a Place for Space in Organization Studies?	3
Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation	3
How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope	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
Truth and the Science of Management: Does the “Emperor” Still Have Any Clothes?	2
Family Owner–Nonfamily CEO Relational Practices Shaping CEO Succession: Handling Equivocality and Relational Balancing	2
Feeling Out of Place When Seeking Research Access? Reflexivity Through Affective Spacing	2
Grappling with Grand Crises: An Ecosystem Approach	2
‘Running Towards the Bullets’: Moral Injury in Critical Care Nursing in the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
How Buddhist Monks Use Historical Narratives to Delegitimize a Dominant Institutional Logic: The Case of a Korean Buddhist Organizational Field, 1910–1962	2
The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations	2
The Process of Becoming Prefigurative: Fighting for Organizational Values to Transform Organizational Structures	2
Navigating Temporary Organizations: A Narrative Perspective	2
Free and Unmerited: The Unappreciated Organizing Power of Grace	2
The Future of Research in an Artificial Intelligence-Driven World	2