| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning | Organization Science | 1991 | 15,592 |
| 2 | A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation | Organization Science | 1994 | 12,322 |
| 3 | Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology | Organization Science | 1992 | 9,674 |
| 4 | Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation | Organization Science | 1991 | 5,951 |
| 5 | Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures | Organization Science | 1991 | 5,840 |
| 6 | Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities | Organization Science | 2002 | 4,751 |
| 7 | Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking | Organization Science | 2005 | 4,570 |
| 8 | Prospering in Dynamically-Competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration | Organization Science | 1996 | 4,118 |
| 9 | Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities | Organization Science | 2000 | 3,432 |
| 10 | The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations | Organization Science | 1992 | 3,069 |
| 11 | Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations | Organization Science | 2000 | 2,978 |
| 12 | Does Trust Matter? Exploring the Effects of Interorganizational and Interpersonal Trust on Performance | Organization Science | 1998 | 2,976 |
| 13 | Longitudinal Field Research on Change: Theory and Practice | Organization Science | 1990 | 2,738 |
| 14 | Exploration vs. Exploitation: An Empirical Test of the Ambidexterity Hypothesis | Organization Science | 2004 | 2,668 |
| 15 | The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory | Organization Science | 1993 | 2,572 |
| 16 | Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use: Adaptive Structuration Theory | Organization Science | 1994 | 2,491 |
| 17 | Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test | Organization Science | 1995 | 2,469 |
| 18 | A Pragmatic View of Knowledge and Boundaries: Boundary Objects in New Product Development | Organization Science | 2002 | 2,418 |
| 19 | Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective | Organization Science | 2001 | 2,416 |
| 20 | What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning | Organization Science | 1996 | 2,377 |
| 21 | A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge Versus Opportunism | Organization Science | 1996 | 2,333 |
| 22 | Interpretive Barriers to Successful Product Innovation in Large Firms | Organization Science | 1992 | 2,150 |
| 23 | Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning | Organization Science | 1991 | 2,142 |
| 24 | Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing | Organization Science | 2002 | 2,122 |
| 25 | Transferring, Translating, and Transforming: An Integrative Framework for Managing Knowledge Across Boundaries | Organization Science | 2004 | 2,056 |
| 26 | Bridging Epistemologies: The Generative Dance Between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing | Organization Science | 1999 | 2,021 |
| 27 | Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams | Organization Science | 1999 | 1,995 |
| 28 | Resource-based View of Strategic Alliance Formation: Strategic and Social Effects in Entrepreneurial Firms | Organization Science | 1996 | 1,973 |
| 29 | Agency Relationships in Family Firms: Theory and Evidence | Organization Science | 2001 | 1,840 |
| 30 | On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change | Organization Science | 2002 | 1,837 |
| 31 | Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Notes from a Trip Down Memory Lane | Organization Science | 1995 | 1,724 |
| 32 | Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community | Organization Science | 2004 | 1,684 |
| 33 | Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Model for Managing Innovation Streams | Organization Science | 2005 | 1,653 |
| 34 | Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance | Organization Science | 2009 | 1,630 |
| 35 | The Role of Trust in Organizational Settings | Organization Science | 2001 | 1,585 |
| 36 | The Double-Edge of Organizational Legitimation | Organization Science | 1990 | 1,539 |
| 37 | Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity: Managing Paradoxes of Innovation | Organization Science | 2009 | 1,485 |
| 38 | Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science | Organization Science | 2003 | 1,484 |
| 39 | Perspective: Complexity Theory and Organization Science | Organization Science | 1999 | 1,473 |
| 40 | Demography and Design: Predictors of New Product Team Performance | Organization Science | 1992 | 1,434 |
| 41 | Stakeholder Theory and “The Corporate Objective Revisited” | Organization Science | 2004 | 1,411 |
| 42 | Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms | Organization Science | 2000 | 1,409 |
| 43 | Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing | Organization Science | 1995 | 1,405 |
| 44 | The Mutual Knowledge Problem and Its Consequences for Dispersed Collaboration | Organization Science | 2001 | 1,405 |
| 45 | Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change | Organization Science | 2000 | 1,402 |
| 46 | Social Structure of “Coopetition” Within a Multiunit Organization: Coordination, Competition, and Intraorganizational Knowledge Sharing | Organization Science | 2002 | 1,388 |
| 47 | Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World | Organization Science | 2012 | 1,379 |
| 48 | Networks, Diversity, and Productivity: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Teams | Organization Science | 2001 | 1,311 |
| 49 | Perspective—Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge Conversion: Controversy and Advancement in Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory | Organization Science | 2009 | 1,302 |
| 50 | Social Capital, Structural Holes and the Formation of an Industry Network | Organization Science | 1997 | 1,297 |
