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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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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 Philadelphia207
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies125
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement114
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms86
Bridging the Chasm Between Intentions and Behaviors: Developing and Testing a Construal Level Theory of Internal Whistle-Blowing84
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues78
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes75
Competitive Familiarity: Learning to Coordinate by Competing61
Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption58
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact57
Beyond Spatial Proximity: The Impact of Enhanced Spatial Connectedness from New Bridges on Entrepreneurship57
Work (Un)Interrupted: How Non-territorial Space Shapes Worker Control over Social Interaction56
The Radical Flank Revisited: How Regulatory Discretion Shapes the Effectiveness of Social Activism on Business Outcomes54
The Natural Emergence of Category Effects on Rugged Landscapes51
Algorithmic Recommendation Tools and Experiential Learning in Clinical Care49
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Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment42
Triadic Advocacy Work41
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Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas39
Symbolic Shareholder Democracy: Toward a Behavioral Understanding of the Role of Shareholder Voting in CEO Dismissals38
How the Basis for Status Perceptions Varies with Perceiver Status38
No-Fly Zone in the Loan Office: How Chief Executive Officers’ Risky Hobbies Affect Credit Stakeholders’ Evaluation of Firms38
Take Your Time? How Activity Timing Affects Organizational Learning and Performance Outcomes35
Bribery in the Workplace: A Field Experiment on the Threat of Making Group Behavior Visible34
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value34
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments33
Why Do Firms Fail to Engage Diversity? A Behavioral Strategy Perspective32
When (Non)Differences Make a Difference: The Roles of Demographic Diversity and Ideological Homogeneity in Overcoming Ideologically Biased Decision Making32
Entrepreneurship Through a Unified Sociological Neoinstitutional Lens31
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform30
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts30
The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm29
Increasing Black Employees’ Social Identity Affirmation and Organizational Involvement: Reducing Social Uncertainty Through Organizational and Individual Strategies29
Materiality as a Basis for Valuation Entrepreneurship: Re-modeling Impressionism28
Economies of Scope and Optimal Due Diligence in Corporate Acquisitions27
Political Dynamics in Knowledge Work: Using Visual Artifacts to Deal with Pragmatic Boundaries27
Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of Information Technology Monitoring as Complex Action Nets27
When Do Boards of Directors Contribute to Shareholder Value in Firms Targeted for Acquisition? A Group Information-Processing Perspective27
Chain Affiliation and Human Resource Investments: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry26
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence26
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes26
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination26
Contracting Beyond the Market25
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States25
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance25
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying24
Bad Company: Shifts in Social Activists’ Tactics and Resources After Industry Crises24
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation24
Architectural Search and Innovation24
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market24
Talking Past Each Other: Construal Level, Utilitarian Motives, and Entrepreneurial Team Formation24
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation23
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team23
Simulating the Cause: How Grassroots Organizations Advance Their Credibility Through the Dramaturgical Curation of Events23
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing23
Whistleblowing and Group Affiliation: The Role of Group Cohesion and the Locus of the Wrongdoer in Reporting Decisions22
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy22
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status22
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment22
Gender, Race, and Network Advantage in Organizations21
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback21
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Shadow Options: Emergent Functions of Corning’s Glass-Based Innovations21
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity21
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms20
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding20
Survivalist Organizing in Urban Poverty Contexts20
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs20
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni20
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms20
We’re Not Like Those Crazy Hippies: The Dynamics of Jurisdictional Drift in Externally Mandated Occupational Groups20
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets20
From Audience to Evaluator: When Visibility into Prior Evaluations Leads to Convergence or Divergence in Subsequent Evaluations Among Professionals19
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship19
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies19
For Better and Worse: How Proactive Personality Alters the Strain Responses to Challenge and Hindrance Stressors19
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity19
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion18
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships18
Capturing Value in Platform Business Models That Rely on User-Generated Content18
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing18
