OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chinese Management Studies 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: Institutions, corporate governance and entrepreneurship: a research agenda for Chinese world-class enterprises	27
Digital transformation, management efficiency and excess employees − evidence from Chinese listed firms	25
Effects of intergovernmental fiscal transfers on technological innovation in China	21
Guest editorial	18
Mediation effect of product diversification on the relationship between top management team heterogeneity and firm value in China	18
Does institutional fragility affect innovation investment?	15
The employability consequences of grit: examining the roles of job involvement and team member proactivity	15
Job characteristics and millennial employees’ creative performance: a dual-process model	15
Towards a meaningful innovation paradigm: conceptual framework and practice of leading world-class enterprise	14
Similar or different? When Cross-Strait employees face psychological contract violations	14
Determinants of outward foreign direct investment entry mode choice: evidence from Chinese-listed companies	14
Why do you treat me in such ways? An attachment examination on supervisors’ early family environment and subordinates’ responses	13
How and when does leader narcissism hinder team radical creativity? The role of team information elaboration and inter-team competition	12
Does task-technology fit suppress employee innovation in digital transformation? The role of positive emotions and creative self-expectations	12
Abusive supervision: a content analysis of theory and methodology	11
Do subsidy increases promote or inhibit innovation? Evidence from Chinese enterprises listed on the SSE STAR Market	11
Digital technologies and Chinese digital firms’ green innovation	10
Proto-institutional work: the “special treatments for special matters” in institutional transition	10
Flexible human resource management systems and employee innovation performance in China – based on the moderated mediation effect	10
Evaluation of market transformation efficiency of urban investment and development companies based on the three-stage DEA model	10
Foreign competition and corporate social responsibility: the role of the firm–government relationships	9
Balancing work and family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of work conditions and family-friendly policy	9
Antecedents of voice endorsement: a communication perspective	9
Coevolution of post-merger integration and dual knowledge networks reconstruction: evidence from Chinese overseas acquisitions	9
Subordinates’ negative workplace gossip leads to supervisor abuse: based on the conservation of resources theory	9

Employee stock ownership plans and within-firm income inequality: evidence from China	8
Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion	8
Green fund shareholdings and firms’ dual performance: based on the perspective of institutional logic	8
Workaholism and work–family conflict: a moderated mediation model of psychological detachment from work and family-supportive supervisor behavior	8
Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments	8
Perceived work identity deprivation: the construct, measurement, and validity	8
The Eastern construction of paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedents: a Yin–Yang balancing perspective	8
Effects of developmental HR practices on management innovation: a scenario experiment study	8
Are senior management with academic experience more cautious? Empirical evidence from corporate risk-taking	7
Intrapreneurship in the digital era: driven by big data and human resource management?	7
Ultimate ownership, corporate social responsibility and firm value: evidence from China	7
Corporate social responsibility, brand value and corporate governance: new evidence from a 3SLS model	7
Symbolic or substantive CSR: effect of green mergers and acquisitions premium on firm value in China	7
Does the deepening of digital trade rules improve GVC positioning?– A product-level analysis	7
Family roots, green shoots: exploring the impact of work–family interpersonal capitalization on employee green behavior	7
Internationalization speed and firm innovation: the moderating roles of negative attainment discrepancy and state-ownership	7
The impact of employee entrepreneurship on sustainable innovation capability: the effect of value cocreation and role stress	7
Tackling organizational wicked problems: a heuristics study based on a qualitative comparative analysis approach	6
Marketing capability, technology capability and complementor performance: the mediating role of platform network centrality	6
Does corporate social responsibility always lead to positive effects?	6
Female entrepreneurship: systematic literature review and research framework	6
Whose international experience matters more? Decision-makers with international experience in Chinese family firms	6
Can corporate ESG investing boost zombie firms back to normal? Evidence from Chinese firms	6
The impact of different components of HRM strength on employee burnout: a two-wave study	6
Government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity: empirical analysis in photovoltaic companies	6
Curvilinear effect of economic policy uncertainty on innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms: do managerial pay gaps matter?	6
How and when negative workplace gossip influences service sabotage behavior? A study among hotel frontline employees in China	6
Influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance: a multilevel moderated mediation model	6
Career variety and turnover intention: mediating role of job crafting and moderating role of HR innovators and integrators	6
Public psychological crisis reports: an investigation during the remission of COVID-19 in China	5
How corporate social responsibility moderates the relationship between distributive unfairness and organizational revenge: a deontic justice perspective	5
Nonmarket strategy and innovation performance in pharmaceutical industry: the moderating effect of internal capability and external IT environment	5
Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders	5
Generating business intelligence through automated textual analysis: measuring corporate image with online information	5
Financial performance feedback, institutional ownership and green innovation: evidence from China	5
Guanxi, overconfidence and corporate fraud in China	5
Confucianism and technology for social good: evidence from Chinese listed firms	5
Legitimacy-building role of incubators: a multiple case study of activities and impacts of business incubators in a developing Chinese city	5
Evolutionary pathways and mechanisms of emerging market firms’ control over GVC core activities: a dynamic capability perspective	5
Exploring business model diversification and circular value creation in digital platforms for circular economy: insights from Chinese preowned electronics industry	5
Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: a two-path mediating role of trust	5
Editorial: QCA methodology and causal complexity of management studies in China	5
Firm age and Chinese firms’ OFDI in developing and developed countries: the moderating roles of industry munificence and state ownership	5
The effect of leader-team (in-)congruence in future orientation on leader’s participative leadership: the moderating role of leader workload	5
The effects of executives’ overseas background on enterprise digital transformation: evidence from China	5
Managerial Coase theorem: evidence from China	5
How shareholder resources impact on the allocation of control power: example of China Vanke	5
Financial misconduct and corporate innovation: evidence from China	5
China’s bilateral trade in Africa: is institutional structure a determinant?	5
The curvilinear relationship between hindrance stressors and bootlegging: the moderate role of state ownership	4

How can a single spark kindle a Prairie fire? Diffusion process and mechanism of medical disruptive innovation	4
Accelerate or delay? Big step internationalization and the speed of subsequent foreign expansion—evidence from Chinese MNEs	4
Between facilitation and hindrance: linking CEO Machiavellianism, top management team collective organizational engagement and new ventures performance	4
Enterprise digital transformation and labor structure evolution: evidence from China	4
Slowing down in the final lap: investigating the effect of CEO career horizon on green innovation in China	4
Unraveling psychological dilemma among miners in the context of low-carbon transformation: an ISM-MICMAC approach	4
Antecedents of i-deals: a transaction cost economics perspective	4
Can vertical interlocks of executives block adverse loops between R&D investment and the cost of equity capital? Evidence from China	4
How entrepreneurial implementation intention moves toward subsequent actions: affordable loss and environmental uncertainty	4
Effect of workplace status on employees’ creativity from the perspective of expectation identity: a moderated chain double mediation model	4
Political institutional imprinting and Chinese private enterprises’ initial ownership strategies in OFDI	4
The impact of green supply chain management on enterprise environmental performance: a meta-analysis	4
Cautious or confident? Directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and enterprise strategic change: a model of mediating effect and joint moderating effects	4