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Management and Organizational Studies

Management and Organizational Studies is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on institutional theory, organizational change, and the dynamics of institutions within organizations. It explores topics such as institutional entrepreneurship, sensemaking, identity work, institutional logics, professionalism, organizational identity, social movements, and market dynamics.

  • Institutional Theory
  • Organizational Change
  • Institutional Entrepreneurship
  • Sensemaking
  • Identity Work
  • Institutional Logics
  • Professionalism
  • Organizational Identity
  • Social Movements
  • Market Dynamics
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Management and Organizational Studies

Which countries lead Management and Organizational Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 803 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 803 works
  3. 3 France 422 works
  4. 4 Germany 319 works
  5. 5 Canada 298 works
  6. 6 China 283 works
  7. 7 Australia 265 works
  8. 8 Denmark 247 works
  9. 9 Brazil 236 works
  10. 10 Italy 207 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.

United States: 29.4%United Kingdom: 18.4%France: 9.7%Germany: 7.3%6 others listed: 35.2%29%largest
United States1,284 · 29.4%United Kingdom803 · 18.4%France422 · 9.7%Germany319 · 7.3%6 others listed1,537 · 35.2%

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

Which institutions lead Management and Organizational Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Copenhagen Business School publishes the most Management and Organizational Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aalborg University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 93 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 51 works
  3. 3 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 42 works
  4. 4 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 37 works
  5. 5 Aalto UniversityFinland 34 works
  6. 6 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 33 works
  7. 7 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 32 works
  8. 8 HEC MontréalCanada 28 works
  9. 9 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 27 works
  10. 10 Lund UniversitySweden 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Management and Organizational Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Management and Organizational Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Charles D.A. Wolfe and Anselm L. Strauss.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Charles D.A. Wolfe United Kingdom 211k citations
  3. 3 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  4. 4 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  5. 5 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  6. 6 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  7. 7 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  8. 8 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k 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 Studies?

The most cited paper in Management and Organizational Studies is "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields" (Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell, 1983), with 37,882 citations. Next come "Building Theories from Case Study Research" (23,256) and "Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges" (16,535).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell · American Sociological Review Apr 1983 37,882
2 Building Theories from Case Study Research Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review Open access Oct 1989 23,256
3 Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Melissa E. Graebner · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2007 16,535
4 Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm Robert M. Grant · Strategic Management Journal Dec 1996 16,054
5 Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research Dennis A. Gioia, Kevin G. Corley, Aimee L. Hamilton · Organizational Research Methods 24 Jul 2012 12,886
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Where is Management and Organizational Studies research done?

The largest centres of Management and Organizational Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Copenhagen (Denmark), Paris (France) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Roskilde.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 142 works
  2. 2 CopenhagenDenmark 113 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 107 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 70 works
  5. 5 MontrealCanada 63 works
  6. 6 OsloNorway 61 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 60 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 57 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 53 works
  10. 10 AmsterdamNetherlands 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RoskildeDK · 25.4 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, HEC Montréal and Aalto 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%20%40%mean 20.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City, University of …Aalto UniversityVrije Universiteit A…HEC Montréal
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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
1Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 61.018.3%14.6×33 +2.5%
2HEC MontréalCanada 58.711.8%101.8×28 +8.4%
3Aalto UniversityFinland 58.119.2%20.3×34 -15.4%
4City, University of LondonUnited Kingdom 57.138.5%16.4×9 -60.7%
5Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 57.012.3%102.8×93 -19.5%
6Leuphana University of LüneburgGermany 56.325.0%31.7×13 +77.9%
7Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 55.421.5%9.3×27 -26.6%
8University of BathUnited Kingdom 55.020.8%15.2×20 -6.6%
9University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 53.914.9%12.5×32 -15.5%
10The University of MelbourneAustralia 52.718.0%3.1×19 +15.8%

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 Studies, country by country

Is Management and Organizational Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Management and Organizational Studies0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Management and Organizational Studies 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%Management and Organizational Studies10.6% 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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