| Organizations Evolving H Aldrich, M Ruef Sage, 2006 | 6656* | 2006 |
| Institutional change and organizations: Transformation of a healthcare field WR Scott, M Ruef, P Mendel, CA Caronna Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000 | 2324* | 2000 |
| A multidimensional model of organizational legitimacy: Hospital survival in changing institutional environments M Ruef, WR Scott Administrative science quarterly, 877-904, 1998 | 1406 | 1998 |
| The structure of founding teams: Homophily, strong ties, and isolation among US entrepreneurs M Ruef, HE Aldrich, NM Carter American sociological review 68 (2), 195-222, 2003 | 1294 | 2003 |
| Strong ties, weak ties and islands: structural and cultural predictors of organizational innovation M Ruef Industrial and Corporate Change 11 (3), 427-449, 2002 | 645 | 2002 |
| The emergence of organizational forms: A community ecology approach M Ruef American Journal of Sociology 106 (3), 658-714, 2000 | 519 | 2000 |
| The entrepreneurial group: Social identities, relations, and collective action M Ruef Princeton University Press, 2010 | 234 | 2010 |
| Credit and classification: The impact of industry boundaries in nineteenth-century America M Ruef, K Patterson Administrative Science Quarterly 54 (3), 486-520, 2009 | 207 | 2009 |
| Assessing organizational fitness on a dynamic landscape: An empirical test of the relative inertia thesis M Ruef Strategic Management Journal 18 (11), 837-853, 1997 | 201 | 1997 |
| Community social capital and entrepreneurship SW Kwon, C Heflin, M Ruef American Sociological Review 78 (6), 980-1008, 2013 | 176 | 2013 |
| The myth of the risk-tolerant entrepreneur H Xu, M Ruef Strategic organization 2 (4), 331-355, 2004 | 174 | 2004 |
| Social ontology and the dynamics of organizational forms: Creating market actors in the healthcare field, 1966–1994 M Ruef Social Forces 77 (4), 1403-1432, 1999 | 115 | 1999 |
| Introduction: The sociology of entrepreneurship M Ruef, M Lounsbury The sociology of entrepreneurship, 1-29, 2007 | 94 | 2007 |
| With very little help from their friends: Gender and relational composition of nascent entrepreneurs’ startup teams HE Aldrich, NM Carter, M Ruef Frontiers of entrepreneurship research, 156-69, 2002 | 87 | 2002 |
| Legacies of American slavery: Status attainment among southern blacks after emancipation M Ruef, B Fletcher Social Forces 82 (2), 445-480, 2003 | 77 | 2003 |
| Origins of organizations: The entrepreneurial process M Ruef Entrepreneurship, 63-100, 2005 | 72 | 2005 |
| Teams HE Aldrich, NM Carter, M Ruef Handbook of entrepreneurial dynamics: The process of business creation, 299-310, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
| What is organizational history? Toward a creative synthesis of history and organization studies PC Godfrey, J Hassard, ES O’Connor, M Rowlinson, M Ruef Academy of Management Review 41 (4), 590-608, 2016 | 64 | 2016 |
| The demise of an organizational form: Emancipation and plantation agriculture in the American South, 1860–1880 M Ruef American Journal of Sociology 109 (6), 1365-1410, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
| For whom the bell tolls: Ecological perspectives on industrial decline and resurgence M Ruef Industrial and Corporate Change 13 (1), 61-89, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
Howard E. AldrichKenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillVerified email at unc.edu
