Organization Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Science is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies246
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity147
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence142
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States130
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact110
Architectural Search and Innovation95
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies74
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team70
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas62
Editorial Board61
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More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids52
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context52
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks50
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors49
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering49
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry47
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion45
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms45
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues45
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday44
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective44
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search43
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes42
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions39
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes39
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment38
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change36
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations36
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?35
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection33
How Managers Maintain Control Through Collaborative Repair: Evidence from Platform-Mediated “Gigs”33
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy33
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety32
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?30
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority30
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions30
Editorial Board30
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Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect29
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection29
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 Diagnosis28
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship27
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders27
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees26
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?26
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control26
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms25
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations25
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving25
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement25
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies25
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity25
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention25
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats25
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms25
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships24
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes24
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts24
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market24
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying24
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion23
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation23
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments23
Editorial Board23
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 Environment23
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs23
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status23
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes23
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science22
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics22
Demystifying Organization Science22
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups22
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria21
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space21
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance21
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies20
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection20
The Misfit Bias20
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms20
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities20
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams20
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective20
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse20
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices19
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance19
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups19
Cooperation Beyond the Network19
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition19
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations19
Editorial Board18
When Do Firms Trade Patents?18
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers18
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions18
Editorial Board18
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers18
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America18
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs18
Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic18
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes18
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions18
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment18
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work18
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work17
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry17
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability17
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition17
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures16
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm16
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment16
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions16
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility16
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities16
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success16
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error16
Alliance Governance Mechanisms in the Face of Disruption15
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 Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment15
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income15
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy15
Editorial Board15
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance14
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas14
Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries14
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer14
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams14
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding14
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance14
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships14
Editorial Board14
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change14
Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism14
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics14
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment13
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation13
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation13
Editorial Board13
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms13
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination13
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory13
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms13
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm13
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity13
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing13
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship13
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline13
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value13
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness12
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment12
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency12
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence12
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country12
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures12
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups12
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct12
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying12
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment11
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery11
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition11
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment11
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions11
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science11
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance11
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance11
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations11
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility11
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics11
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana11
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention11
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions11
Editorial Board11
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices11
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications11
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off10
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?10
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning10
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism10
How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education10
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective10
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?10
Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights10
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment9
Building Status in an Online Community9
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators9
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions9
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work9
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated9
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions9
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations9
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences9
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research9
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On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions9
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge9
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids9
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market8
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy8
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms8
Socio-Technical Affordances for Large-Scale Collaborations: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue8
Anchored Differentiation: The Role of Temporal Distance in the Comparison and Evaluation of New Product Designs8
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology8
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism8
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions8
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory8
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration8
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms8
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships8
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication8
A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change8
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
Virtually Even: Status Equalizing in Distributed Organizations8
Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes7
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform7
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals7
Triadic Advocacy Work7
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
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants7
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Second-Order Knowledge Intermediaries and Multi-Country Entrepreneurial Entry into a Nascent Industry7
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A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy7
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing7
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status7
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes7
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions7
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback7
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars7
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues7
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets7
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events7
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting7
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes7
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes7
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