Abstract:

The presented paper is of the theoretical range and deals with the issue of the most popular recent topics and theories in the contemporary world of organizational behavior. The methodology applied in the paper is based upon the advanced rapid review technique. As the classification criterium the authors have used the citation score of Web of Science in the PICOS frame. The main objective of the paper is to find out the most attractive and popular recent theories of world organizational behavior and discover whether there exists any dominant theory in the branch of organizational behavior. The presented paper includes literature review, applied methodology description as well as the most important research findings accompanied with commented charts, tables and discussion. The most important finding pointed out that, there doesn’t exist any dominant theory in the dozen of the most cited papers. Most popular theories in the top cited dozen topical papers are organizational justice theory, a role theory, theory of competitive advantage, organization behavior theories – quantitative review, attribution theory, theory of diversity, grounded theory, social learning theory, middle range theories of organizational behavior, theory of planned behavior, domain theory and social exchange theory. All the papers of most cited dozen have been elaborated by different teams of researchers.