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Corporate Management and Leadership

Corporate Management and Leadership is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and opportunities related to organizational change in the context of digital transformation, leadership, agility, and socio-technical systems. It delves into topics such as generation management, workplace flexibility, innovation ecosystems, and employability management, reflecting the evolving nature of work and organizations in the digital era.

  • Organizational Change
  • Digital Transformation
  • Leadership
  • Agility
  • Socio-Technical Systems
  • Generation Management
  • Workplace Flexibility
  • Employee Engagement
  • Innovation Ecosystems
  • Employability Management
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Corporate Management and Leadership

Which countries lead Corporate Management and Leadership research?

By volume, Germany and Switzerland publish the most (2.7k and 234 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.7k works
  2. 2 Switzerland 234 works
  3. 3 Austria 200 works
  4. 4 United States 143 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 56 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 23 works
  7. 7 India 21 works
  8. 8 China 18 works
  9. 9 France 17 works
  10. 10 Italy 15 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 78.5%Switzerland: 6.9%Austria: 5.9%United States: 4.2%6 others listed: 4.5%78%largest
Germany2,656 · 78.5%Switzerland234 · 6.9%Austria200 · 5.9%United States143 · 4.2%6 others listed151 · 4.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Corporate Management and Leadership research?

By volume in 2022-now, München Klinik publishes the most Corporate Management and Leadership research, followed by IU International University of Applied Sciences and TU Dortmund University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 München KlinikGermany 72 works
  2. 2 IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 46 works
  3. 3 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 46 works
  4. 4 FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 41 works
  5. 5 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 33 works
  6. 6 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 32 works
  7. 7 Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied SciencesGermany 30 works
  8. 8 Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsSwitzerland 27 works
  9. 9 University of MünsterGermany 27 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Corporate Management and Leadership?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corporate Management and Leadership include Florian Fischer, Ronald Klein and Herbert A. Simon.

  1. 1 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  2. 2 Ronald Klein United States 214k citations
  3. 3 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  4. 4 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations
  5. 5 J. -P. Meyer United Kingdom 136k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Corporate Management and Leadership?

The most cited paper in Corporate Management and Leadership is "Change Through Digitization—Value Creation in the Age of Industry 4.0" (Henning Kagermann, 2014), with 834 citations. Next come "Discriminating Between ‘Meaningful Work’ and the ‘Management of Meaning’" (419) and "Training in Organizations" (400).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Change Through Digitization—Value Creation in the Age of Industry 4.0 Henning Kagermann Book chapter 9 Dec 2014 834
2 Discriminating Between ‘Meaningful Work’ and the ‘Management of Meaning’ Marjolein Lips‐Wiersma, Lani Morris · Journal of Business Ethics 24 Aug 2009 419
3 Training in Organizations Mike C. Smith Book chapter 1991 400
4 Macro Organizational Behavior Robert T. Golembiewski, Robert H. Miles · Academy of Management Review Oct 1980 366
5 Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste Tom Costello, Phillip A. Laplante · IT Professional May 2009 362
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Corporate Management and Leadership research done?

The largest centres of Corporate Management and Leadership research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Stuttgart (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gelsenkirchen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 205 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 187 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 122 works
  4. 4 StuttgartGermany 97 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 94 works
  6. 6 EssenGermany 84 works
  7. 7 CologneGermany 78 works
  8. 8 DortmundGermany 70 works
  9. 9 DüsseldorfGermany 62 works
  10. 10 MünsterGermany 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GelsenkirchenDE · 22.2 works198×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corporate Management and Leadership than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corporate Management and Leadership?

Among universities, judged by research, Bielefeld University, TU Dortmund University and IU International University of Applied Sciences score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universität HamburgBielefeld UniversityTU Dortmund UniversityIU International Uni…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Bielefeld UniversityGermany 71.312.0%45.9×32 +44.4%
2TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 68.210.5%60.1×46 +277.7%
3IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 64.49.6%348.8×46 +110.6%
4Universität HamburgGermany 64.218.4%9.5×21 +10.6%
5FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 61.89.0%351.8×41 +56.8%
6University of BremenGermany 60.614.3%31.4×23 +41.2%
7University of MünsterGermany 60.414.5%21.1×27 +12.2%
8Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsSwitzerland 60.213.0%186.3×27 +63.7%
9University of KasselGermany 58.08.7%50.4×24 +46.6%
10Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany 57.822.2%22.5×12 +46.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Corporate Management and Leadership, country by country

Is Corporate Management and Leadership research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Corporate Management and Leadership.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Corporate Management and Leadership as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Corporate Management and Leadership0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Corporate Management and Leadership over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Corporate Management and Leadership9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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