
Academic Journal
Q1Organization Theory
About Organization Theory
Organization Theory is a scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications Ltd. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 4.852 and H-index of 43.
Coverage: 2020-2025. Research categories: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Q1); Strategy and Management (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Management and Organizational Studies; Management Theory and Practice; Complex Systems and Decision Making; Innovation and Knowledge Management; Information Systems Theories and Implementation; Global and Cross-Cultural Management.
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Recent Research Articles
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Toward a Theory of Organizationality: A Gradual View on Collective Actorhood
Dennis Schoeneborn, Leonhard Dobusch, David Seidl
2026-07 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261484616Image, Imagination, Imaginaries: A Genealogy of Imago-Concepts in Organisational Research
Robin Porsfelt, Anne Vestergaard, Daniel Hjorth
2026-07 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261484615Modeling Corporate Sustainability Change: A Deweyan Pragmatist Alternative
Fabian Corver, Manon Filler
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261467772“Catalysing & Crystallizing” and “Conversations & Controversies”: Facilitating Debate in Organization Theory
Markus A. Höllerer, Sigrid Quack, Rick Delbridge
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261466261Stakeholder Governance and Inequality: A Theory of Reciprocal Exchange
Karina Pavlisa, William S. Harvey, Jonathan Doh
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261456299The Purpose of Crisis Management: Normative Directions for a Care-Based Approach
Jori Pascal Kalkman
2026-04 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261467771Moral Selves: Organizational character and the pursuit of purpose
Mirjam D. Werner, Joep Cornelissen, Krijn Turkenburg
2026-01 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261423230Beyond Human Democratic Organizing: Posthuman Affirmations
Jonas Friedrich
2026-01 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261433032The Construction of the Organizational Object in Organization Studies: An Invitation to Epistemic Reflexivity with Bourdieu
Jette Ernst, Paul Lassalle, Ron Kerr, Sarah Robinson et al.
2026-01 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261439293What Do We Mean by Democracy in Management and Organization Studies?
Sébastien Mena, Johanna Mair, Ignas M. Bruder
2026-01 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877261437803Pathways to Institutional Disruption? Translation, hope, and the dynamics of hype
Linda Wedlin, Noomi Weinryb
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251404482Legitimacy Tests: Theorizing legitimacy as justification work
Gerardo Patriotta, Grace Augustine, Maxim Voronov
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251387737The Escalating Dis/Organization of Post-Truth Communication
Peter Winkler, Dennis Schoeneborn
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251392631Organization Theory and Ontological Claims: Working out tensions in CCO scholarship and organization studies
Frédéric Dion, François Cooren, Jacinthe Dupuis
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251404484The Organizational Ontology of Person-Institutions
Thomas Derek Robinson, Aleksandrina Atanasova
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251406604Call it What You Want, Just Not an Institution
Amelia Hawbaker, Tim Hallett
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251401242People as Institutions or Why Taylor Swift Rules the World
Amit Nigam, John Amis, Danielle Logue
2025-10 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251398547The Future Looks Bright: Toward a Dialectical Understanding of the Future in the Strategy-Making Process
Lorenzo Skade
2025-07 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251377779Relational History: Correcting temporal myopia in social network research
Julia Brennecke, Gianluca Carnabuci, Gokhan Ertug
2025-07 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251379502Nothing is Right in Individual and Collective Action: Placing unknowability at the heart of theorizing through rhetoric
Elena Giovannoni, Paolo Quattrone
2025-07 · DOI: 10.1177/26317877251366658Reviews
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