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D-Index
44
Citations
12670
World Ranking
4030
National Ranking
32

David Seidl publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Seidl sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

David Seidl D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Seidl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;David Seidl

  • The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

    Paula A. Jarzabkowski;David Seidl

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

    Nils Brunsson;Andreas Rasche;David Seidl

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

    John Hendry;David Seidl

  • Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

    Damon Golsorkhi;Linda Rouleau;David Seidl;Eero Vaara

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

    David Seidl;Richard Whittington

  • Open Strategy: Dimensions, Dilemmas, Dynamics

    Julia Hautz;David Seidl;Richard Whittington

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

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

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

    David Seidl;Kai Helge Becker

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

    Alexander Nicolai;David Seidl

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

    David Seidl

  • Resurrecting Organization by Going Beyond Organizations

    Göran Ahrne;Nils Brunsson;David Seidl

  • Strategy-as-practice meets neo-institutional theory

    Roy Suddaby;David Seidl;Jane K Lê

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

    Alfred Kieser;Alexander Nicolai;David Seidl

  • Niklas Luhmann and organizaion studies

    David Seidl;Kai Helge Becker

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

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Sarah Kaplan;David Seidl;Richard Whittington

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

    Joep Cornelissen;Markus A. Höllerer;David Seidl

  • Resistance Redux

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

    Steffen Blaschke;Dennis Schoeneborn;David Seidl

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

    Katharina Dittrich;Stéphane Guérard;David Seidl

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

    David Seidl;Paul Sanderson;John Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula Jarzabkowski
Paula Jarzabkowski University of Queensland
Richard J. Whittington
Richard J. Whittington University of Sydney
Andreas Rasche
Andreas Rasche Copenhagen Business School
Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Guido Palazzo
Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Sarah Kaplan
Sarah Kaplan University of Toronto
John Roberts
John Roberts Rice University
John P. Roberts
John P. Roberts University of California, San Francisco
François Cooren
François Cooren University of Montreal

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