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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making Time for Social Innovation: How to Interweave Clock Time and Event Time in Open Social Innovation to Nurture Idea Generation and Social Impact329
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas200
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team182
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies180
Theorizing Organizational Benevolence128
Architectural Search and Innovation124
The Impact of Bribery Relationships on Firm Growth in Transition Economies118
Category Evolution Under Conditions of Stigma: The Segregation of Abortion Provision into Specialist Clinics in the United States95
It’s About What Happens in the Meantime: The Temporal Interplay of Individual and Collective Creativity89
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Pre-Entry Experience, Postentry Adaptations, and Internationalization in the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry65
A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks62
CROSSROADS—Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics61
Anchored Inferential Learning: Platform-Specific Uncertainty, Venture Capital Investments by the Platform Owner, and the Impact on Complementors59
Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering58
More to Lose: The Adverse Effect of High Performance Ranking on Employees’ Preimplementation Attitudes Toward the Integration of Powerful AI Aids58
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms54
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change53
CROSSROADS—Organization Research as an Applied Science: Lessons from Fields That Shape Practice and Policy52
Looking for Greener Grass? Prior Status and Exploration-Exploitation Decisions in Job Search50
Full of It: Strategic Lying, Epistemic Conflict, and Issue Field Polarization50
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions49
Team Adaptation to Discontinuous Task Change: Equity and Equality as Facilitators of Individual and Collective Task Capabilities Redevelopment45
Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes45
Settlement Constellations and the Dynamics of Fields Formed Around Social and Environmental Issues45
Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday44
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion41
How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective39
Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes39
Moral Foundations, Himpathy, and Punishment Following Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations38
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices?37
Division of Labor Through Self-Selection37
Employee “Free” Speech vs. Organizational Censorship on Social Media: Balancing the Tension Between Free Expression and Safeguards to Foster Psychological Safety37
When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy37
Caught in an Expectations Trap: Risks of Giving Securities Analysts What They Expect35
CEO Power and Nonconforming Reference Group Selection35
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Striking Out Swinging: Specialist Success Following Forced Task Inferiority34
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? The Interactive Effect of Race and Gender on Negotiation Offers and Outcomes34
Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?33
To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis32
Two-Sided Cultural Fit: The Differing Behavioral Consequences of Cultural Congruence Based on Values Versus Perceptions31
Do Investors Value Workforce Gender Diversity?31
Do Managers’ Affiliation Ties Have a Negative Relationship with Subordinates’ Interfirm Mobility? Evidence from Large U.S. Law Firms30
Devoted but Disconnected: Managing Role Conflict Through Interactional Control30
The Effects of Competition and Scarcity on Interpersonal Communication in Organizations30
“Optimal” Feedback Use in Crowdsourcing Contests: Source Effect and Priming Intervention30
Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared Experience in Action Teams29
Social Purpose Formation and Evolution in Nonprofit Organizations29
Shareholder Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders29
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship28
Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees28
The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity28
Atypicality and Accountability: Evidence from Five Experiments27
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats27
Inside the Velvet Glove: Sustaining Private Regulatory Institutions Through Hollowing and Fortifying27
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving27
How Mixed Performance Feedback Shapes Exploration: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement27
Short-Selling Pressure and Workplace Safety: Curbing Short-Termism Through Stakeholder Interdependencies27
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes27
The Consequences of Revealing First-Generational Status26
A Cognitive Network Perspective on Creativity: Theorizing Network Mobilization Scripts26
Revolutionary Sparks: Exploring the Resource Spillover Effect of Street Protests on Entrepreneurship26
Learning to Manage Breadth: Experience as Repetition and Adaptation26
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs26
Shared Fate and Entrepreneurial Collective Action in the U.S. Wood Pellet Market26
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, but Can You Ever Leave? A Theory of Firm Value Capture from Alumni26
The Dual Function of Organizational Structure: Aggregating and Shaping Individuals’ Votes26
Your Presence Is Requested: Mindfulness Infusion in Workplace Interactions and Relationships26
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Unit Profitability, Scalability, and the Exceptional Growth of New Firms26
Complementarity in Future Selves: How Networks of Future-Oriented Cognitive Representations Influence Individuals’ Ability to Proactively and Adaptively Manage Their Career25
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment25
Margin or Mission? Understanding the Relationship Between Multilevel Functional Subgroups and Pricing25
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Demystifying Organization Science25
Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion25
A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science24
Reject or Protect? Corrective Action in Response to Women’s vs. Men’s Reports of Workplace Abuse24
Architectural Learning in the Professional 3D Printing Ecosystem: Proxies and the Complementarity Space24
The Misfit Bias24
Detrimental Collaborations in Creative Work: Evidence from Economics23
How Entrepreneurs Achieve Purpose Beyond Profit: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria23
