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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Knowledge Behind Firewalls: How Rivalry Among Alliance Partners Constrains Innovation Inside Firms310
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity264
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies168
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence90
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas86
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact80
Editorial Board78
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies78
Editorial Board66
CROSSROADS—Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics63
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering62
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids60
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks50
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change49
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors49
CROSSROADS—Organization Research as an Applied Science: Lessons from Fields That Shape Practice and Policy48
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment46
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues46
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions46
Full of It: Strategic Lying, Epistemic Conflict, and Issue Field Polarization45
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes42
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search41
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes41
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion40
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday38
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective37
Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality36
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety35
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy35
Shareholder Activism and Corporate Political Activity: A Governance Systems Perspective35
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations34
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?34
More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review34
Supervisory Support Shift: The Impact of Disability Inclusion on Coworker Productivity34
Editorial Board34
Steady as She Goes: Remote Work Benefits Daily Goal Progress Through Reduced Energy Variability34
Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority33
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect33
What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes32
The Elephant and Donkey in the Room: Time-Varying Effects of Political Dissimilarity on Social Interactions at Work During U.S. Elections32
VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations32
Editorial Board32
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions32
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations31
Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared Experience in Action Teams31
Social Purpose Formation and Evolution in Nonprofit Organizations30
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders30
When the Headlines Fade, the Story Goes On: Investigating How Local Newspaper Decline Affects Firm CSR Engagement30
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention29
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees29
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship29
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?29
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies29
Technology (Non)Emergence: How System Interdependencies Among Activities by Heterogeneous Actors Shaped Alternative Solar Technology Trajectories29
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control29
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving29
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory28
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships28
Editorial Board28
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market28
Revolutionary Sparks: Exploring the Resource Spillover Effect of Street Protests on Entrepreneurship28
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts27
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status27
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments27
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment27
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni26
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs26
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying26
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
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement24
When Certification Backfires: Negative Spillovers on Noncertified Offerings in Airbnb Plus24
Positioning in Digital Markets: A Demand-Side View24
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science23
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse23
Demystifying Organization Science23
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space23
The Misfit Bias23
Editorial Board23
Behavioral Intervention Construal: A Framework for Understanding Inferences from Behavioral Interventions22
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics22
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance22
Complementarity in Future Selves: How Networks of Future-Oriented Cognitive Representations Influence Individuals’ Ability to Proactively and Adaptively Manage Their Career22
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups22
Behind Closed Doors: The Uncommunal Feminine Stereotype21
Editorial Board21
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection21
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria21
These Are My (Micro)Confessions: An Episodic Theory of Employee Microconfessions21
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities21
Margin or Mission? Understanding the Relationship Between Multilevel Functional Subgroups and Pricing21
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms21
The Failure to Recognize Anti-Asian Discrimination21
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies21
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work20
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts20
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs20
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions20
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations20
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups20
Status-Amplified Deterrence: Paul Manafort’s Prosecution Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act19
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions19
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance19
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers19
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment19
When Local Learning Scales: Entrepreneurs’ Initial Users and Market Expansion19
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America19
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition19
Editorial Board19
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error18
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility18
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment18
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform18
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities18
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers18
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes18
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition18
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work17
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success17
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm17
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions17
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
Working in the Age of Ubiquitous Scrutiny: How External Monitoring Legitimates Organizational Monitoring17
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry17
Seeing Both Sides: How Shared Experience Can Improve Entrepreneur Evaluations of Investors Through Perceived Empathy16
The Evaluation of Founder Failure and Success by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment16
Race, Sexual Orientation, and Intersectionality in Distributive Negotiation Outcomes for Men16
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures16
Trajectory Normalizing Work in Unstable Production Environments: When Adapting Production Means Appearing Authentic16
Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism16
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas16
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
Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance16
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics16
Editorial Board16
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer16
Editorial Board15
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory15
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams15
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation15
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value15
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy15
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding15
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance14
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination14
Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation14
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change14
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship13
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness13
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition13
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency13
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity13
Editorial Board13
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention13
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations12
The Mutual Shaping of Boundaries and Boundary Organizations12
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices12
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline12
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery12
When a Star Shines Too Bright: The Impact of a High-Status Minority Member on Pursuing Diversity Goals12
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment12
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance12
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions12
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
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm12
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures12
Knowing Enough to Be Dangerous: The Problem of “Artificial Certainty” for Expert Authority When Using AI for Decision Making and Planning12
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning12
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying12
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country12
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff: How Incentives and Monitoring Shape Gender Differences at Work12
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?11
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics11
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science11
Expectations and Exits: The Effect of CEO Agency and Communion on Boards’ Expectancy Violations and Dismissal of CEOs Following Breaches of Stakeholder Rights11
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility11
Unsettling Settled Knowing: Reconciling Differences in Expert Practice11
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
Outshining Your Rival: Interpersonal Rivalry and Its Effects on Organizational Contributions11
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research11
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions11
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment11
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off11
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?11
How Ideologically Opposed Stakeholders Influence Organizational Practice Adoption: Theory and Evidence from the Diffusion of Domestic Partner Benefits in Higher Education11
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids11
Unintended Consequences of Closing Pay Gaps Across Multiple Groups: A Formal Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Allocation Methods11
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences10
Exploring Leaders’ Mindfulness in Navigating Organizational Paradox10
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
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions10
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work10
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions10
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated10
Editorial Board10
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment10
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations10
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge10
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators10
When Do Gender-Diverse Teams Engage More Investors? Evidence of Threshold Alignment Benefits at Techstars10
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy9
Building Status in an Online Community9
Virtually Even: Status Equalizing in Distributed Organizations9
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships9
Moving Beyond the Minimum Viable Product in Hyper-Constrained Contexts: The Generative Power of Constraints Work9
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions9
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
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market9
The Role of Reviewer Characteristics on the Diversity of Successful Applicants9
The Indirect Effect of Entrepreneurship on Pay Dispersion: Entry Cost Reduction, Mobility Threat, and Wage Redistribution Within Incumbent Firms9
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets8
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration8
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions8
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms8
Second-Order Knowledge Intermediaries and Multi-Country Entrepreneurial Entry into a Nascent Industry8
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals8
The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI and Teamwork8
Tight, Loose, or Denied Holding: How Interpersonal Holding Shapes Innovators’ Responses to Innovation Obstacles8
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting8
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change8
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology8
Situational Support for Corruption: A Two-Part Field Experiment on Collusive vs. Extortive Bribery8
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback8
Post-M&A Retention of Top Managers: The Role of Structural Knowledge8
With a Little Help from My (Girl) Friends: Field Evidence on Gender Homophily and Women’s Training Outcomes in Remote Environments8
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
Editorial Board8
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
Market Entry by Divisionalized Firms: Where Experience Resides and When It Is Used7
Creating Radical Technologies and Competencies: Revisiting Interorganizational Dynamics in the Nascent Bionic Prosthetic Industry7
Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral7
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO7
Editorial Board7
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets7
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy7
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars7
On Resource Complementarity Among Startups, Accelerators, and Financial Investors: A Large-Scale Analysis of Sorting and Value Creation7
Where Sentence Is Served: Entrepreneurship and Socioeconomic Mobility Among Ex-Offenders7
Striking a Balance: Navigating Tensions Between Collective and Member Goals in Boundary Organizations7
Triadic Advocacy Work7
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components7
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes7
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
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes7
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