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Brian T. Pentland publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian T. Pentland sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Brian T. Pentland D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian T. Pentland sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Brian T. Pentland is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scholar's work covers a range of topics including Complex Systems and Decision Making, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Business Strategy and Innovation, and Digital Transformation in Industry.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Building a complementary agenda for business process management and digital innovation (2020, European Journal of Information Systems)
  • The Dynamics of Drift in Digitized Processes (2020, MIS Quarterly)
  • Theorizing Process Dynamics with Directed Graphs: A Diachronic Analysis of Digital Trace Data (2021, MIS Quarterly)
  • Bringing Context Inside Process Research with Digital Trace Data (2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems)
  • Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths (2020, Organization Theory)

Their research output includes a book titled Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Martha S. Feldman, Luciana D'Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Julie Ryan Wolf, and Claus Rerup.

Brian T. Pentland has published extensively in several academic venues, including:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • MIS Quarterly
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Organization Science
  • European Journal of Information Systems

Best Publications

  • Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change

    Martha S. Feldman;Brian T. Pentland

  • Building Process Theory with Narrative: from Description to Explanation

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Organizational Routines as Grammars of Action

    Brian T. Pentland;Henry H. Rueter

  • Tools for inventing organizations: toward a handbook of organizational processes

    T.W. Malone;K. Crowston;Jintae Lee;B. Pentland

  • Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston;Jintae Lee;Brian Pentland

  • Organizational routines as a unit of analysis

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Designing routines: On the folly of designing artifacts, while hoping for patterns of action

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Information systems and organizational learning: The social epistemology of organizational knowledge systems

    Brian T Pentland

  • Dynamics of Organizational Routines: A Generative Model

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman;Markus C. Becker;Peng Liu

  • Getting comfortable with the numbers: Auditing and the micro-production of macro-order

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization

    Brian T. Pentland;Martha S. Feldman

  • Beyond routines as things : introduction to the special issue on routine dynamics

    Martha S. Feldman;Brian T. Pentland;Luciana D'Adderio;Nathalie Lazaric

  • Organizing Moves in Software Support Hot Lines

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Grammatical Models of Organizational Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • The (N)Ever-Changing World: Stability and Change in Organizational Routines

    Brian T. Pentland;Thorvald Hærem;Derek Hillison

  • Dynamics of Performing and Remembering Organizational Routines

    Kent D. Miller;Brian T. Pentland;Seungho Choi

  • Comparing Organizational Routines as Recurrent Patterns of Action

    Brian T. Pentland;Thorvald Hærem;Derek Hillison

  • Sequential Variety in Work Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Task Complexity: Extending a Core Concept

    Thorvald Hærem;Brian T. Pentland;Kent D. Miller

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Variety in the Execution of Organizational Work Processes

    Brian T. Pentland

  • Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work

    Brian T. Pentland

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha S. Feldman
Martha S. Feldman University of California, Irvine
Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston Syracuse University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Boston University
Jan C. Recker
Jan C. Recker Universität Hamburg
Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jan Mendling
Jan Mendling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kent D. Miller
Kent D. Miller Michigan State University
D. Harrison McKnight
D. Harrison McKnight Michigan State University
Kenneth A. Frank
Kenneth A. Frank Michigan State University
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University

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