About the Journal

Aims and Scope

The Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de gestion des Comportements Organisationnels (RIPCO) is an independent peer-reviewed, journal dedicated to the advancement of research in the fields of work psychosociology and organizational behavior. RIPCO publishes original, high-quality academic articles in French and in English, based in any discipline from the management sciences and the humanities in general, which shed new and informed light on organizational behavior.

RIPCO has an international outlook and aims for rigorous, contextualized research that contributes to the theory and practice of work psychosociology and organizational behavior, such as narrative, systematic, meta-analytical or bibliometric literature reviews advancing scientific knowledge, conceptual analyses proposing new theoretical frameworks, and empirical analyses using experiments, surveys, or case studies testing relationships between organizational phenomena. RIPCO notably promotes research on sustainable organizational behavior.

Additionally, RIPCO is open to a wide range of methodological and philosophical perspectives. It welcomes high-quality international research whose approaches are under-represented in mainstream organizational behavior research, such as qualitative or critical approaches. Similarly, the journal values rigorous scholarship from countries and regions of the world that are under-represented in the field of organizational behavior.

Finally, RIPCO embraces debate and encourages controversy in the form of non-research papers, based on the idea that this type of contributions are also necessary for the advancement of knowledge. The journal also publishes reviews of important books and articles on organizational behavior.

History

The “Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de gestion des Comportements Organisationnels” (RIPCO), International Journal of Psychosociology and Management of Organizational Behaviors, was created in 1994 by Gilles Amado and Eugène Enriquez who were appointed the firsts Editors-in-Chief, and by Serge Kebabtchieff, CEO of Eska Editions. It used to be called “Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie”, International Journal of Psychosociology.

RIPCO is the first French academic journal dedicated to the fields of psychosociology and organizational behavior. Since its creation, it has published more than 1100 articles. In 2008, it won the ADVANCIA CCIP Award (Paris). The journal is currently referenced in the following academic rankings: HARZING (since 2010), FNEGE (since 2011), AERES (2012), and confirmed by HCERES (2015) and CNRS (2019). RIPCO is also referenced in the following databases: CAIRN, CAIRN International, Google Scholar, ProQuest Social Science Database, ProQuest Sociology Database, and ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection.

In 2005, a new editorial team oriented the journal primarily on organizational behavior, to include the study of behaviors relating to the individual, the dyad and the group. In this respect, in 2011, the name of the journal was changed to Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de gestion des Comportements Organisationnels (International Journal of Psychosociology and Management of Organizational Behaviors).

Since 2019, the new editorial team has made major changes to enhance the journal’s scientific quality, internationalize it and make all operating procedures fully transparent. From the outset, the editorial team’s work of the has been guided by the observations made by Section 37 of the CNRS during its evaluations. It was recommended to make the submission process more open, to ensure greater rigor and transparency in the evaluation of submitted articles, to reduce thematic issues and to establish clear ethical rules. In keeping with these recommendations, the team has succeeded in modernizing RIPCO and turning it into an academic journal of high scientific quality, open, fully transparent and with a strong international outlook.

Editorial Orientation

RIPCO, has set itself the goal of becoming a reference publication dedicated entirely to research in organizational behavior (OB). The journal's objective is to describe, understand, explain and predict individual and collective attitudes and behaviors at work. It deals with a wide range of topics, including learning, expectations, change, trust, social conflict, psychological contract, culture, decision-making, diversity, emotion, identity, social interaction, image, involvement, judgment, organizational justice, leadership, motivation, perception, personality, power, quality of work life, satisfaction, socialization and more. The articles published in the journal aim to support researchers in their reflections and to enlighten the practices of consultants and managers in both the private and public sectors.

