Jeffrey Pfeffer

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Pfeffer is an American business theorist and the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's most influential management thinkers.

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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective. (1979) (14912)
The External Control of Organizations. (1978) (5075)
A social information processing approach to job attitudes and task design. (1978) (4489)
Power in Organizations. (1982) (2471)
Organizational Legitimacy (1975) (2446)
Competitive Advantage Through People (1994) (2378)
Size and Composition of Corporate Boards of Directors: The Organization and its Environment (1972) (1842)
The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye (2002) (1740)
Management as symbolic action: the creation and maintenance of organizational paradigms (1981) (1450)
Barriers to the Advance of Organizational Science: Paradigm Development as a Dependent Variable (1993) (1320)
Organizations and Organization Theory (1982) (1266)
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action (1999) (1145)
Environments of Organizations (1976) (1123)
Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories Can Become Self-Fulfilling (2003) (1092)
Competitive advantage through people : unleashing the power of the work force (1995) (944)
An examination of need-satisfaction models of job attitudes. (1977) (884)
Seven Practices of Successful Organizations (1998) (871)
The human equation : building profits by putting people first (1998) (859)
The Ambiguity of Leadership (1977) (843)
Organizational demography and turnover in top-management groups. (1984) (832)
Putting people first for organizational success (1999) (818)
Organizational Decision Making as a Political Process: The Case of a UniversityBudget. (1974) (768)
Size, Composition, and Function of Hospital Boards of Directors: A Study of Organization-Environment Linkage (1973) (766)
The effect of wage dispersion on satisfaction, productivity, and working collaboratively: Evidence from college and university faculty. (1993) (745)
Who gets power — and how they hold on to it: A strategic-contingency model of power (1977) (738)
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management (2006) (726)
The Bases and Use of Power in Organizational Decision Making: The Case of a University. (1974) (724)
The Power and the Glory@@@Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations. (1992) (683)
Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor (2010) (681)
Joint Ventures and Interorganizational Interdependence (1976) (669)
Producing sustainable competitive advantage through the effective management of people * (2006) (640)
Just a Mirage: The Search for Dispositional Effects in Organizational Research (1989) (581)
Valuing Internal vs. External Knowledge: Explaining the Preference for Outsiders (2003) (574)
Evidence-based management. (2006) (480)
Merger as a response to organizational interdependence (1972) (449)
Knowing "What" to Do Is Not Enough: Turning Knowledge into Action (1999) (443)
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People (2000) (370)
Determinants of Internal Labor Markets in Organizations (1984) (366)
Effects of ownership and performance on executive tenure in U (1980) (355)
The Business School ‘Business’: Some Lessons from the US Experience* (2004) (334)
Organization-Environment: Concepts and Issues (1974) (313)
The Business School Business: Some Lessons from the U.S. Experience (2004) (298)
Six dangerous myths about pay. (1998) (298)
The Social Psychology of Organizations and Inequality (1994) (294)
Producing sustainable competitive advantage through the effective management of people (1995) (283)
New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects (1999) (279)
Administrative Succession and Organizational Performance: How Administrator Experience Mediates the Succession Effect (1986) (271)
Why Do Bad Management Theories Persist? A Comment on Ghoshal (2005) (262)
The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States (2016) (260)
Fighting the War for Talent is Hazardous to Your Organization's Health (2001) (257)
Intercorporate Relations: A resource dependence perspective on intercorporate relations (1988) (253)
The human equation (1998) (241)
