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Organizational Learning and Leadership

Organizational Learning and Leadership is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 concept of learning organizations, focusing on dimensions, measurement, and validation of learning culture, as well as the relationship between a learning organization and firms' financial performance. It also delves into leadership, organizational culture, knowledge management, and strategies for employee development and performance improvement. The papers highlight the significance of creating a culture of continuous learning and adaptation within organizations.

  • Learning Organization
  • Organizational Learning
  • Dimensions of Learning
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Culture
  • Knowledge Management
  • Employee Development
  • Change Management
  • Performance Improvement
  • Systems Thinking
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organizational Learning and Leadership

Which countries lead Organizational Learning and Leadership research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (510 and 130 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 510 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 130 works
  3. 3 India 116 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 106 works
  5. 5 China 77 works
  6. 6 Germany 62 works
  7. 7 South Africa 61 works
  8. 8 Denmark 60 works
  9. 9 Australia 55 works
  10. 10 Canada 52 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: 41.5%United Kingdom: 10.6%India: 9.4%Indonesia: 8.6%6 others listed: 29.9%42%largest
United States510 · 41.5%United Kingdom130 · 10.6%India116 · 9.4%Indonesia106 · 8.6%6 others listed367 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Organizational Learning and Leadership research?

By volume in 2022-now, Aalborg University publishes the most Organizational Learning and Leadership research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Aarhus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 24 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 19 works
  3. 3 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 9 works
  4. 4 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 9 works
  5. 5 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 9 works
  6. 6 University of RijekaCroatia 9 works
  7. 7 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 7 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  9. 9 University of JyväskyläFinland 6 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organizational Learning and Leadership?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organizational Learning and Leadership include Michael C. Jensen and Arnold B. Bakker.

  1. 1 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  2. 2 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k 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 Organizational Learning and Leadership?

The most cited paper in Organizational Learning and Leadership is "The fifth discipline, the art and practice of the learning organization" (Peter M. Senge, 1991), with 20,158 citations. Next come "A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation" (17,764) and "An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust" (14,322).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The fifth discipline, the art and practice of the learning organization Peter M. Senge · NSPI Journal Open access May 1991 20,158
2 A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation Ikujiro Nonaka · Organization Science Feb 1994 17,764
3 An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust Roger C. Mayer, James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman · Academy of Management Review Jul 1995 14,322
4 Relationship-based approach to leadership: Development of leader-member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25 years: Applying a multi-level multi-domain perspective George Bear Graen, Mary Uhl‐Bien · The Leadership Quarterly Jun 1995 7,272
5 Organizational Learning Barbara Levitt, James G. March · Annual Review of Sociology Aug 1988 6,162
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Organizational Learning and Leadership research done?

The largest centres of Organizational Learning and Leadership research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Aalborg (Denmark), London (United Kingdom) and Pretoria (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aalborg and Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 30 works
  2. 2 AalborgDenmark 25 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  4. 4 PretoriaSouth Africa 20 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 18 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 17 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 16 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 15 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AalborgDK · 25.0 works20×
  2. NairobiKE · 30.3 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Organizational Learning and Leadership?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Rijeka, Aalborg University and Aarhus 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%mean 6.21667%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aarhus UniversityUniversity of RijekaAalborg UniversityIslamic Azad 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
1University of RijekaCroatia 58.211.2%30.4×8 +53.1%
2Aalborg UniversityDenmark 53.22.8%22.6×24 -3.1%
3Aarhus UniversityDenmark 52.215.2%5.6×9 -44.5%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 28.52.1%6.1×19 -29.1%
5University of South AfricaSouth Africa 27.23.7%10.4×9 -4.7%
6Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 21.72.3%28.7×9 -45.9%

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 Organizational Learning and Leadership, country by country

Is Organizational Learning and Leadership research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Organizational Learning 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 Organizational Learning and Leadership as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Organizational Learning 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.

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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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