Walter W. Powell

Journal Articles

1. Walter W. Powell (2025). From innovation versus equity to innovation and equity. Industrial And Corporate Change.DOI
2. Christof Brandtner, Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath (2024). From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness. Organization Studies, Vol. 450, No. 2.DOI
3. Christof Brandtner, Krystal Laryea, Gowun Park, Wei Luo, Michaël Meyer, David F. Suárez, Hokyu Hwang, Walter W. Powell (2024). Neighborhood effects on integrative organizational practices in five global cities. Nature Cities.DOI
4. Christian Busch, Madeleine Stefanie Rauch, Henry Mintzberg, Walter W. Powell, Wendy K. Smith, Matthew G. Grimes, Christina Fang, Scott D. Anthony, Saras D. Sarasvathy (2024). Serendipity in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings.DOI
5. Walter W. Powell, Paul DiMaggio (2023). The Iron Cage Redux: Looking Back and Forward. Organization Theory.DOI
6. Christof Brandtner, Walter W. Powell (2022). Capturing the Civic Lives of Cities: An Organizational, Place-Based Perspective on Civil Society in Global Cities. Global Perspectives.DOI
7. Krystal Laryea, Yi Zhao, Walter W. Powell (2022). San Francisco Bay Area: A Left Coast Metropolis Grapples with Technocracy and Inequality. Global Perspectives.DOI
8. Walter W. Powell (2021). Living Just in Time: Reflections on Arne L. Kalleberg, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.DOI
9. Helmut K. Anheier, Walter W. Powell (2021). Networks, Organizations, Institutions: An Interview with Walter W. Powell, Stanford University. Global Perspectives.DOI
10. Kurt W. Sandholtz, Walter W. Powell (2019). Amphibious Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Invention.DOI
11. Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner, Walter W. Powell (2018). Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession. Voluntas, Vol. 290, No. 5.DOI
12. Walter W. Powell (2017). A sociologist looks at crowds: Innovation or invention? Strategic Organization, Vol. 150, No. 20.DOI
13. Yuko Aoyama, Walter W. Powell, AnnaLee Saxenian, Allen J. Scott, Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Philip Makarem, Taner Osman (2017). The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. The AAG Review of Books.DOI
14. Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner (2016). Click and mortar: Organizations on the web. Research In Organizational Behavior: An Annual Series Of Analytical Essays And Critical Reviews, Vol 36, Vol. 36.DOI
15. Victoria Johnson, Walter W. Powell (2015). Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City. National Bureau of Economic Research.DOI
16. Walter W. Powell, Patricia Bromley (2015). New Institutionalism in the Analysis of Complex Organizations. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
17. Walter W. Powell, Birthe Soppe (2015). Boundaries and New Organization Forms. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
18. Sally Maitlis, Walter W. Powell, Marlys K. Christianson (2015). Adaptive Macro Sensemaking. Academy of Management Proceedings.DOI
19. Gerald F. Davis, Walter W. Powell (2015). Beyond Embeddedness: When Community Engagement Governs Firm Strategy. Academy of Management Proceedings.DOI
20. John F. Padgett, Walter W. Powell (2014). The Emergence of Organizations and Markets. Edited by John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiv+583. $45.00 (paper).DOI
21. Walter W. Powell (2013). The Explanation of Social Action. By John Levi Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+396. $35.00. American Journal of Sociology.DOI
22. Walter W. Powell, Kurt W. Sandholtz (2012). [Review] Amphibious entrepreneurs and the emergence of organizational forms. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 60, No. 2.DOI
23. Patricia Bromley, Walter W. Powell (2012). From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World. Academy Of Management Annals, Vol. 6.DOI
24. Patricia Bromley, Hokyu Hwang, Walter W. Powell (2012). Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U. S. nonprofit sector. M n gement.DOI
25. Walter W. Powell (2010). Seminar on Organizational Theory. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
26. Walter W. Powell, Kelley A. Packalen, K. Whittington (2010). Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences.DOI
27. Xiaowei Rose Luo, Kenneth W. Koput, Walter W. Powell (2009). Intellectual capital or signal? The effects of scientists on alliance formation in knowledge-intensive industries. Research Policy, Vol. 380, No. 8.DOI
28. Hokyu Hwang, Walter W. Powell (2009). The Rationalization of Charity: The Influences of Professionalism in the Nonprofit Sector. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 540, No. 20.DOI
29. Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2009). [Review] Networks, Propinquity, and Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 540, No. 10.DOI
30. Walter W. Powell, R. Steinberg (2008). The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook.
31. Walter W. Powell, Jason Owen-Smith, Jeannette A. Colyvas (2007). Innovaton and emulation: Lessons from American universities in selling private rights to public knowledge. Minerva, Vol. 450, No. 2.DOI
32. Diana Rhoten, Walter W. Powell (2007). [Review] The frontiers of intellectual property: Expanded protection versus new models of open science. Annual Review Of Law And Social Science, Vol. 3.DOI
