2026 Richard J. Boland: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	44	1315	1229	557	508	123	17294

Richard J. Boland publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Boland sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 123 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Richard J. Boland D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Boland sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard J. Boland is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with specific attention to subfields including Social Psychology, Strategy and Management, Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Management Information Systems.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach. These include:

Team Dynamics and Performance
Management and Organizational Studies
Big Data and Business Intelligence
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management and Sharing
Design Education and Practice
Public Relations and Crisis Communication

Richard J. Boland has authored multiple papers published in notable academic venues. Recent papers include:

"Communication and Knowledge Creation in Multiteam Systems", 2021, published in Academy of Management Proceedings
"The Role of Identity in Supporting a Shared Reality On Cross-Functional Project Teams", 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings
"Opening up the Black Box of Technology When Studying Organizations and People", 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings
"Post-scandal Organizational (Dis)order: A Grounded-Theory Approach Shifting from Murphy's Law to Safer Regulatory Environments", 2021, Corporate Reputation Review
"What's next for narratives? A prospective look theoretically, methodologically, and pragmatically", 2021, Academy of Management Proceedings

The frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

Academy of Management Proceedings
Corporate Reputation Review

Collaborations are observed with several co-authors with whom Richard J. Boland has published multiple times. Frequent co-authors include:

Fred Collopy
Susan Leigh Johnson
David C. Aron
Yunmei Wang
Philip A. Cola

Best Publications

Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing

Richard J. Boland;Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi

3351
Citations
Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World

Youngjin Yoo;Richard J. Boland;Kalle Lyytinen;Ann Majchrzak

2648
Citations
Managing as Designing

Richard J. Boland;Fred Collopy

927
Citations
Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks

Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo;Richard J. Boland

791
Citations
Wakes of Innovation in Project Networks: The Case of Digital 3-D Representations in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Richard J. Boland;Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo

780
Citations
Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition

Richard J. Boland;Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi;Dov Te'eni

740
Citations
Knowledge management technology and the reproduction of knowledge work practices

Ulrike Schultze;Richard J. Boland

498
Citations
Critical Issues in Information Systems Research

Richard J. Boland;Rudy A. Hirschheim

472
Citations
The Process and Product of System Design

Richard J. Boland

429
Citations
Accounting in organizations: A union of natural and rational perspectives

Richard J. Boland;Louis R. Pondy

407
Citations
Information System Use as a Hermeneutic Process

Richard J. Boland

363
Citations
Design Matters for Management

Richard J. Boland;Fred Collopy

354
Citations
Control, causality and information system requirements

Richard J. Boland

340
Citations
Accounting and the interpretive act

Richard J. Boland

327
Citations
From Organization Design to Organization Designing

Youngjin Yoo;Richard J. Boland;Kalle Lyytinen

316
Citations
Managing as Designing: Lessons for Organization Leaders from the Design Practice of Frank O. Gehry

Richard J. Boland;Fred Collopy;Kalle Lyytinen;Youngjin Yoo

256
Citations
Knowledge Representations and Knowledge Transfer

Richard J. Boland;Jagdip Singh;Paul Salipante;John D. Aram

252
Citations
The Next Wave of Digital Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: A Report on the Research Workshop 'Digital Challenges in Innovation Research'

Youngjin Yoo;Kalle J. Lyytinen;Richard J. Boland;Nicholas Berente

240
Citations
Dialectics of collective minding: contradictory appropriations of information technology in a high-risk project

Jessica Luo Carlo;Kalle Lyytinen;Richard J. Boland

217
Citations
Introduction to the Special Issue: Organization Studies as a Science for Design: Creating Collaborative Artifacts and Research

Mariann Jelinek;A. Georges L. Romme;Richard J. Boland

212
Citations
The physician’s experience of changing clinical practice: a struggle to unlearn

Divya M. Gupta;Richard J. Boland;David C. Aron;David C. Aron

206
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University

Youngjin Yoo London School of Economics and Political Science

Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California

Bo-Christer Björk Hanken School of Economics

Kevin Crowston Syracuse University

Wanda J. Orlikowski MIT

John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Blake Ives College of Charleston

Gerardine DeSanctis Duke University

John C. Henderson Boston University

External Links

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