| From the editors: What grounded theory is not R Suddaby Academy of management journal 49 (4), 633-642, 2006 | 5426 | 2006 |
| Institutions and Institutional Work TB Lawrence, R Suddaby The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, 2006 | 5209 | 2006 |
| Theorizing change: The role of professional associations in the transformation of institutionalized fields R Greenwood, R Suddaby, CR Hinings Academy of management journal 45 (1), 58-80, 2002 | 4729 | 2002 |
| Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy R Suddaby, R Greenwood Administrative science quarterly 50 (1), 35-67, 2005 | 3632 | 2005 |
| Institutional entrepreneurship in mature fields: The big five accounting firms R Greenwood, R Suddaby Academy of Management journal 49 (1), 27-48, 2006 | 3208 | 2006 |
| The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism R Greenwood, RE Meyer, TB Lawrence, C Oliver SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017 | 2131 | 2017 |
| Institutional work: Refocusing institutional studies of organization T Lawrence, R Suddaby, B Leca Journal of management inquiry 20 (1), 52-58, 2011 | 1874 | 2011 |
| Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations TB Lawrence Cambridge university press, 2009 | 1559 | 2009 |
| Challenges for institutional theory R Suddaby Journal of management inquiry 19 (1), 14-20, 2010 | 1461 | 2010 |
| Editor's Comments: Construct Clarity in Theories of Management and Organization Suddaby Academy of Management Review 35 (3), 346-357, 2010 | 1315 | 2010 |
| Legitimacy R Suddaby, A Bitektine, P Haack Academy of Management Annals 11 (1), 451-478, 2017 | 1146* | 2017 |
| Introduction: Theorizing and studying institutional work B Leca, TB Lawrence, R Suddaby, B Leca TB Lawrence, R. suddaby & B. Leca (eds.), Institutional Work: Actors and …, 2009 | 894 | 2009 |
| Transnational regulation of professional services: Governance dynamics of field level organizational change R Suddaby, DJ Cooper, R Greenwood Accounting, organizations and society 32 (4-5), 333-362, 2007 | 744 | 2007 |
| Professionals and field-level change: Institutional work and the professional project R Suddaby, T Viale Current Sociology 59 (4), 423-442, 2011 | 666 | 2011 |
| Professions and institutional change: Towards an institutionalist sociology of the professions D Muzio, DM Brock, R Suddaby Journal of management studies 50 (5), 699-721, 2013 | 664 | 2013 |
| The organizational context of professionalism in accounting R Suddaby, Y Gendron, H Lam Accounting, organizations and society 34 (3-4), 409-427, 2009 | 626 | 2009 |
| Entrepreneurship through a qualitative lens: Insights on the construction and/or discovery of entrepreneurial opportunity R Suddaby, GD Bruton, SX Si Journal of Business venturing 30 (1), 1-10, 2015 | 607 | 2015 |
| Theory building: A review and integration DA Shepherd, R Suddaby Journal of Management 43 (1), 59-86, 2017 | 534 | 2017 |
| Rhetorical history as a source of competitive advantage R Suddaby, WM Foster, C Quinn Trank The globalization of strategy research, 147-173, 2010 | 515 | 2010 |
| Coalface institutionalism SR Barley, R Greenwood, C Oliver, K Sahlin, R Suddaby The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism, 338-364, 2017 | 474 | 2017 |