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Robert I. Sutton

Business

#46

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#53

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#32

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Management

#19

World Rank

#23

Historical Rank

#13

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Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Robert I. Sutton is a professor of management science at the Stanford University School of Engineering and a researcher in the field of evidence-based management. He is a New York Times best-selling author.

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Robert I. Sutton's Published Works

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Technology brokering and innovation in a product development firm. (1997) (2788)
What Theory is Not (1995) (1753)
Expression of Emotion as Part of the Work Role (1987) (1443)
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action (1999) (1145)
Acquiring Organizational Legitimacy Through Illegitimate Actions: A Marriage of Institutional and Impression Management Theories (1992) (1128)
Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories Can Become Self-Fulfilling (2003) (1092)
Brainstorming groups in context: Effectiveness in a product design firm (1996) (1004)
Employee Positive Emotion and Favorable Outcomes at the Workplace (1994) (881)
Switching Cognitive Gears: From Habits of Mind to Active Thinking (1991) (763)
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management (2006) (726)
The Stigma of Bankruptcy: Spoiled Organizational Image and Its Management (1987) (689)
Maintaining Norms about Expressed Emotions: The Case of Bill Collectors (1991) (670)
Untangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotions and Organizational Sales: The Case of Convenience Stores (1988) (612)
Organizational behavior: linking individuals and groups to organizational contexts. (1993) (565)
Crossroads---Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable (1997) (543)
Building an innovation factory. (2000) (530)
Isomorphism and external support in conflicting institutional environments: a study of drug abuse treatment units. (1991) (500)
Evidence-based management. (2006) (480)
Knowing "What" to Do Is Not Enough: Turning Knowledge into Action (1999) (443)
Functions of Parting CEremonies in Dying Organizations (1986) (411)
The knowing-doing gap (2000) (369)
Busy stores and demanding customers: How do they affect the display of positive emotion? (1990) (326)
Emotional contrast strategies as means of social influence: Lessons from criminal interrogators and bill collectors. (1991) (300)
The Process of Organizational Death: Disbanding and Reconnecting (1987) (300)
Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable (2016) (265)
The no asshole rule : building a civilized workplace and surviving one that isn't (2010) (234)
Determinants of Work Force Reduction Strategies in Declining Organizations (1988) (219)
Averting Expected Challenges Through Anticipatory Impression Management: a Study of Hospital Billing (1998) (217)
Decreasing Organizational Size: Untangling the Effects of Money and People (1989) (162)
The weird rules of creativity (2001) (156)
Crossroads—The Virtues of Closet Qualitative Research (1997) (129)
Readings in organizational decline : frameworks, research, and prescriptions (1988) (120)
Managing organizational decline: Lessons from Atari (1986) (115)
The Responses of Drug Abuse Treatment Organizations to Financial Adversity: A Partial Test of the Threat-Rigidity Thesis (1992) (104)
Status contests in meetings: Negotiating the informal order. (2001) (98)
Characteristics of Work Stations as Potential Occupational Stressors (1987) (96)
The smart-talk trap. (1999) (77)
Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation (2001) (76)
How Selecting and Socializing Newcomers Influences Insiders (1987) (70)
Task Procrastination in Organizations: A Framework for Research (1983) (66)
Perspectives on Developing Management Theory, Circa 1999: Moving from Shrill Monologues to (Relatively) Tame Dialogues (1999) (65)
How and Why Theories Matter: A Comment on Felin and Foss (2009) (2009) (65)
Job Stress among Primary and Secondary Schoolteachers (1984) (58)
Managing organizational death (1983) (51)
Management Half-Truths and Nonsense: How to Practice Evidence-based Management: (2006) (48)
Structure, technology, and dependence on a parent organization: Organizational and environmental correlates of individual responses. (1979) (48)
Profiting from evidence‐based management (2006) (46)
Creativity Doesn't Require Isolation: Why Product Designers Bring Visitors “Backstage” (1997) (45)
Feuds in Student Groups: Coping with Whiners, Martyrs, Saboteurs, Bullies, and Deadbeats (1984) (42)
Suppose We Took Evidence- Based Management Seriously: Implications for Reading and Writing Management (2007) (38)
Feelings about a Disneyland Visit (1992) (37)
Technologies of status management status dynamics in e-mail communications (2000) (35)
Weird Ideas That Spark Innovation (2002) (34)
Word processing technology and perceptions of control among clerical workers (1986) (31)
Knowing “What” to do is not Enough: Turning Knowledge into Action (1999) (31)
The No Asshole Rule (2007) (28)
Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst (2010) (27)
Prospecting for valuable evidence: why scholarly research can be a goldmine for managers (2004) (23)
Problem-Solving Adequacy in Hospital Subunits (1982) (22)
Prescriptions are not Enough (2005) (21)
Weird ideas that work : 11 1/2 ways to promote, manage and sustain innovation (2002) (17)
TECHNOLOGY BROKERING AND INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM A PRODUCT DESIGN FIRM. (1996) (14)
Technologies of Status Negotiation: Status Dynamics in Email Discussion Groups (2000) (14)
Building a Model of Work Force Reduction that is Grounded in Pertinent Theory and Data: Reply to Mckinley (1992) (12)
ASQ Forum What Theory is Not (2008) (12)
How to Be a GOOD BOSS in a Bad Economy (2009) (10)
The boss as human shield. (2010) (8)
The relationship between union effectiveness and the quality of members' worklife (1982) (8)
Fostering innovation : 11 1/2 weird ideas that work (2002) (8)
7| More Trouble Than They're Worth (2004) (7)
Treat Your Organization as a Prototype: The Essence of Evidence-Based Management (2010) (6)
Why These Ideas Work, But Seem Weird (2010) (6)
Reactions of Nonparticipants as Additional Rather than Missing Data: Opportunities for Organizational Research (1989) (6)
The Social Life of Emotions: Emotional Variation in Work Groups (2004) (4)
Management Half-Truths and Nonsense: How to Practice Evidence-based Management (2006) (4)
Work as a Parade of Decision Letters: Pleasures and Burdens of being an Associate Editor at the Administrative Science Quarterly (1996) (2)
THE VALUATION OF INTERNAL VERSUS EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE: WHY MANAGERS SOMETIMES PREFER THE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY OUTSIDERS OVER THE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY INSIDERS. (2001) (2)
Can a volunteer-staffed company scale? (2014) (2)
The Bully -Free Work Place (2011) (0)
The Idea in Brief — the core idea The Idea in Practice — putting the idea to work 1 (2005) (0)
THE WEIRD RULES OF CREATIVITY By Robert L. Sutton YOU KNOW HOW TO MANAGE FOR EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY, BUT IF IT’S CREATIVITY YOU WANT, CHANCES ARE YOU’RE DOING IT ALL WRONG (2001) (0)
The Boom in the Decline Literature: Surveying the Field and Detailing One Metaphor@@@Readings in Organizational Decline@@@Organizational Decline to Organizational Renewal (1990) (0)
Book Review and Commentary on Evidence-Based Management (2008) (0)
8 Models and Theories: Purposes and Reach (2005) (0)

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