| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1990 | 22,820 |
| 2 | Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1979 | 8,430 |
| 3 | Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1997 | 6,722 |
| 4 | Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1999 | 5,938 |
| 5 | Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1996 | 5,907 |
| 6 | Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1990 | 5,684 |
| 7 | A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1972 | 5,073 |
| 8 | Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1976 | 4,999 |
| 9 | Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1991 | 4,909 |
| 10 | Assessing Construct Validity in Organizational Research | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1991 | 4,551 |
| 11 | Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1986 | 4,316 |
| 12 | The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1999 | 4,224 |
| 13 | Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Triangulation in Action | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1979 | 3,970 |
| 14 | A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1978 | 3,692 |
| 15 | Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Complex Organizations | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1970 | 3,607 |
| 16 | Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2000 | 3,588 |
| 17 | Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2003 | 3,564 |
| 18 | Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1980 | 3,441 |
| 19 | Organizational Images and Member Identification | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1994 | 3,380 |
| 20 | The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1993 | 3,193 |
| 21 | Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1993 | 3,003 |
| 22 | Socioemotional Wealth and Business Risks in Family-controlled Firms: Evidence from Spanish Olive Oil Mills | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2007 | 2,963 |
| 23 | The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1997 | 2,924 |
| 24 | A Multimethod Examination of the Benefits and Detriments of Intragroup Conflict | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1995 | 2,836 |
| 25 | Dimensions of Organizational Task Environments | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1984 | 2,736 |
| 26 | Threat Rigidity Effects in Organizational Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1981 | 2,632 |
| 27 | The Structure of "Unstructured" Decision Processes | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1976 | 2,603 |
| 28 | Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2005 | 2,562 |
| 29 | Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1967 | 2,547 |
| 30 | Characteristics of Organizational Environments and Perceived Environmental Uncertainty | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1972 | 2,547 |
| 31 | Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1983 | 2,538 |
| 32 | Network Structure and Knowledge Transfer: The Effects of Cohesion and Range | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2003 | 2,530 |
| 33 | Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2003 | 2,512 |
| 34 | The Adolescence of Institutional Theory | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1987 | 2,433 |
| 35 | Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1993 | 2,421 |
| 36 | The Contingent Value of Social Capital | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1997 | 2,414 |
| 37 | Why Differences Make a Difference: A Field Study of Diversity, Conflict, and Performance in Workgroups | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1999 | 2,353 |
| 38 | Technological Discontinuities and Dominant Designs: A Cyclical Model of Technological Change | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1990 | 2,340 |
| 39 | The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and Its Influence on Group Behavior | Administrative Science Quarterly | 2002 | 2,305 |
| 40 | The Social Psychology of Organizations. | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1979 | 2,197 |
| 41 | Exploring the Black Box: An Analysis of Work Group Diversity, Conflict, and Performance | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1999 | 2,170 |
| 42 | Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study Across Twenty Cases | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1990 | 2,055 |
| 43 | Trust and Breach of the Psychological Contract | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1996 | 2,053 |
| 44 | Interorganizational Endorsements and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Ventures | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1999 | 2,044 |
| 45 | Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935 | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1983 | 2,024 |
| 46 | Technology Brokering and Innovation in a Product Development Firm | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1997 | 1,999 |
| 47 | Network Dyads in Entrepreneurial Settings: A Study of the Governance of Exchange Relationships | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1992 | 1,906 |
| 48 | Social Structure and Alliance Formation Patterns: A Longitudinal Analysis | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1995 | 1,903 |
| 49 | A Path Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1971 | 1,894 |
| 50 | Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments | Administrative Science Quarterly | 1986 | 1,871 |
