Walter W. Powell

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Walter W. Powell is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, Yale University, Florida State University, Stony Brook University, University of Oxford, University of Arizona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University

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Walter W. Powell

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#149

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#199

Historical Rank

#78

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PhD Sociology Stony Brook University
Bachelors Sociology Florida State University

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According to Wikipedia, Walter W. Powell , born August 15, 1951, is a contemporary American sociologist. Powell is Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education since 1999 and is known for his contributions to organizational theory, in particular to the new institutionalism and network theory. Since 2000, he has been an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.

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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (1983) (32097)
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (1993) (11305)
Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology. (1996) (8585)
The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collegctive rationality in organizational fie (1983) (7127)
Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community (2004) (2174)
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences1 (2005) (1973)
Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (1998) (1223)
The Knowledge Economy (2004) (1223)
Expanding the Scope of Institutional Analysis (1991) (1086)
Networks and Economic life (2003) (974)
Networks of Innovators (2006) (895)
From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World (2012) (760)
The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector (2009) (734)
Hybrid Organizational Arrangements: New Form or Transitional Development? (1987) (661)
To Patent or Not: Faculty Decisions and Institutional Success at Technology Transfer (2001) (550)
The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships (2002) (548)
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (2012) (546)
Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries (2009) (525)
Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences (2002) (493)
The expanding role of university patenting in the life sciences: assessing the importance of experience and connectivity (2003) (439)
Institutions and Entrepreneurship (2005) (370)
Social Cohesion (2021) (366)
Roads to Institutionalization: The Remaking of Boundaries between Public and Private Science (2006) (365)
Network Position and Firm Performance: Organizational Returns to Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry (1999) (349)
Inter-Organizational Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry (1996) (345)
Networks and Organizations (2006) (338)
Universities and the market for intellectual property in the life sciences (1998) (310)
Cultivating an institutional ecology of organizations: comment on Hannan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres (1995) (265)
Careers and contradictions: Faculty responses to the transformation of knowledge and its uses in the life sciences (2001) (248)
Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations (1995) (240)
Networks and Institutions (2007) (208)
Private Action and the Public Good (1998) (207)
Amphibious entrepreneurs and the emergence of organizational forms (2012) (190)
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles (2015) (128)
Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences (2010) (126)
The Frontiers of Intellectual Property: Expanded Protection versus New Models of Open Science (2007) (118)
From Vulnerable to Venerated: The Institutionalization of Academic Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences (2007) (112)
Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings (2004) (110)
Innovaton and Emulation: Lessons from American Universities in Selling Private Rights to Public Knowledge (2007) (108)
The Problem of Emergence (2012) (108)
Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U. S. nonprofit sector (2012) (106)
Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing. (1986) (89)
Accounting for Emergence and Novelty in Boston and Bay Area Biotechnology (2007) (86)
The Institutionalization of Rational Organization@@@Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality. (1985) (78)
Collective Invention and Inventor Networks (2010) (76)
Close encounters: the circulation and reception of managerial practices in the San Francisco Bay area nonprofit community (2005) (71)
25. Nonprofit Mission: Constancy, Responsiveness, or Deflection? (2017) (62)
ORGANIZED ILLUSIONS : A BEHAVIORAL THEORY OF WHY CORPORATIONS MISLEAD STOCK MARKET INVESTORS ( AND CAUSE OTHER SOCIAL HARMS (2007) (59)
Intellectual capital or signal? The effects of scientists on alliance formation in knowledge-intensive industries (2009) (53)
The social construction of an organisational field: the case of biotechnology (1999) (48)
New Institutionalism in the Analysis of Complex Organizations (2015) (45)
Le néo-institutionnalisme dans l'analyse des organisations (1997) (44)
The Capitalist Firm in the 21st Century: Emerging Patterns (2000) (43)
Click and mortar: Organizations on the web (2016) (42)
Getting into Print (1985) (42)
An Old Institutionalist Reads the New Institutionalism@@@The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. (1992) (41)
Biotechnology: Its origins, organization, and outputs (2007) (40)
To Profit or Not to Profit: Universities as creators and retailers of intellectual property: Life-sciences research and commercial development (1998) (39)
Getting into print : the decision-making process in scholarly publishing (1987) (39)
Roads to Institutionalization (2006) (38)
CHAPTER 2. The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise (2009) (37)
Universities and the production of knowledge – Introduction (2005) (35)
Explaining Technological Change (1987) (33)
Chapter four The New World of Knowledge Production in the Life Sciences (2002) (31)