The effects of departmental demography on turnover: The case of a university. (1983) (241)
Organizational Demography: Implications for Management (1985) (239)
The Effect of Uncertainty on the Use of Social Influence in Organizational Decision Making. (1976) (235)
So many ties, so little time: A task contingency perspective on corporate social capital in organizations (2001) (229)
Power in University Budgeting: A Replication and Extension. (1980) (223)
The Effect of the Proportion of Women on Salaries: The Case of College Administrators. (1987) (220)
Human Resources from an Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained (2007) (215)
A Modest Proposal: How We might change the Process and Product of Managerial Research (2007) (213)
Mortality, Reproducibility, and the Persistence of Styles of Theory (1995) (199)
Paradigm Development and Particularism: Journal Publication in Three Scientific Disciplines (1977) (196)
Constraints On Administrator Discretion (1977) (195)
Organizational Hiring Standards. (1986) (194)
Resource Allocations in United Funds: Examination of Power and Dependence (1977) (173)
Organization Theory and Structural Perspectives on Management (1991) (172)
Executive Recruitment and the Development of Interfirm Organizations (1973) (166)
Business and the Spirit: Management Practices That Sustain Values (2010) (164)
Power and Interdependence in Organizations: Understanding power in organizations (1992) (161)
Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't (2010) (157)
Salary Dispersion, Location in the Salary Distribution, and Turnover among College Administrators (1992) (153)
The Effects of Marriage and a Working Wife on Occupational and Wage Attainment. (1982) (148)
Changing mental models: HR's most important task (2005) (148)
Fair-Market Ideology: Its Cognitive-Motivational Underpinnings (2003) (144)
Special Issue: Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 1 of 2: Building Organization Theory from First Principles: The Self-Enhancement Motive and Understanding Power and Influence (2005) (142)
Understanding the Hiring of Women and Minorities in Educational Institutions. (1991) (135)
Hospital Demography and Turnover Among Nurses (1987) (134)
Wage Inequality and the Organization of Work: The Case of Academic Departments. (1988) (130)
Average Tenure of Academic Department Heads: The Effects of Paradigm, Size, and Departmental Demography. (1980) (129)
Do You Get What You Deserve? Factors Affecting the Relationship between Productivity and Pay. (1990) (127)
Organizations and Organization Theory. (1984) (126)
The Effect of Competition on Some Dimensions of Organizational Structure (1973) (125)
Determinants of Supervisory Behavior: A Role Set Analysis (1975) (124)
The Politics of Organizational Decision-Making. (1976) (124)
Fair Market Ideology: Its Cognitive-Motivational Underpinnings (2003) (120)
Organizational context and the characteristics and tenure of hospital administrators. (1977) (120)
Hourly Payment and Volunteering: The Effect of Organizational Practices on Decisions About Time Use (2007) (118)
Effects of Job Alternatives, Extrinsic Rewards, and Behavioral Commitment on Attitude toward the Organization: A Field Test of the Insufficient Justification Paradigm. (1980) (116)
Information Technology and Organizational Structure (1977) (115)
When it comes to “best practices” — Why do smart organizations occasionally do dumb things? (1996) (109)
Time is tight: how higher economic value of time increases feelings of time pressure. (2011) (105)
Pitfalls on the road to measurement: The dangerous liaison of human resources with the ideas of accounting and finance (1997) (105)
When time is money: The effect of hourly payment on the evaluation of time (2007) (105)
Understanding Organizational Wage Structures: A Resource Dependence Approach (1987) (104)
Toward an Examination of Stratification in Organizations. (1977) (102)
Beyond Management and the Worker: The Institutional Function of Management (1976) (100)
Interorganizational Influence and Managerial Attitudes (1972) (100)
Uncertainty, Secrecy, and the Choice of Similar Others (1978) (97)
You're Still the Same: Why Theories of Power Hold over Time and Across Contexts (2013) (93)
Economic Evaluation: The Effect of Money and Economics on Attitudes About Volunteering (2008) (93)
