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Business and Management
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2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
111
Citations
164383
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - 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
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Jeffrey Pfeffer is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with 13 publications categorized under this main field of study. Subfields include general health professions, clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including personality traits and psychology, emotional intelligence and performance, workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, social and intergroup psychology, and ethics in business and education.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Jeffrey Pfeffer include the following:

  • Nurse Burnout and Patient Safety, Satisfaction, and Quality of Care (2024), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Why are grandiose narcissists more effective at organizational politics? Means, motive, and opportunity (2020), Personality and Individual Differences
  • The Dark Triad May Be Not So Dark: Exploring Why 'Toxic' Leaders Are So Common-With Some Implications for Scholarship and Education (2021), Psychoanalytic Inquiry
  • Organizational power and politics: The narcissist's advantage? (2021), Personality and Individual Differences
  • THE MAGNITUDE AND EFFECTS OF "SLUDGE" IN BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION: HOW HEALTH INSURANCE HASSLES BURDEN WORKERS AND COST EMPLOYERS (2020), Academy of Management Discoveries

Frequent coauthors include Sara J. Singer, Charles A. O'Reilly, Barak D. Richman, Amy Monahan, and Lambert Zixin Li.

Key publication venues in which Pfeffer's work appears are Personality and Individual Differences, JAMA Network Open, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Jeffrey Pfeffer has been recognized as a Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

    Jeffrey Pfeffer;Gerald R. Salancik

  • Power in organizations

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • The External Control of Organizations.

    J. Kenneth Benson;Jeffrey Pfeffer;Gerald R. Salancik

  • A social information processing approach to job attitudes and task design.

    Gerald R. Salancik;Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Organizational Legitimacy: Social Values and Organizational Behavior

    John Dowling;Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Competitive Advantage Through People

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations

    Leda McIntyre Hall;Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Organizations and Organization Theory

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force.

    John Paul MacDuffie;Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Environments of Organizations

    and H E Aldrich;J Pfeffer

  • The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action

    Jeffrey Pfeffer;Robert I. Sutton

  • The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye

    Jeffrey Pfeffer;Christina T. Fong

  • Size and Composition of Corporate Boards of Directors: The Organization and its Environment

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Management as symbolic action: the creation and maintenance of organizational paradigms

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First.

    Paul Lawrence;Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • The Ambiguity of Leadership

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Barriers to the Advance of Organizational Science: Paradigm Development as a Dependent Variable

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories can Become Self-Fulfilling

    Fabrizio Ferraro;Jeffrey Pfeffer;Robert I. Sutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert I. Sutton
Robert I. Sutton Stanford University
Charles A. O'Reilly
Charles A. O'Reilly Stanford University
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Robert B. Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini Arizona State University
Alison M. Konrad
Alison M. Konrad University of Western Ontario
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Andrew H. Van de Ven University of Minnesota
Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew Pettigrew University of Oxford
Ke Rong
Ke Rong Tsinghua University
James N. Baron
James N. Baron Yale University
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University

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