Larry E. Greiner

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Larry E. Greiner is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Larry E. Greiner has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 3 papers in Accounting and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Larry E. Greiner's work include Management and Organizational Studies (4 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (2 papers). Larry E. Greiner is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (4 papers), Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (2 papers). Larry E. Greiner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Mongolia. Larry E. Greiner's co-authors include Arvind Bhambri, Thomas G. Cummings, Virginia E. Schein, David E. Bowen, Flemming Poulfelt, Kurt Motamedi, David W. Jamieson, L.J. Siever, Harold W. Koenigsberg and Daniel J. O’Keefe and has published in prestigious journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Biological Psychiatry and Journal of Vocational Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Larry E. Greiner

30 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow 1972 2026 1990 2008 1989 1972 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
    1989 1.4k citations Larry E. Greiner PubMed profile →
  2. Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
    1972 451 citations Larry E. Greiner SSRN Electronic Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Larry E. Greiner United States 17 1.1k 1.0k 833 667 512 32 2.9k
William McKinley United States 29 1.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.7× 621 0.7× 692 1.0× 411 0.8× 65 3.6k
Ari Ginsberg United States 21 1.4k 1.2× 708 0.7× 575 0.7× 471 0.7× 284 0.6× 40 2.4k
Barbara W. Keats United States 14 2.0k 1.8× 860 0.8× 750 0.9× 1.0k 1.5× 553 1.1× 18 3.4k
Bruce R. Barringer United States 12 1.7k 1.5× 827 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 621 0.9× 580 1.1× 20 3.2k
Gerald Zeitz United States 16 1.3k 1.2× 984 1.0× 797 1.0× 645 1.0× 329 0.6× 22 2.9k
Mariann Jelinek United States 22 1.2k 1.1× 899 0.9× 656 0.8× 244 0.4× 310 0.6× 45 2.7k
Kyungmook Lee South Korea 13 1.7k 1.5× 759 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 760 1.1× 549 1.1× 18 3.0k
Stephen J. Mezias United States 18 1.5k 1.4× 877 0.9× 406 0.5× 598 0.9× 532 1.0× 29 2.9k
Carl P. Zeithaml United States 26 2.0k 1.8× 1.1k 1.0× 638 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 452 0.9× 40 3.7k
Peter Lorange Switzerland 24 2.1k 1.9× 763 0.8× 417 0.5× 616 0.9× 395 0.8× 86 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Larry E. Greiner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Larry E. Greiner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Poulfelt, Flemming, et al.. (2010). The Changing Global Consulting Industry. 5–36. 4 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E., et al.. (2009). Management Consultants as Professionals, or Are They?. Organizational Dynamics. 39(1). 72–83. 20 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E. & Thomas G. Cummings. (2009). Dynamic Strategy-Making: A Real-Time Approach for the 21st Century Leader. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E. & Flemming Poulfelt. (2004). The Contemporary Consultant: Handbook of management consulting. Insight from world experts. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 1 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (2004). Handbook of Management Consulting: The Contemporary Consultant, Insights from World Experts. 11 indexed citations
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Poulfelt, Flemming, et al.. (2004). The Contemporary Consultant. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 15 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E., Arvind Bhambri, & Thomas G. Cummings. (2003). Searching for a Strategy to Teach Strategy. Academy of Management Learning and Education. 2(4). 402–420. 88 indexed citations
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Koenigsberg, Harold W., Daniel J. O’Keefe, Larry E. Greiner, et al.. (1998). 321. The neurobiology of affective instability and its relationship to identity diffusion. Biological Psychiatry. 43(8). S96–S96. 1 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1997). Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow. Family Business Review. 10(4). 397–409. 224 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1992). Editor's Introduction. Journal of Management Inquiry. 1(1). 56–56. 1 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1992). Resistance to Change During Restructuring. Journal of Management Inquiry. 1(1). 61–65. 17 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1989). Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow. PubMed. 76(3). 373–387. 1440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greiner, Larry E. & Arvind Bhambri. (1989). New CEO intervention and dynamics of deliberate strategic change. Strategic Management Journal. 10(S1). 67–86. 117 indexed citations
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Bowen, David E. & Larry E. Greiner. (1986). Moving from production to service in human resources management. Organizational Dynamics. 15(1). 35–53. 30 indexed citations
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Cummings, Thomas G., et al.. (1983). Managing organizational decline: The case for transorganizational systems. Human Resource Management. 22(4). 377–390. 20 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E., et al.. (1979). 企業成長の"フシ"をどう乗り切るか.
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Schein, Virginia E. & Larry E. Greiner. (1977). Can organization development be fine tune to bureaucracies?. Organizational Dynamics. 5(3). 48–61. 16 indexed citations
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1977). Consulting in 3D. Contemporary Psychology. 22(10). 740–741.
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1972). Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow. SSRN Electronic Journal. 451 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greiner, Larry E.. (1967). Antecedents of Planned Organization Change. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 3(1). 51–85. 21 indexed citations

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