John W. Meyer

58.0k citations
153 papers · 34.7k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 55

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John W. Meyer

147 papers receiving 29.6k citations

Hit Papers

World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor 2010 · 512 citations
51219772026199320095.0k10.0k15.0k

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John W. Meyer
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  • Public Administration 3.5k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 8.4k
  • Strategy and Management 9.1k
  • Development 1.4k
  • Political Science and International Relations 8.6k
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1
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
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197717013
2
World Society and the Nation‐State
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19972539
3
Institutional conditions for diffusion
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19931230
4
Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality.
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19851096
5
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
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2005985
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Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality
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1984860
7
The Effects of Education as an Institution
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1977712
8
Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism
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1994696
9
The “Actors” of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency
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2000612
10
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
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1992552
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World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor
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2010512
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Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
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1993418
13 1997322
14 1989276
15 1990275
16 2000247
17
Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change
2006245
18
Institutional and technical sources of organizational structure explaining the structure of educational organizations
1980240
19 1985235
20 1977208

About John W. Meyer

John W. Meyer is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Demography, having authored 153 papers that have together received 34.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Global Educational Policies and Reforms (24 papers), Global Education and Multiculturalism (17 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (16 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (15 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (9 papers), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (9 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 papers) and School Choice and Performance (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Administration (3.5k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (8.4k citations), Strategy and Management (9.1k citations), Development (1.4k citations) and Political Science and International Relations (8.6k citations). John W. Meyer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Brian Rowan, Francisco O. Ramírez, John Boli, W. Richard Scott, George Thomas, Evan Schofer, David Strang, Ronald L. Jepperson, David L. Clark and Patricia Bromley. Their work appears in journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education, Comparative Education Review and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

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