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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Edgar H. Schein: Reflections on his Life and Career	52
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	45
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	33
Using Design Thinking to Develop a Capacity-Building Toolkit of Healthy Digital Relations in Schools	29
Enacting Leadership Legitimacy under Terms of Limited Formal and Informal Power in a Heterarchical Network of Organizations	29
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	25
Friends With (Workplace) Benefits: Support, Affect, Health, Performance, and Innovation Outcomes	22
Introversion in Leaders: Role-Congruent Leader Behavior and Thriving in Daily Working Life	19
Answering the Call: Reclaiming the Hero's Journey for Human Agency in an AI-dominated World	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
Managing Educational Change From a Theory of Planned Behavior and Nudge Perspective	15
Collaborative Inquiry Fuelled by Reflexive Learning: Changing Change	13
How Empowerment Can Help to Reduce Change-Related Uncertainty in Young Employees	12
Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The “Receiver's” Perspective on Speaking Up	12
Organizational Changes in Adopting Agile Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review	12
Reflections on Ed Schein's Teachings	10
The Silver Economy: A Business Perspective on the Aging Society	10
Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*	10
Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When Employees are Coping with Traumatic Life Experiences: Implications for Positive Organizational Change	10
Addressing Burnout: A Shift to the Progressive Work Model	10
Anchoring Reticence: Why Practitioners Shun the Final Stage of Planned Organizational Change	9
When Normal is Not Normal: A Theory of the Non-Linear and Discontinuous Process of Desired Change and its Managerial Implications	9
Career Anchors, Edgar Schein, and Me	9
Honey, We Shrunk Our Impact: Social Impact in Organizational Research	9

A Qualitative Study of Competencies of Coaches That Predict Client Behavior Change	8
Organizational Trauma Within Policing: A Case Study of the United Kingdom	8
Mapping Organization Development Mastery: The Design and Validation of an Organization Development Competency Framework and Assessment	8
How Situated Attentions Affect the Choices of Professional Service Managers in the Transition to Hybrid Work Arrangements	8
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	7
Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	7
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	7
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	7
What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	7
Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations	7
Facilitating Change: The Role of Adaptability and LMX for Change Support	7
A Retrospective Look at Coaching with Compassion: Two Decades of Research and Practice	7
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	6
The Effect of Positive Management Practices on Firm Profitability – Evidence from Text Mining	6
Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning from Success	6
The Space in Between: Leveraging the Liminal Nature of Change	6
Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change	6
Why Digital Transformation May Fail – And What Can Be Done About It	6
Behaviorally Informed Organization Development: Integrating Counseling Theories to OD Practices	6
Quantum/AI Fluency: USE Pathways for Leading Digital Transformation	5
Are We Really Studying Organizational Change? Next Steps in Moving Forward	5
Living on the Coach-Consultant Hyphen: Reflections on a Hybrid Program for Women Entrepreneurs	5
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations	4
“AI Can’t Steal My Soul”: In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is Paramount for the Craft of Managing Change	4
Amplify or Suppress? Top Leader Perspective on External Stakeholders' Influence on Organizational Change Outcomes	4
The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: A Case of Role Reversal	3
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services	3
Navigating Conflicting Influences During Complex Strategic Changes: The Contribution of Diagnosis, Congruence, and Leadership	3
Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?	3
Building Innovation Capacity	3
Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry	3
Organizational Implications of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology	3
Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough)	3
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	3
Looking for Guidance? Five Principles for Leveraging Tensions in Corporate–Startup Collaboration	2
Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence	2
Conceptualizing the Carrying Function of Community Advisory Boards	2
Guiding Digital Transformation and Collaborative Knowledge Creation in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Through Action Research	2
Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility	2
Institutional Pressures, High-Performance Work Systems, and Marketability: The Moderating Role of Organizational Inertia	2
Astronauts’ Sensemaking of Dangerous Beauty: An Account of the Overview Effect for Organizational Theory	2
Interiority in the Work of Edgar H. Schein: A Personal Reflection	2
How Employees Perceive Planned Organizational Change: Insights from a Workspace Change Project in the German Insurance Industry	2
Exploring the Contribution of Action Learning to Transdisciplinary Research	2
Draw it, Check it, Change it: Reviving Lewin's Topology to Facilitate Organizational Change Theory and Practice	2