Organization Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Organization Science is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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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 Philadelphia272
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies160
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement87
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms87
Bridging the Chasm Between Intentions and Behaviors: Developing and Testing a Construal Level Theory of Internal Whistle-Blowing67
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues64
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes59
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding59
Competitive Familiarity: Learning to Coordinate by Competing51
Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption51
For Better and Worse: How Proactive Personality Alters the Strain Responses to Challenge and Hindrance Stressors50
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact49
Beyond Spatial Proximity: The Impact of Enhanced Spatial Connectedness from New Bridges on Entrepreneurship43
Work-Family Programs and Nonwork Networks: Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment42
Work (Un)Interrupted: How Non-territorial Space Shapes Worker Control over Social Interaction42
We’re Not Like Those Crazy Hippies: The Dynamics of Jurisdictional Drift in Externally Mandated Occupational Groups42
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Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment34
Gender, Race, and Network Advantage in Organizations34
Triadic Advocacy Work33
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The Natural Emergence of Category Effects on Rugged Landscapes30
The Radical Flank Revisited: How Regulatory Discretion Shapes the Effectiveness of Social Activism on Business Outcomes30
No-Fly Zone in the Loan Office: How Chief Executive Officers’ Risky Hobbies Affect Credit Stakeholders’ Evaluation of Firms29
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes29
Bribery in the Workplace: A Field Experiment on the Threat of Making Group Behavior Visible28
Why Do Firms Fail to Engage Diversity? A Behavioral Strategy Perspective27
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value27
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments27
Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists’ Tactics and Resources After Industry Crises26
Entrepreneurship Through a Unified Sociological Neoinstitutional Lens26
The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm26
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts26
Increasing Black Employees’ Social Identity Affirmation and Organizational Involvement: Reducing Social Uncertainty Through Organizational and Individual Strategies26
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform26
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs25
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity24
Learning in Temporary Teams: The Varying Effects of Partner Exposure by Team Member Role24
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni24
When (Non)Differences Make a Difference: The Roles of Demographic Diversity and Ideological Homogeneity in Overcoming Ideologically Biased Decision Making23
Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Workplace Allies: The Labeling of Gender Equity Policy Changes23
How Local Industry R&D Shapes Academic Research: Evidence from the Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution23
Political Dynamics in Knowledge Work: Using Visual Artifacts to Deal with Pragmatic Boundaries22
Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of Information Technology Monitoring as Complex Action Nets22
When Do Boards of Directors Contribute to Shareholder Value in Firms Targeted for Acquisition? A Group Information-Processing Perspective22
Materiality as a Basis for Valuation Entrepreneurship: Re-modeling Impressionism22
Chain Affiliation and Human Resource Investments: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry22
Economies of Scope and Optimal Due Diligence in Corporate Acquisitions22
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change21
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence21
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States21
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes21
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas21
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination21
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships20
Symbolic Shareholder Democracy: Toward a Behavioral Understanding of the Role of Shareholder Voting in CEO Dismissals20
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status20
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance19
Talking Past Each Other: Construal Level, Utilitarian Motives, and Entrepreneurial Team Formation19
Contracting Beyond the Market19
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals19
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets18
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms18
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation18
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying18
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies18
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing17
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events17
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market17
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation17
Capturing Value in Platform Business Models That Rely on User-Generated Content17
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms16
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion16
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status16
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team16
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship16
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes16
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing16
Survivalist Organizing in Urban Poverty Contexts15
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying15
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Shadow Options: Emergent Functions of Corning’s Glass-Based Innovations15
Whistleblowing and Group Affiliation: The Role of Group Cohesion and the Locus of the Wrongdoer in Reporting Decisions15
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment15
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback15
Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long Run?15
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity15
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy15
Architectural Search and Innovation15
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics14
Effective Information Infrastructures for Collaborative Organizing: The Case of Maasai Mara14
Rising Above vs. Falling Below: When and Why Status Change Affects Interpersonal Helping in Workgroups14
Adaptation or Persistence? Emergence and Revision of Organization Designs in New Ventures14
Inspiring, Yet Tiring: How Leader Emotional Complexity Shapes Follower Creativity14
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Evaluating Ambiguous Offerings14
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Problemistic Search of the Embedded Firm: The Joint Effects of Performance Feedback and Network Positions on Venture Capital Firms’ Risk Taking13
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention13
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness13
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms13
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures13
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Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups13
Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory13
The Effects of Contract Detail and Prior Ties on Contract Change: A Learning Perspective13
Seeing What Others Miss: A Competition Network Lens on Product Innovation12
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence12
Virtual Special Issue: The Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability Development12
Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives12
Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-site Work12
Blockchain Governance—A New Way of Organizing Collaborations?12
Good Deeds Done in Silence: Stakeholder Management and Quiet Giving by Chinese Firms12
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids12
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery12
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country12
Demystifying Organization Science12
Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female Entrepreneurs? Gender Homophily and the Stigma of Incompetence in Entrepreneurial Finance12
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How Social Movements Catalyze Firm Innovation12
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How Vertical Integration Affects Firm Innovation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence12
Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability11
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars11
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When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct11
