Keith Grint

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Keith Grint is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Grint has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Keith Grint's work include Management and Organizational Studies (16 papers), Management Theory and Practice (7 papers) and Military History and Strategy (6 papers). Keith Grint is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (16 papers), Management Theory and Practice (7 papers) and Military History and Strategy (6 papers). Keith Grint collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and France. Keith Grint's co-authors include Steve Woolgar, David Collinson, Rosalind Gill, Arwen Mohun, Owain Smolović Jones, Darren Nixon, Paul du Gay, Peter Case, Leslie P. Willcocks and Amy L. Fraher and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Management Studies.

In The Last Decade

Keith Grint

80 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Problems, problems, problems: The social construction of ‘leadership’

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith Grint United Kingdom	34	1.5k	1.1k	503	471	359	86	3.8k
Martin Parker United Kingdom	31	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	435 0.9×	369 0.8×	477 1.3×	156	4.0k
Andrew Sturdy United Kingdom	33	2.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	1000 2.0×	295 0.6×	256 0.7×	82	3.8k
Ann L. Cunliffe United Kingdom	30	2.6k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	484 1.0×	911 1.9×	259 0.7×	71	5.0k
Stanley Deetz United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	593 1.2×	361 0.8×	214 0.6×	54	4.1k
Tony J. Watson United Kingdom	33	2.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	428 0.9×	299 0.6×	195 0.5×	80	3.5k
Nancy DiTomaso United States	25	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	648 1.3×	267 0.6×	273 0.8×	66	3.7k
Martin Kornberger Australia	34	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	860 1.7×	170 0.4×	329 0.9×	77	4.0k
Cliff Oswick United Kingdom	27	2.1k 1.4×	945 0.9×	711 1.4×	242 0.5×	136 0.4×	70	3.6k
Albert J. Mills Canada	27	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	301 0.6×	340 0.7×	319 0.9×	143	3.6k
Karen Locke United States	20	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	343 0.7×	165 0.5×	35	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Keith Grint

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keith Grint

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keith Grint

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Keith Grint. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Keith Grint based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Keith Grint. Keith Grint is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Collinson, David, Keith Grint, & Owain Smolović Jones. (2025). Situating and progressing resistance leadership research. Leadership. 21(3). 240–260. 1 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith, et al.. (2024). Leadership as a Relational and Discursive Process: Exploring Rhetorical and Material Dynamics. 22(1). 7–12.

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Grint, Keith, et al.. (2023). Habitual Leadership Ethics: Timelessness and Virtuous Leadership in the Jesuit Order. Journal of Business Ethics. 188(4). 779–793. 1 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2022). Critical Essay: Wicked problems in the Age of Uncertainty. Human Relations. 75(8). 1518–1532. 20 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2020). Leadership, management and command in the time of the Coronavirus. Leadership. 16(3). 314–319. 74 indexed citations

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Jones, Owain Smolović, et al.. (2019). Understanding sovereign leadership as a response to terrorism: A post-foundational analysis. Organization. 27(4). 537–556. 6 indexed citations

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Collinson, David, Owain Smolović Jones, & Keith Grint. (2017). ‘No More Heroes’: Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism. Organization Studies. 39(11). 1625–1647. 81 indexed citations

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Fraher, Amy L., Keith Grint, & Layla Branicki. (2016). Sustaining Mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations: A Multi-Modal Study of US Navy SEALs. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2016(1). 10613–10613. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Owain Smolović, et al.. (2016). Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development. Management Learning. 47(4). 424–442. 18 indexed citations

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Bryman, Alan, et al.. (2010). SAGE handbook of leadership. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 24 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2010). The leadership challenges of wicked problems. The business & management collection.. 2010(7). e1002520–e1002520. 1 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith & Brad Jackson. (2010). Toward “Socially Constructive” Social Constructions of Leadership. Management Communication Quarterly. 24(2). 348–355. 27 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2008). Leadership, management and command : rethinking D-Day. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2008). Leadership, Management and Command. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 22 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2007). Learning to Lead: Can Aristotle Help Us Find the Road to Wisdom?. Leadership. 3(2). 231–246. 110 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2005). Leadership. 164 indexed citations

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Collinson, David & Keith Grint. (2005). The leadership agenda. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (2002). History of Management. Organization. 9(1). 173–175. 2 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith & Steve Woolgar. (1997). The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 373 indexed citations

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Grint, Keith. (1991). The sociology of work : an introduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 68 indexed citations

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