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64
Citations
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World Ranking
1051
National Ranking
490

Overview

Walter W. Powell is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and is engaged primarily in research within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, public administration, communication, organizational behavior and human resource management, and strategy and management.

Their research topics cover a range of themes such as public policy and administration research, the nonprofit sector and volunteering, management and organizational studies, social media and politics, supply chain resilience and risk management, experimental behavioral economics studies, and the impacts of sport and mega-events.

Recent publications by Walter W. Powell include the following papers:

  • The Iron Cage Redux: Looking Back and Forward, 2023, published in Organization Theory
  • From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness, 2023, Organization Studies
  • San Francisco Bay Area: A Left Coast Metropolis Grapples with Technocracy and Inequality, 2022, Global Perspectives
  • Capturing the Civic Lives of Cities: An Organizational, Place-Based Perspective on Civil Society in Global Cities, 2022, Global Perspectives
  • Living Just in Time: Reflections on Arne L. Kalleberg, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies, 2021, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Walter W. Powell include:

  • Christof Brandtner
  • Paul DiMaggio
  • Krystal Laryea
  • Jason Owen-Smith
  • Laurel Smith-Doerr

The scientist's work has been disseminated across several publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Global Perspectives
  • Organization Theory
  • Organization Studies
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Nature Cities

Best Publications

  • The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

    Paul J. DiMaggio;Walter W. Powell

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Walter W. Powell;Paul DiMaggio

  • Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology.

    Walter W. Powell;Kenneth W. Koput;Laurel Smith-Doerr

  • Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community

    Jason Owen-Smith;Walter W. Powell

  • The Knowledge Economy

    Walter W. Powell;Kaisa Snellman

  • Network dynamics and field evolution : The growth of interorganizational collaboration in the life sciences

    Walter W. Powell;Kenneth W. Koput;Douglas R. White;Jason Owen-Smith

  • Expanding the Scope of Institutional Analysis

    Walter W. Powell

  • The nonprofit sector : a research handbook

    Walter W. Powell;Richard Steinberg

  • Networks of Innovators

    Walter W. Powell;Stine Grodal

  • Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries:

    Walter W. Powell

  • Hybrid Organizational Arrangements: New Form or Transitional Development?

    Walter W. Powell

  • The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector:

    Hokyu Hwang;Walter W. Powell

  • From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World

    Patricia Bromley;Walter W. Powell

  • Networks and Economic life

    Walter W Powell;Lorel Smith-Dor

  • The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

    John F. Padgett;Walter W. Powell

  • Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries

    Kjersten Bunker Whittington;Jason Owen-Smith;Walter W. Powell

  • The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships

    Walter W. Powell;Kenneth W. Koput;James I. Bowie;Laurel Smith-Doerr

  • Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing

    Lewis A. Coser;Charles Kadushin;Walter W. Powell

  • To patent or not: Faculty decisions and institutional success at technology transfer

    Jason Owen-Smith;Walter W. Powell

  • A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences

    Jason Owen-Smith;Massimo Riccaboni;Fabio Pammolli;Walter W. Powell

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Mauro F. Guillén;Walter W. Powell;Paul J. Dimaggio

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Dimaggio
Paul Dimaggio New York University
Massimo Riccaboni
Massimo Riccaboni IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Charles Kadushin
Charles Kadushin Brandeis University
Lewis A. Coser
Lewis A. Coser Brandeis University
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Noah E. Friedkin
Noah E. Friedkin University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter V. Marsden
Peter V. Marsden Harvard University
James Moody
James Moody Duke University
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
Glenna Spitze
Glenna Spitze University at Albany, State University of New York

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