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D-Index
63
Citations
21467
World Ranking
1160
National Ranking
35

Overview

Jörg Sydow is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Administration.

Their research covers a number of main topics, specifically:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Construction Project Management and Performance
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Innovation, Technology, and Society
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact

Sydow's publication record includes frequent contributions to notable venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (14 publications)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings (10 publications)
  • Project Management Journal (5 publications)
  • Management and Organization Review (2 publications)
  • Industrielle Beziehungen Zeitschrift für Arbeit Organisation und Management (2 publications)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sydow are:

  • "On the Theory of Organizational Path Dependence: Clarifications, Replies to Objections, and Extensions," 2020, Academy of Management Review
  • "Temporary organizing and permanent contexts," 2020, Current Sociology
  • "Human resource management in project-based organizations: revisiting the permanency assumption," 2020, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • "Studying the Management of Project Networks: From Structures to Practices?," 2021, Project Management Journal
  • "Breaking a Path by Creating a New One: How Organizational Change Boosts Children's Cancer Care," 2022, Organization Studies

Frequent collaborators in Sydow's work include Markus Helfen, Carolin Auschra, Timo Braun, Takahiro Endo, and Ehsan Samimi. These co-authors contribute to a range of topics predominantly within organizational studies and management.

Best Publications

  • Strategische Netzwerke: Evolution und Organisation

    Jörg Sydow

  • Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box

    Jörg Sydow;Georg Schreyögg;Jochen Koch

  • Project-Based Organizations, Embeddedness and Repositories of Knowledge: Editorial

    Jörg Sydow;Lars Lindkvist;Robert DeFillippi

  • Organizing and Evaluating Interfirm Networks: a Structurationist Perspective on Network Processes and Effectiveness

    Jorg Sydow;Arnold Windeler

  • CROSSROADS---Organizing for Fluidity? Dilemmas of New Organizational Forms

    Georg Schreyögg;Jörg Sydow

  • Organisation als reflexive Strukturation

    Günther Ortmann;Jörg Sydow;Arnold Windeler

  • The Institutional Embeddedness of Project Networks: The Case of Content Production in German Television

    Jörg Sydow;Udo Staber

  • Organizational Adaptive Capacity A Structuration Perspective

    Udo Staber;Jörg Sydow

  • Organizational Path Dependence: A Process View

    Georg Schreyögg;Jörg Sydow

  • Temporary Organizing: Promises, Processes, Problems

    Rene M. Bakker;Robert J. DeFillippi;Andreas Schwab;Jörg Sydow

  • Steuerung von und in Netzwerken — Perspektiven, Konzepte, vor allem aber offene Fragen

    Jörg Sydow;Arnold Windeler

  • Organisatorische Pfade – Von der Pfadabhängigkeit zur Pfadkreation?

    Jochen Koch;Jörg Sydow;Georg Schreyögg

  • Project Networks and Changing Industry Practices Collaborative Content Production in the German Television Industry

    Arnold Windeler;Jorg Sydow

  • Vertrauen und Ökonomie in Netzwerkbeziehungen — Strukturationstheoretische Betrachtungen

    Achim Loose;Jörg Sydow

  • Managing and Working in Project Society: Institutional Challenges of Temporary Organizations

    Rolf A. Lundin;Niklas Arvidsson;Tim Brady;Eskil Ekstedt

  • Management von Netzwerkorganisationen — Zum Stand der Forschung

    Jörg Sydow

  • Organisation von Netzwerken : Strukturationstheoretische Analysen der Vermittlungspraxis in Versicherungsnetzwerken

    Jörg Sydow

  • Theorien der Organisation

    Günther Ortmann;Jörg Sydow;Klaus Türk

  • Management von Netzwerkorganisationen

    Jörg Sydow

  • Projects as temporary organizations: An agenda for further theorizing the interorganizational dimension

    Jörg Sydow;Timo Braun

  • Über Netzwerke, virtuelle Integration und Interorganisationsbeziehungen

    Jörg Sydow;Arnold Windeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Frenkel
Stephen J. Frenkel University of New South Wales
Peter Zweifel
Peter Zweifel University of Zurich

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