How Local Industry R&D Shapes Academic Research: Evidence from the Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution18
Learning in Temporary Teams: The Varying Effects of Partner Exposure by Team Member Role18
Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long Run?17
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes17
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change17
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse17
Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Workplace Allies: The Labeling of Gender Equity Policy Changes17
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics16
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery16
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Inspiring, Yet Tiring: How Leader Emotional Complexity Shapes Follower Creativity16
Effective Information Infrastructures for Collaborative Organizing: The Case of Maasai Mara16
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying16
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Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female Entrepreneurs? Gender Homophily and the Stigma of Incompetence in Entrepreneurial Finance15
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups15
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The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm15
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria15
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention15
The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness15
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct15
Location Matters: Everyday Gender Discrimination in Remote and On-site Work15
Seeing What Others Miss: A Competition Network Lens on Product Innovation15
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures14
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups14
Bridging Temporal Divides: Temporal Brokerage in Global Teams and Its Impact on Individual Performance14
Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions14
Cognitive Economy and Product Categorization14
How Catastrophic Innovation Failure Affects Organizational and Industry Legitimacy: The 2014 Virgin Galactic Test Flight Crash14
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance14
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency14
Caught Between a Clock and a Hard Place: Temporal Ambivalence and Time (Mis)management in Teams14
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions14
Social Network Positions, Peer Effects, and Evaluation Updating: An Experimental Test in the Entrepreneurial Context13
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids13
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Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets13
How Social Movements Catalyze Firm Innovation13
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Managing the Transition to a Dual Business Model: Tradeoff, Paradox, and Routinized Practices13
Demystifying Organization Science13
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline13
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors12
Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes12
Cultural Roots of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Second-Generation Immigrants12
Unlocking the Inventive Potential of Knowledge Distance in Teams: How Intrateam Network Configurations Provide a Key12
Going Along to Get Ahead: The Asymmetric Effects of Sexist Joviality on Status Conferral12
Network Referrals and Self-Presentation in the High-Tech Labor Market12
Victorious and Hierarchical: Past Performance as a Determinant of Team Hierarchical Differentiation12
Effects of Social Information on Risk Taking and Performance: Understanding Others’ Decisions vs. Comparing Oneself with Others in Short-Term Performance12
Accounting for Negative Attention: Status and Costs in the Market for Audit Services12
Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry12
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering12
Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes11
Responsibility and Organization Science: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives11
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations11
Female Entrepreneurs Targeting Women: Strategic Redirection Under Scientific Decision-Making11
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups11
Rising Above vs. Falling Below: When and Why Status Change Affects Interpersonal Helping in Workgroups11
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too? Understanding Leisure-Work Synergizing and Its Impact on Employee Thriving11
Crowd-Based Accountability: Examining How Social Media Commentary Reconfigures Organizational Accountability11
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes11
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science11
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence10
Good Deeds Done in Silence: Stakeholder Management and Quiet Giving by Chinese Firms10
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars10
Problemistic Search of the Embedded Firm: The Joint Effects of Performance Feedback and Network Positions on Venture Capital Firms’ Risk Taking10
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment10
Who Gives Back? Evidence from India on Successful Entrepreneurial Exit and Involvement in Philanthropy10
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams10
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks10
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition10
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components10
Reactions, Revisions, and Rehiring: Changes in Employers’ Gendered Preferences in Online Labor Markets10
The Misfit Bias10
I Left Venus and Came Back to Mars: Temporal Focus Congruence in Dyadic Relationships Following Maternity Leave10
Adaptation or Persistence? Emergence and Revision of Organization Designs in New Ventures10
License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs9
Variations in the Corporate Social Responsibility-Performance Relationship in Emerging Market Firms9
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO9
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms9
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications9
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance9
