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Organizational Management and Change

Organizational Management and Change is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 2.3k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and strategies related to organizational change management, encompassing topics such as leadership, industrial psychology, strategic innovation, human resource management, and the development of learning organizations. It delves into the complexities of managing change, cultural cooperation, and the impact of digital transformation on organizations.

  • Organizational Change
  • Management
  • Leadership
  • Industrial Psychology
  • Strategic Innovation
  • Human Resource
  • Learning Organization
  • Cultural Cooperation
  • Digital Transformation
  • Leadership Development
Research works
2.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
229
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+104%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
71% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organizational Management and Change

Which countries lead Organizational Management and Change research?

By volume, Germany and Switzerland publish the most (676 and 87 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 676 works
  2. 2 Switzerland 87 works
  3. 3 Austria 74 works
  4. 4 United States 60 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 17 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 13 works
  7. 7 Estonia 8 works
  8. 8 Australia 6 works
  9. 9 India 6 works
  10. 10 France 5 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: 71.0%Switzerland: 9.1%Austria: 7.8%United States: 6.3%6 others listed: 5.8%71%largest
Germany676 · 71.0%Switzerland87 · 9.1%Austria74 · 7.8%United States60 · 6.3%6 others listed56 · 5.8%

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

Which institutions lead Organizational Management and Change research?

By volume in 2022-now, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences publishes the most Organizational Management and Change research, followed by München Klinik and TU Dortmund University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 19 works
  2. 2 München KlinikGermany 15 works
  3. 3 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 14 works
  4. 4 Hamburg Institut (Germany)Germany 14 works
  5. 5 Leibniz AssociationGermany 11 works
  6. 6 Federal Highway and Transport Research InstituteGermany 10 works
  7. 7 The Chicago SchoolUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken WiesbadenGermany 10 works
  9. 9 Stuttgart ObservatoryGermany 9 works
  10. 10 FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organizational Management and Change?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organizational Management and Change include J. -P. Meyer and Adrian F Furnham.

  1. 1 J. -P. Meyer United Kingdom 136k citations
  2. 2 Adrian F Furnham United Kingdom 94k 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 Management and Change?

The most cited paper in Organizational Management and Change is "Training in Organizations" (Mike C. Smith, 1991), with 400 citations. Next come "Human Resource Management" (278) and "Gestaltungskompetenz als Kompetenzkonzept der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" (214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Training in Organizations Mike C. Smith Book chapter 1991 400
2 Human Resource Management Ralf Reichwald, Martin Baethge, Oliver Brakel et al. · Gabler Verlag eBooks Book chapter 2004 278
3 Gestaltungskompetenz als Kompetenzkonzept der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung Gerhard de Haan · VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften eBooks Book chapter 2008 214
4 Nachahmung und Illusion Karl Aschenbrenner, H. R. Jauss · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1966 139
5 Vertrauen als soziologische Kategorie Peter Preisendörfer · Zeitschrift für Soziologie Open access Aug 1995 97
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Where is Organizational Management and Change research done?

The largest centres of Organizational Management and Change research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Essen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 52 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 50 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 45 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 34 works
  5. 5 ZurichSwitzerland 25 works
  6. 6 EssenGermany 22 works
  7. 7 DortmundGermany 18 works
  8. 8 StuttgartGermany 18 works
  9. 9 KielGermany 16 works
  10. 10 Frankfurt am MainGermany 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. EssenDE · 21.6 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and The Chicago School 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%5%10%mean 7.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lucerne University o…ZHAW Zurich Universi…The Chicago SchoolTU Dortmund University
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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
1ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 82.57.8%209.3×19 +335.0%
2Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsSwitzerland 55.79.5%206.2×9 +257.1%
3The Chicago SchoolUnited States 30.57.4%1213.3×10 -
4TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 28.64.8%63.4×14 -
5FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 19.06.7%259.2×9 +125.0%

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 Management and Change, country by country

Is Organizational Management and Change research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 104% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Organizational Management and Change.

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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 Management and Change as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0032% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Organizational Management and Change0.0062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Organizational Management and Change 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%Organizational Management and Change9.6% in 202520102020

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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