Bridging the Topic Gap between Organizational Behavior Research and Practice

This article examines the “topic gap” between the interests of practitioners and the topics being researched in Organizational Behavior (OB) scholarship. In particular, we systematically compare the degree of attention various topics receive in a practitioner-oriented outlet with the amount of attention those same topics have received in OB scholarship. We then identify 100 topics and seven topic themes that are emphasized to a much greater...