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Overview

Raymond E. Levitt is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions in Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their recent publications have addressed a range of topics within these domains, notably focusing on construction project management and performance, innovation and knowledge management, qualitative comparative analysis research, regulation and compliance studies, public policy and administration research, management and organizational studies, and environmental sustainability in business.

Levitt's recent papers include:

  • "One approach does not fit all (smart) cities: Causal recipes for cities' use of "data and analytics"" (2020) published in Cities
  • "Organizational roles in a sustainability alliance network" (2020) published in Business Strategy and the Environment
  • "Using scripts to address cultural and institutional challenges of global project coordination" (2020) published in Journal of International Business Studies
  • "Leadership and the dynamics of projects: Ray Levitt's insights on project leadership" (2024) published in Project Leadership and Society
  • "Rejoinder to the Festschrift" (2020) published in Construction Management and Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Levitt include:

  • Robert Wilhelm Siegfried Ruhlandt
  • Rishee K. Jain
  • Daniel Hall
  • Julien Pollack
  • Jennifer Whyte

Key publication venues where Levitt's work has appeared multiple times are:

  • Cities
  • Project Leadership and Society
  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Construction Management and Economics

The central themes of Levitt's research emphasize constructing frameworks and strategies to improve project management and organizational leadership, with attention to sustainability and innovation within business contexts. This aligns with their focus on qualitative and comparative analyses of organizational roles and network dynamics.

Levitt's scholarship reflects a blend of theoretical and applied research, integrating public policy and administrative insights to address challenges faced in construction and business strategy environments. Their work contributes to understanding how organizations coordinate globally and adapt leadership practices to dynamic project environments.

Best Publications

  • The virtual design team: A computational model of project organizations

    Yan Jin;Raymond E. Levitt

  • Construction safety management

    Raymond Elliot Levitt;Nancy Morse Samelson

  • Simulating Project Work Processes and Organizations: Toward a Micro-Contingency Theory of Organizational Design

    Raymond E. Levitt;Jan Thomsen;Tore R. Christiansen;John C. Kunz

  • Interpersonal trust in cross-functional, geographically distributed work: A longitudinal study

    Roxanne Zolin;Pamela J Hinds;Renate Fruchter;Raymond E Levitt

  • Knowledge-based systems in engineering

    Ray E. Levitt

  • Formalization and Automation of Time-Space Conflict Analysis

    Burcu Akinci;Martin Fischen;Raymond Levitt;Robert Carlson

  • Computer Integration: Reducing Fragmentation in AEC Industry

    H. C. Howard;R. E. Levitt;B. C. Paulson;J. G. Pohl

  • The virtual design team

    John C. Kunz;Tore R. Christiansen;Geoff P. Cohen;Yan Jin

  • Innovation alignment and project network dynamics: An integrative model for change

    John E. Taylor;Raymond Levitt

  • Toward a unified theory of project governance: economic, sociological and psychological supports for relational contracting

    Witold J. Henisz;Raymond E. Levitt;W. Richard Scott

  • Institutional Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Conflicts on Global Projects

    Ashwin Mahalingam;Ashwin Mahalingam;Raymond E. Levitt;Raymond E. Levitt

  • Organization and governance in construction

    Torger Reve;Raymond E Levitt;Raymond E Levitt

  • (Re)defining public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the new public governance (NPG) paradigm: an institutional maturity perspective

    Carter B. Casady;Kent Eriksson;Raymond E. Levitt;W. Richard Scott

  • Access to Information in Connective and Communal Transactive Memory Systems

    Y. Connie Yuan;Janet Fulk;Peter R. Monge

  • OARPLAN: Generating project plans by reasoning about objects, actions and resources

    Adnan Darwiche;Raymond E. Levitt;Barbara Hayes-Roth

  • Global Projects: Institutional and Political Challenges

    W. Richard Scott;Raymond E. Levitt;Ryan J. Orr

  • The “virtual design team”: simulating how organization structure and information processing tools affect team performance

    Raymond E. Levitt;Geoffrey P. Cohen;John C. Kunz;Clifford I. Nass

  • “Site Fights”: Explaining Opposition to Pipeline Projects in the Developing World1

    Doug McAdam;Hilary Schaffer Boudet;Jennifer Davis;Ryan J. Orr

  • CEM Research for the Next 50 Years: Maximizing Economic, Environmental, and Societal Value of the Built Environment

    Raymond E. Levitt

  • Representing Work Spaces Generically in Construction Method Models

    Burcu Akinci;Martin Fischer;John Kunz;Ray Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Jin
Yan Jin University of Southern California
W. Richard Scott
W. Richard Scott Stanford University
John E. Taylor
John E. Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology
Barbara Hayes-Roth
Barbara Hayes-Roth RAND Corporation
Iris D. Tommelein
Iris D. Tommelein University of California, Berkeley
Martin Fischer
Martin Fischer Stanford University
Witold J. Henisz
Witold J. Henisz University of Pennsylvania
Karlos Artto
Karlos Artto Aalto University
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass Stanford University
Jonghoon Kim
Jonghoon Kim Chungnam National University

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