According to Van Raan (2004), "a 'Sleeping Beauty in Science' is a publication that goes unnoticed ('sleeps') for a long time and then, almost suddenly, attracts a lot of attention ('is awakened by a prince')" (p.467). Are you aware of any examples of 'sleeping beauties' in the domains of organizational behavior/psychology or management?
This happened with my early counterproductive work behavior research, originally called organizational aggression. I published the first paper in 1975 (sleeping beauty) which (along with others in 1978 and 1987) was pretty much ignored for 20 years:
Article Relationships of organizational frustration with reported be...
Then Robinson & Bennett published a paper (the prince) on deviance in 1995, which was a similar phenomenon, and has been very influential and highly cited.
Article A Typology of Deviant Workplace Behaviors: A Multidimensiona...
After that the topic exploded and our work began to be noticed and cited. In 2001 we "rebranded" organizational aggression as CWB, which resulted in our work getting even more attention:
Article Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB) in Response to Job Str...
This happened with my early counterproductive work behavior research, originally called organizational aggression. I published the first paper in 1975 (sleeping beauty) which (along with others in 1978 and 1987) was pretty much ignored for 20 years:
Article Relationships of organizational frustration with reported be...
Then Robinson & Bennett published a paper (the prince) on deviance in 1995, which was a similar phenomenon, and has been very influential and highly cited.
Article A Typology of Deviant Workplace Behaviors: A Multidimensiona...
After that the topic exploded and our work began to be noticed and cited. In 2001 we "rebranded" organizational aggression as CWB, which resulted in our work getting even more attention:
Article Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB) in Response to Job Str...
Could you give me an article explaining the relationship of sleeping beauty with organizations that is an interesting topic
I suppose that a chapter by Yair Aharoni "The road to relevance" in Advances in International Management, 26, pp. 127-169 is still not properly noticed (there are just three citations in SCOPUS) while Aharoni, Y., Tihanyi, L., Connelly, B.L Managerial decision-making in international business: A forty-five-year retrospective. Journal of World Business 46(2), с. 135-142 which is saying the same in a more neutral manner has 78 citations.
Addition to my earlier answer:
A new edition of the book Psychology in Management, by Abraham Maslow, appeared in 1998. The first edition, created 37. years earlier, was literally forgotten.The reasons for this may be different. One of them being Peter Draker's claim that Maslow wrote a book ''to bring him and McGregor to the ground''(Prof.Warren Bennis, University of Southern California). ''Maslov has not yet come into his own. His importance will be shown in the future and will become apparent in the 21st century''.(Prof. dr. Zarko Trebjesanin, University of Belgrade).
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