OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Management Reviews is 4. 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
The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation	175
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Career success and geographical location: A systematic review and future research agenda	125
Tensions as a framework for managing work in collaborative workplaces: A review of the empirical studies	124
The attention‐based view: Review and conceptual extension towards situated attention	103
Issue information	101
Hybrid organization deconstructed: A bibliographic investigation into the origins, development, and future of the research domain	92
The physical office work environment and employee wellbeing: Current state of research and future research agenda	84
Interactional governing activities: A novel perspective on how actors co‐develop field governance	81
Putting humour to work: To make sense of and constitute organizations	76
Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature	72
Innovative conceptual contributions—Raising the game for theory‐driven reviews	71
The good, the bad and the evil: A unified conceptualization of negative leadership behaviour	68
Board governance of Strategic Change: An assessment of the literature and avenues for future research	62
Divide and conquer: Relating patent quality and value in a conceptual framework based on a systematic review	61
Embracing the paradox of customer experiences in the hospitality and tourism industry	44
Issue information	44
The role of emotions during mergers and acquisitions: A review of the past and a glimpse into the future	44
A review of the physical context of creativity: A three‐dimensional framework for investigating the physical context of creativity	40
Strategy in the digitalization era	36
How workers meet new expertise needs throughout their careers: An integrative review revealing a dynamic process model of flexpertise	34
Challenging the ‘dirty worker’—‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualizing worker‐client relations in dirty work	33
Examining the Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO) framework in HRM research: Conceptualization, measurement and interactions	31
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Alliance management capabilities in sustainability‐oriented collaboration: Problematization and new research directions	27

Using review articles to address societal grand challenges	27
The evolution of employee engagement: Towards a social and contextual construct for balancing individual performance and wellbeing dynamically	27
An integrated framework of remote work from organizational adoption to employee outcomes: A systematic literature review	25
Employee green behaviour: A review and recommendations for future research	24
Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda	23
Issue information	23
One name for two concepts: A systematic literature review about meta‐organizations	20
Nurses’ well‐being and implications for human resource management: A systematic literature review	20
Reflecting back and looking forward: A systematic literature review of SME–university collaborations	19
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Correction to “Towards a heuristic view of managerial heuristics: Integrating divergent perspectives”	18
See something, say something: A meta‐analytic review of safety voice	17
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The panopticon, an emblematic concept in management and organization studies: Heaven or hell?	16
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Digital ecosystems and their impact on organizations—A dynamic capabilities approach	16
Mapping women's involvement in family firms: A review based on bibliographic coupling analysis	16
Disentangling the ‘digital’: A critical review of information technology capabilities, information technology–enabled capabilities and digital capabilities in business research	15
Open strategy and digital transformation: A framework and future research agenda	15
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Design in entrepreneurship: Unveiling multiple interpretations and philosophical underpinnings	15
What is (and is not) stakeholder dialogue in CSR? A review and research agenda	14
Issue information	13
Guidelines for Bibliometric‐Systematic Literature Reviews: 10 steps to combine analysis, synthesis and theory development	13
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Dogmatic, instrumental and paradoxical frames: A pragmatic research framework for studying organizational sustainability	13
Traduttore, traditore? Gains and losses from the translation of the economies of worth	12
Issue information	11
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	11
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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review	11
Design science in operations management: A review and synthesis of the literature	10
Relational dynamics in information technology outsourcing: An integrative review and future research directions	9
Entrepreneurship as an Academic Field: Taking Stock and New Directions	9
Explaining differences in internationalization between emerging and developed economy born global firms: A systematic literature review and the way forward	8
Conceptualising SME brand co‐creation	8
Corruption dynamics: Integrating structure, agency and institutional logics across contexts	7
Digital‐sustainable business models: Definition, systematic literature review, integrative framework and research agenda from a strategic management perspective	7
Absolute autonomy, respectful recognition and derived dignity: Towards a typology of meaningful work	7
A paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip	7
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Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science	7
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	7
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Issue information	6
A meme‐based research programme for management and organization studies	5
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How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management	5
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Dynamic capabilities measurement safari: A roadmap	5

Advancing literature review methodology through rigour, generativity, scope and transparency	5
Five research themes of knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: An analysis of 30 years of research	4
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Managing the external financing constraints of social enterprises: A systematic review of a diversified research landscape	4