2026 Ian I. Mitroff: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	60	529	235	238	23987

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Ian I. Mitroff was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with a particular emphasis on sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, information systems and management, philosophy, and health.

Their work covered a range of topics including the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, ethics in business and education, religion, spirituality, and psychology, war, ethics, and justification, disaster management and resilience, public relations and crisis communication, and conflict management and negotiation.

Mitroff authored several papers that were published in notable venues. Among these were:

"Exploring the moral foundations of crisis management" (2021) in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
"Corona virus: A prime example of a wicked mess" (2020) in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
"Spiritual versus Religious: A Natural Language Processing Perspective" (2023) in Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion
"Making strange connections: The challenge of crisis management" (2022) in Business and Society Review
"Collective response capacity: Developing crisis leadership in organisations" (2024) in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Their frequent collaborators included Ralph H. Kilmann, Can M. Alpaslan, Rune Storesund, and Joan Marques.

Mitroff contributed to multiple academic publication venues, appearing most often in:

Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion
Academy of Management Proceedings
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
Business and Society Review

Regarding book publications, Mitroff's work was published by several academic presses. These included:

Springer International Publishing - titles such as Techlash (2020) and The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership (2021)
Stanford University Press eBooks - Swans, Swine, and Swindlers (2020)
Springer Nature - The Socially Responsible Organization (2022)
IGI Global - Tools, Exercises, and Strategies for Coping With Complexity (2023)

Ian I. Mitroff received recognition within the scientific community, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001 and holding the title of Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

Challenging strategic planning assumptions : theory, cases, and techniques

Richard Owsley Mason;Ian I Mitroff

2456
Citations
A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace

Ian I. Mitroff;Elizabeth A. Denton

1680
Citations
A Study of Spirituality in the Workplace

Ian I. Mitroff;Elizabeth A. Denton

1553
Citations
A Program for Research on Management Information Systems

Richard O. Mason;Ian I. Mitroff

1390
Citations
Transforming the Crisis-Prone Organization: Preventing Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Tragedies

Thierry C. Pauchant;Ian I. Mitroff

1273
Citations
From crisis prone to crisis prepared: a framework for crisis management

Christine M. Pearson;Ian I. Mitroff

1270
Citations
The Unbounded Mind: Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking

Ian I. Mitroff;Harold A. Linstone

877
Citations
Managing Crises Before They Happen: What Every Executive and Manager Needs to Know about Crisis Management

Ian Mitroff

826
Citations
Organizational Symbolism: A Topic To Expand Organizational Analysis

Thomas C. Dandridge;Ian Mitroff;William F. Joyce

754
Citations
UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL CRISES[1]

Paul Shrivastava;Ian I. Mitroff;Danny Miller;Anil Miclani

653
Citations
Organizational Problem Formulation: An Empirical Study.

Marjorie A. Lyles;Ian I. Mitroff

625
Citations
On Strategic Assumption-Making: A Dialectical Approach to Policy and Planning

Ian I. Mitroff;James R. Emshoff

558
Citations
Effective Crisis Management

Ian I. Mitroff;Paul Shrivastava;Firdaus E. Udwadia

534
Citations
Crisis management : a diagnostic guide for improving your organization's crisis-preparedness

Ian I. Mitroff;Christine M. Pearson

489
Citations
Managing the unthinkable

Christine M. Pearson;Sarah Kovoor Misra;Judith A. Clair;Ian I. Mitroff

439
Citations
On systemic problem solving and the error of the third kind

Ian I. Mitroff;Tom R. Featheringham

344
Citations
Enhancing Organizational Research Utilization: The Role of Decision Makers' Assumptions

Paul Shrivastava;Ian I. Mitroff

335
Citations
Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable

Ian I. Mitroff

296
Citations
Corporate Governance in the Context of Crises: Towards a Stakeholder Theory of Crisis Management

Can M. Alpaslan;Sandy E. Green;Ian I. Mitroff

292
Citations
On Managing Science in the Systems Age: Two Schemas for the Study of Science as a Whole Systems Phenomenon

Ian I. Mitroff;Frederick Betz;Louis R. Pondy;Francisco Sagasti

291
Citations
The structure of man-made organizational crises: Conceptual and empirical issues in the development of a general theory of crisis management

Ian I. Mitroff;Terry C. Pauchant;Paul Shrivastava

267
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Turoff New Jersey Institute of Technology

Paul Shrivastava Pennsylvania State University

Susan Albers Mohrman University of Southern California

Marjorie A. Lyles Indiana University

Sandra Waddock Boston College

Mats Alvesson Lund University

Alan L. Porter Georgia Institute of Technology

Warren G. Bennis University of Southern California

James P. Walsh University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Robert E. Quinn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Wikipedia of Ian I. Mitroff Personal website of Ian I. Mitroff

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