Emerging Theories of Communication in Organizations

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

1948 • 39,028 citations

The Strength of Weak Ties

1973 • 36,856 citations

Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification

1978 • 15,559 citations

Harvard business review

1993 • 13,965 citations

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

1985 • 13,572 citations

External Control of Organizations: Resource Dependence Perspective

2011 • 13,191 citations

The Handbook of Social Psychology

1969 • 12,920 citations

Research in Organizational Behavior

1984 • 12,263 citations

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

1964 • 12,232 citations

Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

1977 • 12,096 citations

Mind, Self and Society

1934 • 10,724 citations

Competitive advantage, creating and sustaining superior performance

1985 • 10,232 citations

Social Foundations of Thought and Action

2002 • 9,650 citations

Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design

1986 • 8,931 citations

Central Problems in Social Theory

1979 • 7,575 citations

A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design

1978 • 4,864 citations

The social psychology of telecommunications

1976 • 3,997 citations

Handbook of Organizations.

1966 • 3,654 citations

Studies in Ethnomethodology

1968 • 3,491 citations

The social psychology of telecommunications

1977 • 3,318 citations

The Social Construction of Technological Systems

1989 • 3,304 citations

In The Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power.

1989 • 3,270 citations

Knowledge and Human Interests.

1972 • 2,669 citations

Social psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication.

1984 • 2,445 citations

Message Equivocality, Media Selection, and Manager Performance: Implications for Information Systems

1987 • 2,291 citations

Knowledge and Human Interests

1972 • 2,213 citations

Handbook of Organizations.

1966 • 2,044 citations

A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision Support Systems

1987 • 2,035 citations

Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions

1976 • 2,012 citations

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design<sup />.

1978 • 1,932 citations

Handbook of organizational design

1982 • 1,895 citations

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organizational Design

1978 • 1,546 citations

Being in the Right Place: A Structural Analysis of Individual Influence in an Organization

1984 • 1,529 citations

Handbook of Organizational Communication.

1988 • 1,434 citations

Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research.

1982 • 1,338 citations

Communication Yearbook 3

1981 • 1,318 citations

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

2014 • 1,265 citations

Handbook of Organizational Communication: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

1987 • 1,200 citations

Transfer of Managers as a Coordination and Control Strategy in Multinational Organizations

1977 • 1,194 citations

Informal Networks and Organizational Crises: An Experimental Simulation

1988 • 1,177 citations

Toward a “Critical Mass” Theory of Interactive Media

1987 • 1,168 citations

A Theory of the Effects of Advanced Information Technologies on Organizational Design, Intelligence, and Decision Making

1990 • 1,166 citations

The network nation: human communication via computer

1993 • 1,075 citations

The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective.

1979 • 1,068 citations

The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles and Networks

1990 • 948 citations

Changing Patterns or Patterns of Change: The Effects of a Change in Technology on Social Network Structure and Power

1990 • 938 citations

A Social Influence Model of Technology use

1990 • 885 citations

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S NETWORKS: A STUDY OF INTERACTION PATTERNS AND INFLUENCE IN AN ORGANIZATION.

1985 • 884 citations

Media Symbolism, Media Richness, and Media Choice in Organizations

1987 • 881 citations

The Social Structure of a National Securities Market

1984 • 837 citations

Corporate linkages and organizational environment: A test of the resource dependence model

1990 • 820 citations

Information Technology to Support Electronic Meetings

1988 • 819 citations

Models of Network Structure

1980 • 817 citations

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

1979 • 804 citations

America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

1978 • 780 citations

A Social Information Processing Model of Media Use in Organizations

1987 • 741 citations

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1982 • 729 citations

Organizations and Communication Technology

1990 • 725 citations

Electronic Emotion

1987 • 677 citations

Experiments in Group Decision Making Communication Process and Outcome in Face-to-Face Versus Computerized Conferences

1986 • 665 citations

Information Flow in Research and Development Laboratories

1969 • 659 citations

Understanding the use of Group Decision Support Systems: The Theory of Adaptive Structuration

1990 • 655 citations

Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles

1983 • 650 citations

Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work.

1994 • 625 citations

The Nature and Design of Post-Industrial Organizations

1984 • 619 citations

Progress in communication sciences

1984 • 611 citations

Organizational Colleagues, Media Richness, and Electronic Mail

1991 • 584 citations

Patterns of contact and communication in scientific research collaboration

1988 • 569 citations

America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism

1978 • 555 citations

THE STRENGTH OF STRONG TIES: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND INTERGROUP CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS.

1989 • 513 citations

Technology as equivoque: Sensemaking in new technologies.

