Topic · Business Strategy and Innovation
Most cited papers in Business Strategy and Innovation
What are the most cited papers in Business Strategy and Innovation?
The most cited paper in Business Strategy and Innovation is "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management" (David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen, 1997), with 32,830 citations. Next come "A resource‐based view of the firm" (25,311) and "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning" (21,902).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,230 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamic capabilities and strategic management David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen · Strategic Management Journal | Aug 1997 | 32,830 |
| 2 | A resource‐based view of the firm Birger Wernerfelt · Strategic Management Journal | Apr 1984 | 25,311 |
| 3 | Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 21,902 |
| 4 | Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Michael E. Porter | 1980 | 16,808 |
| 5 | Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm Robert M. Grant · Strategic Management Journal | Dec 1996 | 16,054 |
| 6 | Dynamic capabilities: what are they? Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jeffrey A. Martin · Strategic Management Journal | 2000 | 14,792 |
| 7 | Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology Bruce Kogut, Udo Zander · Organization Science | Aug 1992 | 13,005 |
| 8 | A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness Linton C. Freeman · Sociometry | Mar 1977 | 10,473 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1998 | 10,054 |
| 11 | Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design Richard L. Daft, Robert H. Lengel · Management Science | May 1986 | 9,740 |
| 12 | Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness Brian Uzzi · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1997 | 9,734 |
| 13 | Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review | 1989 | 9,404 |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension Shaker A. Zahra, Gerard George · Academy of Management Review | Apr 2002 | 7,841 |
| 16 | Market Orientation: Antecedents and Consequences Bernard J. Jaworski, Ajay K. Kohli · Journal of Marketing | Jul 1993 | 7,074 |
| 17 | The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect Brian Uzzi · American Sociological Review | Aug 1996 | 6,067 |
| 18 | The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits Morten T. Hansen · Administrative Science Quarterly | Mar 1999 | 5,861 |
| 19 | The Correlates of Entrepreneurship in Three Types of Firms Danny L. Miller · Management Science | Jul 1983 | 5,819 |
| 20 | Prospering in Dynamically-Competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration Robert M. Grant · Organization Science | Aug 1996 | 5,655 |
| 21 | SOCIAL CAPITAL AND VALUE CREATION: THE ROLE OF INTRAFIRM NETWORKS. W.C. Tsai, Sumantra Ghoshal · Academy of Management Journal | Aug 1998 | 5,652 |
| 22 | Value creation in E‐business Raphael H Amit, Christoph Zott · Strategic Management Journal | Jun 2001 | 5,546 |
| 23 | A Model of Distributor Firm and Manufacturer Firm Working Partnerships James C. Anderson, James A. Narus · Journal of Marketing | 1990 | 5,408 |
| 24 | Understanding dynamic capabilities Sidney G. Winter · Strategic Management Journal | 12 Sep 2003 | 5,270 |
| 25 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? REPUTATION BUILDING AND CORPORATE STRATEGY. Charles J. Fombrun, Mark T. Shanley · Academy of Management Journal | Jun 1990 | 5,238 |
| 26 | Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study Gautam Ahuja · Administrative Science Quarterly | Sep 2000 | 5,124 |
| 27 | DOES FAMILIARITY BREED TRUST? THE IMPLICATIONS OF REPEATED TIES FOR CONTRACTUAL CHOICE IN ALLIANCES. Ranjay Gulati · Academy of Management Journal | Feb 1995 | 4,874 |
| 28 | Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research Anna Dubois, Lars‐Erik Gadde · Journal of Business Research | Jul 2002 | 4,869 |
| 29 | Alliances and networks Ranjay Gulati · Strategic Management Journal | Apr 1998 | 4,687 |
| 30 | The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership Jan Johanson, Jan‐Erik Vahlne · Journal of International Business Studies | 21 May 2009 | 4,615 |
| 31 | Of strategies, deliberate and emergent Henry Mintzberg, James A. Waters · Strategic Management Journal | Jul 1985 | 4,560 |
| 32 | Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning Peter J. Lane, Michael Lubatkin · Strategic Management Journal | May 1998 | 4,559 |
| 33 | Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships Peter Smith Ring, Andrew H. Van de Ven · Academy of Management Review | 1994 | 4,401 |
| 34 | Competition for competence and interpartner learning within international strategic alliances Gary Hamel · Strategic Management Journal | 1991 | 4,337 |
| 35 | Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change Joe Tidd, John Bessant, Keith Pavitt · University of Maribor digital library (University of Maribor) | 1997 | 4,229 |
| 36 | Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Michael J. Shaw, Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian · Academy of Management Review | Apr 2000 | 4,200 |
| 37 | Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation Bruce Kogut, Udo Zander · Journal of International Business Studies | Dec 1993 | 4,015 |
| 38 | Towards a dynamic theory of strategy Michael E. Porter · Strategic Management Journal | 1991 | 3,966 |
| 39 | THE ANTECEDENTS, CONSEQUENCES, AND MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY. C. B. Gibson, Julian Birkinshaw · Academy of Management Journal | Apr 2004 | 3,926 |
| 40 | Is the Resource-Based “View” a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Richard L. Priem, John E. Butler · Academy of Management Review | 2001 | 3,906 |
| 41 | MAKING FAST STRATEGIC DECISIONS IN HIGH-VELOCITY ENVIRONMENTS. Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Journal | Sep 1989 | 3,855 |
| 42 | Relationships between Providers and Users of Market Research: The Dynamics of Trust within and between Organizations Christine Moorman, Gerald Zaltman, Rohit Deshpandé · Journal of Marketing Research | Aug 1992 | 3,837 |
| 43 | Central Problems in the Management of Innovation Andrew H. Van de Ven · Management Science | May 1986 | 3,781 |
| 44 | Exploration vs. Exploitation: An Empirical Test of the Ambidexterity Hypothesis Zi‐Lin He, Poh-Kam Wong · Organization Science | Aug 2004 | 3,726 |
| 45 | A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms William G. Ouchi · Management Science | Sep 1979 | 3,723 |
| 46 | Knowledge flows within multinational corporations Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan · Strategic Management Journal | Apr 2000 | 3,695 |
| 47 | Managing Firm Resources in Dynamic Environments to Create Value: Looking Inside the Black Box David G. Sirmon, Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland · Academy of Management Review | 2007 | 3,656 |
| 48 | Creating and managing a high-performance knowledge-sharing network: the Toyota case Jeffrey H. Dyer, Kentaro Nobeoka · Strategic Management Journal | Mar 2000 | 3,567 |
| 49 | Resource-based theories of competitive advantage: A ten-year retrospective on the resource-based view Jay Bryan Barney · Journal of Management | Dec 2001 | 3,555 |
| 50 | Patterns in Strategy Formation Henry Mintzberg · Management Science | May 1978 | 3,523 |
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