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36
Citations
13429
World Ranking
2019
National Ranking
66

Overview

Michael Beer is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and focuses on research in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work predominantly explores Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, with additional contributions to Management Science and Operations Research, Applied Psychology, Strategy and Management, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics addressed by Michael Beer include:

  • Organizational Learning and Leadership
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Management Theory and Practice
  • Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies
  • Business Strategies and Innovation

Michael Beer's publication record spans articles in several academic and professional venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Open Access Government
  • Journal of Change Management
  • The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
  • Academy of Management Perspectives
  • Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Selected recent papers by Michael Beer include:

  • "Reflections: Towards a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development," published in 2021 in the Journal of Change Management
  • "Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory," published in 2020 in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
  • "Combatting organizational silence: How to have an honest conversation," published in 2024 in Open Access Government
  • "Top team effectiveness and how to develop it," published in 2025 in Open Access Government

Michael Beer has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Peter Bacevice
  • Rita Berggren
  • Johanna E. Pregmark
  • Oliver Jung
  • Mathias Schmoigl-Tonis

Best Publications

  • Cracking the code of change.

    Michael Beer;Nitin Nohria

  • Why change programs don't produce change.

    Michael Beer;Russell A. Eisenstat;Bert Spector

  • Breaking the Code of Change

    Michael Beer;Nitin Nohria

  • Managing Human Assets

    Richard W. Beatty;Glenn M. McEvoy;Michael Beer;Bert Spector

  • The Silent Killers of Strategy Implementation and Learning

    Michael Beer;Russell A. Eisenstat

  • The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal

    M. Beer;R. A. Eisenstat;R. Spector

  • Why Total Quality Management Programs Do Not Persist: The Role of Management Quality and Implications for Leading a TQM Transformation*

    Michael Beer

  • Strategic Management as Organizational Learning: Developing Fit and Alignment through a Disciplined Process

    Michael Beer;Sven C. Voelpel;Marius Leibold;Eden B. Tekie

  • Organization Change and Development

    Michael Beer;Anna Elise Walton

  • Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multistakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago

    Michael Beer;Paul Boselie;Chris Brewster

  • Human Resource Management: A General Manager's Perspective

    Michael Beer;Bert Spector;Paul Lawrence;D. Q. Mills

  • Promise and peril in implementing pay-for-performance

    Michael Beer;Mark D. Cannon;James N. Baron;Patrick R. Dailey;Patrick R. Dailey;Patrick R. Dailey

  • Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning

    Michael Beer;Russell A. Eisenstat

  • The transformation of the human resource function: Resolving the tension between a traditional administrative and a new strategic role

    Michael Beer

  • Resolving the Tension Between Theories E and O of Change

    Michael Beer;Nitin Nohria

  • Performance appraisal: dilemmas and possibilities.

    Michael Beer

  • Beyond TQM Programmes

    Bert Spector;Michael Beer

  • Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

    Michael Beer;Bert Spector;Paul R. Lawrence;D. Q. Mills

  • How to develop an organization capable of sustained high performance: embrace the drive for results-capability development paradox

    Michael Beer

  • High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

    Michael Beer;Russell A. Eisenstat;Nathaniel Foote

  • The New Managerial Grid

    Michael Beer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria Harvard University
Michael L. Tushman
Michael L. Tushman Harvard University
Edward E. Lawler
Edward E. Lawler University of Southern California
Edwin A. Locke
Edwin A. Locke University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Boselie
Paul Boselie Utrecht University
Donald M. Berwick
Donald M. Berwick Harvard University
Anjan V. Thakor
Anjan V. Thakor Washington University in St. Louis
James N. Baron
James N. Baron Yale University
Robert E. Quinn
Robert E. Quinn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Teresa M. Amabile
Teresa M. Amabile Harvard University

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