By organizational behavior, the journal’s editorial line since 2005 refers to the contribution of behaviors, attitudes and collective social phenomena to the effective functioning and performance of organizations. In other words, the journal aims to improve understanding and knowledge of individual and team behavior in the workplace. The field of organizational behavior is interdisciplinary, drawing on a wide variety of studies from psychology (including social psychology), ethnology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, economics, information technology, decision theory and more. By mobilizing these different disciplinary fields, this area of research enriches our knowledge of organizational phenomena, without however questioning the liminal texts of industrial psychology and sociology. Thus, RIPCO sees itself as an interdisciplinary journal whose purpose is to publish theoretical and empirical work in organizational behavior, irrespective of the type of organization under study (private, state-run, NGO, etc.), the methodology used and the contexts in which these studies are carried out.

RIPCO publishes scientific articles based in any discipline from the management sciences and the humanities in general, aim to shed new and informed light on organizational behavior. All analyses are welcome, including narrative, systematic, meta-analytical, or bibliometric literature reviews that summarize scientific knowledge on a specific subject, conceptual analyses proposing new theoretical frameworks, and empirical analyses using experiments, surveys, or case studies to test relationships between organizational phenomena.

Although the main focus is on academic research, the journal also accepts articles for scientific discussion and debate. It considers this input necessary for the advancement of knowledge. These articles or essays must clearly demonstrate their original and innovative character. They are reviewed according to a special procedure, distinct from the evaluation provided for classic academic articles, and are published under the heading “Points of View”.

Levels of Analysis

Individual level: RIPCO publishes research that focuses on the psychological and interpersonal processes responsible for key aspects of individual behavior. These processes contribute, in one way or another, to organizational life and performance, and can be studied at the level of employees without managerial responsibilities as well as at various management levels, including the executive team, whose decisions affect the entire organization, both internally and externally.

The individual characteristics, as well as the psychological and interpersonal processes most frequently addressed by academic journals in organizational behavior (list not exhaustive) are: learning (e.g., processes, approaches, socialization, retroaction, learning organization, behavioral change,…), personality (e.g., types and traits, …), emotions, stress (e.g., anxiety management), selection methods, communication (e.g., interpersonal and verbal, social desirability, organizational communication, …), perceptions, (e.g., selectivity, gender, appearance, attractiveness and discrimination, …), beliefs, attitudes, values, satisfaction, commitment, motivation, professional behavior, judgment, emotional and social intelligence, trust, organizational justice, social exchanges, well-being and so on.

Group level: group constitution (size, type of tasks, level of formalization, diversity, team development, virtual teams, theory, …), group composition and structure (e.g., hierarchy, status), group processes (e.g., development, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, conflict management, crisis management, …), power, group norms, teamwork, objectives, creativity, reflexivity, cohesion, adaptability, interactions, negotiation, performance, meaningfulness, environment and context, etc.

In this context, RIPCO is particularly interested in the relationships between two people (dyadic level – e.g., superior-subordinate, leader-follower, mentor-mentee, colleague-colleague, provider-receiver, evaluator-evaluated, …). Research published by RIPCO on the interactive behavior of dyads covers, among other things, links vs. ruptures, for example in relations and exchanges between superiors and subordinates or between colleagues. In particular, RIPCO encourages research into interpersonal relationships, the phenomena of interpersonal attraction vs. repulsion, punishment vs. reward, help vs. rejection, and their interaction with work, mentoring, coaching, trust, justice, social exchanges, networks, and so on.

The levels of analyses presented above are not mutually exclusive. They interact and reinforce each other. Moreover, the social and cultural environment within which the organization’s actors evolve influences their behavior. Which explains why certain themes are common to different levels of analysis (e.g., structures, processes, power, conflicts, decision-making, performance, job satisfaction, organizational identification, turnover and absenteeism, career management, equal opportunities, work-life balance, work culture and climate, etc.). It is also important to consider context-related elements, such as the economic and institutional environment (globalization, diversity, ethics, corporate social responsibility …), and technology (information system management, analysis and design of socio-technical systems, lean and team management, teleworking, employee monitoring, and so forth).