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Citations
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3587
National Ranking
1724

Overview

Joseph A. Raelin is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a particular focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Their work spans various subfields including Education, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

The main themes addressed in Raelin's research involve Management and Organizational Studies, Organizational Learning and Leadership, and Management Theory and Practice. Additional topics covered include Ethics in Business and Education, Innovative Education and Learning Practices, Participatory Visual Research Methods, as well as Educational Leadership and Innovation.

Some of the recent scholarly papers authored by Joseph A. Raelin include:

  • Action Learning as a Human Resource Development Resource to Realize Collective Leadership (2021, Human Resource Development Review)
  • Leadership-as-Practice: Its Past History, Present Emergence, and Future Potential (2023, Academy of Management Collections)
  • Leadership-as-Practice: Antecedent to Leaderful Purpose (2021, Journal of Change Management)
  • Update of leadership-as-practice "practice theory": Featuring Joe Raelin Interviewed by Jenny Robinson (2022, Leadership)
  • What Can Leadership-as-Practice Contribute to OD? (2021, Journal of Change Management)

Raelin frequently publishes in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Change Management, Human Resource Development Review, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, and Academy of Management Proceedings.

Collaborative work is notable in Raelin's career, with frequent co-authors including Jennifer L. Robinson, Marian Iszatt-White, Brigid Carroll, Lucia Crevani, and Brandon W. Kliewer. Each of these colleagues has collaborated multiple times, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • A Model of Work-Based Learning

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace

    Joseph A. Raelin;T. J. Elliott

  • Toward an Epistemology of Practice

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • The clash of cultures: Managers and professionals

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • Public Reflection as the Basis of Learning

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • From leadership-as-practice to leaderful practice:

    Joseph A Raelin

  • Imagine there are no leaders: Reframing leadership as collaborative agency:

    Joseph A Raelin

  • "I Don't Have Time to Think!" versus the Art of Reflective Practice

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • Does Action Learning Promote Collaborative Leadership

    Joe Raelin

  • Don't bother putting leadership into people

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • Developing Managers as Learners and Researchers: Using Action Learning and Action Research:

    Joseph A. Raelin;David Coghlan

  • Action learning and action science: Are they different?

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • An Anatomy of Autonomy: Managing Professionals

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • The Gendered Effect of Cooperative Education, Contextual Support, and Self‐Efficacy on Undergraduate Retention

    Joseph A. Raelin;Margaret B. Bailey;Jerry Hamann;Leslie K. Pendleton

  • The basis for the professional's resistance to managerial control

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • An Examination of Deviant⁄Adaptive Behaviors in the Organizational Careers of Professionals

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • We the Leaders: In Order to Form a Leaderful Organization:

    Joseph A. Raelin

  • From Generic to Organic Competencies

    Joseph A. Raelin;A. Sims Cooledge

  • Dialogue and deliberation as expressions of democratic leadership in participatory organizational change

    Joseph A. Raelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail T. Fairhurst
Gail T. Fairhurst University of Cincinnati

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