| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Building Theories from Case Study Research | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 24,449 |
| 2 | An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 11,268 |
| 3 | Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage | Academy of Management Review | 1998 | 10,361 |
| 4 | Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 9,080 |
| 5 | Building Theories from Case Study Research | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 8,789 |
| 6 | The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage | Academy of Management Review | 1998 | 7,973 |
| 7 | Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers | Academy of Management Review | 1984 | 7,820 |
| 8 | The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research | Academy of Management Review | 2000 | 7,324 |
| 9 | Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust | Academy of Management Review | 1998 | 7,047 |
| 10 | Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 6,955 |
| 11 | Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts | Academy of Management Review | 1997 | 6,783 |
| 12 | Social Identity Theory and the Organization | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 6,693 |
| 13 | The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 6,466 |
| 14 | Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept | Academy of Management Review | 2002 | 5,958 |
| 15 | A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance | Academy of Management Review | 1979 | 5,903 |
| 16 | Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension | Academy of Management Review | 2002 | 5,702 |
| 17 | Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It To Performance | Academy of Management Review | 1996 | 5,533 |
| 18 | STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES | Academy of Management Review | 1991 | 5,128 |
| 19 | Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 4,888 |
| 20 | An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 4,739 |
| 21 | Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective | Academy of Management Review | 2001 | 4,513 |
| 22 | A Stakeholder Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Corporate Social Performance | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 4,411 |
| 23 | A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 4,180 |
| 24 | Sources of Conflict Between Work and Family Roles | Academy of Management Review | 1985 | 4,138 |
| 25 | Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers | Academy of Management Review | 1984 | 3,997 |
| 26 | Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data | Academy of Management Review | 1999 | 3,844 |
| 27 | Strategic Responses to Institutional Processes | Academy of Management Review | 1991 | 3,796 |
| 28 | Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles | Academy of Management Review | 1985 | 3,668 |
| 29 | Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems | Academy of Management Review | 1984 | 3,368 |
| 30 | Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships | Academy of Management Review | 1994 | 3,351 |
| 31 | Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility | Academy of Management Review | 2007 | 3,337 |
| 32 | Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency | Academy of Management Review | 2001 | 3,270 |
| 33 | “Implicit” and “Explicit” CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility | Academy of Management Review | 2008 | 3,161 |
| 34 | Corporate Social Performance Revisited | Academy of Management Review | 1991 | 3,104 |
| 35 | Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 2,892 |
| 36 | Upper Echelons Theory: An Update | Academy of Management Review | 2007 | 2,886 |
| 37 | Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts | Academy of Management Review | 1997 | 2,790 |
| 38 | Social Capital, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer | Academy of Management Review | 2005 | 2,749 |
| 39 | Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited | Academy of Management Review | 2003 | 2,715 |
| 40 | TOWARD A STEWARDSHIP THEORY OF MANAGEMENT | Academy of Management Review | 1997 | 2,650 |
| 41 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PAST RESEARCH, PRESENT FINDINGS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 2,634 |
| 42 | An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution | Academy of Management Review | 1999 | 2,626 |
| 43 | Toward a Theory of Organizational Creativity | Academy of Management Review | 1993 | 2,625 |
| 44 | Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage | Academy of Management Review | 1998 | 2,602 |
| 45 | The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 2,548 |
| 46 | Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue-Contingent Model | Academy of Management Review | 1991 | 2,540 |
| 47 | Social Identity Theory and the Organization | Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 2,524 |
| 48 | The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior | Academy of Management Review | 2006 | 2,513 |
| 49 | INSTRUMENTAL STAKEHOLDER THEORY: A SYNTHESIS OF ETHICS AND ECONOMICS | Academy of Management Review | 1995 | 2,507 |
| 50 | Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation | Academy of Management Review | 1994 | 2,480 |
