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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies228
Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists’ Tactics and Resources After Industry Crises138
Architectural Search and Innovation126
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity107
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas103
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence85
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States68
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies67
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact60
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team57
Editorial Board52
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More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids47
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry46
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors45
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering44
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context43
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms41
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks41
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues40
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change40
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions40
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective39
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search38
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion37
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday37
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes36
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment35
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes34
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?33
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations33
How Managers Maintain Control Through Collaborative Repair: Evidence from Platform-Mediated “Gigs”32
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety32
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection32
Editorial Board31
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy31
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection30
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?29
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes29
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority29
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 Expect28
To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis28
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention27
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders27
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship27
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees27
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?27
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control26
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity26
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms25
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies25
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms24
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats24
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement24
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving24
Editorial Board24
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation23
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market23
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs23
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes23
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes23
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni23
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment22
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts22
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying22
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships22
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status21
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse21
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams21
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics21
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion21
The Misfit Bias21
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups21
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments21
Editorial Board21
Demystifying Organization Science21
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance21
Cooperation Beyond the Network20
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities20
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective20
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms20
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science20
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria20
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies19
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance19
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection19
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices19
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition19
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions19
When Do Firms Trade Patents?19
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs18
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers18
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America18
Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic18
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations18
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups18
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions18
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work18
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts18
Failing to Learn from Failure: How Optimism Impedes Entrepreneurial Innovation18
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers17
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures17
Editorial Board17
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions17
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The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition16
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability16
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm16
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry16
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes16
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform16
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities16
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work16
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error15
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success15
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment15
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility15
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams14
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships14
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy14
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income14
Editorial Board14
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance14
Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries14
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
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer14
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas14
Alliance Governance Mechanisms in the Face of Disruption13
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation13
The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment13
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination13
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation13
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Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations12
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention12
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance12
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms12
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms12
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline12
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence12
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm12
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change12
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding12
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing12
Editorial Board12
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups12
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment12
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value12
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity12
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship12
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct11
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness11
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying11
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition11
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures11
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance11
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country11
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment11
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery11
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions11
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency11
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics10
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana10
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective10
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications10
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning10
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science10
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions10
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?10
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment10
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility10
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance10
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism10
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off10
Editorial Board10
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices10
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions9
Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights9
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment9
Corporate Investment Relationships and the Search for Innovations: An Examination of Startups’ Search Shift Toward Incumbents9
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences9
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators9
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge9
How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education9
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work9
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research9
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions9
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market9
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations9
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?9
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids9
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment9
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Building Status in an Online Community9
A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts8
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants8
Anchored Differentiation: The Role of Temporal Distance in the Comparison and Evaluation of New Product Designs8
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy8
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication8
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated8
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting8
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology8
Socio-Technical Affordances for Large-Scale Collaborations: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue8
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships8
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism8
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions8
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions8
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration8
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory8
The Role of Resources in the Success or Failure of Diverse Teams: Resource Scarcity Activates Negative Performance-Detracting Resource Dynamics in Social Category Diverse Teams8
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status7
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform7
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Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes7
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing7
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms7
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes7
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events7
Triadic Advocacy Work7
We’re Not Like Those Crazy Hippies: The Dynamics of Jurisdictional Drift in Externally Mandated Occupational Groups7
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components7
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets7
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change7
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 Philadelphia7
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy7
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes7
Striking a Balance: Navigating Tensions Between Collective and Member Goals in Boundary Organizations7
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues7
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals7
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms7
Editorial Board7
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback7
Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes6
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes6
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO6
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars6
Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives6
Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral6
Caught Between a Clock and a Hard Place: Temporal Ambivalence and Time (Mis)management in Teams6
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets6
Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability6
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