1990 • 511 citations

Performance and consensus

1980 • 508 citations

Communication Yearbook 14

2012 • 498 citations

Consensus on strategy formulation and organizational performance: Competitors in a fragmented industry

1987 • 489 citations

The Selection of Communication Media as an Executive Skill

1988 • 485 citations

Communication in organizations

2002 • 479 citations

Using a GDSS to Facilitate Group Consensus: Some Intended and Unintended Consequences

1988 • 475 citations

A Longitudinal Study of the Formation of Interlocking Directorates

1988 • 474 citations

Power Relations in Exchange Networks

1988 • 453 citations

Computer-Based Support for Group Problem-Finding: An Experimental Investigation

1988 • 430 citations

Corporate Profits and Cooptation.

1984 • 377 citations

Progress in Communication Sciences

1982 • 360 citations

Organization-Sets, Action-Sets, and Networks: Making the Most of Simplicity

1981 • 356 citations

A Study of Influence in Computer-Mediated Group Decision Making

1988 • 344 citations

Broken Ties: Interlocking Directorates and Intercorporate Coordination

1983 • 344 citations

Communicating and Organizing

1976 • 340 citations

Group decision‐making as a structurational process

1985 • 319 citations

Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging

1990 • 318 citations

In the age of the smart machine: The future of work and power

1989 • 315 citations

Women and Weak Ties: Differences by Sex in the Size of Voluntary Organizations

1982 • 311 citations

When Friends Leave: A Structural Analysis of the Relationship between Turnover and Stayers' Attitudes

1985 • 299 citations

Computer Support for Group Versus Individual Decisions

1982 • 295 citations

Perspectives on Human Communication

1979 • 287 citations

Organizational entry, assimilation, and exit.

1987 • 278 citations

Computer Support for Meetings of Groups Working on Unstructured Problems: A Field Experiment

1988 • 271 citations

RELATIONSHIPS OF JOB CATEGORIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS TO USE OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS, INCLUDING ELECTRONIC MAIL: A META‐ANALYSIS AND EXTENSION*

1990 • 269 citations

Emergent communication networks

1987 • 265 citations

The snowball effect: Turnover embedded in communication networks.

1986 • 247 citations

Oral Communication Apprehension: A Reconceptualization

1982 • 228 citations

Conflict Management in a Computer-Supported Meeting Environment

1991 • 226 citations

Electronic Message Systems in the University: A Description of Use and Utility

1983 • 216 citations

The evolution of user behavior in a computerized conferencing system

1981 • 207 citations

The hidden messages in computer networks

1986 • 204 citations

Relationships and Tasks in Scientific Research Collaboration

1987 • 200 citations

Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting: Explaining Task-Related and Socioemotional Uses

1986 • 199 citations

Decision development in small groups, III: A multiple sequence model of group decision development¹

1983 • 198 citations

The Richness Imperative and Cognitive Style

1990 • 192 citations

Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations.

1970 • 192 citations

INCREASED ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY AND CHANGES IN BOARD LINKAGE PATTERNS.

1990 • 185 citations

Decision Development in Small Groups IV A Typology of Group Decision Paths

1989 • 184 citations

Theoretical and Analytical Issues in Studying Organizational Processes

1990 • 180 citations

Directorship Interlocks and Corporate Profitability

1987 • 178 citations

Work group structures and computer support: a field experiment

1988 • 177 citations

Technology and Organizations.

1992 • 173 citations

Computer-Mediated Communication Systems

1982 • 163 citations

Decision development in small groups II: A study of multiple sequences in decision making¹

1983 • 160 citations

Communication Yearbook 9

2012 • 153 citations

Discretionary Data Bases

1987 • 150 citations

Decision development in small groups I: A comparison of two models

1981 • 145 citations

Network Position and Cognition in a Computer Software Firm

1985 • 141 citations

Media Selection and Managerial Characteristics in Organizational Communications

1990 • 140 citations

Communication in Organizations.

1976 • 138 citations

Social network analysis, structuration theory and the holism-individualism debate

1988 • 138 citations

Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting.

2011 • 129 citations

Use of group decision support systems as an appropriation process

1989 • 128 citations

Communicator Competence in the Workplace: Model Testing and Scale Development

1981 • 128 citations

On the Study of Technology and Task: A Variable-Based Approach

1990 • 127 citations

Decision Development in Small Groups V Test of a Contingency Model

1989 • 126 citations

Interlocking Directorates in Canada: Intercorporate or Class Alliance?

