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Bachelors Psychology Clark University
Masters Psychology Clark University
PhD Psychology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Chris Argyris was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.

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Organizational Learning: A Theory Of Action Perspective (1978) (11338)
Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice (1995) (3329)
Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness (1975) (2987)
Teaching Smart People How to Learn (2002) (1619)
On organizational learning (1993) (1538)
Double Loop Learning in Organizations (1996) (1481)
Integrating the Individual and the Organisation (1964) (1348)
Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change (1993) (1312)
Overcoming organizational defenses : facilitating organizational learning (1990) (1190)
Single-loop and double-loop models in research on decision making. (1976) (1182)
Personality and organization (1957) (876)
Reasoning, learning, and action : individual and organizational (1982) (750)
Strategy, change, and defensive routines (1985) (624)
Reasoning, learning, and action (1982) (540)
Participatory Action Research and Action Science Compared (1989) (536)
Good communication that blocks learning (1994) (529)
Empowerment: the emperor's new clothes. (1998) (521)
Interpersonal competence and organizational effectiveness (1962) (500)
Intervention theory and method : a behavioral science view. (1970) (424)
Understanding organizational behavior (1961) (420)
Double-Loop Learning, Teaching, and Research (2002) (401)
Intervention Theory and Method. (1974) (384)
Organizational learning and management information systems (1982) (366)
Action science and organizational learning (1995) (351)
Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research. (1984) (308)
Personality and organization : the conflict between system and the individual (1958) (296)
Reasons and rationalizations : the limits to organizational knowledge (2004) (273)
Implementing New Knowledge: The Case of Activity-Based Costing (1994) (267)
Management Information Systems: The Challenge to Rationality and Emotionality (1971) (264)
Actionable Knowledge: Design Causality in the Service of Consequential Theory (1996) (239)
A Life Full of Learning (2003) (232)
Some Limitations of the Case Method: Experiences in a Management Development Program (1980) (229)
Personality and Organization Theory Revisited. (1973) (212)
Increasing Leadership Effectiveness (1976) (207)
Theories of Action that Inhibit Individual Learning. (1976) (205)
Some unintended consequences of rigorous research. (1968) (199)
Argyris, Chris, Robert Putnam, and Diane Maclain Smith, Action Science: Concepts, Methods, and Skills for Research and Intervention . San Franciso: Jossey-Bass, 1985. (1985) (199)
Some Problems in Conceptualizing Organizational Climate: A Case Study of a Bank (1958) (188)
Education for leading-learning (1993) (178)
Change in organizations (1982) (172)
Some Limits of Rational Man Organizational Theory (1973) (169)
Dangers in applying results from experimental social psychology. (1975) (164)
Organization and Innovation. (1966) (142)
Action Science and Intervention (1983) (132)
The dilemma of implementing controls: The case of managerial accounting☆ (1990) (131)
chris argyris : theories of action , double-loop learning and organizational learning (2006) (129)
The Individual and Organization: Some Problems of Mutual Adjustment (1993) (124)
Learning and Teaching: A Theory of Action Perspective (1997) (118)
Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not (2000) (113)
Theory In Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness. A Joint Publication in The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series and the Jossey-Bass Management Series. (1974) (112)
Strategy implementation: An experience in learning (1989) (110)
Crossroads---Unrecognized Defenses of Scholars: Impact on Theory and Research (1996) (100)
Explorations in Interpersonal Competence-I (1965) (99)
Satisfactions in the White Collar Job. (1954) (98)
Leadership, learning, and changing the status quo (1976) (95)
The incompleteness of social-psychological theory: Examples from small group, cognitive consistency, and attribution research. (1969) (93)
Reinforcing organizational defensive routines: An unintended human resources activity (1986) (90)
Initiating Change That Perseveres (1994) (82)
Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design (2010) (81)
The applicability of organizational sociology (1973) (80)
Organization Man: Rational and Self-Actualizing (1973) (80)
Making the Undiscussable and Its Undiscussability Discussable (1980) (79)
Behind the front page (1974) (77)
Conditions for Competence Acquisition and Therapy (1968) (74)
T-groups for organizational effectiveness. (1964) (73)
Reasons and Rationalizations (2004) (67)
Flawed Advice and the Management Trap (2000) (67)
Organizational Leadership and Participative Management (1955) (58)
The concise Blackwell encyclopedia of management (1998) (54)
On the Future of Laboratory Education (1967) (52)
Reflection and Beyond in Research on Organizational Learning (2004) (50)
TODAY'S PROBLEMS WITH TOMORROWS ORGANIZATIONS (1967) (50)
Management and Organizational Development: The Path from XA to Yb (1971) (49)
The Individual and Organization: An Empirical Test (1959) (46)
Creating Effective Research Relationships in Organizations (1958) (38)
