2026 David Seidl: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4031	3721	32	32	177	12670

Overview

David Seidl is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in Business, Management, and Accounting, with a particular focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research covers multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Key topics in their work include Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Information Systems Theories and Implementation. Additional topics explored are Accounting and Organizational Management, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, and Management Theory and Practice.

Seidl has published extensively, with frequent contributions to prominent academic venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Theory, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Relations. The number of publications in these venues highlights a focus on organizational and strategic management issues within both theoretical and applied frameworks.

Selected recent papers include:

What Theory Is and Can Be: Forms of Theorizing in Organizational Scholarship (2021, Organization Theory)
From germination to propagation: Two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions (2022, Human Relations)
Middle Managers' Struggle Over Their Subject Position in Open Strategy Processes (2021, Journal of Management Studies)
Top management team role structure: A vantage point for advancing upper echelons research (2021, Strategic Management Journal)
Challenges and practices of interviewing business elites (2020, Strategic Organization)

Frequent collaborators in Seidl's work include Violetta Splitter, Brian T. Pentland, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, and Claus Rerup, each with multiple joint publications. These collaborations indicate ongoing engagement with scholars who work across strategy, organizational behavior, and management theory.

Best Publications

Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective

Paula A. Jarzabkowski;Julia Balogun;David Seidl

2011
Citations
Managing Legitimacy in Complex and Heterogeneous Environments: Sustainable Development in a Globalized World

Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;David Seidl

782
Citations
The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

Paula A. Jarzabkowski;David Seidl

611
Citations
The Dynamics of Standardization: Three Perspectives on Standards in Organization Studies:

Nils Brunsson;Andreas Rasche;David Seidl

536
Citations
The Structure and Significance of Strategic Episodes: Social Systems Theory and the Routine Practices of Strategic Change

John Hendry;David Seidl

528
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Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Damon Golsorkhi;Linda Rouleau;David Seidl;Eero Vaara

526
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Enlarging the Strategy-as-Practice Research Agenda: Towards Taller and Flatter Ontologies

David Seidl;Richard Whittington

445
Citations
Open Strategy: Dimensions, Dilemmas, Dynamics

Julia Hautz;David Seidl;Richard Whittington

425
Citations
The Three Schools of CCO Thinking: Interactive Dialogue and Systematic Comparison

Dennis Schoeneborn;Steffen Blaschke;Steffen Blaschke;François Cooren;Robert D. McPhee

379
Citations
Organizations as Distinction Generating and Processing Systems: Niklas Luhmann’s Contribution to Organization Studies:

David Seidl;Kai Helge Becker

375
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That’s Relevant! Different Forms of Practical Relevance in Management Science

Alexander Nicolai;David Seidl

352
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General Strategy Concepts and the Ecology of Strategy Discourses: A Systemic-Discursive Perspective:

David Seidl

336
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Resurrecting Organization by Going Beyond Organizations

Göran Ahrne;Nils Brunsson;David Seidl

330
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Strategy-as-practice meets neo-institutional theory

Roy Suddaby;David Seidl;Jane K Lê

328
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The Practical Relevance of Management Research: Turning the Debate on Relevance into a Rigorous Scientific Research Program

Alfred Kieser;Alexander Nicolai;David Seidl

315
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Niklas Luhmann and organizaion studies

David Seidl;Kai Helge Becker

262
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On the risk of studying practices in isolation: Linking what, who, and how in strategy research:

Paula Jarzabkowski;Sarah Kaplan;David Seidl;Richard Whittington

257
Citations
What Theory Is and Can Be: Forms of Theorizing in Organizational Scholarship:

Joep Cornelissen;Markus A. Höllerer;David Seidl

208
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Resistance Redux

Unknown

208
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Organizations as Networks of Communication Episodes: Turning the Network Perspective Inside Out:

Steffen Blaschke;Dennis Schoeneborn;David Seidl

205
Citations
Talking About Routines: The Role of Reflective Talk in Routine Change

Katharina Dittrich;Stéphane Guérard;David Seidl

167
Citations
Applying the ‘comply-or-explain’ principle: discursive legitimacy tactics with regard to codes of corporate governance

David Seidl;Paul Sanderson;John Roberts

148
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Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney

Eero Vaara University of Oxford

John Roberts Rice University

François Cooren University of Montreal

Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

External Links

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