Sarah Kaplan

9.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
70 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Kaplan is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Kaplan has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Strategy and Management, 17 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah Kaplan's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (21 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (15 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (7 papers). Sarah Kaplan is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (21 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (15 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (7 papers). Sarah Kaplan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sarah Kaplan's co-authors include J. P. Eggers, Keyvan Vakili, Mary Tripsas, Paula Jarzabkowski, Richard N. Foster, Rebecca Henderson, Sonia K. Kang, Vern Glaser, Timothy R. Hannigan and Hovig Tchalian and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Academy of Management Review.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Kaplan

67 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Framing Contests: Strategy Making Under Uncertainty

2008 770 citations Sarah Kaplan profile →
Cognition and Renewal: Comparing CEO and Organizational Effects on Incumbent Adaptation to Technical Change

2008 534 citations J. P. Eggers, Sarah Kaplan profile →
The double‐edged sword of recombination in breakthrough innovation

2014 522 citations Sarah Kaplan, Keyvan Vakili Strategic Management Journal profile →
Thinking about technology: Applying a cognitive lens to technical change

2008 443 citations Sarah Kaplan, Mary Tripsas profile →
Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data

2019 391 citations Keyvan Vakili, Sarah Kaplan et al. profile →
Strategy tools‐in‐use: A framework for understanding “technologies of rationality” in practice

2014 291 citations Paula Jarzabkowski, Sarah Kaplan Strategic Management Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Kaplan Canada	27	3.2k	1.5k	1.0k	913	878	70	6.1k
Ming‐Jer Chen Taiwan	33	4.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	857 0.8×	636 0.7×	625 0.7×	147	7.3k
Bill McKelvey United States	33	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	1.1k 1.2×	93	6.5k
Teppo Felin United States	32	4.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	810 0.9×	918 1.0×	94	7.2k
Cohen United States	5	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	626 0.6×	740 0.8×	676 0.8×	19	5.4k
William P. Barnett United States	26	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	907 0.9×	560 0.6×	945 1.1×	45	5.3k
Elaine Romanelli United States	18	2.9k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	740 0.8×	992 1.1×	26	6.0k
Robert F. Hurley United States	23	4.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	488 0.5×	769 0.9×	41	6.9k
Greenberg United States	7	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	626 0.6×	738 0.8×	595 0.7×	17	5.4k
Jan W. Rivkin United States	24	3.9k 1.2×	897 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	578 0.7×	68	6.1k
Eric Abrahamson United States	31	3.8k 1.2×	2.7k 1.8×	876 0.8×	960 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	51	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Kaplan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Kaplan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Kaplan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Essue, Beverley M., et al.. (2025). Women’s experiences of gender-based violence supports through an intersectional lens: a global scoping review. BMJ Public Health. 3(1). e001405–e001405. 2 indexed citations

Kaplan, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Accelerating progress towards gender equity in health and science. The Lancet. 403(10430). 883–886.

Kaplan, Sarah. (2023). The Promises and Perils of Corporate Purpose. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Kaplan, Sarah. (2020). Why Social Responsibility Produces More Resilient Organizations. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 62(1). 85–90. 13 indexed citations

Vakili, Keyvan & Sarah Kaplan. (2020). Organizing for innovation: A contingency view on innovative team configuration. Strategic Management Journal. 42(6). 1159–1183. 41 indexed citations

Kang, Sonia K. & Sarah Kaplan. (2019). Working toward gender diversity and inclusion in medicine: myths and solutions. The Lancet. 393(10171). 579–586. 123 indexed citations

Kaplan, Sarah. (2019). Beyond the Business Case for Social Responsibility. Academy of Management Discoveries. 6(1). 1–4. 94 indexed citations

Jarzabkowski, Paula, Sarah Kaplan, David Seidl, & Richard Whittington. (2016). If you aren’t talking about practices, don’t call it a practice-based view: Rejoinder to Bromiley and Rau in Strategic Organization. Strategic Organization. 14(3). 270–274. 22 indexed citations

Kaplan, Sarah. (2015). Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Research. SSRN Electronic Journal. 455–465. 14 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah & Wanda J. Orlikowski. (2014). Beyond forecasting: : Creating new strategic narratives. MIT Sloan management review. 56(1). 11. 12 indexed citations

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Eggers, J. P. & Sarah Kaplan. (2013). Cognition & Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah & Joanna Radin. (2011). Bounding an emerging technology: Para-scientific media and the Drexler-Smalley debate about nanotechnology. Social Studies of Science. 41(4). 457–485. 26 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah. (2010). Public Employee Free Speech After Garcetti : Has the Seventh Circuit Been Ignoring a Question of Fact?. 5(2). 459.

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Kaplan, Sarah. (2010). Strategy and Powerpoint: An Inquiry into the Epistemic Culture and Machinery of Strategy Making. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah. (2010). Research in Cognition and Strategy: Reflections on Two Decades of Progress and a Look to the Future. Journal of Management Studies. 48(3). 665–695. 324 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah & Eric D. Beinhocker. (2003). El objetivo del planeamiento estratégico. 8(4). 44–49.

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Kaplan, Sarah & Eric D. Beinhocker. (2003). The Real Value of Strategic Planning. MIT Sloan management review. 44(2). 71–76. 53 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Sarah & Mary Tripsas. (2003). Thinking about technology: understanding the role of cognition and technical change. 6 indexed citations

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Beinhocker, Eric D. & Sarah Kaplan. (2002). Tired of Strategic Planning? Many Companies Get Little Value from Their Annual Strategic-Planning Process. It Should Be Redesigned to Support Real-Time Strategy Making and to Encourage 'Creative Accidents'. The McKinsey Quarterly. 49. 4 indexed citations

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Foster, Richard N. & Sarah Kaplan. (2001). Creative destruction : from 'built to last' to 'built to perform'. 13 indexed citations

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