2026 Richard M. Burton: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	40	5272	4892	2491	2268	154	8645

Overview

Richard M. Burton is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on organizational design and management science. Their work encompasses multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, and Social Sciences, with a particular concentration on strategy, management, and innovation.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as:

Innovation and Knowledge Management
Complex Systems and Decision Making
Business Strategy and Innovation
Digital Platforms and Economics
Quality and Supply Management
Auction Theory and Applications
Service and Product Innovation

Richard M. Burton has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

Journal of Organization Design
Social Science & Medicine
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Cambridge University Press eBooks

Some of their recent notable papers include:

New trends in organization design (2020), Journal of Organization Design
Expanding the organizational design space: the emergence of AI robot bosses (2023), Journal of Organization Design
Fit, misfit, and design: JOD studies that touch reality (2020), Journal of Organization Design
Organizational resilience in emergency healthcare: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in five Danish hospitals (2025), Social Science & Medicine
How firm boundaries and relatedness jointly affect diversification value: trade-offs between governance and flexibility (2020), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

In addition to journal articles, Burton has contributed to a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Organizational Design (2020), which has received citations and contributes to the academic discussion on organizational structures.

Frequent collaborators include:

Børge Obel
Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
Erik R. Larsen
Iben Duvald
C. Lohse

Their scholarly work is characterized by the integration of strategy and management with complex systems and decision-making theories, often analyzing how organizational structures can adapt or innovate in the context of evolving business environments and technological advances.

Best Publications

Research Design for Mixed Methods: A Triangulation-based Framework and Roadmap

Scott F. Turner;Laura B. Cardinal;Richard M. Burton

671
Citations
Equity and the Technology Transfer Strategies of American Research Universities

Maryann Feldman;Irwin Feller;Janet Bercovitz;Richard Burton

662
Citations
Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design : Developing Theory for Application

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel;Starling Hunter;Mikael Søndergaard

573
Citations
Organizational Structure as a Determinant of Academic Patent and Licensing Behavior: An Exploratory Study of Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania State Universities

Janet Bercovitz;Maryann Feldman;Irwin Feller;Richard Burton

503
Citations
Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design: The Dynamics of Fit

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

471
Citations
Organizational Design : A Step-by-Step Approach

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel;Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson

418
Citations
The impact of organizational climate and strategic fit on firm performance

Richard M. Burton;Jørgen Lauridsen;Børge Obel;Børge Obel

366
Citations
A practical guide for making theory contributions in strategic management

Richard Makadok;Richard M. Burton;Jay B. Barney

339
Citations
Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

317
Citations
Virtual Teams: What are their Characteristics, and Impact on Team Performance?

Sze-Sze Wong;Richard M. Burton

266
Citations
The validity of computational models in organization science: from model realism to purpose of the model

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

265
Citations
Return on Assets Loss from Situational and Contingency Misfits

Richard M. Burton;Jørgen Lauridsen;Børge Obel

264
Citations
How failure to align organizational climate and leadership style affects performance

Dorthe Døjbak Haakonsson;Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel;Jørgen Lauridsen

187
Citations
Organizations and Complexity: Searching for the Edge of Chaos

Tim Carroll;Richard M. Burton

170
Citations
Computational Modeling for What-Is, What-Might-Be, and What-Should-Be Studies---And Triangulation

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

156
Citations
Designing efficient organizations : modelling and experimentation

Huseyin Leblebici;Richard M. Burton;Borge Obel

152
Citations
The science of organizational design: Fit between structure and coordination

Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

151
Citations
Organizational consultant: creating a usable theory for organizational design

Helmy H. Baligh;Richard M. Burton;Børge Obel

145
Citations
Computational Laboratories for Organization Science: Questions, Validity and Docking

Richard M. Burton

140
Citations
A Computer Simulation Test of the M-Form Hypothesis

Richard M. Burton;Borge Obel

122
Citations
Exploration versus exploitation: Emotions and performance as antecedents and consequences of team decisions

Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson;Jacob Kjær Eskildsen;Linda Argote;Dan Mønster

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Phanish Puranam INSEAD

Sim B. Sitkin Duke University

External Links

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