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41
Citations
42852
World Ranking
4845
National Ranking
2294

Overview

Lynne G. Zucker is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans several areas within social sciences and business studies, focusing mainly on management and organizational fields.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Legitimacy Revisited: Disentangling Propriety, Validity, and Consensus" (2020) published in the Journal of Management Studies
  • "Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory" (2023) published in Organization Science
  • "Towards a Theory of Micro-Institutional Processes: Forgotten Roots, Links to Social-Psychological Research, and New Ideas" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Lynne G. Zucker has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Oliver Schilke
  • Patrick Haack
  • Sheen S. Levine
  • Olenka Kacperczyk

Their publications appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Organization Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, specific subfields of study include:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Strategy and Management
  • Safety Research
  • Public Administration
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their main research topics are centered on:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Production of trust: Institutional sources of economic structure, 1840–1920.

    Lynne G. Zucker

  • The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence.

    Lynne G. Zucker

  • Institutional Theories of Organization

    Lynne G. Zucker

  • Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935

    Pamela S. Tolbert;Lynne G. Zucker

  • Intellectual Human Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby;Marilynn B. Brewer

  • Social networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms

    Julia Porter Liebeskind;Amalya Lumerman Oliver;Lynne Zucker;Marilynn Brewer

  • Commercializing Knowledge: University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby;Jeff S. Armstrong

  • Permanently failing organizations

    Marshall W. Meyer;Lynne G. Zucker

  • GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE: SPILLOVERS OR MARKETS?

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby;Jeff Armstrong

  • Star scientists and institutional transformation: Patterns of invention and innovation in the formation of the biotechnology industry

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby

  • Estimates of upper bounds and trends in nano-TiO2 production as a basis for exposure assessment.

    Christine Ogilvie Robichaud;Ali Emre Uyar;Michael R. Darby;Lynne G. Zucker

  • Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology: Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production

    Lynne G Zucker;Michael R Darby;Marilynn B Brewer;Yusheng Peng

  • Capturing Technological Opportunity Via Japan's Star Scientists: Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby

  • Labor Mobility from Academe to Commerce

    Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby;Maximo Torero

  • Combining Institutional Theory and Population Ecology: No Legitimacy, No History

    Lynne G. Zucker

  • Minerva unbound: Knowledge stocks, knowledge flows and new knowledge production ☆

    Lynne G. Zucker;Lynne G. Zucker;Michael R. Darby;Michael R. Darby;Jonathan Furner;Robert C. Liu;Robert C. Liu

  • Intellectual Capital and the Firm: The Technology of Geographically Localized Knowledge Spillovers

    Lynne Zucker;Michael Darby;Jeff Armstrong

  • Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology

    Michael R Darby;Lynne G Zucker

  • Intellectual Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises

    Lynne Zucker;Michael Darby;Marilynn B. Brewer

  • Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment.

    Neil Fligstein;Lynne G. Zucker

  • Permanently Failing Organizations

    Francisco J. Granados;Marshall W. Meyer;Lynne G. Zucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilynn B. Brewer
Marilynn B. Brewer The Ohio State University
Maximo Torero
Maximo Torero Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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