Most cited papers in Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
What are the most cited papers in Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering?
The most cited paper in Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering is "Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches" (Mark C. Suchman, 1995), with 12,673 citations. Next come "Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept" (7,873) and "Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research" (3,452).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 655 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches Mark C. Suchman · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1995 | 12,673 |
| 2 | Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept Paul S. Adler, Seok‐Woo Kwon · Academy of Management Review | 2002 | 7,873 |
| 3 | Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research Yehuda Baruch, Brooks C. Holtom · Human Relations | Aug 2008 | 3,452 |
| 4 | Relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors: Do fairness perceptions influence employee citizenship? Robert H. Moorman · Journal of Applied Psychology | Dec 1991 | 3,191 |
| 5 | THEORIZING CHANGE: THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF INSTITUTIONALIZED FIELDS. Royston Greenwood, C. R. Hinings, Roy Suddaby · Academy of Management Journal | Feb 2002 | 2,846 |
| 6 | Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach. E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder, Robert D. Ridge et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 2,597 |
| 7 | WHY PEOPLE STAY: USING JOB EMBEDDEDNESS TO PREDICT VOLUNTARY TURNOVER. T. R. Mitchell, Brooks C. Holtom, T. W. Lee et al. · Academy of Management Journal | Dec 2001 | 2,561 |
| 8 | The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations: Propositions from the Literature John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone · Public Administration Review | 9 Nov 2006 | 2,392 |
| 9 | Inside the Hybrid Organization: Selective Coupling as a Response to Competing Institutional Logics Anne-Claire Pache, Filipe Manuel Simoes Dos Santos · Academy of Management Journal | 30 Sep 2012 | 2,376 |
| 10 | Data in Search of a Theory: A Critical Examination of the Relationships Among Social Performance, Social Disclosure, and Economic Performance of U.S. Firms Arieh A. Ullmann · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1985 | 2,148 |
| 11 | The Moral Foundations of Trust Eric M. Uslaner · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2005 | 2,064 |
| 12 | INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING FIELDS: HIV/AIDS TREATMENT ADVOCACY IN CANADA. Steve Maguire, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence · Academy of Management Journal | Oct 2004 | 1,965 |
| 13 | Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements J. Craig Jenkins · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1983 | 1,880 |
| 14 | Volunteering John F. Wilson · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 2000 | 1,787 |
| 15 | Volunteer Work and Well-Being Peggy A. Thoits, Lyndi N. Hewitt · Journal of Health and Social Behavior | Jun 2001 | 1,649 |
| 16 | On the Measurement of Organizational Slack L. J. Bourgeois · Academy of Management Review | 1981 | 1,577 |
| 17 | Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee · Academy of Management Annals | 2014 | 1,569 |
| 18 | Student Council, Volunteering, Basketball, or Marching Band Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Bonnie L. Barber · Journal of Adolescent Research | 1999 | 1,527 |
| 19 | Accountability In Practice: Mechanisms for NGOs Alnoor Ebrahim · World Development | 23 Apr 2003 | 1,448 |
| 20 | Political Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic Education William A. Galston · Annual Review of Political Science | Jun 2001 | 1,412 |
| 21 | Who Cares? Toward an Integrated Theory of Volunteer Work John F. Wilson, Marc A. Musick · American Sociological Review | Oct 1997 | 1,409 |
| 22 | Understanding Governance: Ten Years On R. A. W. Rhodes · Organization Studies | 5 Jul 2007 | 1,387 |
| 23 | Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam · Sociological Theory | 21 Feb 2011 | 1,361 |
| 24 | Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice John W. Selsky, Barbara Parker · Journal of Management | 8 Nov 2005 | 1,343 |
| 25 | Public Value Management Gerry Stoker · The American Review of Public Administration | 27 Jan 2006 | 1,338 |