Understanding Power in Organizations (2020) (86)
Organization design: The case for a coalitional model of organizations (1977) (84)
Understanding organizations: Concepts and controversies. (1998) (83)
Effects of an MBA and socioeconomic origins on business school graduates' salaries. (1977) (82)
The smart-talk trap. (1999) (77)
Power and the Design and Implementation of Accounting and Control Systems (2019) (70)
Unions and Job Satisfaction (1990) (67)
Faith in Supervision and the Self-Enhancement Bias: Two Psychological Reasons Why Managers Don't Empower Workers (1998) (67)
How and Why Theories Matter: A Comment on Felin and Foss (2009) (2009) (65)
ORGANIZED ILLUSIONS : A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF WHY CORPORATIONS MISLEAD STOCK MARKET INVESTORS ( AND CAUSE OTHER SOCIAL HARMS (2007) (59)
Renaissance and renewal in management studies: Relevance regained (2009) (58)
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance―and What We Can Do About It (2018) (57)
How “Organization” Can Weaken the Norm of Reciprocity: The Effects of Attributions for Favors and a Calculative Mindset (2015) (53)
Working Alone: What Ever Happened to the Idea of Organizations as Communities (2005) (51)
Why the Assholes are Winning: Money Trumps All (2016) (51)
Management Half-Truths and Nonsense: How to Practice Evidence-based Management: (2006) (48)
Power and death: Mortality salience increases power seeking while feeling powerful reduces death anxiety. (2016) (48)
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time (2015) (47)
Exposure To Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account For Inequality In Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups. (2015) (47)
Profiting from evidence‐based management (2006) (46)
Gender-Based Wage Differences (1990) (46)
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development (2004) (46)
Assessing Business Schools: Reply to Connolly (2003) (45)
The compensation of college and university presidents (1988) (44)
A Partial Test of the Social Information Processing Model of Job Attitudes (1980) (42)
The Stingy Hour: How Accounting for Time Affects Volunteering (2009) (42)
What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management (2007) (42)
When Is Happiness About How Much You Earn? The Effect of Hourly Payment on the Money—Happiness Connection (2009) (41)
The Effects of Departmental Demography on Turnover. (1982) (40)
Administrator Effectiveness: The Effects of Advocacy and Information on Achieving Outcomes in an Organizational Context (1977) (39)
Overcoming the Self-Promotion Dilemma: Interpersonal Attraction and Extra Help as a Consequence of Who Sings One's Praises (2006) (39)
A Memo from Machiavelli (1999) (39)
The economic evaluation of time: Organizational causes and individual consequences☆ (2012) (39)
AA Officer Salaries and Managerial Diversity: Efficiency Wages or Status? (1995) (38)
Suppose We Took Evidence- Based Management Seriously: Implications for Reading and Writing Management (2007) (38)
Bureaucratic Structure and Authority. (1974) (37)
Determinants of Salary Dispersion in Organizations (1990) (35)
Intertemporal Uncertainty Avoidance: When the Future is Uncertain, People Prefer the Present, and When the Present is Uncertain, People Prefer the Future (2015) (34)
Knowing “What” to do is not Enough: Turning Knowledge into Action (1999) (31)
Publication and Prestige Mobility of University Departments in Three Scientific Disciplines. (1976) (31)
Cisco Systems:Acquiring and Retaining Talent in Hypercompetitive Markets [*] (2000) (31)
Illusions of Influence (1998) (30)
Paying the Professor: Sources of Salary Variation in Academic Labor Markets (1994) (30)
A Contingency Model of Influence in Organizational Decision-Making (1978) (27)
The real keys to high performance (1998) (27)
The Effects of Individual Power on Earnings (1991) (27)
What's wrong with management practices in Silicon Valley? A lot. To prevent high turnover, burnout and loss of employee commitment, learn to avoid four practices that are undermining some high-profile companies (2001) (26)
Editors’ Introduction: Business Models, Ecosystems, and Society in the Sharing Economy (2018) (26)
Power and Politics in Organizations: The Social Psychology of Conflict, Coalitions, and Bargaining.@@@Power in Organizations. (1982) (26)
