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Management and Organizational Practices

Management and Organizational Practices is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 covers topics related to strategic management, organizational culture, competitiveness, leadership, knowledge management, innovation, human resources management, corporate social responsibility, and business strategy. It explores the intersection of these areas and their impact on organizational success and effectiveness.

  • Strategic Management
  • Organizational Culture
  • Competitiveness
  • Leadership
  • Knowledge Management
  • Innovation
  • Human Resources Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Business Strategy
  • Empowerment
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Management and Organizational Practices

Which countries lead Management and Organizational Practices research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (808 and 44 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 808 works
  2. 2 Russia 44 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 35 works
  4. 4 United States 26 works
  5. 5 Slovakia 8 works
  6. 6 Germany 8 works
  7. 7 Czechia 7 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 7 works
  9. 9 ?? 6 works
  10. 10 Romania 6 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.

Poland: 84.7%Russia: 4.6%Ukraine: 3.6%United States: 2.7%6 others listed: 4.4%85%largest
Poland808 · 84.7%Russia44 · 4.6%Ukraine35 · 3.6%United States26 · 2.7%6 others listed42 · 4.4%

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

Which institutions lead Management and Organizational Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Management and Organizational Practices research, followed by University of Warsaw and Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 37 works
  2. 2 University of WarsawPoland 30 works
  3. 3 Wroclaw University of Economics and BusinessPoland 29 works
  4. 4 University of ŁódźPoland 28 works
  5. 5 Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 27 works
  6. 6 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 27 works
  7. 7 University of Economics in KatowicePoland 24 works
  8. 8 Krakow University of EconomicsPoland 22 works
  9. 9 SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 21 works
  10. 10 Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w CiechanowiePoland 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Management and Organizational Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Management and Organizational Practices include Maciej Banach.

  1. 1 Maciej Banach Poland 204k 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 Management and Organizational Practices?

The most cited paper in Management and Organizational Practices is "Networks: Between markets and hierarchies" (Hans B. Thorelli, 1986), with 2,240 citations. Next come "Bringing business clusters into the mainstream of economic development" (768) and "The central role of human resource management in the search for sustainable organizations" (639).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Networks: Between markets and hierarchies Hans B. Thorelli · Strategic Management Journal 1986 2,240
2 Bringing business clusters into the mainstream of economic development Stuart A. Rosenfeld · European Planning Studies Feb 1997 768
3 The central role of human resource management in the search for sustainable organizations Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour, Fernando César Almada Santos · The International Journal of Human Resource Management Open access Dec 2008 639
4 How global brands compete. Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, Earl L. Taylor · PubMed Sep 2004 618
5 E-HRM: Innovation or Irritation. An Explorative Empirical Study in Five Large Companies on Web-based HRM Huub J.M. Ruël, Tanya V. Bondarouk, Jan Kees Looise · management revue Open access 2004 437
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Where is Management and Organizational Practices research done?

The largest centres of Management and Organizational Practices research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Wrocław (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Częstochowa, Rzeszów and Białystok.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 171 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 109 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 53 works
  4. 4 WrocławPoland 53 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 47 works
  6. 6 KatowicePoland 38 works
  7. 7 LublinPoland 33 works
  8. 8 CzęstochowaPoland 31 works
  9. 9 RzeszówPoland 29 works
  10. 10 GdańskPoland 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CzęstochowaPL · 30.6 works244×
  2. RzeszówPL · 28.6 works109×
  3. BiałystokPL · 20.9 works87×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Management and Organizational Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, AGH University of Krakow, Częstochowa University of Technology and Jagiellonian University score highest, combining 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%30%mean 13.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →AGH University of Kr…Częstochowa Universi…Nicolaus Copernicus …Jagiellonian Univers…
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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.

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
1AGH University of KrakowPoland 53.027.8%28.3×10 -47.7%
2Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 50.611.8%348.3×27 -54.9%
3Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 50.46.4%63.2×37 -39.9%
4Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 49.711.5%93.0×19 -38.9%
5University of WarsawPoland 48.08.4%67.0×30 -40.0%
6Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 47.619.6%44.7×10 -70.7%
7Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 45.016.8%147.6×10 +33.6%
8University of ŁódźPoland 44.77.3%115.3×28 -62.4%
9Bialystok University of TechnologyPoland 42.015.9%143.8×9 -67.0%
10Krakow University of EconomicsPoland 39.68.8%406.7×22 -76.4%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Management and Organizational Practices, country by country

Is Management and Organizational Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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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 Management and Organizational Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0054% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Management and Organizational Practices0.0034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Management and Organizational Practices 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 counting10%20%Management and Organizational Practices9.7% 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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