Standing on Shifting Terrain: Faculty Responses to the Transformation of Knowledge and Its Uses in the Life Sciences (2002) (29)
Measures, metrics, and myopia: The challenges and ramifications of sustaining academic entrepreneurship (2009) (29)
Networks and Knowledge Production: Collaboration and Patenting in Biotechnology (1999) (26)
13. Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form (2012) (26)
Four. Contributory or Disruptive: Do New Forms of Philanthropy Erode Democracy? (2019) (25)
Institutional analysis in a digital era: mechanisms and methods to understand emerging fields (2017) (25)
Books in Contemporary Society@@@Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing.@@@Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France. (1982) (23)
Fields of Practice: Connections between Law and Organizations (1996) (21)
Review Essay: Explaining Technological Change. (1987) (19)
Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession (2018) (19)
Conflict and consensus : a festschrift in honor of Lewis A. Coser (1985) (18)
Private Action and the Public Good. (1999) (18)
Public Research and Industrial Innovation: A Comparison of US and European Innovation Systems in the Life Sciences (2007) (17)
Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing (1987) (16)
A sociologist looks at crowds: Innovation or invention? (2017) (15)
Culture and Connectivity Intertwined: Visualizing Organizational Fields as Relational Structures and Meaning Systems☆ (2017) (15)
17. Networks and Economic Life (2010) (14)
Introduction: new perspectives on competition and cooperation (2004) (14)
An open elite arbiters, catalysts, or gatekeepers in the dynamics of industry evolution? (2012) (13)
Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City (2015) (12)
Interstitial organizations as conversational bridges (2015) (8)
EES and the continuing evolution of Research Policy (2009) (8)
CRU, GLUE, and Status: How Wine Labels Helped Ennoble Bordeaux (2017) (6)
Organizational Poisedness and the Transformation of Civic Order in Nineteenth-Century New York City (2017) (5)
A new logic of organizing : Causes and processes of diffusion (2001) (5)
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (Chinese Translation with new preface) (2009) (4)
Boundaries and New Organization Forms (2001) (4)
Network Growth and Consolidation: The Effects of Cohesion and Diversity on the Biotechnology Industry Network (2005) (4)
Universities and the Market for Intellectual in the Life Sciences (1998) (4)
NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE: COLLABORATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF FIRM EVOLUTION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES (2004) (3)
Embeddedness in Multiple Networks , Organization Theory and Structural Cohesion Theory (2003) (3)
Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action (2016) (3)
Institutions on the Ground (2019) (2)
Coda Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks (2012) (2)
Institutional Success at Technology Transfer (2001) (2)
Weber and Schumpeter: Turbulent Lives, Ideas Never at Rest (1996) (2)
Spillovers and Embeddedness: The Contingent Effects of Propinquity and Social Structure on Technological Communities (2006) (1)
Institutional Junctures: Key Points of Divergence in the Process of Institutionalization (2011) (1)
Institution und Evolution in der Organisationstheorie (1997) (1)
Governing the Crossroads: Interstitial Communities and the Fate of Nonprofit Evaluation (2017) (1)
Europe and the United States: The Power of Networks. Lessons from Technology Transfer (2002) (1)
Living Just in Time: Reflections on Arne L. Kalleberg, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies (2021) (1)
Semesterapperat Dr. Ulrich Brinkmann: The Iron Cage Resvisited : Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (2005) (1)
The Whole Is Not Greater than the Sum of its Parts, But Some of the Parts Are Pretty Darn Good!@@@Jobs and Work.@@@Environments and Organizations@@@Political Sociology@@@Trends in Family Sociology@@@The Sociology of Education@@@Sociology of Religion@@@The Sociology of Science@@@Medical Sociology@@@M (1989) (1)
4. Sociology and the Science of Science Policy (2020) (1)
The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook.@@@Philanthropic Giving: Studies in Varieties and Goals. (1990) (1)
Capturing the Civic Lives of Cities: An Organizational, Place-Based Perspective on Civil Society in Global Cities (2022) (1)
Exploring Alternative Pathways to Institutional Field Development and Change (2018) (1)
Motives and Meanings: Whose Clay and Which Hands Shape Strategic Planning in Nonprofit Organizations? (2009) (1)
ditorial ES and the continuing evolution of Research Policy (0)
The Economics of Social Institutions: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (2013) (0)
Amphibious Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Invention (2019) (0)
The dynamics of development [biotechnologies] (1999) (0)
T HE K NOWLEDGE E CONOMY (0)
San Francisco Bay Area: A Left Coast Metropolis Grapples with Technocracy and Inequality (2022) (0)
Yale's Compendia of Nonprofit Sector Research@@@Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint@@@The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (1989) (0)
Chapter 3 – Learning From Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (2000) (0)
Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession (2018) (0)
Networks, Organizations, Institutions: An Interview with Walter W. Powell, Stanford University (2021) (0)
Interview with Walter W. Powell: «I might be a Little More Sanguine Today than I was Ten Years Ago» (2012) (0)
Beyond Embeddedness: When Community Engagement Governs Firm Strategy (2015) (0)
Getting Into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing.by Walter W. Powell (1987) (0)
The Explanation of Social Action. By John Levi Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+396. $35.00. (2013) (0)
Adaptive Macro Sensemaking (2015) (0)
PREFACE TO THE CHINESE EDITION (2019) (0)
What Determines Firm Boundaries in Biotech?: Comment (2017) (0)
The Study of Nonprofits and Two Useful Lessons in Multidisciplinary Endeavors@@@Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint@@@The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (1988) (0)

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