Charles Perrow

Active 1961–2016

Also published as
CHARLES PERROW
29
Papers
26,473
Citations
27
h-index
27
i10-index

Citations

Citations per year for Charles Perrow1963: 1 citations1968: 1 citations1969: 3 citations1970: 1 citations1971: 3 citations1972: 11 citations1973: 5 citations1974: 4 citations1975: 9 citations1976: 11 citations1977: 15 citations1978: 14 citations1979: 17 citations1980: 26 citations1981: 9 citations1982: 31 citations1983: 36 citations1984: 31 citations1985: 33 citations1986: 36 citations1987: 43 citations1988: 36 citations1989: 37 citations1990: 63 citations1991: 63 citations1992: 61 citations1993: 66 citations1994: 61 citations1995: 88 citations1996: 93 citations1997: 83 citations1998: 93 citations1999: 93 citations2000: 102 citations2001: 104 citations2002: 109 citations2003: 143 citations2004: 168 citations2005: 190 citations2006: 161 citations2007: 182 citations2008: 191 citations2009: 182 citations2010: 158 citations2011: 144 citations2012: 143 citations2013: 110 citations2014: 137 citations2015: 131 citations2016: 97 citations2017: 108 citations2018: 90 citations2019: 150 citations2020: 137 citations2021: 110 citations2022: 50 citations2023: 47 citations2024: 54 citations2025: 27 citations2026: 3 citations1964–1967: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,598 citing papers, 41.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 403 citing papers, 10.5% of this breakdownCanada: 233 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownAustralia: 176 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 123 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownGermany: 112 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownNorway: 110 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSweden: 98 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownFrance: 97 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownItaly: 88 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 62 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdownDenmark: 61 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
0%41.7%Other 17.6%

Fields

  • Business, Management and Accounting28.7%
  • Social Sciences22.7%
  • Health Professions12.7%
  • Decision Sciences10%
  • Computer Science9.6%
  • Engineering4.4%
  • Other11.9%

Topics

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management4.5%
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research4.4%
  • Management and Organizational Studies3.8%
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making3.5%
  • Risk and Safety Analysis3%
  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation2.4%
  • Other78.4%

Coauthors

All papers

Open in search
  1. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.

    Authors: , - Administrative Science Quarterly 1984 cited by 2,903

  2. A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations

    Authors: - American Sociological Review 1967 cited by 2,523

  3. Normal Accidents

    Authors: - Princeton University Press eBooks 2000 cited by 424

  4. Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies

    Authors: , - Academy of Management Review 1985 cited by 5,008

  5. Organizing to Reduce the Vulnerabilities of Complexity

    Authors: - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 1999 cited by 218

  6. Normal accident at three Mile Island

    Authors: - Society 1981 cited by 134

  7. Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition

    Authors: - 2011 cited by 105

  8. Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations.

    Authors: , , - Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews 1977 cited by 2,742

  9. Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972)

    Authors: , - American Sociological Review 1977 cited by 941

  10. The Organizational Context of Human Factors Engineering

    Authors: - Administrative Science Quarterly 1983 cited by 318

  11. Organizational Prestige: Some Functions and Dysfunctions

    Authors: - American Journal of Sociology 1961 cited by 222

  12. The Limits of Safety: The Enhancement of a Theory of Accidents

    Authors: - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 1994 cited by 215

  13. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.

    Authors: , - Social Forces 1973 cited by 2,164

  14. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay.

    Authors: , - Industrial and Labor Relations Review 1974 cited by 1,712

  15. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

    Authors: , - Technology and Culture 1986 cited by 86

  16. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

    Authors: , - Teaching Sociology 1990 cited by 2,200

  17. Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View

    Authors: - Medical Entomology and Zoology 1970 cited by 857

  18. Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View.

    Authors: , - Social Forces 1971 cited by 664

  19. The Analysis of Goals in Complex Organizations

    Authors: - American Sociological Review 1961 cited by 591

  20. A society of organizations

    Authors: - Theory and Society 1991 cited by 544

  21. The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Sociology

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Journal of Economic Literature 2016 cited by 343

  22. Economic theories of organization

    Authors: - Theory and Society 1986 cited by 324

  23. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    Authors: , - Academy of Management Review 2003 cited by 321

  24. Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay.

    Authors: , - Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews 1975 cited by 318