1984 • 125 citations

INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AS A PREDICTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

1983 • 123 citations

On the 2001 Meeting of the Academy of Management

2002 • 122 citations

Computer-mediated communication system network data: theoretical concerns and empirical examples

1990 • 115 citations

The use of computer‐monitored data in information science and communication research

1983 • 112 citations

A structural theory of interlocking corporate directorates

1978 • 102 citations

Using Two Different Electronic Meeting System Tools for the Same Task: An Experimental Comparison

1990 • 101 citations

Testing a Structural Theory of Corporate Cooptation: Interorganizational Directorate Ties as a Strategy for Avoiding Market Constraints on Profits

1980 • 100 citations

Organizational Analysis.

1970 • 97 citations

Evolving electronic communication networks

1986 • 93 citations

Progress, problems and prospects for network research: Investigating relationships in the age of electronic communication technologies

1987 • 92 citations

The Influence of Communication Technologies on Organizational Structure: A Conceptual Model for Future Research

1994 • 84 citations

Broken-Tie Reconstitution and the Functions of Interorganizational Interlocks: A Reexamination

1986 • 83 citations

VOICE MAIL VERSE CONVENTIONAL CHANNELS: A COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUALS' PREFERENCES.

1990 • 81 citations

Technology and organizations

1991 • 80 citations

CRISIS EFFECTS ON INTRAORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATION

1985 • 77 citations

The Influence of Corporate Power, Social Status, and Market Position on Corporate Interlocks in a Regional Network

1985 • 71 citations

Communication Network Patterns and Employee Performance With New Technology

1990 • 69 citations

Acceptance and Usage of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems

1982 • 68 citations

Job involvement, internal motivation, and employees' integration into networks of work relationships

1980 • 67 citations

Handbook of Organizational Communication

1988 • 67 citations

Technological support for work group collaboration

1990 • 67 citations

Voice Messaging, Coordination, and Communication

2014 • 65 citations

Information Media and Source Patterns across Management Levels: A Pilot Study

1988 • 62 citations

EVOLVING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT

1987 • 61 citations

Sociological theory, 1983

1983 • 59 citations

Positions, Roles, and Dependencies in a Community Interorganization System

1984 • 57 citations

The Influence of Communication Technologies on Organizational Structure

1987 • 56 citations

Another Look at the Network Boundaries of American Markets

1989 • 54 citations

Communicative Indices of Employee Performance With New Technology

1988 • 53 citations

The Unfolding of the Interlocking Directorate Structure of the United States

1983 • 49 citations

A Social Network Approach to Organizational Design-Performance

1983 • 49 citations

A Dynamic Study of Change in a Regional Corporate Network

1981 • 49 citations

Cognitive Science and Organizational Design: A Case Study of Computer Conferencing

1987 • 48 citations

Technological Support for Work Group Collaboration

2020 • 41 citations

Telecommunications and Organizational Choice

1987 • 40 citations

Organizational Communication Theory and Ideology: An Overview

1979 • 40 citations

Information flow in R & D laboratories

2011 • 40 citations

Organizational Communication in the Information Age: Implications of Computer-Based Systems

1988 • 37 citations

The Theory Imperative

1990 • 37 citations

The Influence of Corporate Power, Social Status, and Market Position on Corporate Interlocks in a Regional Network

1985 • 35 citations

Current and Future Uses of Group Decision Support System Technology Report on a Recent Empirical Study

1988 • 34 citations

Interlocking Directorates and Communities of Interest Among American Railroad Companies, 1905

1988 • 30 citations

Organizational Communication Theory and Research: An Overview

1977 • 29 citations

Communication in transition

1989 • 26 citations

Social Networks and Organizational Interventions: Insights from an Area-Wide Labor-Management Committee

1986 • 25 citations

The Substitution of Communication Technologies for Organizational Structure in Research and Development

1990 • 23 citations

Interviewer and Applicant Questioning Behavior in Employment Interviews

1990 • 18 citations

Computer Conferences: Success or Failure?

1983 • 17 citations

Organizational Design

2016 • 17 citations

Commercial Banks, Interlocking Directorates and Economic Power: An Analysis of the Primary Metals Industry

1981 • 15 citations

Telecommunications and Organizational Choice

1990 • 15 citations

The network nation. Human communication via computer

1980 • 13 citations

Measuring Telephone Apprehension

1990 • 12 citations

The status of communication studies in organizational contexts: One rhetorician's lament after a year‐long odyssey

1984 • 10 citations

Interorganizational Networks via Shared Public Relations Firms’ Centrality, Diversification, Media Coverage, and Publics’ Images

1987 • 8 citations

A coherent systems methodology for the analysis of human communication systems

1976 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations