My 30 Most Highly Cited Articles
In descending citation order
No. Citations Article
759. ‘What Are Institutions?’, Journal of Economic Issues, 40(1), March 2006, pp. 1-25.
449. ‘The Approach of Institutional Economics’, Journal of Economic Literature, 36(1), March 1998, pp. 166-92.
173. ‘Darwinism in Economics: From Analogy to Ontology’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 12(2), June 2002, pp. 259-81.
164.
(With Thorbjørn Knudsen) ‘Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism: And Why a Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61(1), Sept 2006, pp. 1-19.
164. (With Thorbjørn Knudsen) ‘The Firm as an Interactor: Firms as Vehicles for Habits and Routines’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14(3), July 2004, pp. 281-307.
162. ‘The Hidden Persuaders: Institutions and Individuals in Economic Theory’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(2), March 2003, pp. 159-75.
143. ‘What is the Essence of Institutional Economics?’, Journal of Economic Issues, 34(2), June 2000, pp. 317-29.
142. (With Howard E. Aldrich, David L. Hull, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Joel Mokyr and Viktor J. Vanberg) ‘In Defence of Generalized Darwinism’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 18(5), Oct 2008, pp. 577-96.
141. ‘The Ubiquity of Habits and Rules’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 21(6), November 1997, pp. 663-84.
114. (With Richard Carter) ‘The Impact of Empirical Tests of Transaction Cost Economics on the Debate on the Nature of the Firm’, Strategic Management Journal, 27(5), May 2006, pp. 461-76.
110. ‘Institutions and Individuals: Interaction and Evolution’, Organization Studies, 28(1), January 2007, pp. 95-116.
104. ‘Competence and Contract in the Theory of the Firm’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 35(2), April 1998, pp. 179-201.
93. ‘Reclaiming Habit for Institutional Economics’, Journal of Economic Psychology,
25(4), October 2004, pp. 651-60.
80. (With Harry Rothman) ‘The Editors and Authors of Economics Journals: A Case of Institutional Oligopoly?’, Economic Journal, 109(2), February 1999, pp. F165-86.
73. (With Thorbjørn Knudsen) ‘The Complex Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: The Functions and Implications of Habit’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 54(1), 2004, pp. 19-47.
63. ‘On the Institutional Foundations of Law: The Insufficiency of Custom and Private Ordering’, Journal of Economic Issues, 43(1), March 2009, pp. 143-66.
60. ‘The Great Crash of 2008 and the Reform of Economics’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(6), November 2009, pp. 1205-21.
57. ‘On the Evolution of Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22(3), July 1998, pp. 415-31.
55. (With Simon Deakin, David Gindis, Kainan Huang and Katharina Pistor, ‘Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law’, Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(1), February 2017, pp. 188-200.
52. 'What is Capital? Economists and Sociologists have Changed its Meaning – Should it be Changed Back?’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38(5), September 2014, pp. 1063-86.
52. (With Thorbjørn Knudsen) ‘Dismantling Lamarckism: Why Descriptions of Socio-Economic Evolution as Lamarckian are Misleading’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 16(4), October 2006, pp. 343-66.
50. ‘Much of the “Economics of Property Rights” Devalues Property and Legal Rights’, Journal of Institutional Economics, 11(4), December 2015, pp. 683-709.
46. ‘Choice, Habit and Evolution’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 20(1), January 2010, pp. 1-18.
46. (With Shuxia Jiang) ‘The Economics of Corruption and the Corruption of Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective’, Journal of Economic Issues, 41(4), December 2007, pp. 1043-61.
46. (With Thorbjørn Knudsen) ‘The Nature and Units of Social Selection’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 16(5), December 2006, pp. 477-89.
46. ‘Opportunism is Not the Only Reason Why Firms Exist: Why an Explanatory Emphasis on Opportunism May Mislead Management Strategy’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(2), April 2004, pp. 403-20.
45. ‘On Defining Institutions: Rules versus Equilibria’, Journal of Institutional Economics, 11(3), September 2015, pp. 499-505.
44. ‘The Revival of Veblenian Institutional Economics’, Journal of Economic Issues, 41(2), June 2007, pp. 325-40.
42. ‘Understanding Organizational Evolution: Toward a Research Agenda using Generalized Darwinism’, Organization Studies, 34(7), July 2013, pp. 973-992.
39. ‘John R. Commons and the Foundations of Institutional Economics', Journal of Economic Issues, 37(3), September 2003, pp. 547-76.