Martin Ruef

Best Publications

• A Multidimensional Model of Organizational Legitimacy: Hospital Survival in Changing Institutional Environments

  Martin Ruef;W. Richard Scott

  1918
  Citations

• The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs

  Martin Ruef;Howard E. Aldrich;Nancy M. Carter

  1370
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• Strong ties, weak ties and islands: structural and cultural predictors of organizational innovation

  Martin Ruef

  842
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• The Emergence of Organizational Forms: A Community Ecology Approach1

  Martin Ruef

  657
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• Community Social Capital and Entrepreneurship

  Seok-Woo Kwon;Colleen Heflin;Martin Ruef

  393
  Citations

• Who Is an Entrepreneur

  Martin Ruef

  369
  Citations

• Unicorns, Gazelles, and Other Distractions on the Way to Understanding Real Entrepreneurship in the United States

  Howard E. Aldrich;Martin Ruef

  325
  Citations

• The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs

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  312
  Citations

• Credit and Classification: The Impact of Industry Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century America

  Martin Ruef;Kelly Patterson

  296
  Citations

• Organizations evolving, second edition

  Howard E Aldrich;Martin Ruef

  293
  Citations

• The myth of the risk-tolerant entrepreneur:

  Hongwei Xu;Martin Ruef

  240
  Citations

• ASSESSING ORGANIZATIONAL FITNESS ON A DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE: AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE RELATIVE INERTIA THESIS

  Martin Ruef

  232
  Citations

• What Is Organizational History? Toward a Creative Synthesis of History and Organization Studies

  Paul C. Godfrey;John Hassard;Ellen S. O’Connor;Michael Rowlinson

  183
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• Introduction: The Sociology of Entrepreneurship

  Martin Ruef;Michael Lounsbury

  130
  Citations

• Social Ontology and the Dynamics of Organizational Forms: Creating Market Actors in the Healthcare Field, 1966–1994

  Martin Ruef

  129
  Citations

• The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation

  Angelina Grigoryeva;Martin Ruef

  126
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• Legacies of American Slavery: Status Attainment among Southern Blacks after Emancipation

  Martin Ruef;Ben Fletcher

  124
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• Entrepreneurial Groups

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  98
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• Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

  David A. Rochefort;W. Richard Scott;Martin Ruef;Peter J. Mendel

  65
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• Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757

  Martin Ruef

  20
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