What's trending at Organization Science?
The most cited articles in the last two years of Organization Science; Have a field experiment, signup for CFXS; and more!
Dear Friends,
As the academic year nears its close, we wanted to highlight 15 exciting papers published in the last two years in Organization Science. These articles cover a range of topics, including the use of AI in medical diagnostics, market strategies for startups, gender dynamics in the workplace, organizational purpose, poverty alleviation strategies, and the mechanisms of knowledge transfer within business ecosystems. They also reflect a range of methodologies and approaches, showcasing the vibrancy and diversity of our field.
These papers have already made a significant impact in the academic community, being cited hundreds of times by scholars from all corners of the globe. They have also been downloaded a staggering 30,000 times in the just last 12 months, a testament to their relevance and appeal. We are proud to share these incredible papers with you. They reflect the hard work of the authors, reviewers, editors, and the collective progress of our field.
If you are working on any of these topics, these papers are all worth reading. They have important implications for the exciting work being done by scholars like you.
Sincerely,
The Organization Science Substack Team
Most Cited Recent Papers in Organization Science
To Engage or Not to Engage with Al for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis by Lebovitz, S; Lifshitz-Assaf, H; Levina, N
We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing by Bailey, DE; Faraj, S; Hinds, PJ; Leonardi, PM; von Krogh, G
External Interfaces or Internal Processes? Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures by DeSantola, A; Gulati, R; Zhelyazkov, P
Prior Experience of Managers and Maladaptive Responses to Performance Feedback: Evidence from Mutual Funds by Gaba, V; Lee, S; Meyer-Doyle, P; Zhao-Ding, A
The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm by Gartenberg, C; Zenger, T
He's Overqualified, She's Highly Committed: Qualification Signals and Gendered Assumptions About Job Candidate Commitment by Campbell, EL; Hahl, O
What Makes Resource Provision an Effective Means of Poverty Alleviation? A Resourcing Perspective by Sutter, C; Bhatt, B; Qureshi, I
Value Creation Tradeoff in Business Ecosystems: Leveraging Complementarities While Managing Interdependencies by Agarwal, S; Kapoor, R
Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets by Vedula, S; York, JG; Conger, M; Embry, E
The (Bounded) Role of Stated-Lived Value Congruence and Authenticity in Employee Evaluations of Organizations by Pamphile, VD; Ruttan, RL
When More Is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures by Murray, A; Fisher, G
Mind the Gaps: How Organization Design Shapes the Sourcing of Inventions by Eklund, J; Kapoor, R
The Mechanisms and Components of Knowledge Transfer: The Virtual Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer Within Organizations by Argote, L; Guo, J; Park, SS; Hahl, O
Going Alone or Together? A Configurational Analysis of Solo Founding vs. Cofounding by Howell, T; Bingham, C; Hendricks, B
Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female Entrepreneurs? Gender Homophily and the Stigma of Incompetence in Entrepreneurial Finance by Snellman, K; Solal, I
Conference Announcement
Also, if you are doing any field experiments (or have a student who is) consider submitting to the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS.org). Here’s the announcement:
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that this year's Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy will take place on December 19-20, 2024 at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
We welcome submissions of papers and early experiment design ideas here (deadline for submissions is July 15, 2024):Â https://insead.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2tpyZHyptYSrfL0
We will also be running our PhD student workshop on the afternoon of the 18th and the morning of the 19th. Interested students can apply here:Â https://insead.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07Y6akJjsxrTDa6
The CFXS conference is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Thanks to their support we will be able to offer travel bursaries for those who may have difficulties attending otherwise — if you are interested, please register your interest here: https://insead.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86XBrS6hzF4VfLM
Please feel free to forward this along to anyone who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you in France!
Sincerely,
Hyunjin, Rem, Sharique, Albert and the IGL teamÂ
On behalf of the
Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy
Also, check out some recent experimental papers here in Organization Science, and especially the excellent Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory by Levine, Schilke, Kacperczyk and Zucker.
Special Issue on Experiments in Organizational Theory
Managing Uncertainty: An Experiment on Delegation and Team Selection By: John R. Hamman, Miguel A. MartÃnez-Carrasco
When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change By: Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues Alves, Vincenzo Vastola, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina, Maurizio Zollo
The (Bounded) Role of Stated-Lived Value Congruence and Authenticity in Employee Evaluations of Organizations By: Vontrese Deeds Pamphile, Rachel Lise Ruttan
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams By: Jérôme Hergueux, Emeric Henry, Yochai Benkler, Yann Algan
Converging Tides Lift All Boats: Consensus in Evaluation Criteria Boosts Investments in Firms in Nascent Technology Sectors By: Xirong (Subrina) Shen, Huisi (Jessica) Li, Pamela S. Tolbert
Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty By: Sourobh Ghosh, Andy Wu
Effects of Social Information on Risk Taking and Performance: Understanding Others’ Decisions vs. Comparing Oneself with Others in Short-Term Performance By: Sabine Pittnauer, Martin Hohnisch, Andreas Ostermaier, Andreas Pfingsten
How Do Performance Goals Influence Exploration-Exploitation Choices? By: Marlo Raveendran, Kannan Srikanth, Tiberiu Ungureanu, George L. Zheng
Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Michael Shayne Gary
Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory By: Sheen S. Levine, Oliver Schilke, Olenka Kacperczyk, Lynne G. Zucker
To Stem the Tide: Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer By: Giada Di Stefano, Maria Rita Micheli
Microfoundations of Problem Solving: Attentional Engagement Predicts Problem-Solving Strategies By: Daniella Laureiro-Martinez, Jose Pablo Arrieta, Stefano Brusoni
Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions By: Michael Christensen, Christian M. Dahl, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Massimo Warglien
A Matter of Transition: Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations By: Nevena Radoynovska, Rachel Ruttan
Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Workplace Allies: The Labeling of Gender Equity Policy Changes By: Cynthia S. Wang, Jennifer A. Whitson, Brayden G King, Rachel L. Ramirez
Microfoundations of Adaptive Search in Complex Tasks: The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Styles By: Carsten Bergenholtz, Oana Vuculescu, Ali Amidi
Building an Equilibrium: Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts By: Robert Gibbons, Manuel Grieder, Holger Herz, Christian Zehnder
Collateral Damage: The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination By: Andreea Gorbatai, Peter Younkin, Gordon Burtch
Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams: A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas By: Viktoria Boss, Linus Dahlander, Christoph Ihl, Rajshri Jayaraman
Cooperation with Strangers: Spillover of Community Norms By: Mario Molina, Victor Nee, Hakan Holm
When Do Evaluators Publicly Express Their Legitimacy Judgments? An Inquiry into the Role of Peer Endorsement and Evaluative Mode By: Tijs van den Broek, David J. Langley, Michel L. Ehrenhard, Aard Groen
Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences Between STEM and Non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Nilam Kaushik
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse C. Shore, Alice J. Jang
Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars By: J. Cameron Verhaal, Oliver Hahl, Kevin J. Fandl