Most cited papers in Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
What are the most cited papers in Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory?
The most cited paper in Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory is "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (Karl Marx, 1996), with 2,316 citations. Next come "Institutional Contradictions, Praxis, and Institutional Change: A Dialectical Perspective" (2,086) and "Personnel Selection in Organizations" (1,640).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 141 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 18 Jan 1996 | 2,316 |
| 2 | Institutional Contradictions, Praxis, and Institutional Change: A Dialectical Perspective Myeong‐Gu Seo, W. E. Douglas Creed · Academy of Management Review | Apr 2002 | 2,086 |
| 3 | Personnel Selection in Organizations Kevin R. Murphy, Neal Schmitt, Walter C. Borman · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1993 | 1,640 |
| 4 | The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, by Mancur Olson Earl G. Latham · Political Science Quarterly | Mar 1967 | 1,561 |
| 5 | Religion in the Public Sphere Jürgen Habermas · European Journal of Philosophy | 14 Mar 2006 | 1,447 |
| 6 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Marek Loužek · Politická ekonomie | Oct 2010 | 1,333 |
| 7 | Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology Werner Stark, Max Weber, Guenther Roth et al. · Sociological Analysis | 1970 | 1,330 |
| 8 | Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic Sheri Berman · World Politics | Apr 1997 | 1,102 |
| 9 | THE DARK SIDE OF ORGANIZATIONS: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster Diane Vaughan · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1999 | 1,084 |
| 10 | Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self‐Knowledge Richard Eldridge · Philosophical Investigations | Oct 2003 | 1,067 |
| 11 | Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets Karin Knorr Cetina, Urs Bruegger · American Journal of Sociology | 2002 | 1,054 |
| 12 | Reciprocity: The Supply of Public Goods Through Voluntary Contributions Robert Sugden · The Economic Journal | Dec 1984 | 979 |
| 13 | Max Weber, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriss der verstehenden Soziologie, Tübingen 1922 Marcus Llanque · VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks | 8 May 2008 | 940 |
| 14 | Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies André Spicer, Mats G Alvesson, Dan Kärreman · Human Relations | 19 Mar 2009 | 700 |
| 15 | The New Spirit of Capitalism Luc Boltanski, Ève Chiapello · International Journal of Politics Culture and Society | Jun 2005 | 695 |
| 16 | On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies Mats G Alvesson, Hugh Christopher Willmott · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1992 | 683 |
| 17 | The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government Kutsal Yesilkagit · West European Politics | 27 Feb 2012 | 640 |
| 18 | Community, Citizenship, and the third Way Nikolas Rose · American Behavioral Scientist | Jun 2000 | 624 |
| 19 | The Nature of Trust: From Georg Simmel to a Theory of Expectation, Interpretation and Suspension Guido Möllering · Sociology | May 2001 | 608 |
| 20 | Simmel on culture: Selected writings Gary Dean Jaworski · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | 1998 | 561 |
| 21 | Why Is Classical Theory Classical? Raewyn W. Connell · American Journal of Sociology | May 1997 | 548 |
| 22 | The Sociology of Philosophies Randall Collins · Philosophy of the Social Sciences | 31 Dec 1998 | 471 |
| 23 | Ethics and accountability: from the for-itself to the for-the-other Teri L. Shearer · Accounting Organizations and Society | Aug 2002 | 463 |
| 24 | Subjectivity and cultural critique Sherry B. Ortner · Anthropological Theory | 25 Feb 2005 | 419 |
| 25 | The Enigma of Semmelweis—an Interpretation Sherwin B. Nuland · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | 1979 | 410 |
| 26 | A Theory Of Government “Red Tape” Barry L. Bozeman · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Jul 1993 | 382 |
| 27 | Trust and Governance Paul DiMaggio, Valerie A. Braithwaite, Margaret Levi · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Nov 1999 | 381 |
| 28 | How to use Max Weber’s ideal type in sociological analysis Richard Swedberg · Journal of Classical Sociology | 8 Dec 2017 | 362 |
| 29 | Organized Self-Realization Axel Honneth · European Journal of Social Theory | 5 Oct 2004 | 320 |
| 30 | Voluntary Association Membership in Fifteen Countries: A Comparative Analysis James Edward Curtis Jr, Edward G. Grabb, Douglas Baer · American Sociological Review | Apr 1992 | 316 |
| 31 | Work, workfare, work/life balance and an ethic of care Linda McDowell · Progress in Human Geography | Apr 2004 | 308 |
| 32 | Robots and Organization Studies: Why Robots Might Not Want to Steal Your Job Peter J. Fleming · Organization Studies | 4 Apr 2018 | 295 |
| 33 | The Profession and Vocation of Politics Max Weber, Ronald Speirs · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 24 Jun 1994 | 287 |
| 34 | Social accounting's emancipatory potential: A Gramscian critique Crawford Spence · Critical Perspectives on Accounting | 11 Jul 2007 | 283 |
| 35 | WHAT IS NEW MATERIALISM? Christopher N. Gamble, Joshua Stanley Hanan, Thomas Nail · Angelaki | 2 Nov 2019 | 281 |
| 36 | Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualisms Ronald L. Jepperson, John W. Meyer · Sociological Theory | 21 Feb 2011 | 273 |
| 37 | Taming and promoting charisma to change organizations Janice M. Beyer · The Leadership Quarterly | 1999 | 270 |
| 38 | VARIETIES OF NEW INSTITUTIONALISM: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL VIVIEN LOWNPES · Public Administration | Jun 1996 | 267 |
| 39 | “God at Work”: Engaging Central and Incompatible Institutional Logics through Elastic Hybridity Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Michael Smets, Timothy J. Morris · Academy of Management Journal | 8 Jan 2019 | 263 |
| 40 | The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization Johan Pelck Olsen · Annual Review of Political Science | 11 Jan 2008 | 258 |
| 41 | Why Study People's Stories? The Dialogical Ethics of Narrative Analysis Arthur W. Frank · International Journal of Qualitative Methods | Mar 2002 | 255 |
| 42 | The Unforced Force of the Better Argument: Reason and Power in Habermas’ Political Theory Amy Reasinger Allen · Constellations | Sep 2012 | 253 |
| 43 | Towards a New Typology of Crises Stephan Gundel · Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management | Sep 2005 | 251 |
| 44 | A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde Ari Adut · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 2005 | 249 |
| 45 | Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles: Moving Beyond Weber William C. Cockerham, Alfred Rütten, Thomas Abel · Sociological Quarterly | Mar 1997 | 248 |
| 46 | Spontaneous Market Order and Social Rules Viktor J. Vanberg · Economics and Philosophy | Apr 1986 | 247 |
| 47 | The “Iron Cage” and the “Shell as Hard as Steel”: Parsons, Weber, and the Stahlhartes Gehäuse Metaphor in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Peter Baehr · History and Theory | May 2001 | 245 |
| 48 | Max Weber on Law and the Rise of Capitalism David M. Trubek | 12 Jul 2017 | 241 |
| 49 | The trap of intellectual success: Robert N. Bellah, the American civil religion debate, and the sociology of knowledge Matteo Bortolini · Theory and Society | 3 Feb 2012 | 240 |
| 50 | Moral economy: What’s in a name James G. Carrier · Anthropological Theory | 4 Oct 2017 | 239 |
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