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Organization Template

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About the Organization format

Organization is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Management and Organizational Studies, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Management Theory and Practice. Over its lifetime it has published 2,062 papers, which have received 102,191 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Organization, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inManagement and Organizational Studies Gender Diversity and Inequality Management Theory and Practice Information Systems Theories and Implementation Labor Movements and Unions
ISSN1350-5084
Citation impact (2-yr)1.96
h-index154
i10-index1,230
Top institutions publishing hereCopenhagen Business School
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
You getA submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit.

Papers published in Organization per year

73
2014
93
2015
47
2016
74
2017
91
2018
82
2019
70
2020
71
2021
69
2022
84
2023
73
2024
84
2025

Citation impact of Organization by publication year

3.8K
2014
2.2K
2015
1.1K
2016
2.8K
2017
2.8K
2018
2.3K
2019
2.7K
2020
1.4K
2021
895
2022
733
2023
254
2024
114
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Organization

Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems

Étienne Wenger · 1 May 2000

This essay argues that the success of organizations depends on their ability to design themselves as social learning systems and also to participate in broader learning systems such as an industry, a region, or a consortium. It explores the structure of these social learning systems. It proposes a social definition of learning and distinguishes between…

4,203 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Identity Matters: Reflections on the Construction of Identity Scholarship in Organization Studies

Mats Alvesson, Karen Lee Ashcraft, Robyn Thomas · 11 Dec 2007

Key tensions underlying much of the identity literature; we foreground identity matters as encountered by individuals, understood as social; durability of identity; identity in its various conceptualizations offers creative ways to understand a range of organizational settings and phenomena while bridging the levels from micro to macro.

1,062 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Agency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of Individuals’ Social Position

Julie Battilana · 29 Aug 2006

Although early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront. Institutional entrepreneur-ship has been presented as a promising way to account for institutional change endogenously. However, this notion faces the paradox of embedded agency. To overcome this paradox, it is necessary…

Working at a Cynical Distance: Implications for Power, Subjectivity and Resistance

Peter Fleming, André Spicer · 1 Feb 2003

Subjectivity and power are important concepts for understanding corporate culture engineering in critical organization studies. Although recent research indicates that many workers do identify with the organization as a result of these management strategies, they have also shown that some workers resist through dis-identification, in particular cynicism. Managerialist literature views cynicism as a psychological defect…

Organization template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Organization format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Organization template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Organization use?
Organization uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Organization, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Organization?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Organization document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Organization template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Organization format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Organization?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Organization PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Organization template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Organization template cost?
You can start writing in the Organization template for free. Exporting the final submission-ready Organization PDF and LaTeX source is part of DocuGuru's paid plans — see the app for current pricing.
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