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Organizational Management and Leadership

Organizational Management and Leadership is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 3.4k research works in it since 1951. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of innovation in management practices and strategies, including strategic renewal, organizational flexibility, leadership effectiveness, globalization of R&D, financial markets, supply chain management, corporate governance, and decision making processes.

  • Innovation
  • Management
  • Strategic Renewal
  • Organizational Flexibility
  • Globalization
  • Leadership
  • Financial Markets
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Corporate Governance
  • Decision Making
Research works
3.4k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
353
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Nigeria
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organizational Management and Leadership

Which countries lead Organizational Management and Leadership research?

By volume, Nigeria and the United States publish the most (69 and 60 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nigeria 69 works
  2. 2 United States 60 works
  3. 3 Kenya 58 works
  4. 4 France 30 works
  5. 5 India 15 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 South Africa 12 works
  8. 8 Japan 11 works
  9. 9 Germany 11 works
  10. 10 China 11 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.

Nigeria: 23.8%United States: 20.8%Kenya: 20.0%France: 10.4%6 others listed: 25.0%24%largest
Nigeria69 · 23.8%United States60 · 20.8%Kenya58 · 20.0%France30 · 10.4%6 others listed72 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Organizational Management and Leadership research?

By volume in 2022-now, Kenyatta University publishes the most Organizational Management and Leadership research, followed by Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 12 works
  2. 2 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 10 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  4. 4 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 5 works
  5. 5 Kenya Methodist UniversityKenya 5 works
  6. 6 Clinique Mutualiste de l'EstuaireFrance 4 works
  7. 7 Catholic University of Eastern AfricaKenya 3 works
  8. 8 Alliant International UniversityUnited States 3 works
  9. 9 Masinde Muliro University of Science and TechnologyKenya 3 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organizational Management and Leadership?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organizational Management and Leadership include Amos Tversky, Marko Sarstedt and Michael C. Jensen.

  1. 1 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  5. 5 Richard P. Bagozzi United States 148k citations
  6. 6 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k citations
  7. 7 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations
  8. 8 Oliver E. Williamson United States 113k citations
  9. 9 James G. March United States 111k 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 Leadership?

The most cited paper in Organizational Management and Leadership is "WHAT'S IN A NAME? REPUTATION BUILDING AND CORPORATE STRATEGY." (Charles J. Fombrun, Mark T. Shanley, 1990), with 5,238 citations. Next come "Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice" (3,475) and "Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreements." (2,374).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 WHAT'S IN A NAME? REPUTATION BUILDING AND CORPORATE STRATEGY. Charles J. Fombrun, Mark T. Shanley · Academy of Management Journal Jun 1990 5,238
2 Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice Richard H. Thaler · Marketing Science 2008 3,475
3 Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreements. Jone L. Pearce, Denise M. Rousseau · Administrative Science Quarterly Open access Mar 1998 2,374
4 Retrospective reports of strategic‐level managers: Guidelines for increasing their accuracy George P. Huber, Daniel Power · Strategic Management Journal Apr 1985 1,729
5 From Marketing Mix to Relationship Marketing Christian Grönroos · Management Decision Mar 1994 1,401
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Organizational Management and Leadership research done?

The largest centres of Organizational Management and Leadership research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Paris (France), Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 36 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 11 works
  3. 3 Port HarcourtNigeria 8 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 6 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 Ado-EkitiNigeria 5 works
  8. 8 IbadanNigeria 5 works
  9. 9 UyoNigeria 4 works
  10. 10 Saint-NazaireFrance 4 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 35.6 works94×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Citation 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
1Kenyatta UniversityKenya 80.08.0%216.5×12 +59.0%
2Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 14.11.9%225.2×10 -3.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Leadership, country by country

Is Organizational Management and Leadership research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Leadership as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Organizational Management 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.

still counting5%10%15%Organizational Management and Leadership11.2% 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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