Network Referrals and Self-Presentation in the High-Tech Labor Market11
Cultural Roots of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Second-Generation Immigrants11
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline11
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria10
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions10
Expanding the Locus of Resistance: Understanding the Co-constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy10
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance10
License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs10
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science10
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry10
Unlocking the Inventive Potential of Knowledge Distance in Teams: How Intrateam Network Configurations Provide a Key10
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams10
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering10
Who Contributes Knowledge? Core-Periphery Tension in Online Innovation Communities10
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition10
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes9
Victorious and Hierarchical: Past Performance as a Determinant of Team Hierarchical Differentiation9
Managing the Transition to a Dual Business Model: Tradeoff, Paradox, and Routinized Practices9
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context9
The Dual Challenge of Search and Coordination for Organizational Adaptation: How Structures of Influence Matter9
Variations in the Corporate Social Responsibility-Performance Relationship in Emerging Market Firms9
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors9
Accounting for Negative Attention: Status and Costs in the Market for Audit Services9
Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes9
Effects of Social Information on Risk Taking and Performance: Understanding Others’ Decisions vs. Comparing Oneself with Others in Short-Term Performance9
Female Entrepreneurs Targeting Women: Strategic Redirection Under Scientific Decision-Making9
Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral9
How Catastrophic Innovation Failure Affects Organizational and Industry Legitimacy: The 2014 Virgin Galactic Test Flight Crash8
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too? Understanding Leisure-Work Synergizing and Its Impact on Employee Thriving8
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks8
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment8
Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes8
Cognitive Economy and Product Categorization8
I Left Venus and Came Back to Mars: Temporal Focus Congruence in Dyadic Relationships Following Maternity Leave8
Who Gives Back? Evidence from India on Successful Entrepreneurial Exit and Involvement in Philanthropy8
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance8
Bridging Temporal Divides: Temporal Brokerage in Global Teams and Its Impact on Individual Performance8
Algorithm Supported Induction for Building Theory: How Can We Use Prediction Models to Theorize?8
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups8
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations8
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm8
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets8
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO8
Caught Between a Clock and a Hard Place: Temporal Ambivalence and Time (Mis)management in Teams8
Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions7
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency7
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment7
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection7
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance7
Hybrid Administrative Interfaces: Authority Delegation and Reversion in Strategic Alliances7
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications7
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?7
Do Lower-Power Individuals Really Compete Less? An Investigation of Covert Competition7
How Inductive and Deductive Generalization Shape the Guilt-by-Association Phenomenon Among Firms: Theory and Evidence7
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups7
Bridging the Gap: Evidence from the Return Migration of African Scientists7
CEO Humility and Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Evidence Based on a New Unobtrusive Measure7
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices7
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana6
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Board Gender Diversity Reforms Around the World: The Impact on Corporate Innovation6
The Humbling Effect of Significant Relationships: A Field Experiment Examining the Effect of Significant-Other Activation on Leaders’ Expressed Humility6
Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations6
Bringing Politics Back In: The Role of Power and Coalitions in Organizational Adaptation6
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective6
Learning by Connecting: How Rule Networks Evolve Through Discovery of Relevance6
Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism6
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We Fly Congress: Market Actions as Corporate Political Activity in the U.S. Airline Industry6
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Microfoundations of Adaptive Search in Complex Tasks: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Styles6
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Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday6
The Primordial Soup: Exploring the Emotional Microfoundations of Cluster Genesis6
Microlevel Analysis of Institutional Intermediation in a Rudimentary Market-Based Economy: Entrepreneurship in Kathmandu’s Indrachok Market6
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Unintended Consequence of Leader Dominance Orientation on Subordinate Ethicality6
Hiding in Plain Sight: Co-Enacting the Sustainable Worker Schema in a Consulting Firm6
Social Responsibility Beyond the Corporate: Executive Mental Accounting Across Sectoral and Issue Domains6
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off6
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes6
Ideology in Vicarious Learning–Related Communication6
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search6
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics5
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities5
Market Competition and the Effectiveness of Performance Pay5
Cooperation Beyond the Network5
The Politics of Learning from Rare Events5
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes5
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs5
A Temporal Perspective on Boundary Spanning: Engagement Dynamics and Implications for Knowledge Transfer5
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change5
Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building5
The Career Consequences of Workplace Protest Participation: Theory and Evidence from the NFL “Take a Knee” Movement5
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies5
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility5
Resource Redeployment and Divestiture as Strategic Alternatives4
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions4
Discursive Struggles and Contested Stigma Extensions: Explaining the Gradual Stigmatization of the U.S. Tobacco Industry4
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment4
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning4
Living It Up at the Hotel California: Employee Mobility Barriers and Collaborativeness in Firms’ Innovation4
In Search of Inspiration: External Mobility and the Emergence of Technology Intrapreneurs4
Managing the Double Bind: Women Directors’ Participation Tactics in the Gendered Boardroom4
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions4
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science4
Converging Tides Lift All Boats: Consensus in Evaluation Criteria Boosts Investments in Firms in Nascent Technology Sectors4
Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets4
Abstract Versus Concrete: How Managers’ Construal Influences Organizational Control Systems and Problem Solving4
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment4
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues4
Waging War from Remote Cubicles: How Workers Cope with Technologies That Disrupt the Meaning and Morality of Their Work4
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective4
Value Creation Tradeoff in Business Ecosystems: Leveraging Complementarities While Managing Interdependencies4
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Cooperative Criticism: When Criticism Enhances Creativity in Brainstorming and Negotiation4
A Multilevel Contingency Model of Employee Ownership and Firm Productivity: The Moderating Roles of Industry Growth and Instability4
The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity4
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective4
The Double-Edged Sword of Exemplar Similarity4
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion4
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?4
Microfoundations of Problem Solving: Attentional Engagement Predicts Problem-Solving Strategies4
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