Perspective—The Black Box of Organizational Demography

Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers

1984 • 9,295 citations

THE PEOPLE MAKE THE PLACE

1987 • 4,322 citations

Top management and innovations in banking: Does the composition of the top team make a difference?

1989 • 2,897 citations

Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women

1977 • 2,692 citations

Being Different: Relational Demography and Organizational Attachment

1992 • 2,359 citations

Top Management Team Demography and Corporate Strategic Change

1992 • 2,062 citations

Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion

1990 • 2,054 citations

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE THEORIES: A MULTILEVEL EXPLORATION OF THE PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM PARADIGM

1991 • 1,856 citations

What Theory is Not

1995 • 1,725 citations

Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover

1989 • 1,690 citations

BEYOND SIMPLE DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS: THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY IN SUPERIOR-SUBORDINATE DYADS.

1989 • 1,613 citations

Demographic Diversity, Conflict, and Work Group Outcomes: An Intervening Process Theory

1996 • 1,474 citations

Levels Issues in Theory Development, Data Collection, and Analysis

1994 • 1,426 citations

Top Management Team Demography and Process: The Role of Social Integration and Communication

1994 • 1,365 citations

What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is

1995 • 1,288 citations

Issues of level in organizational research: Multi-level and cross-level perspectives.

1985 • 1,238 citations

The Structure of Scientific Theories.

1975 • 1,133 citations

Mediators, moderators, and tests for mediation.

1984 • 1,129 citations

ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF AGE AND TENURE DISTRIBUTIONS ON TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION.

1989 • 1,006 citations

Explaining Organizational Behavior.

1983 • 962 citations

Some differences make a difference: Individual dissimilarity and group heterogeneity as correlates of recruitment, promotions, and turnover.

1991 • 903 citations

Work and Friendship Ties in Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Relation Networks

1979 • 804 citations

Organizational Demography and Turnover in Top-Management Group

1984 • 781 citations

On studying managerial elites

2009 • 626 citations

From Causes to Events

1992 • 512 citations

SOCIAL CONTEXT OF PERFORMANCE EVALUATION DECISIONS.

1993 • 501 citations

A meta-analysis of age differences in job performance.

1986 • 501 citations

Organizational Entry: Recruitment, Selection, and Socialization of Newcomers.

1982 • 494 citations

The Logic of Survey Analysis

1969 • 473 citations

ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY IN JAPANESE FIRMS: GROUP HETEROGENEITY, INDIVIDUAL DISSIMILARITY, AND TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM TURNOVER.

1993 • 388 citations

Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organizations.

1972 • 348 citations

NEW WRINKLES IN THE THEORY OF AGE: DEMOGRAPHY, NORMS, AND PERFORMANCE RATING.

1988 • 331 citations

Careers and Organizational Labor Markets: Demographic Models of Organizational Behavior

1983 • 258 citations

Social Structure and Intergroup Interaction: Men and Women of the Federal Bureaucracy

1982 • 245 citations

The Effects of Departmental Demography on Turnover: The Case of a University.

1983 • 228 citations

Token Women: An Empirical Test of Kanter's Hypothesis

1978 • 223 citations

The impact of situational factors on personnel decisions concerning women: Varying the sex composition of the applicant pool

1980 • 170 citations

Age grading: The implicit organizational timetable

1984 • 158 citations

Sex Effects or Structural Effects? An Empirical Test of Kanter's Theory of Proportions

1983 • 124 citations

The Demographic Metabolism of Organizations: Industry Dynamics, Turnover, and Tenure Distributions

1995 • 122 citations

The Effect of Race-Ratio Composition on the Frequency of Organizational Communication

1985 • 84 citations

Demographic Models of Internal Labor Markets

1986 • 79 citations

Organizational Age Norms: Why Is It So Hard To Know One When You See One?

1996 • 77 citations

Applicant pool composition and job perceptions: Impact on decisions regarding an older applicant

1988 • 76 citations

The age context of performance-evaluation decisions.

1991 • 53 citations

Organizational Demography and Inequality

1992 • 51 citations

What is so Practical about Theory? Lewin Revisited

1990 • 48 citations

Sources of Organizational Demography: Faculty Sex Ratios in Colleges and Universities

1991 • 47 citations

At the Crossroads: A Multiple-Level Explanation of Individual Attainment

1990 • 42 citations

The effects of the age-type of tasks and incumbent age composition on job perceptions

1990 • 38 citations

The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws

1980 • 34 citations

Effects of Supervisor Age and Subordinate Age on Rating Congruence

1991 • 26 citations

Sex and Power in the Federal Bureaucracy

1982 • 25 citations