Topic · Economic Theory and Institutions
Most cited papers in Economic Theory and Institutions
What are the most cited papers in Economic Theory and Institutions?
The most cited paper in Economic Theory and Institutions is "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (Robert M. Solow, 1956), with 24,386 citations. Next come "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning" (21,902) and "The Economic Institutions of Capitalism" (14,958).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,365 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth Robert M. Solow · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1956 | 24,386 |
| 2 | Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 21,902 |
| 3 | The Economic Institutions of Capitalism William M. Dugger · Journal of Economic Issues | Mar 1987 | 14,958 |
| 4 | A Theory of the Allocation of Time Gary S. Becker · The Economic Journal | Sep 1965 | 10,360 |
| 5 | Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics Paul Pierson · American Political Science Review | Jun 2000 | 7,960 |
| 6 | The economic institutions of capitalism firms, markets, relational contracting Oliver E. Williamson | 1985 | 7,338 |
| 7 | The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing Kenneth Joseph Arrow · The Review of Economic Studies | Jun 1962 | 7,085 |
| 8 | Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology Gianfranco Poggi · Sociology | Sep 1969 | 6,853 |
| 9 | Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms Peter A. Hall, Rosemary C. R. Taylor · Political Studies | Dec 1996 | 6,767 |
| 10 | On the measurement of inequality Anthony Barnes Atkinson · Journal of Economic Theory | Sep 1970 | 6,487 |
| 11 | The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead Oliver E. Williamson · Journal of Economic Literature | Sep 2000 | 6,444 |
| 12 | Status quo bias in decision making William F. Samuelson, Richard Zeckhauser · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | Mar 1988 | 5,977 |
| 13 | Stability in Competition Harold Hotelling | 1990 | 5,792 |
| 14 | Toward a positive theory of consumer choice Richard H. Thaler · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Mar 1980 | 5,637 |
| 15 | Institutions Douglass C. North · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 1991 | 5,212 |
| 16 | Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information Michael Rothschild, Joseph E. Stiglitz · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1976 | 5,097 |
| 17 | Competition and Entrepreneurship Robert B. Ekelund, Israel M. Kirzner · Southern Economic Journal | Jul 1974 | 5,097 |
| 18 | Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice John Child · Sociology | 1972 | 4,819 |
| 19 | American Economic Review Robert Moffitt · American Economic Review | Apr 2009 | 4,747 |
| 20 | Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency Saras D. Sarasvathy · Academy of Management Review | Apr 2001 | 4,299 |
| 21 | The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life James G. March, Johan Pelck Olsen · American Political Science Review | Dec 1983 | 4,002 |
| 22 | History of Economic Analysis, by Joseph A. Schumpeter, Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter Joseph Dorfman · Political Science Quarterly | Dec 1954 | 3,843 |
| 23 | Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices Sumantra Ghoshal · Academy of Management Learning and Education | Mar 2005 | 3,842 |
| 24 | A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms William G. Ouchi · Management Science | Sep 1979 | 3,723 |
| 25 | Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market Daniel J. Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, Richard H. Thaler · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 25 Sep 2000 | 3,239 |
| 26 | Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Aug 2000 | 3,227 |
| 27 | Political power beyond the State: problematics of government Nikolas Rose, Peter Benson Miller · British Journal of Sociology | 2010 | 3,206 |
| 28 | Formal and Real Authority in Organizations Philippe Aghion, Jean Tirole · Journal of Political Economy | Feb 1997 | 3,161 |
| 29 | A Historical Comparison of Resource-Based Theory and Five Schools of Thought Within Industrial Organization Economics: Do We Have a New Theory of the Firm? Kathleen Reavis Conner · Journal of Management | Mar 1991 | 3,115 |
| 30 | What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning Bruce Kogut, Udo Zander · Organization Science | Oct 1996 | 3,104 |
| 31 | Essays in Positive Economics. Thomas W. Hutchison, Milton Friedman · The Economic Journal | Dec 1954 | 3,059 |
| 32 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS 1 A. D. Roy · Oxford Economic Papers | Jun 1951 | 3,023 |
| 33 | Satisfaction and comparison income Andrew Eric Clark, Andrew J. Oswald · Journal of Public Economics | Sep 1996 | 3,012 |
| 34 | Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Maximization Robert H. Strotz · The Review of Economic Studies | 1955 | 2,908 |
| 35 | Economic Performance Through Time Douglass C. North · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) | 9 Dec 1993 | 2,895 |
| 36 | Prices vs. Quantities Martin L. Weitzman · The Review of Economic Studies | Oct 1974 | 2,810 |
| 37 | The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes Mark S. Granovetter · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 2005 | 2,780 |
| 38 | In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Joseph Henrich, Robert T. Boyd, Samuel Bowles et al. · American Economic Review | May 2001 | 2,672 |
| 39 | Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development Элинор Остром · World Development | Jun 1996 | 2,633 |
| 40 | Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the Links between Action and Institution Stephen R. Barley, Pamela S. Tolbert · Organization Studies | 1997 | 2,608 |
| 41 | Complementarities and fit strategy, structure, and organizational change in manufacturing Paul Milgrom, John Heath Roberts · Journal of Accounting and Economics | Mar 1995 | 2,600 |
| 42 | Games Real Actors Play: Actor-centered Institutionalism In Policy Research Fritz W. Scharpf | 18 Sep 1997 | 2,579 |
| 43 | Agreeing to Disagree Robert J. Aumann · The Annals of Statistics | Nov 1976 | 2,509 |
| 44 | Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow Larry E. Greiner | 1989 | 2,444 |
| 45 | Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field Stefano DellaVigna · Journal of Economic Literature | May 2009 | 2,439 |
| 46 | The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions Gabe Knott-Fayle · Annals of Leisure Research | 5 Jun 2019 | 2,364 |
| 47 | Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers' Demand Harvey Leibenstein · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1950 | 2,355 |
| 48 | De gustibus non est disputandum George J. Stigler, Gary S. Becker · Idées économiques et sociales | Mar 2010 | 2,309 |
| 49 | Value Maximisation, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function Michael C. Jensen · European Financial Management | Sep 2001 | 2,308 |
| 50 | The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration Francis Fukuyama, Robert Axelrod, Robert L. Jervis · Foreign Affairs | 1998 | 2,240 |
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