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D-Index
44
Citations
10299
World Ranking
1343
National Ranking
215

Rick Delbridge 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 Rick Delbridge sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 203 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rick Delbridge 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 Rick Delbridge sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

Rick Delbridge is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily addresses topics within Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and organizational studies.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development

Delbridge's research covers a variety of subfields, such as:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Strategy and Management

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Delbridge include:

  • Dylan Henderson
  • Kevin Morgan
  • Markus Helfen
  • Andreas Pekarek
  • Gretchen Purser

Delbridge has contributed to journals across various publication venues, notably:

  • Regional Studies
  • International Journal of Information Management
  • Human Resource Management Journal
  • Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • Organization Studies

Some of the recent academic papers authored or co-authored by Delbridge include:

  • "Organizing Sustainably: Introduction to the Special Issue" (2024), Organization Studies
  • "Real impact": Challenges and opportunities in bridging the gap between research and practice - Making a difference in industry, policy, and society (2024), International Journal of Information Management
  • "Putting missions in their place: micro-missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation" (2023), Regional Studies
  • "Situating human resource management in the political economy: Multilevel theorising and opportunities for kaleidoscopic imagination" (2020), Human Resource Management Journal
  • "Lessons From Creating a Business School for Public Good: Obliquity, Waysetting, and Wayfinding in Substantively Rational Change" (2020), Academy of Management Learning and Education

Delbridge has been recognized by professional organizations, holding fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Best Publications

  • Employee engagement, organisational performance and individual well-being: exploring the evidence, developing the theory

    Catherine Truss;Amanda Shantz;Emma Soane;Kerstin Alfes

  • Escape from the Iron Cage? Organizational Change and Isomorphic Pressures in the Public Sector

    Rachel Elizabeth Ashworth;George Alexander Boyne;Rick Delbridge

  • Understanding innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises: a process manifest

    Timothy James Edwards;Rick Delbridge;Maxim C. R. Munday

  • News From Behind My Hand: Gossip in Organizations:

    Mike Noon;Rick Delbridge

  • Pushing back the frontiers: management control and work intensification under JIT/TQM factory regimes

    Rick Delbridge;Peter Turnbull;Barry Wilkinson

  • Systems of Exchange

    Nicole Woolsey Biggart;Rick Delbridge

  • Finding, Forming, and Performing: Creating Networks for Discontinuous Innovation

    Julian Birkinshaw;John Bessant;Rick Delbridge

  • Employee engagement, organisational performance and individual well-being: exploring the evidence, developing the theory

    Catherine Truss;Amanda Shantz;Emma Soane;Kerstin Alfes

  • Employee engagement in multinational organizations

    Catherine Truss;Kerstin Alfes;Rick Delbridge;Amanda Shantz

  • Editors' Comments: Styles of Theorizing and the Social Organization of Knowledge

    Rick Delbridge;Peer C. Fiss

  • Inhabiting Institutions: Critical Realist Refinements to Understanding Institutional Complexity and Change

    Rick Delbridge;Timothy James Edwards

  • Lean Production Practices: International Comparisons in the Auto Components Industry1

    Nick Oliver;Rick Delbridge;James Lowe

  • Overcoming Network Overload and Redundancy in Interorganizational Networks: The Roles of Potential and Latent Ties

    Francesca Mariotti;Rick Delbridge

  • Organizing unionism comes to the UK

    Edmund Heery;Melanie Simms;Dave Simpson;Rick Delbridge

  • Situating Organizational Action: The Relational Sociology of Organizations

    Alistair Mutch;Rick Delbridge;Marc Ventresca

  • Context matters: examining ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ approaches to employee engagement in two workplaces

    Sarah Louise Jenkins;Rick Delbridge

  • World Class Manufacturing: Further Evidence in the Lean Production Debate1

    Nick Oliver;Rick Delbridge;Dan Jones;Jim Lowe

  • Shopfloor Responsibilities Under Lean Teamworking

    Rick Delbridge;James Lowe;Nick Oliver

  • SURVIVING JIT: CONTROL AND RESISTANCE IN A JAPANESE TRANSPLANT

    Rick Delbridge

  • Life on the line in contemporary manufacturing

    Rick Delbridge

  • Organizing for continuous improvement: Structures and roles in automotive components plants

    Rick Delbridge;Harry Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund Heery
Edmund Heery Cardiff University
Amanda Shantz
Amanda Shantz University of St. Gallen
Catherine Truss
Catherine Truss King's College London
John Bessant
John Bessant University of Exeter
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw London Business School
Andy Neely
Andy Neely University of Cambridge
William Brown
William Brown University of Cambridge
George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen
Max Munday
Max Munday Cardiff University
Mahmoud Ezzamel
Mahmoud Ezzamel IE University

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