Who Contributes Knowledge? Core-Periphery Tension in Online Innovation Communities9
Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory9
Do Lower-Power Individuals Really Compete Less? An Investigation of Covert Competition9
Algorithm Supported Induction for Building Theory: How Can We Use Prediction Models to Theorize?9
The Dual Challenge of Search and Coordination for Organizational Adaptation: How Structures of Influence Matter9
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country9
Expanding the Locus of Resistance: Understanding the Co-constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy9
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?8
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment8
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The Humbling Effect of Significant Relationships: A Field Experiment Examining the Effect of Significant-Other Activation on Leaders’ Expressed Humility8
CEO Humility and Corporate Social Irresponsibility: Evidence Based on a New Unobtrusive Measure8
Cooperation Beyond the Network8
Hybrid Administrative Interfaces: Authority Delegation and Reversion in Strategic Alliances8
Hiding in Plain Sight: Co-Enacting the Sustainable Worker Schema in a Consulting Firm8
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning8
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues8
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies8
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Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism7
Social Responsibility Beyond the Corporate: Executive Mental Accounting Across Sectoral and Issue Domains7
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective7
Board Gender Diversity Reforms Around the World: The Impact on Corporate Innovation7
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana7
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We Fly Congress: Market Actions as Corporate Political Activity in the U.S. Airline Industry7
Learning by Connecting: How Rule Networks Evolve Through Discovery of Relevance7
Microfoundations of Adaptive Search in Complex Tasks: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Styles7
More Than Meets the Eye: The Unintended Consequence of Leader Dominance Orientation on Subordinate Ethicality7
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Microlevel Analysis of Institutional Intermediation in a Rudimentary Market-Based Economy: Entrepreneurship in Kathmandu’s Indrachok Market7
In Search of Inspiration: External Mobility and the Emergence of Technology Intrapreneurs7
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off7
Executives’ Prior Employment Ties to Interlocking Directors and Interfirm Mobility6
Helpful Behavior and the Durability of Collaborative Ties6
Microfoundations of Problem Solving: Attentional Engagement Predicts Problem-Solving Strategies6
Path Coherence and Disruption in Routine Dynamics6
Cooperative Criticism: When Criticism Enhances Creativity in Brainstorming and Negotiation6
Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations6
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective6
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday6
A Temporal Perspective on Boundary Spanning: Engagement Dynamics and Implications for Knowledge Transfer6
Resource Redeployment and Divestiture as Strategic Alternatives6
Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building6
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs6
Ideology in Vicarious Learning–Related Communication6
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Converging Tides Lift All Boats: Consensus in Evaluation Criteria Boosts Investments in Firms in Nascent Technology Sectors6
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search6
Client-Related Factors and Collaboration Between Human Assets6
The Politics of Learning from Rare Events6
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities6
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes6
Bringing Politics Back In: The Role of Power and Coalitions in Organizational Adaptation6
Discursive Struggles and Contested Stigma Extensions: Explaining the Gradual Stigmatization of the U.S. Tobacco Industry5
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective5
The Career Consequences of Workplace Protest Participation: Theory and Evidence from the NFL “Take a Knee” Movement5
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science5
On Resource Complementarity Among Startups, Accelerators, and Financial Investors: A Large-Scale Analysis of Sorting and Value Creation5
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions5
The Double-Edged Sword of Exemplar Similarity5
Let Us Not Speak of Them, But Look and Pass? Organizational Responses to Online Reviews5
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?5
Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize5
Abstract Versus Concrete: How Managers’ Construal Influences Organizational Control Systems and Problem Solving5
Working with the “Enemy”: Supervised Space, Free Space, and Cross-Border Collaboration amid Geopolitical Rivalry5
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes5
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment5
When Reinforcing Processes Generate an Outcome-Quality Dip4
The (Bounded) Role of Stated-Lived Value Congruence and Authenticity in Employee Evaluations of Organizations4
Activist Protest Spillovers into the Regulatory Domain: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Nuclear Power Generation Industry4
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Corporate Investment Relationships and the Search for Innovations: An Examination of Startups’ Search Shift Toward Incumbents4
Tie Decay and Dissolution: Contentious Prescribing Practices in the Prescription Drug Epidemic4
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences4
The Primordial Soup: Exploring the Emotional Microfoundations of Cluster Genesis4
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions4
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions4
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment4
The Plural of Goal: Learning in a World of Ambiguity4
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment4
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