Subfield · Strategy and Management
Most cited papers in Strategy and Management
What are the most cited papers in Strategy and Management?
The most cited paper in Strategy and Management is "Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage" (Jay Bryan Barney, 1991), with 47,651 citations. Next come "Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation" (35,497) and "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management" (32,830).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 5,408 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage Jay Bryan Barney · Journal of Management | Mar 1991 | 47,651 |
| 2 | Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1990 | 35,497 |
| 3 | Dynamic capabilities and strategic management David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen · Strategic Management Journal | Aug 1997 | 32,830 |
| 4 | Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling Nassim Tabri, Corinna Marie Elliott · Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology and Criminology | 12 Jul 2012 | 26,069 |
| 5 | A resource‐based view of the firm Birger Wernerfelt · Strategic Management Journal | Apr 1984 | 25,311 |
| 6 | Strategic management a stakeholder approach R. Edward Freeman | 2010 | 23,365 |
| 7 | Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 21,902 |
| 8 | Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have Stewart C. Myers, Nicholas S. Majluf · Journal of Financial Economics | Jun 1984 | 19,433 |
| 9 | A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation Ikujiro Nonaka · Organization Science | Feb 1994 | 17,764 |
| 10 | Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Michael E. Porter | 1980 | 16,808 |
| 11 | Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance David J. Teece · Strategic Management Journal | 7 Aug 2007 | 16,259 |
| 12 | Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm Robert M. Grant · Strategic Management Journal | Dec 1996 | 16,054 |
| 13 | Dynamic capabilities: what are they? Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jeffrey A. Martin · Strategic Management Journal | 2000 | 14,792 |
| 14 | An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust Roger C. Mayer, James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1995 | 14,322 |
| 15 | Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage Janine Nahapiet, Sumantra Ghoshal · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1998 | 13,833 |
| 16 | Determinants of corporate borrowing Stewart C. Myers · Journal of Financial Economics | Nov 1977 | 13,558 |
| 17 | Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology Bruce Kogut, Udo Zander · Organization Science | Aug 1992 | 13,005 |
| 18 | Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches Mark C. Suchman · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1995 | 12,673 |
| 19 | An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output J. E. Hirsch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Nov 2005 | 11,729 |
| 20 | The Core Competence of the Corporation C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel | 8 Feb 2006 | 11,496 |
| 21 | The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing Robert M. Morgan, Shelby D. Hunt · Journal of Marketing | Jul 1994 | 10,929 |
| 22 | The Internationalization Process of the Firm—A Model of Knowledge Development and Increasing Foreign Market Commitments Jan Johanson, Jan‐Erik Vahlne · Journal of International Business Studies | Mar 1977 | 10,918 |
| 23 | The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view Margaret A. Peteraf · Strategic Management Journal | Mar 1993 | 10,786 |
| 24 | A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness Linton C. Freeman · Sociometry | Mar 1977 | 10,473 |
| 25 | Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers Donald C. Hambrick, Phyllis A. Mason · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1984 | 10,350 |
| 26 | Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2 Maryam Alavi, Dorothy E. Leidner · MIS Quarterly | Mar 2001 | 10,112 |
| 27 | The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1998 | 10,054 |
| 28 | Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design Richard L. Daft, Robert H. Lengel · Management Science | May 1986 | 9,740 |
| 29 | Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness Brian Uzzi · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1997 | 9,734 |
| 30 | Organizational Culture and Leadership William G. Tierney, Edgar H. Schein · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1986 | 9,688 |
| 31 | Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1997 | 9,522 |
| 32 | Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 9,404 |
| 33 | The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm? Martin Geissdoerfer, Paulo Savaget, Nancy Bocken et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 21 Dec 2016 | 9,096 |
| 34 | The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and “Mode 2” to a Triple Helix of university–industry–government relations Henry Etzkowitz, Loet Leydesdorff · Research Policy | Feb 2000 | 8,566 |
| 35 | Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, Laurel Smith‐Doerr · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1996 | 8,561 |
| 36 | Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions Julian Kirchherr, Denise Reike, Marko P. Hekkert · Resources Conservation and Recycling | 15 Sep 2017 | 8,310 |
| 37 | Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It To Performance G. T. Lumpkin, Gregory G. Dess · Academy of Management Review | 1996 | 8,180 |
| 38 | Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures George P. Huber · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 8,084 |
| 39 | Exploring internal stickiness: Impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm Gabriel Szulanski · Strategic Management Journal | Dec 1996 | 7,875 |
| 40 | Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy David J. Teece · Research Policy | Dec 1986 | 7,852 |
| 41 | Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension Shaker A. Zahra, Gerard George · Academy of Management Review | Apr 2002 | 7,841 |
| 42 | Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis Marc Orlitzky, Frank L. Schmidt, Sara L. Rynes · Organization Studies | Mar 2003 | 7,659 |
| 43 | The Capital Structure Puzzle Stewart C. Myers · The Journal of Finance | Jul 1984 | 7,625 |
| 44 | Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal · The Economic Journal | Sep 1989 | 7,605 |
| 45 | Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu · Journal of Accounting and Economics | Sep 2001 | 7,563 |
| 46 | Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events W. Brian Arthur · The Economic Journal | Mar 1989 | 7,491 |
| 47 | Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games Robert D. Putnam · International Organization | 1988 | 7,438 |
| 48 | Theory of rational option pricing Robert C. Merton · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | Jul 2005 | 7,430 |
| 49 | Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald · American Journal of Sociology | May 1977 | 7,367 |
| 50 | The myopia of learning Daniel A. Levinthal, James G. March · Strategic Management Journal | 1993 | 7,343 |
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