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Management Theory and Practice

Management Theory and Practice is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution of management theories and practices, encompassing topics such as the Hawthorne Studies, scientific management, organizational learning, human relations, Taylorism, innovation, agency theory, industrial psychology, organizational behavior, and management education.

  • Hawthorne Studies
  • Scientific Management
  • Organizational Learning
  • Human Relations
  • Taylorism
  • Innovation
  • Agency Theory
  • Industrial Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Management Education
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
929
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Management Theory and Practice

Which countries lead Management Theory and Practice research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (191 and 71 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 191 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 71 works
  3. 3 France 59 works
  4. 4 China 55 works
  5. 5 India 53 works
  6. 6 Canada 31 works
  7. 7 Germany 29 works
  8. 8 Australia 26 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 24 works
  10. 10 Japan 23 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: 34.0%United Kingdom: 12.5%France: 10.5%China: 9.7%6 others listed: 33.3%34%largest
United States191 · 34.0%United Kingdom71 · 12.5%France59 · 10.5%China55 · 9.7%6 others listed187 · 33.3%

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

Which institutions lead Management Theory and Practice research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chuo UniversityJapan 8 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  3. 3 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 6 works
  4. 4 Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 6 works
  5. 5 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 4 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 4 works
  7. 7 Renmin University of ChinaChina 4 works
  8. 8 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 3 works
  9. 9 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 3 works
  10. 10 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Management Theory and Practice?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Management Theory and Practice include Michael C. Jensen, Herbert A. Simon and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt.

  1. 1 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  2. 2 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt United States 169k citations
  4. 4 Philip M. Podsakoff United States 164k citations
  5. 5 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k citations
  6. 6 Richard P. Bagozzi United States 148k 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 Theory and Practice?

The most cited paper in Management Theory and Practice is "Motivation through the design of work: test of a theory" (J. Richard Hackman, Greg R. Oldham, 1976), with 8,932 citations. Next come "A Paradigm for Developing Better Measures of Marketing Constructs" (8,415) and "THE PEOPLE MAKE THE PLACE" (4,529).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Motivation through the design of work: test of a theory J. Richard Hackman, Greg R. Oldham · Organizational Behavior and Human Performance Aug 1976 8,932
2 A Paradigm for Developing Better Measures of Marketing Constructs Gilbert A. Churchill · Journal of Marketing Research Feb 1979 8,415
3 THE PEOPLE MAKE THE PLACE Benjamin Schneider · Personnel Psychology Sep 1987 4,529
4 Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change Martha S. Feldman, Brian T. Pentland · Administrative Science Quarterly Open access Mar 2003 3,995
5 MODES OF THEORIZING IN STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: TESTS OF UNIVERSALISTIC, CONTINGENCY, AND CONFIGURATIONS. PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS. John E. Delery, D. Harold Doty · Academy of Management Journal Aug 1996 3,698
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Where is Management Theory and Practice research done?

The largest centres of Management Theory and Practice research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 16 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 13 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 HachiōjiJapan 8 works
  6. 6 CopenhagenDenmark 7 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 7 works
  8. 8 CanberraAustralia 5 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 5 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 5 works
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Is Management Theory and Practice research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Management Theory and Practice as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Management Theory and Practice 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.

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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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