| 26 | Investigating social entrepreneurship: A multidimensional model Jay Weerawardena, Gillian Sullivan Mort · Journal of World Business | 18 Oct 2005 | 1,305 |
| 27 | The Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: Civil Society at Risk? Angela M. Eikenberry, Jodie Drapal Kluver · Public Administration Review | Mar 2004 | 1,284 |
| 28 | The governance of social enterprises: Mission drift and accountability challenges in hybrid organizations Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana, Johanna Mair · Research in Organizational Behavior | 2014 | 1,252 |
| 29 | Designing and Implementing Cross‐Sector Collaborations: Needed and Challenging John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone · Public Administration Review | 9 Aug 2015 | 1,218 |
| 30 | Governing the Hollow State H. Brinton Milward, Keith G. Provan · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Apr 2000 | 1,175 |
| 31 | The Whole‐of‐Government Approach to Public Sector Reform Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid · Public Administration Review | Nov 2007 | 1,162 |
| 32 | The Motivations to Volunteer E. Gil Clary, Mark Snyder · Current Directions in Psychological Science | Oct 1999 | 1,131 |
| 33 | Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving Stefano DellaVigna, John A. List, Ulrike Malmendier · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 18 Jan 2012 | 1,114 |
| 34 | The chameleon of accountability: Forms and discourses Amanda Sinclair · Accounting Organizations and Society | Feb 1995 | 1,102 |
| 35 | The legitimacy of social enterprise Raymond A. Dart · Nonprofit Management and Leadership | 24 May 2004 | 1,100 |
| 36 | Social Bricolage: Theorizing Social Value Creation in Social Enterprises MariaLaura Di Domenico, Helen Haugh, Paul J. Tracey · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | 5 Mar 2010 | 1,099 |
| 37 | Political participation and civic engagement: Towards a new typology Joakim Ekman, Erik Amnå · Human Affairs | 23 Jun 2012 | 1,097 |
| 38 | Relationship Marketing Activities, Commitment, and Membership Behaviors in Professional Associations Thomas W. Gruen, John O. Summers, Frank Acito · Journal of Marketing | Jul 2000 | 1,089 |
| 39 | The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox? Christopher Hood · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | 8 Jun 2004 | 1,012 |
| 40 | Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism Mark Bovens · West European Politics | 10 Aug 2010 | 1,011 |
| 41 | The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field Alex James Nicholls · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Jul 2010 | 1,005 |
| 42 | Social Origins of Civil Society: Explaining the Nonprofit Sector Cross-Nationally Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier · VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations | Sep 1998 | 1,000 |
| 43 | MAKING GOVERNANCE NETWORKS EFFECTIVE AND DEMOCRATIC THROUGH METAGOVERNANCE Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing · Public Administration | 22 May 2009 | 998 |
| 44 | Revisiting the Motivational Bases of Public Service: Twenty Years of Research and an Agenda for the Future James L. Perry, Annie Hondeghem, Lois Recascino Wise · Public Administration Review | 31 Aug 2010 | 985 |
| 45 | Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management Christina Prell, Klaus Hubacek, Mark S. Reed · Society & Natural Resources | 4 Jun 2009 | 983 |
| 46 | Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups Marc A. Musick, John F. Wilson · Social Science & Medicine | 27 Dec 2002 | 968 |
| 47 | The New Governance: Practices and Processes for Stakeholder and Citizen Participation in the Work of Government Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Tina Nabatchi, Rosemary O’Leary · Public Administration Review | Sep 2005 | 964 |
| 48 | Do “high commitment” human resource practices affect employee commitment? A cross-level analysis using hierarchical linear modeling Ellen M. Whitener · Journal of Management | Oct 2001 | 948 |
| 49 | Collaborative Public Management: Assessing What We Know and How We Know It Michael D. McGuire · Public Administration Review | 9 Nov 2006 | 941 |
| 50 | Factors Influencing Social Responsibility Disclosure by Portuguese Companies Manuel Castelo Branco, Lúcia Lima Rodrigues · Journal of Business Ethics | 16 Jan 2008 | 932 |
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