OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Applied Behavioral Science is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Fields: Knowing the Water We Swim in	33
Reflecting Backward to Project Forward: Refocusing on Values in Organizational Change	31
Astronauts’ Sensemaking of Dangerous Beauty: An Account of the Overview Effect for Organizational Theory	27
Does Action Planning Create More Harm Than Good? Common Challenges in the Practice of Action Planning After Employee Surveys	26
Edgar H. Schein 1928–2023	21
Enacting Leadership Legitimacy under Terms of Limited Formal and Informal Power in a Heterarchical Network of Organizations	21
Edgar H. Schein: Reflections on his Life and Career	16
Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs	14
Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society	14
Organizational Values-Based Interventions and Common Good: A Multiple Case Study	13
Facilitating Change: The Role of Adaptability and LMX for Change Support	13
Conceptualizing the Carrying Function of Community Advisory Boards	13
Transition Pains: Recognizing Employee Reactions to Organizational Realignment in a Disruptive Context	12
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Generative Conversations: Contrasting Futures for Organizational Change?	11
Adapting to Frequent Changes: The Roles of Job Crafting and Personal Needs	11
Gaining and Training a Digital Colleague: Employee Responses to Robotization	11
Technology × Therapy: Forms of Organizing Work With Telehealth Within an Academic Health Center	11
Daily Job Crafting and Adaptive Performance During Organizational Change: The Moderating Role of Managers’ Influence Tactics	10
Leading Change Processes for Success: A Dynamic Application of Diagnostic and Dialogic Organization Development	10
Researching Green Process Innovation Across Borders and Boundaries Through Collaborative Inquiry	8
Mobilizing Professors’ Support of Digital Change: Multi-Level Insights on IT Resources as a Boundary Condition	8
Draw it, Check it, Change it: Reviving Lewin's Topology to Facilitate Organizational Change Theory and Practice	7
Generative AI, Innovation, and Trust	7
The Grand Challenge for Research on the Future of Coaching	7
Dynamics of Organizational Identification in the Wake of a Foreign Acquisition	6

What's in Your Bag? Scholars and Practioners Talk Together Differently	6
Forward to the Past	6
How and When job Security Reduces Resistance to Change in the Context of Organizational Change	6
Leaders as Coaches: Towards a Code of Ethics	6
Andy Van de Ven’s Wonderfully Full Life	5
Navigating Conflicting Influences During Complex Strategic Changes: The Contribution of Diagnosis, Congruence, and Leadership	5
Learning From Collaborative Action Research in Three Organizations: How Purpose Activates Change Agency	5
What AI Knows: Shaping Work and Pushing Ideas on Changing Organizations	5
The Application of Behavioral Insights into B2B Market Research	4
Positioning and Fit in Designing and Executing Qualitative Research	4
The Generative Change Model: Creating the Agile Organization While Dealing With a Complex Problem	4
Working Alliance Theory in Workplace Coaching: A Pilot Study Exploring the Missing Role of the Organization	4
The Effect of Evocative Frames on Strategic Decisions	4
Are We Stuck in the Predigital Age? Embracing Technology-Mediated Change Management in Organizational Change Research	4
Mutual Sense-Censoring, Generative Exploration, and Collaborative Change: A Case Study of Headquarters–Subsidiary Relationships in Asia	4
Dynamic Stereotyping Across Occupations. How Management Academics and Practitioners Negotiate the Knower-Doer Stereotype in Interaction	4
Project Forward! We Know Where Organization Change Has Been, But Where is it Headed?	4
Leveraging or Overcoming Distance? Global Strategy and Structure of Professional Services Firms	4