A Tale of Two Hierarchies: Interactive Effects of Power Differentiation and Status Differentiation on Team Performance23
Global Leaders for Global Teams: Leaders with Multicultural Experiences Communicate and Lead More Effectively, Especially in Multinational Teams23
Self-Disclosure and Respect: Understanding the Engagement of Value Minorities22
The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups22
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies22
Status-Amplified Deterrence: Paul Manafort’s Prosecution Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act21
The Failure to Recognize Anti-Asian Discrimination21
Cooperation Beyond the Network21
(No) Time for Change: When and Why Entrepreneurs Act During Underperforming Fundraising Attempts21
Formal Hierarchy As a Source of Upward Status Disagreement? A Theoretical Perspective21
Editorial Board21
Which Idea to Pursue? Gender Differences in Novelty Avoidance During Creative Idea Selection21
The Contractual Governance of Transactions Within Firms21
Inter-Unit Executive Redeployment in Multiunit Firms: Evidence from Korean Business Groups20
When Local Learning Scales: Entrepreneurs’ Initial Users and Market Expansion20
Timing Is Everything: An Imprinting Framework for the Implications of Leader Emotional Expressions for Team Member Social Worth and Performance20
Can Stereotype Reactance Prompt Women to Compete? A Field Experiment20
The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America20
Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers20
When Funders Aren’t Customers: Reputation Management and Capability Underinvestment in Multiaudience Organizations20
When Do Firms Trade Patents?20
In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs19
Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition19
The Impact of a Short-Selling-Friendly Environment on Board Composition19
No Free Lunch After All: Corporate Political Connections and Firms’ Location Choices19
Design- and Theory-Based Approaches to Strategic Decisions19
The More You Know: The Impact of Personal Knowledge on Interpersonal Treatment at Work19
Who Pays the Cancer Tax? Patients’ Narratives in a Movement to Reduce Their Invisible Work19
Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Nonnormal Distributions19
Editorial Board19
CEO Initial Contract Duration and Corporate Acquisitions18
The Theory and Measurement of Expertise-Based Problem Solving in Organizational Teams: Revisiting Demonstrability18
The Transmission of Economic Shocks in Multidivisional Organizations: An Empirical Analysis of the Global Retail Industry18
Work Devotion as Identity Armor? How Single Professionals with Relationship Aspirations Use Career Decisions to Manage Their Identities18
“Dear CEO and Board”: How Activist Investors’ Confidence in Tone Influences Campaign Success18
My Manager Moved! Manager Mobility and Subordinates’ Career Outcomes18
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform18
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures18
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts17
Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers17
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility17
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment17
Corporate Hierarchy and Organizational Learning: Member Turnover, Code Change, and Innovation in the Multiunit Firm17
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams16
Driven to Distraction: The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Learning from Failure Caused by Human Error16
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income16
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Refugee Hiring and Organizational Performance16
Race, Sexual Orientation, and Intersectionality in Distributive Negotiation Outcomes for Men16
Seeing Both Sides: How Shared Experience Can Improve Entrepreneur Evaluations of Investors Through Perceived Empathy16
In Cloud We Trust? Co-opting Occupational Gatekeepers to Produce Normalized Trust in Platform-Mediated Interorganizational Relationships16
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer16
Keep Off My Turf! Low-Status Managers’ Territoriality as a Response to Employees’ Novel Ideas15
Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy15
Policymaker Responses to CEO Activism15
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
The Returns to Nonmarket Strategies During Institutional Transitions: Investor Reactions to Actor and Tie Characteristics15
Interim CEO Successions: Implications for CEO Successor Selection and Subsequent Firm Performance14
Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms14
How Psychological Barriers Constrain Men’s Interest in Gender-Atypical Jobs and Facilitate Occupational Segregation14
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination14
A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment14
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Meating Expectations: Category Legitimation and Transmutation14
A Simple Law for the Distribution of Long-Term Profit: The Empirical Regularity Behind the 1% of Firms That Capture 73% of Value14
Through the Narrows: The Meaning and Enactment of Interpersonal Holding14
The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory14
The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity14
Founder Turnover and Organizational Change14
Employee Non-compete Agreements, Gender, and Entrepreneurship14
Transferring Knowledge by Transferring Individuals: Innovative Technology Use and Organizational Performance in Multiunit Firms14
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing14
In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions13
Group Size and Its Impact on Diversity-Related Perceptions and Hiring Decisions in Homogeneous Groups13
When a Star Shines Too Bright: The Impact of a High-Status Minority Member on Pursuing Diversity Goals13
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence13
The Agency to Implement Voice: How Target Hierarchical Position and Competence Changes the Relationship Between Voice and Individual Performance13
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The Façade, the Face, and the Sympathies: Opening the Black Box of Symbolic Capital as a Source of Philanthropic Attractiveness13
He’s Overqualified, She’s Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment13
Cautious Exploitation: Learning and Search in Problems of Evaluation and Discovery13
Temporal Miscoupling: The Challenges and Consequences of Enacting a Practice in Decline13
Migration and Innovation: How Foreign R&D Hires Shape Firm-Level Exploration in Their Host Country13
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures13
