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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Edgar H. Schein: Reflections on his Life and Career	43
Enacting Leadership Legitimacy under Terms of Limited Formal and Informal Power in a Heterarchical Network of Organizations	37
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	34
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	33
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	33
Introversion in Leaders: Role-Congruent Leader Behavior and Thriving in Daily Working Life	24
How Empowerment Can Help to Reduce Change-Related Uncertainty in Young Employees	16
Working Alliance Theory in Workplace Coaching: A Pilot Study Exploring the Missing Role of the Organization	16
A Humble Giant: Reframing the Management Consulting Challenge	16
Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The “Receiver's” Perspective on Speaking Up	15
Collaborative Inquiry Fuelled by Reflexive Learning: Changing Change	14
Reflections on Ed Schein's Teachings	13
Organizational Changes in Adopting Agile Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review	13
Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When Employees are Coping with Traumatic Life Experiences: Implications for Positive Organizational Change	13
When Normal is Not Normal: A Theory of the Non-Linear and Discontinuous Process of Desired Change and its Managerial Implications	12
Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*	12
Family, Work, Collegial, and Emotional Influences on Problem-Focused Voice Behaviors	12
Honey, We Shrunk Our Impact: Social Impact in Organizational Research	11
How Situated Attentions Affect the Choices of Professional Service Managers in the Transition to Hybrid Work Arrangements	10
Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations	10
Career Anchors, Edgar Schein, and Me	10
A Qualitative Study of Competencies of Coaches That Predict Client Behavior Change	9
Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	8
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	8
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	7

Facilitating Change: The Role of Adaptability and LMX for Change Support	6
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	6
What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	6
A Retrospective Look at Coaching with Compassion: Two Decades of Research and Practice	6
Forward to the Past	6
Why Digital Transformation May Fail – And What Can Be Done About It	6
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	5
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
The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching	5
Gaining and Training a Digital Colleague: Employee Responses to Robotization	5
Erratum to Adapting to Frequent Changes: The Roles of Job Crafting and Personal Needs	5
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	5
Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change	5
A Compelling Beginning and More to Uncover	5
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations	5
Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry	5
Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research	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
“AI Can’t Steal My Soul”: In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is Paramount for the Craft of Managing Change	5
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
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services	4
Positioning and Fit in Designing and Executing Qualitative Research	4
Building Innovation Capacity	4
Navigating Conflicting Influences During Complex Strategic Changes: The Contribution of Diagnosis, Congruence, and Leadership	4
Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough)	4
Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?	4
Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility	3
What if Marie Kondo Wrote an Organizational Change Book? Making Space for Subtractive Change	3
Developing Teams in a Virtual Environment: A Generative Approach	3
How Employees Perceive Planned Organizational Change: Insights from a Workspace Change Project in the German Insurance Industry	3
Interiority in the Work of Edgar H. Schein: A Personal Reflection	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
Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence	3
Guiding Digital Transformation and Collaborative Knowledge Creation in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Through Action Research	3
Conceptualizing the Carrying Function of Community Advisory Boards	3
Organizational Implications of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology	3
Leader Tolerance of Ambiguity: Implications for Follower Performance Outcomes in High and Low Ambiguous Work Situations	3
Daily Self-Leadership and Playful Work Design: Proactive Approaches of Work in Times of Crisis	3
Of Definitions, Demarcation, and Disaggregation: Some Comments on the Dynamic Application of Diagnostic and Dialogic Organization Development	3
Institutional Pressures, High-Performance Work Systems, and Marketability: The Moderating Role of Organizational Inertia	3
Projecting Backward and Forward on Processes of Organizational Change and Innovation	3