Publications and Papers

Readings to Get Started


For additional listings additional introductory materials, please visit the Readings to Get Started page under Positive Organizational Scholarship – the Field.


Coming in 2011 Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship.
Edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. (in press)
Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline edited by Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn. (2003)

An initiation into a new field of study in the organizational sciences.


Selected Review Articles


Bernstein, S.D. (2003). Positive Organizational Scholarship: Meet the Movement. Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(3): 266-271.

Cameron, K. S. (2007). Positive Organizational Scholarship. In S. Clegg and J. Bailey (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Organizational Studies. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Caza, A., & Cameron, K.S. (2008). Positive Organizational Scholarship: What Does it Achieve?. In S. Clegg and C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume 2: Macro Approaches. New York: Sage.

Dutton, J.E. & Glynn, M.A. (2008). Positive Organizational Scholarship. In J. Barling and C. Cooper (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume 1: Micro Approaches (pp. 693-712). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Dutton, J.E. & Sonenshein, S. (2009). Positive Organizational Scholarship. S. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Roberts, L.M. (2006). Response – shifting the lens on organizational life: The added value of positive scholarship. Academy of Management Review, 31(2): 292–305.

Spreitzer, G.M. (2008). A Note on 'The Future of Positive Organizational Scholarship.' In D. Barry & H. Hansen (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (pp. 501-503). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Special Issues


Cameron, K.S., and Caza, A. (2004). Special Issue on Contributions to Positive Organizational Scholarship. Contains theoretical and empirical articles on key aspects of positive organizational scholarship. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6)

Cameron, K.S., & Powley, E.H. (2006). Special Issue on Positive Organizational Change. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(3).

Fredrickson, B., and Dutton, J. (2008). Special issue on Positive Organizing. Journal of Positive Psychology, 3(1).

Manz, C.C., Cameron, K.S., Manz, K.P., & Marx, R.D. (2006). A Special Double Issue: Values and Virtues in Organizations. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, 3(1 &2).