| Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony JW Meyer, B Rowan American journal of sociology 83 (2), 340-363, 1977 | 32135 | 1977 |
| The new institutionalism in organizational analysis WW Powell, PJ DiMaggio University of Chicago press, 2012 | 14205 | 2012 |
| World society and the nation-state JW Meyer, J Boli, GM Thomas, FO Ramirez American Journal of sociology 103 (1), 144-181, 1997 | 5313 | 1997 |
| Organizational environments: Ritual and rationality JW Meyer, WR Scott Sage Publications, Inc, 1992 | 3001 | 1992 |
| Institutional conditions for diffusion D Strang, JW Meyer Theory and society, 487-511, 1993 | 2532 | 1993 |
| The structure of educational organizations JW Meyer, B Rowan, MW Meyer Schools and society: A sociological approach to education, 217-225, 1978 | 1774 | 1978 |
| The effects of education as an institution JW Meyer American journal of Sociology 83 (1), 55-77, 1977 | 1668 | 1977 |
| The worldwide expansion of higher education in the twentieth century E Schofer, JW Meyer American sociological review 70 (6), 898-920, 2005 | 1587 | 2005 |
| Institutional environments and organizations: Structural complexity and individualism RW Scott, WR Scott, JW Meyer Sage, 1994 | 1563 | 1994 |
| The ‘actors’ of modern society: The cultural construction of social agency JW Meyer, RL Jepperson Sociological theory 18 (1), 100-120, 2000 | 1282 | 2000 |
| World expansion of mass education, 1870-1980 JW Meyer, FO Ramirez, YN Soysal Sociology of education, 128-149, 1992 | 1241 | 1992 |
| Ontology and rationalization in the Western cultural account JW Meyer, J Boli, GM Thomas Institutional structure: Constituting state, society, and the individual, 12-37, 1987 | 1147 | 1987 |
| Reflections on the transition from elite to mass to universal access: Forms and phases of higher education in modern societies since WWII M Trow International handbook of higher education, 243-280, 2007 | 997 | 2007 |
| Science in the modern world polity: Institutionalization and globalization GS Drori | 870 | 2003 |
| The world polity and the authority of the nation-state JW Meyer Studies of the modern world-system, 109-137, 1980 | 805 | 1980 |
| Equal opportunity law and the construction of internal labor markets F Dobbin, JR Sutton, JW Meyer, R Scott American journal of Sociology 99 (2), 396-427, 1993 | 791 | 1993 |
| Institutional structure: Constituting state, society, and the individual GM Thomas, JW Meyer, FO Ramirez, J Boli Sage, 1987 | 756 | 1987 |
| Centralization and the legitimacy problems of local government JW Meyer Organizational environments: Ritual and rationality, 1983 | 737 | 1983 |
| Institutional and Technical Sources of Organizational Structure Explaining the Structure of Educational Organizations. JW Meyer Publications, Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance …, 1980 | 723 | 1980 |
| Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen JW Meyer Suhrkamp, 2005 | 697 | 2005 |
