Organization Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Science is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity215
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies131
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team120
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States96
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas93
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies81
Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists’ Tactics and Resources After Industry Crises81
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact65
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence62
Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption61
Architectural Search and Innovation59
Editorial Board56
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks54
Editorial Board54
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids51
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry46
Who Contributes Knowledge? Core-Periphery Tension in Online Innovation Communities46
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering45
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors44
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context43
Good Deeds Done in Silence: Stakeholder Management and Quiet Giving by Chinese Firms42
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms41
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions40
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes40
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes39
A Multilevel Contingency Model of Employee Ownership and Firm Productivity: The Moderating Roles of Industry Growth and Instability38
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search36
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues36
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion36
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective35
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday35
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change34
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment34
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy33
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations33
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection32
How Managers Maintain Control Through Collaborative Repair: Evidence from Platform-Mediated “Gigs”32
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?32
Editorial Board31
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority31
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection29
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions29
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect29
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes29
To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis29
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?29
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control28
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats27
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity27
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders27
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?27
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms27
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention27
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving26
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies26
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees26
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship26
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes25
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation25
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment25
Editorial Board25
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement24
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships24
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts24
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying23
Contracting Beyond the Market23
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs23
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes22
Capturing Value in Platform Business Models That Rely on User-Generated Content22
Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long Run?22
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms22
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status22
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni22
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments22
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion21
Editorial Board21
The Misfit Bias21
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market21
Demystifying Organization Science21
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance20
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups20
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics20
Bridging Temporal Divides: Temporal Brokerage in Global Teams and Its Impact on Individual Performance20
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria20
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams20
Editorial Board20
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science20
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse20
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection19
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms19
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions19
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies19
Cooperation Beyond the Network19
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs19
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities19
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective19
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance18
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups18
Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic18
Failing to Learn from Failure: How Optimism Impedes Entrepreneurial Innovation17
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment17
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations17
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America17
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices17
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers17
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition17
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts17
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions17
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts16
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work16
Editorial Board16
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions16
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition16
Editorial Board16
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes16
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment16
When Do Firms Trade Patents?16
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities16
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers15
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm15
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income15
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform15
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry15
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability15
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success15
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility15
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error15
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures15
The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment14
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer14
Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries14
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance14
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics14
Relational Embeddedness, Breadth of Added Value Opportunities, and Business Growth14
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams14
Alliance Governance Mechanisms in the Face of Disruption14
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy14
Editorial Board14
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships13
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value13
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas13
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance13
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation13
Editorial Board13
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms12
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms12
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment12
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding12
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship12
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change12
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination12
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline11
Editorial Board11
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity11
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance11
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery11
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation11
How Local Industry R&D Shapes Academic Research: Evidence from the Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution11
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition11
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions11
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing11
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups11
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct11
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country11
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency10
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment10
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention10
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations10
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures10
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm10
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence10
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness10
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work9
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment9
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications9
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying9
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics9
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective9
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment9
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance9
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana9
Algorithm Supported Induction for Building Theory: How Can We Use Prediction Models to Theorize?9
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions9
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility9
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science9
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices9
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?9
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning9
Editorial Board9
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism9
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?9
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off9
A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts8
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions8
Corporate Investment Relationships and the Search for Innovations: An Examination of Startups’ Search Shift Toward Incumbents8
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge8
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids8
Why Do Banks Favor Employee-Friendly Firms? A Stakeholder-Screening Perspective8
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated8
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions8
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations8
Editorial Board8
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism8
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators8
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences8
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment8
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research8
The Role of Resources in the Success or Failure of Diverse Teams: Resource Scarcity Activates Negative Performance-Detracting Resource Dynamics in Social Category Diverse Teams7
Building Status in an Online Community7
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty7
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market7
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms7
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology7
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy7
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions7
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms7
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants7
Socio-Technical Affordances for Large-Scale Collaborations: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue7
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication7
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration7
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory7
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships7
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change7
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions7
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting7
Editorial Board7
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions7
Anchored Differentiation: The Role of Temporal Distance in the Comparison and Evaluation of New Product Designs7
Caught Between a Clock and a Hard Place: Temporal Ambivalence and Time (Mis)management in Teams6
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback6
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes6
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals6
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components6
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing6
Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes6
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes6
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status6
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes6
The Relative Effects of a Scandal on Member Engagement in Rites of Integration and Rites of Passage: Evidence from a Child Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia6
Triadic Advocacy Work6
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events6
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets6
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy6
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues6
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets6
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform6
We’re Not Like Those Crazy Hippies: The Dynamics of Jurisdictional Drift in Externally Mandated Occupational Groups6
Editorial Board6
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