2026 Douglas L. Kruse: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	54	1128	1001	690	596	154	12783

Overview

Douglas L. Kruse is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans a variety of topics primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences.

Their scholarly work covers numerous subfields including Accounting, Demography, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, and Strategy and Management. Key topics of focus in their research include Retirement, Disability, and Employment; Disability Education and Employment; Corporate Finance and Governance; Cooperative Studies and Economics; Employment and Welfare Studies; Labor market dynamics and wage inequality; and Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis.

Douglas L. Kruse has published in a variety of academic venues with frequent contributions to the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, Academy of Management Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, Organization Science, and International Review of Applied Economics.

Some of their recent publications include:

Disability and remote work during the pandemic with implications for cancer survivors, 2022, Journal of Cancer Survivorship
Does employee ownership improve performance?, 2022, IZA World of Labor
A Real Utopia Under What Conditions? The Economic and Social Benefits of Workplace Democracy in Knowledge-Intensive Industries, 2022, Organization Science
Race and gender wealth equity and the role of employee share ownership, 2021, Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership
Telework during the pandemic: Patterns, challenges, and opportunities for people with disabilities, 2022, Disability and health journal

Frequent co-authors in their work include Joseph Blasi, Lisa Schur, Mason Ameri, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Dan Weltmann.

Best Publications

Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy

Joseph R. Blasi;Maya Kroumova;Douglas Kruse;Andrei Shleifer

787
Citations
Profit Sharing and Productivity

Martin L. Weitzman;Douglas L. Kruse;Alan S Blinder

784
Citations
Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference?

Douglas L. Kruse

498
Citations
Profit sharing : does it make a difference? : the productivity and stability effects of employee profit-sharing plans

Douglas L. Kruse

491
Citations
Corporate culture and the employment of persons with disabilities.

Lisa Schur;Douglas Kruse;Peter Blanck

488
Citations
Is disability disabling in all workplaces? Workplace disparities and corporate culture

Lisa Schur;Douglas Kruse;Joseph Blasi;Peter Blanck

484
Citations
Employee Stock Ownership and Corporate Performance among Public Companies

Joseph Blasi;Michael Conte;Douglas Kruse;Douglas Kruse

477
Citations
Shared capitalism at work : employee ownership, profit and gain sharing, and broad-based stock options

Douglas L Kruse;Richard B Freeman;Joseph R Blasi

469
Citations
Employee Ownership, Employee Attitudes, and Firm Performance

Douglas Kruse;Joseph Blasi

435
Citations
The Disability Employment Puzzle: A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior

Mason Ameri;Lisa Schur;Meera Adya;F. Scott Bentley

398
Citations
Profit Sharing and Productivity: Microeconomic Evidence from the United States

Douglas L. Kruse

357
Citations
Employment of People with Disabilities Following the ADA

Douglas Kruse;Lisa Schur

339
Citations
Flexible Work Hours and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Edward M. Shepard;Thomas J. Clifton;Douglas Kruse

304
Citations
Why Do Firms Adopt Profit‐Sharing and Employee Ownership Plans?

Douglas L. Kruse

296
Citations
The New Owners: The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership in Public Companies and What It Means to American Business

Joseph R. Blasi;Douglas L. Kruse

282
Citations
In the company of owners : the truth about stock options (and why every employee should have them)

Joseph Blasi;Douglas Kruse;Aaron Bernstein

278
Citations
Accommodating employees with and without disabilities

Lisa Schur;Lisa Hisae Nishii;Meera Adya;Douglas Kruse

257
Citations
Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference?

Unknown

247
Citations
Broad‐based Employee Stock Options in US ‘New Economy’ Firms

James C. Sesil;Maya K. Kroumova;Joseph R. Blasi;Douglas L. Kruse

226
Citations
Enabling Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout

Lisa Schur;Todd Shields;Douglas Kruse;Kay Schriner

190
Citations
Worker Responses To Shirking Under Shared Capitalism

Richard B. Freeman;Douglas L. Kruse;Joseph R. Blasi

176
Citations
Telework After COVID: A "Silver Lining" for Workers with Disabilities?

Lisa A. Schur;Mason Ameri;Douglas Kruse

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Freeman Harvard University

Peter Blanck Syracuse University

Alan B. Krueger Princeton University

T. D. Stanley Deakin University

Harry M. Markowitz University of California, San Diego

Margaret M. Blair Vanderbilt University

Hristos Doucouliagos Deakin University

Franklin Allen Imperial College London

Anthony M. Santomero University of Pennsylvania

Alison M. Konrad University of Western Ontario

External Links

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