Explorations in Consulting-Client Relationships (1961) (38)
Actionable Knowledge: Intent versus Actuality (1996) (37)
Double‐Loop Learning and Organizational Change (2008) (34)
Double-Loop Learning (2015) (33)
On organizations of the future (1973) (32)
Kurt Lewin Award Lecture, 1997 Field Theory as a Basis for Scholarly Consulting (1997) (32)
Learning From Changing: Organizational Diagnosis and Development (1975) (30)
Behind the front page : [organizational self-renewal in a metropolitan newspaper. (1974) (29)
Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity (2004) (23)
Human Resources Practices (2000) (21)
Field Theory as a Basis for Scholarly Consulting (1997) (20)
The Next Challenge for TQM: Overcoming Organizational Defenses (1992) (20)
PROBLEMS IN PRODUCING USABLE KNOWLEDGE FOR IMPLEMENTING LIBERATING ALTERNATIVES (1988) (20)
Inappropriate Defenses Against the Monitoring of Organization Development Practice (1990) (20)
Strategies for Learning: Small Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry (1990) (19)
Reflecting on Laboratory Education from a Theory of Action Perspective (1979) (18)
Individual actualization in complex organizations. (1960) (17)
Personality vs. organization (1974) (17)
Managers, workers, and organizations (1990) (16)
The Use of Knowledge as a Test for Theory: The Case of Public Administration (1991) (16)
The Fusion of an Individual with the Organization (1954) (16)
Social science approaches to business behavior (1962) (15)
Interventions for Improving Leadership Effectiveness (1985) (14)
Is capitalism the culprit (1978) (13)
An introduction to field theory and interaction theory (1953) (13)
Interpersonal barriers to decision making (2017) (13)
The Access-Casebook (1977) (13)
Organization of a bank (1954) (12)
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management (2004) (12)
Do Personal Growth Laboratories Represent an Alternative Culture? (1972) (12)
Leadership in the '80s: Essays on Higher Education (1980) (12)
Executive leadership : an appraisal of a manager in action (1954) (10)
Producing knowledge that is generalizable and usable for practice: A review (1988) (10)
Diagnosing Human Relations in Organizations: A Case Study of a Hospital. (1957) (10)
Bridging economics and psychology: The case of the economic theory of the firm. (1987) (10)
The Unhappy Bureaucrats: Views Ironic, Hopeful, Indignant@@@Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration@@@Personality and Organization: The Conflict between System and the Individual@@@The Organization Man (1958) (8)
Being human and being organized (1964) (8)
Integrating Theory and Practice (1989) (8)
Alternative Schools: A Behavioral Analysis (1974) (7)
Organizational structure and dynamics : a framework for theory (1954) (7)
Organizational Behavior: Production of Knowledge for Action in the World of Practice (1998) (7)
Some Unresolved Problems of Executive Development Programs (1956) (6)
Diagnosing Defenses Against the Outsider (2010) (6)
Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Business Organizations (2004) (6)
Diagnosing Human Relations in Organizations (1959) (6)
Managers, workers, and organizations (1990) (6)
Regulating business : the search for an optimum (1978) (5)
Hawthorne Revisited: Management and the Worker, Its Critics, and Developments in Human Relations in Industry.Henry A. Landsberger (1959) (5)
Chris Argyris, Knowledge for Action; A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change, San Francisco, Jossey Bass Publishers, 1993 (2011) (4)
Some Causes of Organizational Ineffectiveness Within the Department of State (2017) (3)
Book reviews: Human resources, personnel, and organizational behavior (1993) (3)
Explorations in Interpersonal Competence—II (1965) (3)
Interpersonal Competence, Organizational Milieu, and Innovation (1966) (3)
Seeking Truth and Actionable Knowledge: How the Scientific Method Inhibits Both (1987) (3)
Personality and group relations in industry (1957) (3)
Blindsided by the Elephant@@@Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning@@@Groups in Context: A New Perspective on Group Dynamics@@@The Workplace within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life@@@Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and (1994) (3)
How We Deal with Difficult Situations (2010) (2)
Leaders and Leadership@@@Leadership@@@The Vicar of Christ@@@Rockefeller of New York, Executive Power in the State-House@@@Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power@@@Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness@@@Management, Governance & Leadership, a Guide for College and Univ (1980) (2)
The Corrosion of Character: Capitalist and Socialist Economics (2004) (2)
THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY (2010) (2)
Looking Backward and Inward in Order to Contribute to the Future (2018) (2)
Executive Leadership: An Appraisal of a Manager in Action. (1954) (2)
A Rejoinder to Dunnette and Campbell (1968) (2)
OF MAPS AND GUIDES (1977) (2)
Features of Scholarly Inquiry that Inhibit Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity (2004) (2)
Integrating Theory and Practice@@@A Review of Kurt Lewin's Field Theory in Social Science@@@Resolving Social Conflicts (1989) (2)
Reﬂections on Personality and Organization (2004) (1)
Advances in management education, John Beck and Charles Cox (Eds), Wiley, Chichester, 1980. No. of pages: 355. Price: £15.90/$47.50. ISBN 0 471 27775 4 (1982) (1)
