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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
35527
World Ranking
518
National Ranking
78

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Thomas B. Lawrence is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on areas within business, management, and social sciences, with key specialization in organizational behavior and human resource management as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the literature in Management and Organizational Studies, covering a variety of topics including emotional labor in professions, nonprofit sector and volunteering, supply chain resilience and risk management, occupational health and safety research, employment and welfare studies, and fashion and cultural textiles.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas B. Lawrence include:

  • The Heterogeneity of Organizational Resilience: Exploring functional, operational and strategic resilience (2022), Organization Theory
  • Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives (2021), Academy of Management Journal
  • Organizational Body Work: Efforts to Shape Human Bodies in Organizations (2022), Academy of Management Annals
  • The Role of Temporality in Institutional Stabilization: A Process View (2022), Academy of Management Review
  • Emplaced Partnerships and the Ethics of Care, Recognition and Resilience (2023), Journal of Business Ethics

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Journal
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Organization Theory
  • Academy of Management Annals

Frequent co-authors in their research endeavors include Emily Heaphy, Eva Schlindwein, Rohini Jalan, Özgü Karakulak, and Nelson Phillips.

Best Publications

  • Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada

    Steve Maguire;Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Discourse and Institutions

    Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy

  • Institutions and Institutional Work

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Bernard Leca;Roy Suddaby

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

    Royston Greenwood;Christine Oliver;Thomas B. Lawrence;Renate E. Meyer

  • Institutional Work: Refocusing Institutional Studies of Organization

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work

    Charlene Zietsma;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • Institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration: The emergence of proto-institutions

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy;Nelson Phillips

  • Resources, Knowledge and Influence: The Organizational Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration*

    Cynthia Hardy;Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity

    Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence;David Grant

  • Triggers And Enablers Of Sensegiving In Organizations

    Sally Maitlis;Thomas B. Lawrence

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

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  • Inter-organizational collaboration and the dynamics of institutional fields

    Nelson Phillips;Thomas B. Lawrence;Cynthia Hardy

  • Introduction: Theorizing and Studying Institutional Work

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Roy Suddaby;Bernard Leca

  • Territoriality in Organizations

    Graham Brown;Thomas B. Lawrence;Sandra L. Robinson

  • The Temporal Dynamics of Institutionalization

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Monika I. Winn;P. Devereaux Jennings

  • Institutional Work

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  • From Moby Dick to Free Willy: Macro-Cultural Discourse and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Institutional Fields

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Nelson Phillips

  • The Politics of Organizational Learning: Integrating Power into the 4I Framework

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Michael K. Mauws;Bruno Dyck;Robert F. Kleysen

  • Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Bernard Leca;Tammar B. Zilber

  • Ain't Misbehavin: Workplace Deviance as Organizational Resistance

    Thomas B. Lawrence;Sandra L. Robinson

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies

    Stewart R. Clegg;Cynthia Hardy;Thomas B. Lawrence;Walter R. Nord

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelson Phillips
Nelson Phillips University of California, Santa Barbara
Cynthia Hardy
Cynthia Hardy University of Melbourne
Sally Maitlis
Sally Maitlis University of Oxford
Royston Greenwood
Royston Greenwood University of Alberta
Roy Suddaby
Roy Suddaby University of Victoria
Paul Tracey
Paul Tracey University of Cambridge
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
David Grant
David Grant Griffith University
Ian P. McCarthy
Ian P. McCarthy Simon Fraser University
Anita M. McGahan
Anita M. McGahan University of Toronto

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