Denrell, J, Luukkonen, J., Chater, N, and C. Liu. "The Need For Absorptive Capacity Alleviates the Free-Rider Problem in Knowledge Production". Forthcoming, Management Science.
Christensen, M, Denrell, J, Knudsen, T, and C. Liu. (2025). "The Impact of Learning Modes and Learning Speeds on Mutual Learning". Forthcoming, Academy of Management Review,
Denrell, J ., Marengo, L., Romagnoli, M., and A. Zeijen. (2025) "Absolute, Average-based, and Rank-based Aspirations". Strategic Management Journal, 46(8): 1930:1946.
Denrell, J ., Sanborn, A., and J. Spicer. (2024). “Learning from Missing Feedback: Exemplar Versus Model-Based Methods”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(7): 1048–1080.
Denrell, J. Liu, C, and Maslach, D. (2023) "Underdogs and One-hit Wonders: When is Overcoming Adversity Impressive? " Management Science, 69(9): 5461–5481
Denrell, J., C. and C. Liu (2021). ”When Reinforcing Processes Generate an Outcome-Quality Dip.” Organization Science, 32 (4): 1079-1099
Rahmandad, H, Denrell, J., C. and D. Prelec (2020). "What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study." Strategic Management Journal, 42 (5), 865-897
Denrell, J., C. and B. Kovacs (2020). ”The Ecology of Management Concepts” Strategy Science, 5(4): 293-310. .
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens (2020). ”Revisiting the Competency Trap”. Industrial and Corporate Change, 29 (1), 183-205.
Denrell, J., C. Fang, and C. Liu (2019). ”In Search of Behavioral Opportunities from Misattributions of Luck.” Academy of Management Review, 44 (4), 896-905.
Le Mens, G., J. Denrell, B. Kovacs, & H. Karaman. (2018). ”Information Sampling, Judgment, and the Environment: Application to the Effect of Popularity on Evaluation.” Topics in Cognitive Science, 11 (2), 358-373. .
Denrell, J., Liu, C., and G. Le Mens (2017). When More Selection is Worse. Strategy Science, 2(1): 39-63.
Liu, C., Vlaev, I, Fang, C., Denrell, J., & Chater, N. (2017). Strategizing with biases: Engineering choice contexts for better decisions using Mindspace approach. California Management Review , 59(3): 135-161.
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens. (2017). Information Sampling, Belief Synchronization and Collective Illusions, Management Science, 63(2): 528-547.
Denrell, J. (2015) "Reference Dependent Risk Sensitivity as Rational Inference." Psychological Review, 122 (3), 461-484.
Denrell, J., C. Fang. and C. Liu (2015). "Chance Explanations in the Management Sciences." Organization Science, 26(3): 923-940.
Denrell, J. and B. Kovacs (2015). “Lessons from Unpopular Concepts and Practices: The Effect of Selection Bias in Studies of Fads and Fashions,” PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123471.
Denrell, J., C. Fang. and Z. Zhao (2013). "Inferring Superior Capabilities from Sustained Superior Performance: A Bayesian Analysis." Strategic Management Journal, 34(2): 182-196.
Denrell, J. and C. Liu (2012). “Top performers are not the most impressive when extreme performance indicates unreliability.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (24): 9331-9336.
Denrell, J. (2012). Mechanisms Generating Context Dependent Choices, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 36, 65-97.
Le Mens, G. and Denrell, J. (2011). “Rational Learning and Information Sampling: On the ‘Naivety’ Assumption in Sampling Explanations of Judgment Biases." Psychological Review, 118 (2): 379-392.
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens (2011). “Seeking Positive Experiences Can Produce Illusory Correlations”. Cognition, 119: 313-324.
Denrell, J. and C. Fang (2010). “Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment.” Management Science, 56(10): 1653-1667.
Denrell, J. and Z. Shapira (2009). “Performance Sampling and Bimodal Duration Dependence.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 33: 66-91.
Denrell, J. (2008). Perspective: Indirect Social Influence. Science, 321 (July 4): 47-48.
Denrell, J. and B. Kovacs (2008). “Selective Sampling of Empirical Settings in Organizational Studies.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 53 (March): 109-144.
Denrell, J. (2008). “Organizational Risk Taking: Adaptation versus Variable Risk Preferences.” Industrial and Corporate Change, 17 (3): 427-466.
Denrell, J. and G. Le Mens (2007). “Interdependent Sampling and Social Influence.” Psychological Review, 114 (2): 398-422.
Andersen, T, J. Denrell, and R. Bettis (2007). “Strategic Responsiveness and Bowman’s Risk-Return Paradox.” Strategic Management Journal, 28(4), 407-429.
Denrell, J. (2007). “Adaptive Learning and Risk Taking.” Psychological Review, 114 (1): 177-187.
Denrell, J. (2005). “Why Most People Disapprove of Me: Experience Sampling in Impression Formation”. Psychological Review, 112 (4), 951-978.
Denrell, J. (2005). “Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking”. Harvard Business Review, April, 2005, 114-119.
Denrell, J. (2005). “Should We Be Impressed with High Performance?” Journal of Management Inquiry, 14 (3), 292-298.
Denrell, J. (2004). “The Performance of Performance,” Journal of Management and Governance, 8 (4), 345-349.
Denrell, J, Arvidsson, N., and U. Zander (2004). “Managing Knowledge in the Dark: An Empirical Examination of the Reliability of Competency Evaluations.” Management Science, 50 (11), 1491-1503.
Denrell, J., C. Fang, and D. Levinthal (2004).“From T-Mazes to Labyrinths: Learning from Model-Based Feedback.” Management Science, 50 (10), 1366-1378.
Denrell, J. (2004). “Random Walks and Sustained Competitive Advantage.” Management Science, 50 (7): 922-934.
Denrell, J., C. Fang, and S. Winter (2003). “The Economics of Strategic Opportunity.” Strategic Management Journal, 24 (10): 977-990.
Denrell, J. (2003). “Vicarious Learning, Under-Sampling of Failure, and the Myths of Management,” Organization Science, 14 (3): 227-243. (Lead Article).
Denrell, J. and J. G. March (2001). “Adaptation as Information Restriction: The Hot Stove Effect,” Organization Science, 12 (5): 523-538. (Lead Article).
Denrell, J. (2000). “Radical Organization Theory: An Incomplete Contract Approach to Power and Organizational Design,” Rationality and Society, 12: 39-61.