Every company faces a learning dilemma : the smartest people find it the hardest to learn (1995) (1)
Personality Fundamentals for Administrators. (1954) (1)
Organizational Defenses; Denials and Denials of the Denial Suggestions for Future Research (2008) (1)
Review: Satisfactions in the White Collar Job (1954) (1)
Reply to Stone's Review. (1982) (1)
A Retrospective Review: Argyris's Personality and Organization@@@Personality and Organization (1989) (1)
Culture, Leadership, and Traps (2010) (1)
The Member-Centered Conference As a Research Method, II (1950) (1)
Why Flawed Advice Persists (2000) (1)
Students and Businessmen: The Bristling Dialogue (1969) (0)
From the Professional Streamn (2016) (0)
to guarantee that they will be relegated, in time, to the fate of another fad. Both are too valuable to suffer this fate. (2016) (0)
Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, Richard M. Cyert and James G. March, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1963, 332 pages (1969) (0)
Building Generic Competence in Organizational Learning (2000) (0)
Volume Information (1974) (0)
The Irrational Character of Organizational Life. (1994) (0)
Review: Personality and Group Relations in Industry (1957) (0)
Actions that Trap us (2010) (0)
Managerial Controls, Rewards and Penalties, and Incentive Systems (2017) (0)
The Organization of the Future: A Summary View (2017) (0)
The Organizational Dilemma (2017) (0)
The Nature of The System: The Lower Levels (2017) (0)
Organizational Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning (2004) (0)
Book Review:Roleplaying in Business and Industry. Raymond J. Corsini, Malcolm E. Shaw, Robert R. Blake (1962) (0)
Generating Internal Commitment to Implementing Strategy (2000) (0)
Interpersonal competence acquisition activities and their relationship to therapy. (1969) (0)
Some Behavioral Science Contributions@@@Social Science Approaches to Business Behavior (1962) (0)
Field Methods and Techniques: A Note on a Research Technique: The Flow Chart (1951) (0)
Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge and Linda Holbeche. Organization Develop- ment: A Practitioner’s Guide for OD and HR. London, UK: Kogan (2012) (0)
The Capacity to Governby Yehezkel Dror (2003) (0)
Organizational Pseudo-effectiveness and Individual Pseudo-health (2017) (0)
Organizational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness (2017) (0)
A Sociology of Organisations@@@The Concept of Organization@@@On the Nature of Organizations@@@The Applicability of Organizational Sociology (1976) (0)
Hospital Digest: Influence and Manipulation within the Organization (1965) (0)
Inconsistent and Unactionable Advice (2000) (0)
Group training techniques: Cases, applications and research. (1975) (0)
The “Mix” Model (2017) (0)
Appraising Performance: The Dilemmas (2000) (0)
The administrative struggle. (1960) (0)
Book Note and Review: Human Relations: Effecting Change in Large Organizations (1958) (0)
Causes of Traps (2010) (0)
Organizational Intervention: A Merger of Theory and Action (2017) (0)
Book Review:Behavioral Approaches to Public Administration. Robert Presthus (1967) (0)
Volume Information (1972) (0)
Generating Internal Commitment to Values (2000) (0)
What is depth in organization (2001) (0)
The Organizational Structures of the New System (2017) (0)
Empirical Work Illustrating Aspects of the “Mix” Model (2017) (0)
Book Review: Human Resources, Personnel, and Organizational Behavior: Social Theory for Action: How Individuals and Organizations Learn to Change (1993) (0)
Using the Model to Explore Other Studies (2017) (0)
Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital.@@@Diagnosing Human Relations in Organizations: A Case Study of a Hospital. (1957) (0)
Organizational Consequences of Using Inconsistent Advice (2000) (0)
Reply to Professor Lauderdale (1983) (0)
Leonardo M. Álvarez, Knowledge for action; a guide to overcoming barriers to organizational change, San Francisco, jossey Bass Publishers,1993 (2000) (0)
Inhibiting Double-Loop Learning in Government and Information Technology (2004) (0)
Interventions that Facilitate Double-Loop Learning (2004) (0)
Organizational Staffing and Job Design (2017) (0)
Strengthening New Approaches (2010) (0)
Current Periodical Literature (1984) (0)
THE PROCESS OF INFLUENCE AND MANIPULATIONS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING. (1964) (0)
Books in review (1981) (0)
Book Review:Industrial Man: Businessmen and Business Organizations. W. Lloyd Warner, Norman Martin (1960) (0)
Diagnosing Human Relations in Organizations: A Case Study of a Hospital (1960) (0)
4. The School Develops (1996) (0)
Observations, Inferences and Pitches. (1965) (0)
Evaluating, Hiring, and Terminating Employees 1 (2017) (0)
Managerial Styles and Human Costs. (1962) (0)
Book Review: Personnel: Performance Appraisal: Creative Management (1963) (0)
Personality fundamentals for administrators : an introduction for the Layman (1953) (0)
Personality and Organization: The Conflict between System and the Individual. (1958) (0)
Leadership and Traps (2010) (0)
Evaluating Group Performance (2000) (0)
Summary of Part I (2017) (0)
The Nature of the System: Managerial Levels (2017) (0)
Introduction to Individual and Organizational Effectiveness (2017) (0)
The Manufacture of News, a Reader.@@@Behind the Front Page: Organizational Self-Renewal in a Metropolitan Newspaper. (1975) (0)

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