William Ocasio

21.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
48 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

William Ocasio is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Ocasio has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Strategy and Management, 23 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William Ocasio's work include Management and Organizational Studies (23 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (22 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (11 papers). William Ocasio is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (23 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (22 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (11 papers). William Ocasio collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Russia. William Ocasio's co-authors include Patricia Thornton, Michael Lounsbury, Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal, Andrew J. Hoffman, John Joseph, Henrich R. Greve, Amit Nigam, Jeffrey Loewenstein and Tomi Laamanen and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

William Ocasio

46 papers receiving 11.7k 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.

The Institutional Logics Perspective

2012 2.1k citations Patricia Thornton, William Ocasio et al. Oxford University Press eBooks profile →
Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958– 1990

1999 2.0k citations Patricia Thornton, William Ocasio profile →
TOWARDS AN ATTENTION‐BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM

1997 1.7k citations William Ocasio Strategic Management Journal profile →
TOWARDS AN ATTENTION-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM

1997 1.1k citations William Ocasio Strategic Management Journal profile →
Attention to Attention

2010 802 citations William Ocasio Organization Science profile →
Not All Events Are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events

2001 524 citations Andrew J. Hoffman, William Ocasio Organization Science profile →
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects

2012 442 citations Giovanni Gavetti, William Ocasio et al. Academy of Management Annals profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Ocasio United States	28	5.7k	4.7k	2.6k	2.4k	1.7k	48	12.4k
Michael Lounsbury Canada	41	4.6k 0.8×	5.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	4.2k 1.7×	2.2k 1.2×	115	13.7k
M. Tina Dacin Canada	33	5.2k 0.9×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.7×	47	11.1k
A. van Witteloostuijn Netherlands	45	4.3k 0.8×	2.8k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	277	11.1k
Peer C. Fiss United States	29	5.8k 1.0×	3.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	5.1k 2.1×	2.0k 1.2×	53	12.2k
Scott A. Snell United States	43	7.0k 1.2×	6.8k 1.5×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	74	15.1k
Henrich R. Greve Singapore	56	8.7k 1.5×	3.9k 0.8×	4.6k 1.8×	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	130	15.8k
David P. Lepak United States	41	5.4k 1.0×	9.4k 2.0×	1.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	73	15.8k
Alan D. Meyer United States	27	6.9k 1.2×	3.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	66	12.9k
Paul S. Adler United States	40	5.9k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	4.9k 2.0×	2.9k 1.6×	116	16.5k
Frances J. Milliken United States	27	3.9k 0.7×	5.6k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	40	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Ocasio

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Laamanen, Tomi, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence in adaptive strategy creation and implementation: Toward enhanced attentional control in strategy processes. Long Range Planning. 58(4). 102561–102561. 1 indexed citations

Joseph, John, Daniella Laureiro Martinez, Amit Nigam, William Ocasio, & Claus Rerup. (2024). Research frontiers on the attention-based view of the firm. Strategic Organization. 22(1). 6–17. 16 indexed citations

Ocasio, William, Matthew S. Kraatz, & David P. Chandler. (2023). Making Sense of Corporate Purpose. Strategy Science. 8(2). 123–138. 27 indexed citations

Ocasio, William, et al.. (2020). Institutions: Everywhere But Not Everything. Journal of Management Inquiry. 29(3). 262–271. 32 indexed citations

Bartunek, Jean M., Kimberly D. Elsbach, Emma Bell, et al.. (2019). Theorizing About an AOM President’s Response to Crisis and the Counter Responses It Evoked. Journal of Management Inquiry. 28(3). 276–282. 2 indexed citations

Ocasio, William, et al.. (2019). Business Models: Toolkits for Sensemaking in a Post-Chandlerian Economy. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2019(1). 15967–15967. 1 indexed citations

Ocasio, William, Tomi Laamanen, & Eero Vaara. (2017). Communication and attention dynamics: An attention‐based view of strategic change. Strategic Management Journal. 39(1). 155–167. 221 indexed citations

Gavetti, Giovanni & William Ocasio. (2015). Cognition and Strategy. 8 indexed citations

Joseph, John, William Ocasio, & Mary‐Hunter McDonnell. (2014). The Structural Elaboration of Board Independence: Executive Power, Institutional Logics, and the Adoption of CEO-Only Board Structures in U.S. Corporate Governance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Ocasio, William, Jeffrey Loewenstein, & Amit Nigam. (2014). How Streams of Communication Reproduce and Change Institutional Logics: The Role of Categories. Academy of Management Review. 40(1). 28–48. 124 indexed citations

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Joseph, John, et al.. (2014). The Structural Elaboration of Board Independence: Executive Power, Institutional Logics, and the Adoption of CEO-Only Board Structures in U.S. Corporate Governance. Academy of Management Journal. 57(6). 1834–1858. 166 indexed citations

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Thornton, Patricia, William Ocasio, & Michael Lounsbury. (2012). The Institutional Logics Perspective. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2079 indexed citations breakdown →

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Loewenstein, Jeffrey, William Ocasio, & Candace Jones. (2012). Vocabularies and Vocabulary Structure: A New Approach Linking Categories, Practices, and Institutions. Academy of Management Annals. 6(1). 41–86. 105 indexed citations

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Joseph, John & William Ocasio. (2012). Architecture, attention, and adaptation in the multibusiness firm: General electric from 1951 to 2001. Strategic Management Journal. 33(6). 633–660. 14 indexed citations

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Nigam, Amit & William Ocasio. (2009). Event Attention, Environmental Sensemaking, and Change in Institutional Logics: An Inductive Analysis of the Effects of Public Attention to Clinton's Health Care Reform Initiative. Organization Science. 21(4). 823–841. 281 indexed citations

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Ocasio, William, et al.. (2007). Urbanization and Spatial Organization: Hospital and Orphanage Location in Chicago, 1848-1916. Social Forces. 85(3). 1303–1317. 4 indexed citations

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Loewenstein, Jeffrey & William Ocasio. (2005). Vocabularies of Organizing: How Language Links Culture, Cognition, and Action in Organizations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations

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Ocasio, William & John Joseph. (2005). Cultural adaptation and institutional change: The evolution of vocabularies of corporate governance, 1972–2003. Poetics. 33(3-4). 163–178. 78 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Andrew J. & William Ocasio. (2001). Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Ocasio, William. (1995). The enactment of economic adversity: A reconciliation of theories of failure-induced change and threat-rigidity. Research in Organizational Behavior. 17. 287–331. 154 indexed citations

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