OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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	39
Using Design Thinking to Develop a Capacity-Building Toolkit of Healthy Digital Relations in Schools	34
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	32
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	24
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	24
Introversion in Leaders: Role-Congruent Leader Behavior and Thriving in Daily Working Life	22
Answering the Call: Reclaiming the Hero's Journey for Human Agency in an AI-dominated World	20
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
How Empowerment Can Help to Reduce Change-Related Uncertainty in Young Employees	14
Managing Educational Change From a Theory of Planned Behavior and Nudge Perspective	13
Building a Workplace-Based Learning Culture: The “Receiver's” Perspective on Speaking Up	12
Organizational Changes in Adopting Agile Approaches: A Systematic Literature Review	11
When Normal is Not Normal: A Theory of the Non-Linear and Discontinuous Process of Desired Change and its Managerial Implications	10
Collaborative Inquiry Fuelled by Reflexive Learning: Changing Change	10
Sensemaking and Creativity at Work When Employees are Coping with Traumatic Life Experiences: Implications for Positive Organizational Change	9
Addressing Burnout: A Shift to the Progressive Work Model	9
Reflections on Ed Schein's Teachings	9
Career Anchors, Edgar Schein, and Me	8
Honey, We Shrunk Our Impact: Social Impact in Organizational Research	8
Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*	8
How Situated Attentions Affect the Choices of Professional Service Managers in the Transition to Hybrid Work Arrangements	8
The Silver Economy: A Business Perspective on the Aging Society	8
Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	7

A Qualitative Study of Competencies of Coaches That Predict Client Behavior Change	7
Organizational Trauma Within Policing: A Case Study of the United Kingdom	7
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	7
Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations	7
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	7
Mapping Organization Development Mastery: The Design and Validation of an Organization Development Competency Framework and Assessment	7
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
A Retrospective Look at Coaching with Compassion: Two Decades of Research and Practice	6
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	6
What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	6
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	6
“AI Can’t Steal My Soul”: In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is Paramount for the Craft of Managing Change	5
Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change	5
Living on the Coach-Consultant Hyphen: Reflections on a Hybrid Program for Women Entrepreneurs	5
The Effect of Positive Management Practices on Firm Profitability – Evidence from Text Mining	5
Unpacking “Sense of Place” and “Place-making” in Organization Studies: A Toolkit for Place-sensitive Research	5
Behaviorally Informed Organization Development: Integrating Counseling Theories to OD Practices	5
Designed Organizational Search: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Procedures for Learning from Success	5
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations	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
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	4
Amplify or Suppress? Top Leader Perspective on External Stakeholders' Influence on Organizational Change Outcomes	4
Dynamics of Organizational Identification in the Wake of a Foreign Acquisition	4
The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching	4
Positioning and Fit in Designing and Executing Qualitative Research	4
Organizational Implications of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology	3
Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough)	3
The Harwood Manufacturing Corporation and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: A Case of Role Reversal	3
Building Innovation Capacity	3
Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?	3
From Near and Far: On the Role of Distance in Changing Professional Services	3
Augmenting Organizational Change and Strategy Activities: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence	2
Looking for Guidance? Five Principles for Leveraging Tensions in Corporate–Startup Collaboration	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
Interiority in the Work of Edgar H. Schein: A Personal Reflection	2
Draw it, Check it, Change it: Reviving Lewin's Topology to Facilitate Organizational Change Theory and Practice	1
Astronauts’ Sensemaking of Dangerous Beauty: An Account of the Overview Effect for Organizational Theory	1
Conceptualizing the Carrying Function of Community Advisory Boards	1
Generative AI Beyond the Hype—New Technologies in the Face of Organizing and Organizations	1
Promoting or Preventing? The Influence of Artificial Intelligence Awareness on Employee Job Crafting	1
Relationships That Matter: Four Perspectives on AI, Work, and Organizations	1
Learning From Collaborative Action Research in Three Organizations: How Purpose Activates Change Agency	1
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Generative Conversations: Contrasting Futures for Organizational Change?	1
How Employees Perceive Planned Organizational Change: Insights from a Workspace Change Project in the German Insurance Industry	1
The Application of Behavioral Insights into B2B Market Research	1
Designing the Collaborative Organization: A Framework for how Collaborative Work, Relationships, and Behaviors Generate Collaborative Capacity	1
Facilitating Collaboration for Responsible Management Education: Voluntary Brokerage in the PRME Network	1

The How and Why of Organizational Resilience: A Mixed-Methods Study on Facilitators and Consequences of Organizational Resilience Throughout a Crisis	1
Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society	1
Institutional Pressures, High-Performance Work Systems, and Marketability: The Moderating Role of Organizational Inertia	1
Leveraging or Overcoming Distance? Global Strategy and Structure of Professional Services Firms	1
Exploring the Contribution of Action Learning to Transdisciplinary Research	1
Building Trust Through Action Learning in An Uncertain Transorganizational Context	1
When Growth Strategies Harm: How to Prevent Ethical Blindness in Market Expansion	1
The AI Imperative: On Becoming Quintessentially Human	1