Seven practices of successful organizations. Part 2: Invest in training, reduce status differences, don't keep secrets. (1999) (24)
Cooptation and the Composition of Electric Utility Boards of Directors (1974) (23)
Leadership Development in Business Schools: An Agenda for Change (2009) (23)
Prescriptions are not Enough (2005) (21)
People, capability and competitive success (1995) (21)
Business Models, Ecosystems, and Society in the Sharing Economy (2016) (21)
Shareholders First? Not So Fast... (2009) (20)
Patterns of Joint Venture Activity: Implications for Antitrust Policy (1976) (20)
Some Evidence on Occupational Licensing and Occupational Incomes (1974) (19)
Unlocking the hidden value in organizations (2000) (19)
Employment Practices in the Dual Economy (1984) (19)
When Does Money Make Money More Important? Survey and Experimental Evidence (2013) (17)
The relationship between departmental power and faculty careers on two campuses: The case for structural effects on faculty salaries (1980) (17)
Administrative Regulation and Licensing: Social Problem or Solution? (1974) (17)
Unionization and Income Inequality (1981) (15)
Hourly versus Salaried Payment and Decisions about Trading Time and Money over Time (2010) (15)
The Effect of Economic Consequences on Social Judgment and Choice: Reward Interdependence and the Preference for Sociability Versus Competence (2018) (15)
Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment (1981) (14)
Organizations Appear More Unethical than Individuals (2019) (14)
Union‐Nonunion Effects on Wage and Status Attainment (1980) (14)
The Economic Evaluation of Time Can Cause Stress (2017) (13)
External Control of Organizations—Resource Dependence Perspective: (2015) (12)
What Ever Happened to Pragmatism? (2008) (11)
Why are grandiose narcissists more effective at organizational politics? Means, motive, and opportunity (2021) (11)
A Contingency Model of Influence in Organizational Decision-Making. (1974) (10)
Seven practices of successful organizations. Part 1: Employment security, selective hiring, self-managed teams, high compensation. (1999) (10)
Reducing the Health Toll from U.S. Workplace Stress (2020) (9)
Power In and Around Organizations.Henry Mintzberg (1985) (9)
Power Failure in Administrative Environments (2003) (9)
The Theory-Practice Gap: Myth or Reality? (1987) (8)
Could we manage not to damage people's health? (2011) (8)
A Review of: “Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Separate Literatures of Organization Theory and Public Management” (2006) (8)
Truth's consequences (2007) (8)
Organizations of the future : interaction with the external environment (1976) (8)
Evidence-Based Management for Entrepreneurial Environments: Faster and Better Decisions with Less Risk (2010) (8)
Book Review: Mintzberg’s Unasked Question (2005) (7)
The Management of Organization Design: Strategies and Implementation, Volume I. (1977) (7)
Determinants of Administrative Effectiveness: Why Some Academic Leaders Are More Influential and Effective Than Others. Professional File, Fall 1999, Number 19. (1999) (7)
Power, Capriciousness, and Consequences (2013) (6)
COMMENTARY: Work Hours and Health: A Comment on “Beyond Nine to Five” (2018) (6)
The Role of the General Manager in the New Economy: Can We Save People from Technology Dysfunctions? (2018) (6)
Treat Your Organization as a Prototype: The Essence of Evidence-Based Management (2010) (6)
Canonical Analysis of the Relationship between an Organization's Environment and Managerial Attitudes toward Subordinates and Workers (1973) (5)
Organizational power and politics: The narcissist's advantage? (2021) (4)
Management Half-Truths and Nonsense: How to Practice Evidence-based Management (2006) (4)
The Economic Evaluation of Time: Organizational Causes and Individual Consequences (2012) (4)
THE MAGNITUDE AND EFFECTS OF “SLUDGE” IN BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION: HOW HEALTH INSURANCE HASSLES BURDEN WORKERS AND COST EMPLOYERS (2020) (4)
Harvard Business Review on Compensation (2002) (4)
Enacting the Environment: Organization Persistence and Change@@@Organizations and Environments@@@Organizations: An Information Systems Perspective@@@Organizational Design@@@The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (1980) (3)
