Publications

Select Journal Publications

1. Wang, M.S., Zhang, R., & Voronov, M. In press. Building bridges in the digital age: How online platforms foster trust during a crisis. Organization Studies.

Media coverage: Harvard Business Review.

2. Wei, Y., Wang, M.S., & Liu, J. In press. Generational imprints and personal life experiences: A contingency approach to corruption and entrepreneurship.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

3. Wang, M., & Steele, C. 2024. From foe to friend: Exploring state-led destigmatization. Administrative Science Quarterly, 69(4): 839–880.

Rewritten in an abbreviated version and printed in Management Insights.

4. Wang, M., & Tracey, P. 2024. Anti-stigma organizing: How social movement organizations leverage affordances to build solidarity. Academy of Management Review, 49(4): 799–823.

Featured in AOM Insights as one of the most-clicked summaries in 2024.

5. Wang, M., Raynard, M., & Greenwood, R. 2021. From grace to violence: Stigmatizing the medical profession in China. Academy of Management Journal, 64(6): 1842–1872.

Finalist of the Responsible Research in Management Award (2021).
Media coverage: LSE Business Review, Sixth Tone.

6. Lounsbury, M., Steele, C., Wang, M., & Toubiana, M. 2021. New directions in the study of institutional logics: From tools to phenomena. Annual Review of Sociology, 47(1): 261–280.

Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Comparative Studies, 2023(5): 188–212 (Caixin).

7. Zhang, R., Wang, M., Toubiana, M., & Greenwood, R. 2021. Stigma beyond levels: Advancing research on stigmatization. Academy of Management Annals, 15(1): 188–222.

#2 of the most read articles published in the journal in 2021.

8. Lounsbury, M., & Wang, M. 2020. Into the clearing: Back to the future of constitutive institutional analysis. Organization Theory, 1(1): 1–27.

9. Hannigan, T., Haans, R., Vakili, K., Tchalian, H., Glaser, V., Wang, M., Kaplan, S., & Jennings, P. 2019. Topic modeling in management research: Rendering new theory from textual data. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2): 586–632.

#2 of the most read articles published in the journal in 2019.
Top 1% highly cited paper in the SSCI field of Economics & Business.

Book Chapters & Other Publications

10. Wang, M.S., Lounsbury, M., Chen, X., & Ren, Y. In press. Change, governance, and diffusion of institutional logics in and beyond Chinese contexts. Management and Organization Review.

11. Zhou, C., Wang, M.S., & Zhang, R. In press. Parasitized functionaries: An extension to Rintamäki, Parker, and Spicer’s “Institutional Parasites” (dialogue). Academy of Management Review.

12. Bundy, J., & Wang, M.S. In press. Reputation dynamics: Understanding the reputation bufeer and burden. In The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Social Evaluations. Oxford University Press.

13. Wang, M.S. 2025. Stigmatization in and around organizations. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management: doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.476.

14. Wang, M., & Lounsbury, M. 2021. Cultural encounters: A practice-driven institutional approach to the study of organizational culture. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 71 (On Practice and Institution: New Empirical Directions): 165–198.

15. Höllerer, M., Schneiberg, M., Thornton, P., Zietsma, C., & Wang, M. 2020. Rediscovering the power of institutions: The macrofoundations of institutional analysis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 68 (Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity): 221–234.

16. Hannigan, T., Wang, M., Steele, C., Seidel, M.-D., Cervantes, E., & Jennings, P. 2020. A community-based sociocultural network approach to controlling COVID-19 contagion: Seven suggestions for improving policy. Behavioral Science & Policy, SI: 1–14.

17. Wang, M., Steele, C., & Greenwood, R. 2019. Mentalités and events: Historicizing institutional logics (dialogue). Academy of Management Review, 44(2): 473-476.