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Jordan Nielsen

Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2005

Publications

28

Citations

541

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

22

Publishing since 2005

Research summary
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Jordan Nielsen studies how people experience work, focusing on topics like finding meaning and calling in one's job, entrepreneurial identity, team and person-group fit, and how workplace stress and personality interact. Much of this research draws on organizational psychology methods, including scale development and meta-analysis, to understand employee well-being and career experiences. The work is aimed at understanding why people find (or lose) satisfaction and purpose in their work and how organizations shape those experiences.

Meaningful work and callingEntrepreneurial identity and transitionsTeam and person-group fitWorkplace stress and proactive personalityJob design and career orientations

Publication output has been relatively steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 2 and 5 papers per year without a clear long-term upward or downward trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
172018: 3 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 5 publications5202021: 2 publications212022: 5 publications5222023: 2 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 1 publication252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Academy of Management Proceedings×9
  • Personnel Psychology×2
  • Academy of Management Journal×2
  • PsycTESTS Dataset×2
  • Administrative Science Quarterly×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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