OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Edgar H. Schein: Reflections on his Life and Career	41
Enacting Leadership Legitimacy under Terms of Limited Formal and Informal Power in a Heterarchical Network of Organizations	33
Adapting to Frequent Changes: The Roles of Job Crafting and Personal Needs	31
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	30
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	27
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	20
Introversion in Leaders: Role-Congruent Leader Behavior and Thriving in Daily Working Life	16
A Humble Giant: Reframing the Management Consulting Challenge	16
Working Alliance Theory in Workplace Coaching: A Pilot Study Exploring the Missing Role of the Organization	15
Organizational Changes in Adopting Agile Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review	14
How Empowerment Can Help to Reduce Change-Related Uncertainty in Young Employees	14
Collaborative Inquiry Fuelled by Reflexive Learning: Changing Change	13
Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The “Receiver's” Perspective on Speaking Up	13
Reflections on Ed Schein's Teachings	12
Family, Work, Collegial, and Emotional Influences on Problem-Focused Voice Behaviors	12
Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When Employees are Coping with Traumatic Life Experiences: Implications for Positive Organizational Change	12
When Normal is Not Normal: A Theory of the Non-Linear and Discontinuous Process of Desired Change and its Managerial Implications	12
Career Anchors, Edgar Schein, and Me	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
Honey, We Shrunk Our Impact: Social Impact in Organizational Research	11
A Qualitative Study of Competencies of Coaches That Predict Client Behavior Change	9
How Situated Attentions Affect the Choices of Professional Service Managers in the Transition to Hybrid Work Arrangements	9
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	9
Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations	9
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	8

What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	6
Facilitating Change: The Role of Adaptability and LMX for Change Support	6
Why Digital Transformation May Fail – And What Can Be Done About It	6
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	6
Forward to the Past	6
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	6
Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	6
Living on the Coach-Consultant Hyphen: Reflections on a Hybrid Program for Women Entrepreneurs	5
Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research	5
Erratum to Adapting to Frequent Changes: The Roles of Job Crafting and Personal Needs	5
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations	5
Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change	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
Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning from Success	5
The Effect of Positive Management Practices on Firm Profitability – Evidence from Text Mining	5
Amplify or Suppress? Top Leader Perspective on External Stakeholders' Influence on Organizational Change Outcomes	5
Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough)	4
Gaining and Training a Digital Colleague: Employee Responses to Robotization	4
Dynamics of Organizational Identification in the Wake of a Foreign Acquisition	4
Building Innovation Capacity	4
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	4
The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching	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
Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry	4
Navigating Conflicting Influences During Complex Strategic Changes: The Contribution of Diagnosis, Congruence, and Leadership	4
Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?	3
The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: A Case of Role Reversal	3
Organizational Implications of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology	3
Guiding Digital Transformation and Collaborative Knowledge Creation in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Through Action Research	3
Looking for Guidance? Five Principles for Leveraging Tensions in Corporate–Startup Collaboration	3
Projecting Backward and Forward on Processes of Organizational Change and Innovation	3
Interiority in the Work of Edgar H. Schein: A Personal Reflection	3
Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility	3
Of Definitions, Demarcation, and Disaggregation: Some Comments on the Dynamic Application of Diagnostic and Dialogic Organization Development	3
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services	3
Daily Self-Leadership and Playful Work Design: Proactive Approaches of Work in Times of Crisis	3
Leader Tolerance of Ambiguity: Implications for Follower Performance Outcomes in High and Low Ambiguous Work Situations	3
Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence	3
Developing Teams in a Virtual Environment: A Generative Approach	3
Astronauts’ Sensemaking of Dangerous Beauty: An Account of the Overview Effect for Organizational Theory	2
Conceptualizing the Carrying Function of Community Advisory Boards	2
Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society	2
Draw it, Check it, Change it: Reviving Lewin's Topology to Facilitate Organizational Change Theory and Practice	2
How Employees Perceive Planned Organizational Change: Insights from a Workspace Change Project in the German Insurance Industry	2
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Generative Conversations: Contrasting Futures for Organizational Change?	2
Learning From Collaborative Action Research in Three Organizations: How Purpose Activates Change Agency	2
The Application of Behavioral Insights into B2B Market Research	2
Institutional Pressures, High-Performance Work Systems, and Marketability: The Moderating Role of Organizational Inertia	2

What if Marie Kondo Wrote an Organizational Change Book? Making Space for Subtractive Change	2
Leveraging or Overcoming Distance? Global Strategy and Structure of Professional Services Firms	2