| Organizations Evolving H Aldrich, M Ruef, S Lippmann Edward Elgar, 2020 | 8236* | 2020 |
| Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care WR Scott, M Ruef, P Mendel, CA Caronna Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000 | 3087 | 2000 |
| A multidimensional model of organizational legitimacy: Hospital survival in changing institutional environments M Ruef, WR Scott Administrative Science Quarterly 43 (4), 877-904, 1998 | 1951 | 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 | 1892 | 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 | 866 | 2002 |
| The emergence of organizational forms: A community ecology approach M Ruef American Journal of Sociology 106 (3), 658-714, 2000 | 667 | 2000 |
| The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action M Ruef Princeton University Press, 2010 | 434* | 2010 |
| Community social capital and entrepreneurship SW Kwon, C Heflin, M Ruef American sociological review 78 (6), 980-1008, 2013 | 398 | 2013 |
| Unicorns, gazelles, and other distractions on the way to understanding real entrepreneurship in the United States HE Aldrich, M Ruef Academy of Management Perspectives 32 (4), 458-472, 2018 | 316 | 2018 |
| Credit and classification: The impact of industry boundaries in nineteenth-century America M Ruef, K Patterson Administrative Science Quarterly 54 (3), 486-520, 2009 | 297 | 2009 |
| The myth of the risk-tolerant entrepreneur H Xu, M Ruef Strategic Organization 2 (4), 331-355, 2004 | 254 | 2004 |
| 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 | 241 | 1997 |
| 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 | 175 | 2016 |
| Introduction to the Sociology of Entrepreneurship M Ruef, M Lounsbury The sociology of entrepreneurship, 1-29, 2007 | 166 | 2007 |
| 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 | 137 | 1999 |
| The historical demography of racial segregation A Grigoryeva, M Ruef American Sociological Review 80 (4), 814-842, 2015 | 127 | 2015 |
| Legacies of American slavery: Status attainment among southern blacks after emancipation M Ruef, B Fletcher Social Forces 82 (2), 445-480, 2003 | 127 | 2003 |
| Origins of organizations: The entrepreneurial process M Ruef Research in the Sociology of Work 15, 63-100, 2005 | 107 | 2005 |
| 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, 156-169, 2002 | 93 | 2002 |
| Teams HE Aldrich, NM Carter, M Ruef Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation, 299-310, 2004 | 89 | 2004 |
Howard E. AldrichKenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillVerified email at unc.edu
