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Michael Lounsbury

Michael Lounsbury

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
58
Citations
26284
World Ranking
597
National Ranking
31

Michael Lounsbury publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Lounsbury sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 208 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Michael Lounsbury D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Lounsbury sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Michael Lounsbury is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and business studies, focusing particularly on management and organizational studies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Subfields they explore encompass:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Public Administration

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Global and Cross-Cultural Management
  • Higher Education Governance and Development

Recent papers by Michael Lounsbury reflect their research interests and publication activity. These include:

  • New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena (2021, Annual Review of Sociology)
  • Into the Clearing: Back to the future of constitutive institutional analysis (2020, Organization Theory)
  • Categories and narratives as sources of distinctiveness: Cultural entrepreneurship within and across categories (2022, Strategic Management Journal)
  • Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion (2022, Journal of Management Inquiry)
  • Not Just Small Potatoes: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Moralizing of Markets (2020, Organization Science)

Michael Lounsbury frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Joel Gehman
  • Milo Shaoqing Wang
  • Leanne Hedberg
  • Deborah Anderson
  • Royston Greenwood

Their work has been published repeatedly in several academic venues, with the following being the most frequent:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Administrative Science Quarterly
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Organization Science

In addition to journal articles, Michael Lounsbury has contributed to book literature. Notably, they have a publication titled Concise Introduction to Organization Theory released in 2024 through Edward Elgar Publishing.

The scientist has been recognized by peers and professional organizations, holding the distinction of Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process

    Patricia H. Thornton;Patricia H. Thornton;William C Ocasio;Michael Lounsbury

  • The Institutional Logics Perspective

    Patricia H. Thornton;William Ocasio;Michael Lounsbury

  • Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses

    Royston Greenwood;Mia Raynard;Farah Kodeih;Evelyn R. Micelotta

  • The Institutional Logics Perspective

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  • Cultural entrepreneurship: stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources

    Michael Lounsbury;Mary Ann Glynn

  • A Tale of Two Cities: Competing Logics and Practice Variation in the Professionalizing of Mutual Funds

    Michael Lounsbury

  • Social Capital: Theory and Research

    Nan Lin;Karen S. Cook;Ronald S. Burt

  • New Practice Creation: An Institutional Perspective on Innovation

    Michael Lounsbury;Ellen T. Crumley

  • Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural–political perspective on US recycling

    Michael Lounsbury;Marc J. Ventresca;Paul M. Hirsch

  • Institutional rationality and practice variation: New directions in the institutional analysis of practice

    Michael Lounsbury

  • Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs:

    Michael Lounsbury

  • INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND STATUS MOBILITY: THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE FIELD OF FINANCE

    Michael Lounsbury

  • Vive La Résistance: Competing Logics and the Consolidation of U.S. Community Banking

    Christopher Marquis;Michael Lounsbury

  • Ending the Family Quarrel: Toward a Reconciliation of “Old” and “New” Institutionalisms

    Paul M. Hirsch;Michael Lounsbury

  • From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism

    Michael Lounsbury;Andrew J. Hoffman

  • Legitimating Nascent Collective Identities: Coordinating Cultural Entrepreneurship

    Tyler Wry;Michael Lounsbury;Mary Ann Glynn

  • Institutional Complexity and Organizational Responses

    Royston Greenwood;Mia Raynard;Farah Kodeih;Evelyn Micelotta

  • From the Critics’ Corner: Logic Blending, Discursive Change and Authenticity in a Cultural Production System*

    Mary Ann Glynn;Michael Lounsbury

  • Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management

    Eric Yanfei Zhao;Greg Fisher;Michael Lounsbury;Danny Miller

  • Social Movements and Institutional Analysis

    Marc Schneiberg;Michael Lounsbury

  • Sources of Durability and Change in Market Classifications: A Study of the Reconstitution of Product Categories in the American Mutual Fund Industry, 1944-1985

    Michael Lounsbury;Hayagreeva Rao

  • The New Structuralism in Organization Theory

    Michael Lounsbury;Marc Ventresca

  • The Wizards of Oz: Towards an Institutional Approach to Elites, Expertise and Command Posts

    Mayer N. Zald;Michael Lounsbury

  • Filtering Institutional Logics: Community Logic Variation and Differential Responses to the Institutional Complexity of Toxic Waste

    Min-Dong Paul Lee;Michael Lounsbury

  • Pathways of institutional change: An integrative review and research agenda

    Evelyn Micelotta;Michael Lounsbury;Royston Greenwood

  • Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy and the Acquisition of Resources

    Michael Lounsbury

  • Social Movements, Field Frames, and Industry Emergence: A Cultural-Political Perspective

    Michael Lounsbury;Marc Ventresca;Paul Hirsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Royston Greenwood
Royston Greenwood University of Alberta
Mary Ann Glynn
Mary Ann Glynn Boston College
William Ocasio
William Ocasio University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc J. Ventresca
Marc J. Ventresca University of Oxford
P. Devereaux Jennings
P. Devereaux Jennings University of Alberta
Andrew D. Brown
Andrew D. Brown University of Bath
Gerald F. Davis
Gerald F. Davis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joep Cornelissen
Joep Cornelissen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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