Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • D.B.A., University of Illinois 1967
  • M.B.A., University of Illinois 1963
  • B.S., University of Illinois 1961
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2004 - 2015
  • Professor with Tenure, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 1985 - 2013
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 1972 - 1985
  • Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 1970 - 1972
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • (92-0314) Grants for Graduate Programs in Health Administration awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1993
  • (92-0313) Traineeships for Students in Graduate Health Administration Programs awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1993
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Burton, RM, Desanctis, G, and Obel, B. Organizational design: A step-by-step approach. January 1, 2006.  Full Text

  • Book Sections

    • Burton, RM, Obel, B, and Håkonsson, DD. "Contingency theory, dynamic fit, and contracts." In Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World, 1-15. January 1, 2016.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Design rules for dynamic organization design: The contribution of computational modeling." In Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organization Theory, 223-244. January 1, 2013.  Full Text

  • Journal Articles

    • Turner, SF, Cardinal, LB, and Burton, RM. "Research Design for Mixed Methods." Organizational Research Methods 20, no. 2 (April 2017): 243-267.  Full Text
    • Døjbak Håkonsson, D, Eskildsen, JK, Argote, L, Mønster, D, Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Exploration versus exploitation: Emotions and performance as antecedents and consequences of team decisions." Strategic Management Journal 37, no. 6 (June 2016): 985-1001.  Full Text
    • Håkonsson, DD, Obel, B, Eskildsen, JK, and Burton, RM. "On Cooperative Behavior in Distributed Teams: The Influence of Organizational Design, Media Richness, Social Interaction, and Interaction Adaptation." Frontiers in psychology 7 (January 2016): 692-.  Full Text
    • Long, CP, Sitkin, SB, Cardinal, LB, and Burton, RM. "How controls influence organizational information processing: insights from a computational modeling investigation." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 21, no. 4 (December 2015): 406-436.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM. "Extraordinary Survival from Ordinary Resources – How So?." Management and Organization Review 11, no. 03 (September 2015): 413-417.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM. "The Future of Organization Design: An Interpretative Synthesis in Three Themes." Journal of Organization Design 2, no. 1 (April 15, 2013): 42-42.
    • Shimazoe, J, and Burton, RM. "Justification shift and uncertainty: Why are low-probability near misses underrated against organizational routines?." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 19, no. 1 (2013): 78-100.  Full Text
    • Gallo, PJ, and Burton, RM. "Sequencing Organizational Change for Post-Shock Adaptation: A Simulation Model." Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 3 (December 14, 2012): 37-50.
    • Carroll, TN, and Burton, RM. "A contingency approach to designing project organizations: theory and tools." Engineering Project Organization Journal 2, no. 1-2 (June 2012): 5-14.  Full Text
    • Håkonsson, DD, Burton, RM, Obel, B, and Lauridsen, JT. "Strategy Implementation Requires the Right Executive Style: Evidence from Danish SMEs." Long Range Planning 45, no. 2-3 (2012): 182-208.  Full Text
    • Shimazoe, J, and Burton, RM. "Justification shift and uncertainty: why are low-probability near misses underrated against organizational routines?." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (2012): 1-23.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Computational modeling for what-is, what-might-be, and what-should-be studies-and triangulation." Organization Science 22, no. 5 (2011): 1195-1202.  Full Text
    • Cardinal, LB, Turner, SF, Fern, MJ, and Burton, RM. "Organizing for product development across technological environments: Performance trade-offs and priorities." Organization Science 22, no. 4 (2011): 1000-1025.  Full Text
    • Kang, H-G, Burton, RM, and Mitchell, W. "How potential knowledge spillovers between venture capitalists' entrepreneurial projects affect the specialization and diversification of VC funds when VC effort has value." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 5, no. 3 (2011): 227-246.  Full Text
    • Nissen, ME, and Burton, RM. "Designing organizations for dynamic fit: System stability, maneuverability, and opportunity loss." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans 41, no. 3 (2011): 418-433.  Full Text
    • Jensen, KW, Håkonsson, DD, Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "The effect of virtuality on the functioning of centralized versus decentralized structures-an information processing perspective." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 16, no. 2 (2010): 144-170.  Full Text
    • Haakonsson, DD, Burton, RM, Obel, B, and Lauridsen, J. "How failure to align organizational climate and leadership style affects performance." Management Decision 46, no. 3 (2008): 406-432.  Full Text
    • Carroll, TN, Gormley, TJ, Bilardo, VJ, Burton, RM, and Woodman, KL. "Designing a new organization at NASA: An organization design process using simulation." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 202-214.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, Lauridsen, J, and Obel, B. "How Organizational Climate and Strategy Fit, as Seen by the CEO, Affects Performance." Human Resource Management 43, no. 1 (2004): 67-82.
