4 The Evolution of Published Work on OD
Who has influenced us on what OD is? In this chapter who has previously determined what OD is, when and where were they based will be identified? Having explored the development of OD in the practitioner world through the analysis of OD job role advertisements, the study then examined the focus of OD in the academic world and is explored below.
Findings from the Bibliometric Searches: Understanding the Academic Perspective of OD
To establish how OD was perceived and presented by academics between 1970 and 2010 a series of bibliometric searches were carried out. The bibliometric search data provides information on the trends in writing on OD over the decades under study, in terms of volume and country of ...
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