The Ombudsman: Evidence and Executive Compensation - Like Trains Passing in the Night? An Introduction to "Are Top Executives Paid Enough?" (2013) (3)
Employers' Role in Employee Health: Why They Do What They Do. (2020) (3)
How income and the economic evaluation of time affect who we socialize with outside of work (2020) (3)
“Crying Wolf”: A Comment on Dahl and Pierce and a Suggestion on Using (Danish) Prescription Data (2020) (3)
2 The Organization in Its Environment (2007) (3)
THE VALUATION OF INTERNAL VERSUS EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE: WHY MANAGERS SOMETIMES PREFER THE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY OUTSIDERS OVER THE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY INSIDERS. (2001) (2)
Teaching power in ways that influence students’ career success: some fundamental ideas (2021) (2)
The Dark Triad May Be Not So Dark: Exploring Why ‘Toxic’ Leaders Are So Common—With Some Implications for Scholarship and Education (2021) (2)
Book Review: Response to Donaldson (2005) (2)
SIOP 2007 Keynote Address: Evidence-Based Management in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: A Celebration of Accomplishments and Some Aspirations for the Future 1 (2007) (2)
Connection When Is Happiness About How Much You Earn ? The Effect of Hourly Payment on the Money Happiness (2009) (1)
No excuses leadership (2007) (1)
What We (Do Not) Know About Punishment Across Organizational Boundaries (2022) (1)
Volunteering Improves Employee Health and Organizational Outcomes Through Bonding With Coworkers and Enhanced Identification With Employers (2022) (1)
Why today's leaders need the lessons of the past (1996) (1)
Making Politics and Power Respectable@@@The Politics of Social Administration@@@Managing with Power (1995) (1)
Building and Using Computerized Financial Planning Simulations (1971) (1)
Taking the Road Less Traveled (2018) (1)
Time Is Tight: How Higher Economic Value of Time Increases Feelings of Time Pressure (2010) (1)
Losing More than Money: Organizations’ Prosocial Actions Appear Less Authentic When Their Resources are Declining (2020) (1)
Frontmatter (2006) (0)
Interorganizational influence and managerial attitudes / BEBR No. 48 (1972) (0)
The Knowing Doing Gap_Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I Sutton.PDF (2004) (0)
The Idea in Brief — the core idea The Idea in Practice — putting the idea to work 1 (2005) (0)
Organization Studies is (and should be) Different from Economics (2008) (0)
Why Isn ' t Everyone Doing this Already ? (2014) (0)
Business Schools’ Rankings: Is it Time to Click the ‘Refresh’ Button? (2015) (0)
PSS World Medical: Opening the Books Boosts Commitment and Performance (2001) (0)
Toward Evidence-Based Policy Making and Standardized Assessment of Health Policy Reform (2017) (0)
How the Economic Evaluation of Time Affects Who We Socialize With Off the Job (2018) (0)
Self as an Economic Evaluator Measure (2013) (0)
Losing More than Money: Organizations’ Prosocial Actions Appear Less Authentic When Their Resources are Declining (2020) (0)
The Effect of Income on the Importance of Money: Survey and Experimental Evidence (2012) (0)
The Impact of Business Schools in International Perspective (2015) (0)
"Exploring the Role of the Essay in the Production of Management Knowledge: Introducing ""JMS-Says""" (2015) (0)
Does depression co-occur within households? The moderating effects of financial resources and job insecurity on psychological contagion (2022) (0)
Article not available electronically (1998) (0)
Salience of Economic Criteria in Decision-Making Measure (2015) (0)
Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained (2016) (0)
Teaching Power in Ways That Influence Student' Career Success: Some Fundamental Ideas (2019) (0)
Keunggulan bersaing melalui manusia=competitive advantage through people (2014) (0)
Book Review and Commentary on Evidence-Based Management (2008) (0)
Editorial policy (1994) (0)
Political Power Tactics Scale (2021) (0)
Merger as a response to organizational interdependence / BEBR No. 49 (1972) (0)
Entrepreneurs, innovators, and unruly reality: Learning-based strategies to manage the risks of unanticipated events (2012) (0)
Organizing Thinking about Organizations (1999) (0)
Organizations Appear More Unethical than Individuals (2018) (0)

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