    • Burton, RM, Lauridsen, J, and Obel, B. "The impact of organizational climate and strategic fit on firm performance." Human Resource Management 43, no. 1 (2004): 67-82.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM. "Computational Laboratories for Organization Science: Questions, Validity and Docking." Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 9, no. 2 (July 2003): 91-108.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, Lauridsen, J, and Obel, B. "Erratum: Return on assets loss from situational and contingency misfits (Management Science (2002) 48 (1461-1585))." Management Science 49, no. 8 (2003): 1119--.
    • Burton, RM, Feller, I, Feldman, M, and Bercovitz, J. "The State of Practice of University Technology Transfer Activities." Research Management Review 12, no. 2 (2002).
    • Burton, RM, Lauridsen, J, and Obel, B. "Return on assets loss from situational and contingency misfits." Management Science 48, no. 11 (2002): 1461-1485.
    • Burton, RM, Long, CP, and Cardinal, LB. "Three Controls are Better than One: A Computational Model of Complex Control Systems." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 8, no. 3 (2002): 197-220.
    • Burton, RM, Turner, S, and Bettis, RA. "Exploring Depth versus Breadth in Knowledge Management Strategies." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 8, no. 1 (2002): 49-73.
    • Burton, RM, and Kim, JS. "The Effect of Task Uncertainty and Decentralization on Project Team Performance." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 8, no. 4 (2002): 365-384.
    • Feldman, M, Feller, I, Bercovitz, J, and Burton, R. "Equity and the technology transfer strategies of American research universities." Management Science 48, no. 1 (2002): 105-121.
    • Bercouitz, J, Feldman, M, Feller, I, and Burton, R. "Organizational structure as a Determinant of Academic Patent and Licensing Behavior: An exploratory study of Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania State Universities." Journal of Technology Transfer 26, no. 1-2 (2001): 21-35.
    • Burton, RM, and Wong, SS. "Virtual Teams: What are their Characteristics and Impact on Team Performance?." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 6, no. 4 (2000): 339-360.
    • Baligh, HH, Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Organizational consultant: Creating a useable theory for organizational design." Management Science 42, no. 12 (1996): 1648-1662.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "The validity of computational models in organization science: From model realism to purpose of the model." Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 1, no. 1 (1995): 57-71.  Full Text
    • Aharoni, Y, and Burton, RM. "Is management science international: in search of universal rules." Management Science 40, no. 1 (1994): 1-3.
    • Burton, RM, Minton, JW, and Obel, B. "Organizational size and efficiency: An information processing view." Scandinavian Journal of Management 7, no. 2 (1991): 79-93.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Using historical information in the design of a decentralized firm's budgetary planning system." Computers and Operations Research 16, no. 2 (1989): 129-143.
    • Burton, RM, Forsyth, JD, and Melick, DM. "Searching for viability under changing environmental conditions." Technovation 8, no. 1-3 (1988): 111-131.
    • Burton, RM, Forsyth, JD, and Obel, B. "The new world of constant change." Technovation 8, no. 1-3 (1988): 1-6.
    • Burton, RM, Forsyth, JD, and Obel, B. "Preface." Technovation 8, no. 1-3 (1988): vii-.
    • Burton, RM, and Namm, DH. "Fitting the strategic planning process to organization: A clinical study of Burroughs Wellcome Co." Technovation 8, no. 1-3 (1988): 143-154.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Opportunism, incentives, and the m-form hypothesis. A laboratory study." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 10, no. 1 (1988): 99-119.
