| A systematic assessment of the empirical support for transaction cost economics RJ David, SK Han Strategic Management Journal 25 (1), 39-58, 2004 | 1759 | 2004 |
| Environmental jolts, institutional change, and the creation of entrepreneurial opportunity in the US electric power industry WD Sine, RJ David Research Policy 32 (2), 185-207, 2003 | 542 | 2003 |
| Studying choice and change: The intersection of institutional theory and entrepreneurship research PS Tolbert, RJ David, WD Sine Organization Science 22 (5), 1332-1344, 2011 | 516 | 2011 |
| Seizing opportunity in emerging fields: how institutional entrepreneurs legitimated the professional form of management consulting RJ David, WD Sine, HA Haveman Organization Science 24 (2), 356-377, 2013 | 341 | 2013 |
| When fashion is fleeting: Transitory collective beliefs and the dynamics of TQM consulting RJ David, D Strang Academy of Management Journal 49 (2), 215-233, 2006 | 333 | 2006 |
| From plan to plant: Effects of certification on operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector WD Sine, RJ David, H Mitsuhashi Organization Science 18 (4), 578-594, 2007 | 308 | 2007 |
| Setting your own standards: Internal corporate governance codes as a response to institutional pressure I Okhmatovskiy, RJ David Organization Science 23 (1), 155-176, 2012 | 221 | 2012 |
| Institutions and entrepreneurship WD Sine, RJ David Research in the Sociology of Work 21, 1-26, 2010 | 199 | 2010 |
| Institutional Theory in Organization Studies RJ David, PS Tolbert, J Boghossian Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2019 | 191 | 2019 |
| The Evolution of Issue Interpretation within Organizational Fields: Actor Positions, Framing Trajectories, and Field Settlement JB Litrico, RJ David Academy of Management Journal 60 (3), 986-1015, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Ecologists and institutionalists: Friends or foes HA Haveman, RJ David The sage handbook of organizational institutionalism, 573-595, 2008 | 116 | 2008 |
| The deinstitutionalization of institutional theory? Exploring divergent agendas in institutional research RJ David, AB Bitektine The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods, 160-175, 2009 | 110 | 2009 |
| Coevolution in management fashion: an agent-based model of consultant-driven innovation D Strang, RJ David, S Akhlaghpour American Journal of Sociology 120 (1), 226-264, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| Institutional theory and entrepreneurship: Taking stock and moving forward RJ David, WD Sine, CK Serra The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism, 671-688, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Under the umbrella: Goal-derived category construction and product category nesting J Boghossian, RJ David Administrative science quarterly 66 (4), 1084-1129, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| Institutional change and the growth of strategy consulting in the United States RJ David The Oxford handbook of management consulting, 71–92, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Effects of ancestral populations on entrepreneurial founding and failure: private liquor stores in Alberta, 1994–2003 G Dowell, RJ David Industrial and Corporate Change 20 (3), 825-853, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Rarely pure and never simple: Assessing cumulative evidence in strategic management SL Newbert, RJ David, SK Han Strategic Organization 12 (2), 142-154, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| The short history and long future of research on market categories RJ David, Y Lee Strategic Organization 20 (4), 709-721, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Building legitimacy through symbolic action: Statements of organizational action RJ David ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA-ANNUAL CONFERENCE- 18, 20-27, 1997 | 12 | 1997 |