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42
Citations
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4535
National Ranking
2149

Overview

Robert E. Quinn is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields and subfields, including applied psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their scholarly work engages with topics such as optimism, hope, and well-being; leadership, courage, and heroism studies; psychology of moral and emotional judgment; Alzheimer's disease research and treatments; dementia and cognitive impairment research; bioinformatics and genomic networks; and economic theories and models.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Robert E. Quinn include:

  • The virtue counterbalancing model: An illustration with patience & courage, 2023, The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning to Identify Separable Clinical Alzheimer's Disease Sub-Populations, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • Purpose, profit and social pressure, 2023, Journal of Financial Intermediation
  • Higher Purpose, Incentives and Economic Performance, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Purpose, Profit and Social Pressure, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborating frequently with several scholars, Robert E. Quinn has worked with Anjan V. Thakor, Fenghua Song, Juliette L. Ratchford, Amber R. Cazzell, and Elizabeth K. Wood.

Their articles have appeared in journals including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Financial Intermediation

Best Publications

  • A Spatial Model of Effectiveness Criteria: Towards a Competing Values Approach to Organizational Analysis

    Robert E. Quinn;John Rohrbaugh

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

    Karl E. Weick;Robert E. Quinn

  • Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework

    Kim S. Cameron;Robert E. Quinn

  • Positive organizational scholarship : foundations of a new discipline

    Kim S. Cameron;Jane E. Dutton;Robert E. Quinn

  • Organizational Life Cycles and Shifting Criteria of Effectiveness: Some Preliminary Evidence

    Robert E. Quinn;Kim Cameron

  • Diagnosing and changing organizational culture

    Kim S. Cameron;Robert E. Quinn

  • Paradox and Performance: Toward a Theory of Behavioral Complexity in Managerial Leadership

    Daniel R. Denison;Robert Hooijberg;Robert E. Quinn

  • Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High Performance

    Robert E Quinn

  • The road to empowerment: Seven questions every leader should consider

    Robert E. Quinn;Gretchen M. Spreitzer

  • A Competing Values Approach to Organizational Effectiveness

    Robert E. Quinn;John Rohrbaugh

  • Empowered to lead: the role of psychological empowerment in leadership

    Gretchen M. Spreitzer;Suzanne C. De Janasz;Robert E. Quinn

  • Paradox and transformation : toward a theory of change in organization and management

    Robert E. Quinn;Kim S. Cameron

  • Roles Executives Play: CEOs, Behavioral Complexity, and Firm Performance

    Stuart L. Hart;Robert E. Quinn

  • Composing The Reflected Best-Self Portrait: Building Pathways For Becoming Extraordinary In Work Organizations

    Laura Morgan Roberts;Jane E. Dutton;Gretchen M. Spreitzer;Emily D. Heaphy

  • Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations

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  • Organizational paradox and transformation.

    Kim S. Cameron;Robert E. Quinn

  • The transformation of organizational cultures: A competing values perspective.

    Robert E. Quinn;Michael R. McGrath

  • Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders

    Gretchen M. Spreitzer;Robert E. Quinn

  • Competing values leadership : creating value in organizations

    Kim S. Cameron;Robert E. Quinn;Jeff DeGraff;Anjan V. Thakor

  • Becoming a Master Manager : A Competing Values Approach

    Robert E. Quinn;Sue R. Faerman;Michael P. Thompson

  • Behavioral complexity in leadership: The psychometric properties of a new instrument to measure behavioral repertoire ☆

    Katherine A. Lawrence;Peter Lenk;Robert E. Quinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Sim B. Sitkin
Sim B. Sitkin Duke University
Nancy J. Adler
Nancy J. Adler McGill University
Karl E. Weick
Karl E. Weick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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