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title: "Organizational culture research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “organizational culture” appeared in 1,069 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (523), finance (99) and health economics and policy (90)."
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# Papers on “organizational culture”

[Browse research topics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/directory/page/5.md)

Research on “organizational culture” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “organizational culture” appeared in 1,069 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in management (523), finance (99) and health economics and policy (90).
- 130 of them were published in 2025, against 79 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Massey University (7), The University of Queensland (7) and Curtin University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of the Knowledge Economy (23), Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (17) and Organizational Dynamics (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal” (Long Range Planning, 2018), with 3,512 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 42 | 32 | 40 | 48 | 55 | 63 | 53 | 81 | 59 | 50 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 24 | 11 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 6 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| All categories | 79 | 76 | 88 | 90 | 112 | 119 | 99 | 162 | 130 | 114 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [Organizational Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/organizational-dynamics.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Business Horizons](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-horizons.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Massey University | 7 |
| 2 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Curtin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/curtin-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [Pennsylvania State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/pennsylvania-state-university.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [The University of Western Australia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-western-australia.md) | 6 |
| 6 | Chulalongkorn University | 5 |
| 7 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Macquarie University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macquarie-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | Florida Atlantic University | 4 |
| 10 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 100 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 70 |
| 3 | China | 56 |
| 4 | Australia | 48 |
| 5 | Germany | 35 |
| 6 | India | 30 |
| 7 | Spain | 24 |
| 8 | Italy | 20 |
| 9 | Canada | 18 |
| 10 | France | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | leadership | 35 |
| 2 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [small and medium-sized enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/small-and-medium-sized-enterprises.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [firm performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/firm-performance.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/innovation.md) | 25 |
| 7 | job satisfaction | 24 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 19 |
| 9 | knowledge sharing | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,512 | 37.1 | [Building dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: An ongoing process of strategic renewal](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.12.001) | [Long Range Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/long-range-planning.md) | 2018-12-19 | Karl Warner, Maximilian Wäger |
| 2 | 1,900 | 18.6 | [Barriers to the Circular Economy: Evidence From the European Union (EU)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.028) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2018-04-30 | Julian Kirchherr, Laura Piscicelli, Ruben Bour et al. |
| 3 | 1,039 | 13.2 | [Digital transformation: a review, synthesis and opportunities for future research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-020-00185-7) | [Management Review Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/management-review-quarterly.md) | 2020-04-18 | Swen Nadkarni, Reinhard Prügl |
| 4 | 926 | 16.7 | [Unlocking the value of artificial intelligence in human resource management through AI capability framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2022.100899) | [Human Resource Management Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/human-resource-management-review.md) | 2022-03-23 | Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Sian Joel-Edgar et al. |
| 5 | 892 | 8.1 | [Green human resource management research in emergence: A review and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9532-1) | [Asia Pacific Journal of Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-journal-of-management.md) | 2017-09-18 | Shuang Ren, Guiyao Tang, Susan E. Jackson |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “organizational culture”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/organizational-culture

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