OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Management Reviews is 5. 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
The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation	192
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Interactional governing activities: A novel perspective on how actors co‐develop field governance	136
Career success and geographical location: A systematic review and future research agenda	114
Issue information	105
The attention‐based view: Review and conceptual extension towards situated attention	94
The physical office work environment and employee wellbeing: Current state of research and future research agenda	89
Hybrid organization deconstructed: A bibliographic investigation into the origins, development, and future of the research domain	83
The power of a stewardship mind: Reorienting organizations around the duty to care to better address grand challenges	79
Putting humour to work: To make sense of and constitute organizations	78
Innovative conceptual contributions—Raising the game for theory‐driven reviews	71
Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature	69
The good, the bad and the evil: A unified conceptualization of negative leadership behaviour	66
The role of emotions during mergers and acquisitions: A review of the past and a glimpse into the future	51
Divide and conquer: Relating patent quality and value in a conceptual framework based on a systematic review	50
Board governance of Strategic Change: An assessment of the literature and avenues for future research	50
Issue information	43
How workers meet new expertise needs throughout their careers: An integrative review revealing a dynamic process model of flexpertise	39
Embracing the paradox of customer experiences in the hospitality and tourism industry	38
Challenging the ‘dirty worker’—‘clean client’ dichotomy: Conceptualizing worker‐client relations in dirty work	35
Strategy in the digitalization era	33
Examining the Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO) framework in HRM research: Conceptualization, measurement and interactions	32
A review of the physical context of creativity: A three‐dimensional framework for investigating the physical context of creativity	32
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Alliance management capabilities in sustainability‐oriented collaboration: Problematization and new research directions	29

An integrated framework of remote work from organizational adoption to employee outcomes: A systematic literature review	29
Using review articles to address societal grand challenges	28
The evolution of employee engagement: Towards a social and contextual construct for balancing individual performance and wellbeing dynamically	24
Issue information	24
Employee green behaviour: A review and recommendations for future research	24
One name for two concepts: A systematic literature review about meta‐organizations	23
Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda	22
Correction to “Towards a heuristic view of managerial heuristics: Integrating divergent perspectives”	22
Reflecting back and looking forward: A systematic literature review of SME–university collaborations	20
Nurses’ well‐being and implications for human resource management: A systematic literature review	19
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Digital ecosystems and their impact on organizations—A dynamic capabilities approach	18
See something, say something: A meta‐analytic review of safety voice	18
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The panopticon, an emblematic concept in management and organization studies: Heaven or hell?	17
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Design in entrepreneurship: Unveiling multiple interpretations and philosophical underpinnings	17
What is (and is not) stakeholder dialogue in CSR? A review and research agenda	16
Demystifying the impact of moderators in the corporate sustainability performance and firm performance relationship: A meta‐analysis study	15
Open strategy and digital transformation: A framework and future research agenda	15
Disentangling the ‘digital’: A critical review of information technology capabilities, information technology–enabled capabilities and digital capabilities in business research	15
Dogmatic, instrumental and paradoxical frames: A pragmatic research framework for studying organizational sustainability	14
Guidelines for Bibliometric‐Systematic Literature Reviews: 10 steps to combine analysis, synthesis and theory development	14
Traduttore, traditore? Gains and losses from the translation of the economies of worth	13
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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review	12
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	12
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Design science in operations management: A review and synthesis of the literature	11
Relational dynamics in information technology outsourcing: An integrative review and future research directions	11
Entrepreneurship as an Academic Field: Taking Stock and New Directions	10
Explaining differences in internationalization between emerging and developed economy born global firms: A systematic literature review and the way forward	9
Corruption dynamics: Integrating structure, agency and institutional logics across contexts	9
Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science	9
Conceptualising SME brand co‐creation	9
Issue information	9
Digital‐sustainable business models: Definition, systematic literature review, integrative framework and research agenda from a strategic management perspective	8
Issue information	8
Absolute autonomy, respectful recognition and derived dignity: Towards a typology of meaningful work	8
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A paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip	8
Acknowledging the Contribution of Reviewers	7
A meme‐based research programme for management and organization studies	7
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Rethinking network embeddedness in international business: A review and view in space and time	6
Dynamic capabilities measurement safari: A roadmap	6
Towards a 4P framework of financial statement fraud: A systematic literature review	6
How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management	6
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Advancing literature review methodology through rigour, generativity, scope and transparency	5
Managing the external financing constraints of social enterprises: A systematic review of a diversified research landscape	5