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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies261
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity153
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas144
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact142
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies112
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team98
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States77
Architectural Search and Innovation74
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence66
Editorial Board64
Editorial Board63
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry55
Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics53
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context52
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering52
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids50
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 Complementors50
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday49
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms49
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search45
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions45
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes45
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change45
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective39
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment39
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues39
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes38
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion38
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?36
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection36
How Managers Maintain Control Through Collaborative Repair: Evidence from Platform-Mediated “Gigs”35
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy33
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations33
Editorial Board33
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety33
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions32
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority30
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?30
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect30
Editorial Board30
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection30
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes30
To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis29
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders29
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees29
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship29
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms28
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control28
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity27
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations27
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving26
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention26
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats26
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies26
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?26
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status25
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market25
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms25
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes25
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation25
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement25
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes25
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs24
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts24
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni24
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments24
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment23
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying23
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse23
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion23
Editorial Board23
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics23
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships23
The Misfit Bias23
Demystifying Organization Science23
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science22
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space22
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance22
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria21
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams21
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups21
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities20
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts20
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment20
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective20
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection20
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations20
Cooperation Beyond the Network20
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms20
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies20
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition20
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 Performance19
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions19
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices19
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs19
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups19
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions18
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 Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America18
Editorial Board18
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes18
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work18
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers18
Editorial Board18
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success18
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition18
Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic18
When Do Firms Trade Patents?18
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment17
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities17
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions17
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry17
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures16
Editorial Board16
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability16
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income16
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform16
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm16
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility16
Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries15
The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment15
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer15
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams15
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance15
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy15
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics15
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships15
Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism15
Alliance Governance Mechanisms in the Face of Disruption15
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas15
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity14
Editorial Board14
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation14
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing14
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory14
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding14
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value14
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms14
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation14
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms14
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance14
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change13
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline13
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination13
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency13
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment13
Editorial Board13
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations13
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention13
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship13
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm13
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying13
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence13
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery12
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions12
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct12
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness12
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance12
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition12
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country12
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups12
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures12
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science11
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment11
Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights11
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices11
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning11
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment11
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance11
Editorial Board11
How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education11
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics11
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana11
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility11
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective11
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions11
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment11
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications11
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?11
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research10
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work10
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?10
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions10
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids10
When Do Gender-Diverse Teams Engage More Investors? Evidence of Threshold Alignment Benefits at Techstars10
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off10
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge10
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences10
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment10
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism10
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations10
Editorial Board9
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated9
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market9
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory9
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions9
A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts9
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism9
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
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions9
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change9
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy9
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships8
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration8
Editorial Board8
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status8
Second-Order Knowledge Intermediaries and Multi-Country Entrepreneurial Entry into a Nascent Industry8
Virtually Even: Status Equalizing in Distributed Organizations8
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
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
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes8
Triadic Advocacy Work8
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions8
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting8
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms8
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication8
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
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes8
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants8
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms8
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
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing7
Managing the Transition to a Dual Business Model: Tradeoff, Paradox, and Routinized Practices7
Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes7
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars7
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform7
Situational Support for Corruption: A Two-Part Field Experiment on Collusive vs. Extortive Bribery7
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback7
Striking a Balance: Navigating Tensions Between Collective and Member Goals in Boundary Organizations7
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components7
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO7
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy7
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events7
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets7
Editorial Board7
Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives7
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes7
Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral7
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