Organization Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Science is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas271
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies211
Knowledge Behind Firewalls: How Rivalry Among Alliance Partners Constrains Innovation Inside Firms134
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence79
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity74
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact71
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team70
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies68
Editorial Board64
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors60
Editorial Board60
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering58
CROSSROADS—Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics53
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry50
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks48
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids47
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change45
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions44
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion42
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes41
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search40
CROSSROADS—Organization Research as an Applied Science: Lessons from Fields That Shape Practice and Policy40
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues40
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment39
Full of It: Strategic Lying, Epistemic Conflict, and Issue Field Polarization38
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday38
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes37
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective36
Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality35
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations35
Supervisory Support Shift: The Impact of Disability Inclusion on Coworker Productivity33
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety33
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?33
Editorial Board32
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority32
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy32
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect32
More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review32
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions31
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes31
VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations31
Editorial Board31
The Elephant and Donkey in the Room: Time-Varying Effects of Political Dissimilarity on Social Interactions at Work During U.S. Elections31
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention30
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?30
Social Purpose Formation and Evolution in Nonprofit Organizations30
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations30
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats29
When the Headlines Fade, the Story Goes On: Investigating How Local Newspaper Decline Affects Firm CSR Engagement29
Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared Experience in Action Teams29
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders29
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control29
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market28
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship28
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs28
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies28
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving28
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees28
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement27
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying27
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory27
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation27
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status27
Editorial Board27
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni27
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts27
Revolutionary Sparks: Exploring the Resource Spillover Effect of Street Protests on Entrepreneurship26
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships26
Positioning in Digital Markets: A Demand-Side View26
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment26
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes26
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments26
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms25
Editorial Board25
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics25
When Certification Backfires: Negative Spillovers on Noncertified Offerings in Airbnb Plus25
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria25
Margin or Mission? Understanding the Relationship Between Multilevel Functional Subgroups and Pricing24
Demystifying Organization Science24
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse24
Behind Closed Doors: The Uncommunal Feminine Stereotype24
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science23
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups23
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance23
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space23
Editorial Board22
Complementarity in Future Selves: How Networks of Future-Oriented Cognitive Representations Influence Individuals’ Ability to Proactively and Adaptively Manage Their Career22
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms22
The Misfit Bias22
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams22
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies21
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities21
These Are My (Micro)Confessions: An Episodic Theory of Employee Microconfessions21
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection21
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work20
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America20
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions20
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups20
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment20
Status-Amplified Deterrence: Paul Manafort’s Prosecution Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act20
The Failure to Recognize Anti-Asian Discrimination20
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers20
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs20
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition19
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions19
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities19
When Do Firms Trade Patents?19
When Local Learning Scales: Entrepreneurs’ Initial Users and Market Expansion19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance19
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition19
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations19
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts19
Editorial Board19
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform18
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions18
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success18
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes18
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures18
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers18
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error18
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability18
Trajectory Normalizing Work in Unstable Production Environments: When Adapting Production Means Appearing Authentic17
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry17
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm17
Editorial Board17
Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism17
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment17
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics17
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility17
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work17
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas16
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams16
Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries16
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income16
Seeing Both Sides: How Shared Experience Can Improve Entrepreneur Evaluations of Investors Through Perceived Empathy16
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer16
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships16
Race, Sexual Orientation, and Intersectionality in Distributive Negotiation Outcomes for Men16
The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment15
Editorial Board15
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms15
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance15
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity15
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy15
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance15
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation15
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination14
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment14
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff: How Incentives and Monitoring Shape Gender Differences at Work14
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding14
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory14
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions14
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups14
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures14
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value14
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship14
Editorial Board14
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations14
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery14
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change14
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation14
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency13
When a Star Shines Too Bright: The Impact of a High-Status Minority Member on Pursuing Diversity Goals13
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying13
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline13
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm13
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country13
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct13
Knowing Enough to Be Dangerous: The Problem of “Artificial Certainty” for Expert Authority When Using AI for Decision Making and Planning13
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness13
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention13
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance13
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition13
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off12
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning12
How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education12
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment12
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics12
Editorial Board12
Unintended Consequences of Closing Pay Gaps Across Multiple Groups: A Formal Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Allocation Methods12
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility12
Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights12
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment12
Unsettling Settled Knowing: Reconciling Differences in Expert Practice12
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?11
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?11
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism11
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective11
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance11
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science11
When Do Gender-Diverse Teams Engage More Investors? Evidence of Threshold Alignment Benefits at Techstars11
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions11
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices11
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment11
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences10
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research10
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions10
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated10
Building Status in an Online Community10
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations10
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions10
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge10
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions10
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market10
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators10
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work10
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids10
Editorial Board10
A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts10
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism10
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms9
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy9
Post-M&A Retention of Top Managers: The Role of Structural Knowledge9
Virtually Even: Status Equalizing in Distributed Organizations9
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants9
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology9
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships9
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions9
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions9
With a Little Help from My (Girl) Friends: Field Evidence on Gender Homophily and Women’s Training Outcomes in Remote Environments9
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change9
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms9
The Role of Resources in the Success or Failure of Diverse Teams: Resource Scarcity Activates Negative Performance-Detracting Resource Dynamics in Social Category Diverse Teams9
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory9
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication9
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback8
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting8
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events8
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 Philadelphia8
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals8
Tight, Loose, or Denied Holding: How Interpersonal Holding Shapes Innovators’ Responses to Innovation Obstacles8
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues8
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes8
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration8
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets8
Second-Order Knowledge Intermediaries and Multi-Country Entrepreneurial Entry into a Nascent Industry8
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status8
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy8
Creating Radical Technologies and Competencies: Revisiting Interorganizational Dynamics in the Nascent Bionic Prosthetic Industry8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
Editorial Board8
Situational Support for Corruption: A Two-Part Field Experiment on Collusive vs. Extortive Bribery8
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform8
Triadic Advocacy Work8
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes8
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