OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Edgar H. Schein: Reflections on his Life and Career	38
Enacting Leadership Legitimacy under Terms of Limited Formal and Informal Power in a Heterarchical Network of Organizations	35
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	34
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	34
Using Design Thinking to Develop a Capacity-Building Toolkit of Healthy Digital Relations in Schools	26
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	17
Working Alliance Theory in Workplace Coaching: A Pilot Study Exploring the Missing Role of the Organization	16
Introversion in Leaders: Role-Congruent Leader Behavior and Thriving in Daily Working Life	16
Organizational Changes in Adopting Agile Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review	15
Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The “Receiver's” Perspective on Speaking Up	15
A Humble Giant: Reframing the Management Consulting Challenge	15
Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When Employees are Coping with Traumatic Life Experiences: Implications for Positive Organizational Change	13
How Empowerment Can Help to Reduce Change-Related Uncertainty in Young Employees	13
Collaborative Inquiry Fuelled by Reflexive Learning: Changing Change	13
Reflections on Ed Schein's Teachings	12
When Normal is Not Normal: A Theory of the Non-Linear and Discontinuous Process of Desired Change and its Managerial Implications	12
Addressing Burnout: A Shift to the Progressive Work Model	11
Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*	11
Family, Work, Collegial, and Emotional Influences on Problem-Focused Voice Behaviors	11
Honey, We Shrunk Our Impact: Social Impact in Organizational Research	10
Career Anchors, Edgar Schein, and Me	9
How Situated Attentions Affect the Choices of Professional Service Managers in the Transition to Hybrid Work Arrangements	8
Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations	8
A Qualitative Study of Competencies of Coaches That Predict Client Behavior Change	8
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	7

Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	7
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	6
A Retrospective Look at Coaching with Compassion: Two Decades of Research and Practice	6
Why Digital Transformation May Fail – And What Can Be Done About It	6
Forward to the Past	6
Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research	6
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	6
Facilitating Change: The Role of Adaptability and LMX for Change Support	6
What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	6
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	6
Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning from Success	5
Living on the Coach-Consultant Hyphen: Reflections on a Hybrid Program for Women Entrepreneurs	5
Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry	5
Gaining and Training a Digital Colleague: Employee Responses to Robotization	5
The Effect of Positive Management Practices on Firm Profitability – Evidence from Text Mining	5
A Compelling Beginning and More to Uncover	5
“AI Can’t Steal My Soul”: In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is Paramount for the Craft of Managing Change	5
Erratum to Adapting to Frequent Changes: The Roles of Job Crafting and Personal Needs	5
Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change	5
Amplify or Suppress? Top Leader Perspective on External Stakeholders' Influence on Organizational Change Outcomes	5
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations	5
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	4
Navigating Conflicting Influences During Complex Strategic Changes: The Contribution of Diagnosis, Congruence, and Leadership	4
The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching	4
Dynamics of Organizational Identification in the Wake of a Foreign Acquisition	4
Are We Stuck in the Predigital Age? Embracing Technology-Mediated Change Management in Organizational Change Research	4
Positioning and Fit in Designing and Executing Qualitative Research	4
Guiding Digital Transformation and Collaborative Knowledge Creation in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Through Action Research	3
Building Innovation Capacity	3
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services	3
Developing Teams in a Virtual Environment: A Generative Approach	3
Interiority in the Work of Edgar H. Schein: A Personal Reflection	3
Of Definitions, Demarcation, and Disaggregation: Some Comments on the Dynamic Application of Diagnostic and Dialogic Organization Development	3
Daily Self-Leadership and Playful Work Design: Proactive Approaches of Work in Times of Crisis	3
Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?	3
Organizational Implications of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology	3
Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility	3
Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence	3
Leader Tolerance of Ambiguity: Implications for Follower Performance Outcomes in High and Low Ambiguous Work Situations	3
Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough)	3
Projecting Backward and Forward on Processes of Organizational Change and Innovation	3
The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: A Case of Role Reversal	3
Looking for Guidance? Five Principles for Leveraging Tensions in Corporate–Startup Collaboration	3