Unintended Consequences of Closing Pay Gaps Across Multiple Groups: A Formal Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Allocation Methods12
Powerlessness Also Corrupts: Lower Power Increases Self-Promotional Lying12
The Differential Impact of Intrafirm Collaboration and Technological Network Centrality on Employees’ Likelihood of Leaving the Firm12
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff: How Incentives and Monitoring Shape Gender Differences at Work12
Unsettling Settled Knowing: Reconciling Differences in Expert Practice12
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship Amidst Discontinued Certifications12
Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations12
When Do Firms Crack Under Pressure? Legal Professionals, Negative Role Models, and Organizational Misconduct12
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Under Attack! CEO Implicit Motives and Firm Competitive Responses Following Short Seller Activism12
Strategic Upward Striving Toward $100 Million Revenue: Setting Goals to Attract External Attention12
Collective Attention and Collective Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy and Team Gender Composition12
“It Takes More Than a Pill to Kill”: Bounded Accountability in Disciplining Professional Misconduct Despite Heightened Transparency12
Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices11
Mitigating Gig and Remote Worker Misconduct: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment11
Strategic Authenticity: Signaling Authenticity Without Undermining Professional Image in Workplace Interactions11
Taking a Broader View: Female Directors, CEO Strategic Attention Breadth, and Firm Performance11
Relational Work and the Knowledge Transfer Process: Rituals in Rural Ghana11
Mobile Money as a Stepping Stone to Financial Inclusion: How Digital Multisided Platforms Fill Institutional Voids11
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
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment11
Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory Within Organization Science11
Just Diverse Among Themselves: How Does Negative Performance Feedback Affect Boards’ Expertise vs. Ascriptive Diversity?11
Clean up Your Theory! Invest in Theoretical Clarity and Consistency for Higher-Impact Research11
Contract Frames and Supplier Learning11
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
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective11
Coordination in Dynamic Teams: Investigating a Learning–Productivity Trade-Off11
When Do Gender-Diverse Teams Engage More Investors? Evidence of Threshold Alignment Benefits at Techstars11
Competition and Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Communities: What Happens When Peers Evaluate Each Other?11
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market10
Learning in Temporally Complex Problems: The Role of External Knowledge10
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A Star Is Born: The Relationship Between Performance and Achieving Status Through Certification Contests in the Context of Equity Analysts10
Peer Evaluations: Evaluating and Being Evaluated10
A Model of CEO Succession Planning as a Risky Investment: Anticipated Costs, Uncertain Results, and Contingency Conditions10
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations10
Blurring Boundaries in Coworker Relationships: How a Nonwork Setting Becomes a Relational Holding Environment10
On Habit and Organizing: A Transactional Perspective Relating Firms, Consumers, and Social Institutions10
When Does the Pre-entry Experience of New Entrants Improve Their Performance? A Meta-Analytical Investigation of Critical Moderators10
The Downside of Displaying Agentic Values: Evidence from Shareholder Activism10
The Fundamental Recruitment Error: Candidate-Recruiter Discrepancy in Their Relative Valuation of Innate Talent vs. Hard Work10
Hierarchy Conflict: Causes, Expressions, and Consequences10
Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions10
Building Status in an Online Community10
Shaping Ecosystem Rules: Complementarities, Interdependencies, and Firms’ Success in Coordinating Ecosystems Via Standard-Setting9
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
Where Do Born Globals Come from? A Neoconfigurational Institutional Theory9
Data-Induced Rationality and Unitary Spaces in Interfirm Collaboration9
Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline: Using a Real Options Lens to Understand Executives’ Strategic Staffing Decisions9
A Resource-Based View on Individual Absorption in the Context of Multiple Team Memberships9
Recruiting Talent Through Entrepreneurs’ Social Vision Communication9
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions9
Virtually Even: Status Equalizing in Distributed Organizations9
Incentivizing Effort Allocation Through Resource Allocation: Evidence from Scientists’ Response to Changes in Funding Policy9
Steering the Intangible Wheel: Chief Executive Officer Effect on Corporate Cultural Change9
Institutional Investor Activism and Employee Safety: The Role of Activist and Board Political Ideology9
A Buddhist Mindfulness View of Paradox: Silence and Skepticism of Language to Dismantle Paradoxes8
A Part of, or Apart from, Me?: Linking Dynamic Founder-Venture Identity Relationships to New Venture Strategy8
Informal Legacy and Exporting Among Sub-Saharan African Firms8
Triadic Advocacy Work8
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
Attention Focus and New Opportunities: The Moderating Role of Managerial Attention to Alternative Issues8
From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing8
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
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Tight, Loose, or Denied Holding: How Interpersonal Holding Shapes Innovators’ Responses to Innovation Obstacles8
Second-Order Knowledge Intermediaries and Multi-Country Entrepreneurial Entry into a Nascent Industry8
Situational Support for Corruption: A Two-Part Field Experiment on Collusive vs. Extortive Bribery8
How Groups Differ from Individuals in Learning from Experience: Evidence from a Contest Platform8
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty8
The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets8
On Resource Complementarity Among Startups, Accelerators, and Financial Investors: A Large-Scale Analysis of Sorting and Value Creation7
Long Jump Learning: Absorbing Distant Knowledge via Familiar Components7
Maintaining or Altering the Status Quo in the Nonmarket Arena: Theory and Evidence from Government Contract Disputes7
Managing the Transition to a Dual Business Model: Tradeoff, Paradox, and Routinized Practices7
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets7
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO7
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