2026 Charles A. O'Reilly: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	86	115	107	57	53	186	82212

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Charles A. O'Reilly is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their main field of study is psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, strategy and management, sociology and political science, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their research covers several interdisciplinary topics including personality traits and psychology, emotional intelligence and performance, social and intergroup psychology, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, leadership, courage and heroism studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

O'Reilly has contributed to various publication venues throughout their career. Some of the frequent venues include:

Personality and Individual Differences
Academy of Management Proceedings
Stanford University Press eBooks
California Management Review
Academy of Management Discoveries

Their recent academic papers include:

Transformational Leader or Narcissist? How Grandiose Narcissists Can Create and Destroy Organizations and Institutions (2020), California Management Review
Grandiose narcissists and decision making: Impulsive, overconfident, and skeptical of experts-but seldom in doubt (2020), Personality and Individual Differences
When "Me" Trumps "We": Narcissistic Leaders and the Cultures They Create (2020), Academy of Management Discoveries
Why are grandiose narcissists more effective at organizational politics? Means, motive, and opportunity (2020), Personality and Individual Differences
Organizational power and politics: The narcissist's advantage? (2021), Personality and Individual Differences

O'Reilly has also published books with notable publishers. These include:

Lead and Disrupt (2021), published by Stanford University Press eBooks
: (2020), published by eBooks

Frequent co-authors collaborating with O'Reilly include Michael L. Tushman, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Jennifer A. Chatman, Bernadette Doerr, and Nicholas R. Hall.

Among their recognitions, O'Reilly received the Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) award in 1986.

Best Publications

Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: The effects of compliance, identification, and internalization on prosocial behavior.

Charles A. O'Reilly;Jennifer Chatman

8072
Citations
PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: A PROFILE COMPARISON APPROACH TO ASSESSING PERSON-ORGANIZATION FIT

Charles A. O'Reilly;Jennifer Chatman;David F. Caldwell

7935
Citations
Ambidextrous Organizations: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change:

Michael L. Tushman;Charles A. O'Reilly

6944
Citations
Being different: Relational demography and organizational attachment.

Anne S. Tsui;Terri D. Egan;Charles A. O'Reilly

4041
Citations
The ambidextrous organization.

Charles A. O'Reilly;Michael L. Tushman

3495
Citations
Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability: Resolving the innovator's dilemma

Charles A. O’Reilly;Michael L. Tushman

3278
Citations
Winning through innovation : a practical guide to leading organizational change and renewal

Michael L. Tushman;Charles A. O'Reilly

2788
Citations
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future

Charles A. O'Reilly;Michael L. Tushman

2784
Citations
Work group demography, social integration, and turnover.

Charles A. O'Reilly;David F. Caldwell;William P. Barnett

2744
Citations
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present, and Future

Charles A. O'Reilly;Michael L. Tushman

2694
Citations
Beyond Simple Demographic Effects: The Importance of Relational Demography in Superior-Subordinate Dyads

Anne S. Tsui;Charles A. O'reilly

2688
Citations
Culture as social control: Corporations, cults, and commitment.

Charles A. O'Reilly;Jennifer A. Chatman

2048
Citations
Corporations, Culture, and Commitment: Motivation and Social Control in Organizations

Charles O'Reilly

1969
Citations
Organizational demography and turnover in top-management groups.

W. Gary Wagner;Jeffrey Pfeffer;Charles A. O'Reilly

1430
Citations
Variations in Decision Makers' Use of Information Sources: The Impact of Quality and Accessibility of Information

Charles A. O'Reilly

1198
Citations
Measuring person-job fit with a profile-comparison process

David F. Caldwell;Charles A. O'Reilly Iii

1103
Citations
CEO compensation as tournament and social comparison: A tale of two theories.

Charles A. O'Reilly;Brian G. Main;Graef S. Crystal

1049
Citations
Building organizational commitment: A multifirm study

David F. Caldwell;Jennifer A. Chatman;Charles A. O'Reilly

953
Citations
Social Capital at the Top: Effects of Social Similarity and Status on CEO Compensation

Maura A. Belliveau;Charles A. O'Reilly;James B. Wade

938
Citations
Organizational designs and innovation streams

Michael Tushman;Wendy K. Smith;Robert Chapman Wood;George Westerman

910
Citations
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

Charles A. O'Reilly;Jeffrey Pfeffer

889
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. Caldwell Santa Clara University

Michael L. Tushman Harvard University

Jennifer A. Chatman University of California, Berkeley

Karlene H. Roberts University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey Pfeffer Stanford University

Hillary Anger Elfenbein Washington University in St. Louis

Anne S. Tsui Arizona State University

Joan R. Bloom University of California, Berkeley

Sheldon Zedeck University of California, Berkeley

Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine

External Links

Personal website of Charles A. O'Reilly Google Scholar page

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