33. Mark Ebers, Walter W. Powell (2007). Biotechnology: Its origins, organization, and outputs. Research Policy.DOI
34. Jeannette A. Colyvas, Walter W. Powell (2006). Roads to institutionalization: The remaking of boundaries between public and private science. Research In Organizational Behavior, Vol 27, Vol. 27.DOI
35. Jeannette Anastasia Colyvas, Walter W. Powell (2006). Roads to Institutionalization.
36. Walter W. Powell, Dougľas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput, Jason David Owen-Smith (2005). Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences. American Journal of Sociology.DOI
37. Ivar Bleiklie, Walter W. Powell (2005). Universities and the production of knowledge – Introduction. Higher Education.DOI
38. Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2004). Carrières et contradictions en sciences de la vie : réponses du corps académique aux transformations de la connaissance et de ses utilisations. Sociologie du Travail.DOI
39. Dougľas R. White, Jason David Owen-Smith, James W. Moody, Walter W. Powell (2004). Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.DOI
40. Maria Elisabeth Bengtsson, Walter W. Powell (2004). Introduction: new perspectives on competition and cooperation. Scandinavian Journal of Management.DOI
41. Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2004). Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community. Organization Science.DOI
42. Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2003). The expanding role of university patenting in the life sciences: assessing the importance of experience and connectivity. Research Policy.DOI
43. Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, James I. Bowie, Laurel Smith‐Doerr (2002). The Spatial Clustering of Science and Capital: Accounting for Biotech Firm-Venture Capital Relationships. Regional Studies.DOI
44. Jason David Owen-Smith, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, Walter W. Powell (2002). A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences. Management Science.DOI
45. Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2002). Standing on Shifting Terrain. Science & Technology Studies.DOI
46. Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell (2001). To Patent or Not: Faculty Decisions and Institutional Success at Technology Transfer. The Journal of Technology Transfer.DOI
47. Jason David Owen-Smith, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, Walter W. Powell (2001). A Comparison of U.S. And European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).
48. Walter W. Powell (2001). Boundaries and New Organization Forms. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
49. Walter W. Powell (2000). The sources of managerial logics.DOI
50. Walter W. Powell (2000). The last word? Not a chance.DOI
51. Walter W. Powell (1999). The Little Bookshop around the Corner Isn't There Anymore.DOI
52. Walter W. Powell (1996). Trust-Based Forms of Governance.DOI
53. J. Lincoln, Walter W. Powell, Paul DiMaggio (1995). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.DOI
54. Thomas A. Koelble, Karen S. Cook, M. Levi, Mark S. Granovetter, Richard Swedberg, J. March, Johan P. Olsen, Walter W. Powell, Paul DiMaggio, S. Steinmo, K. Thelen, Frank Longstreth (1995). The New Institutionalism in Political Science and Sociology.DOI
55. Mauro F. Guillén, Walter W. Powell, Paul DiMaggio (1992). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.DOI
56. Walter W. Powell (1989). From Patrician to Professional Elite.
57. Walter W. Powell (1988). Getting into Print. University of Chicago Press.
58. Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell (1983). The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological Review.DOI
59. Walter W. Powell (1980). Competition versus Concentration in the Book Trade.DOI
60. Walter W. Powell (1979). Control and conflict in publishing.DOI
61. David Stark, B. Vedres, J. Padgett, Walter W. Powell, Doug. Pathways of Property Transformation: Enterprise Network Careers in Hungary, 1988-2000 Outline of an Analytic Strategy Acknowledgments: This Paper Has Benefited from Participation in the Sfi Seminar on Heterarchies: Distributed Intelligence and the Organization of Diversity and Discussions with Pathw.

Book Chapters

1. Walter W. Powell, Christof Brandtner (2016). Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action. Handbooks of sociology and social research.DOI
2. Walter W. Powell, Eric Giannella (2010). Collective Invention and Inventor Networks. Handbook of the economics of innovation.DOI
3. Walter W. Powell, Stine Grodal (2009). Networks of Innovators. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
4. Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell (2009). Das „stahlharte Gehäuse“ neu betrachtet: Institutionelle Isomorphie und kollektive Rationalität in organisationalen Feldern1. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks.DOI
5. Hokyu Hwang, Walter W. Powell (2005). Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Springer eBooks.DOI
6. Massimo Riccaboni, Jason David Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, Fabio Pammolli (2003). Public Research and Industrial Innovation: A Comparison of US and European Innovation Systems in the Life Sciences. Science and Innovation.DOI