    • Burton, RM, Forsyth, JD, and Melick, DM. "The post-introduction management of products and services under rapidly changing environmental conditions." Technovation 5, no. 1-3 (1986): 125-143.
    • Burton, RM, and Forsyth, JD. "Variety and the firm's performance: An empirical investigation." Technovation 5, no. 1-3 (1986): 9-21.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Preface." Technovation 5, no. 1-3 (1986): vii-.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Environmental-Organizational relations: The effects of deregulation." Technovation 5, no. 1-3 (1986): 23-34.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Implications of deregulation: An overview." Technovation 5, no. 1-3 (1986): 1-7.
    • BURTON, RM. "VARIETY IN STRATEGIC-PLANNING - AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH." COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS 19, no. 4 (1984): 92-98.  Link to Item
    • Baligh, HH, and Burton, RM. "MOVEABLE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS." International journal of policy analysis and information systems 6, no. 4 (1982): 435-449.
    • Burton, RM. "An Organizational System: An Overview." International Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems 5, no. 4 (1981): 247-250.
    • BURTON, RM, and NAYLOR, TH. "ECONOMIC-THEORY IN CORPORATE-PLANNING." STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 1, no. 3 (1980): 249-263.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • BURTON, RM, and OBEL, B. "THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PRICE, BUDGET, AND MIXED APPROACHES UNDER VARYING A-PRIORI INFORMATION LEVELS FOR DECENTRALIZED PLANNING." MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 26, no. 4 (1980): 401-417.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • BURTON, RM, and OBEL, B. "A COMPUTER-SIMULATION TEST OF THE M-FORM HYPOTHESIS." ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY 25, no. 3 (1980): 457-466.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Baligh, HH, and Burton, RM. "Matching the organization's structure and its cooperative market relations." Theory and Decision 12, no. 4 (1980): 311-324.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, Dellinger, DC, and Damon, WW. "Making the area agencies on aging work: the role of information." Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 14, no. 1 (1980): 1-11.
    • Burton, RM, Damon, WW, and Obel, B. "An Organizational Model of Integrated Budgeting for Short-Run Operations and Long-Run Investments." Journal of the Operational Research Society 30, no. 6 (June 1979): 575-585.  Full Text
    • Baligh, HH, and Burton, RM. "Marketing in moderation- The marketing concept and the organization's structure." Long Range Planning 12, no. 2 (1979): 92-96.
    • Burton, RM, Damon, WW, and Obel, B. "ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL OF INTEGRATED BUDGETING FOR SHORT-RUN OPERATIONS AND LONG-RUN INVESTMENTS." Journal of the Operational Research Society 30, no. 6 (1979): 575-585.
    • Burton, RM, and Damon, WW. "Budgets for integrating decentralized investment and production planning." Omega 7, no. 2 (1979): 113-117.
    • Burton, R, Dellinger, D, and King, WR. "Alternative strategies for legislative analysis of public policy." Urban Systems 3, no. 1 (1978): 9-20.
    • Burton, RM, Dellinger, DC, Damon, WW, and Pfeiffer, EA. "A role for operational research in health care planning and management teams." Journal of the Operational Research Society 29, no. 7 (1978): 633-641.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "A comparative analysis of price, quantity, and mixed approaches for decentralized planning." Economics of Planning 14, no. 3 (1978): 129-140.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "The multilevel approach to organizational issues of the firm-A critical review." Omega 5, no. 4 (1977): 395-414.
    • Baligh, HH, and Burton, RM. "Organization structure and cooperative market relations." Omega 4, no. 5 (1976): 583-593.
    • Burton, RM, Damon, WW, and Dellinger, DC. "Estimating the impact of health services in a community." Behavioral Science 21, no. 6 (1976): 478-489.
    • Burton, RM, Damon, WW, and Dellinger, DC. "Patient States and Technology Matrix." Interfaces 5, no. 4 (1975): 43-53.
    • Burton, RM, and Damon, WW. "ON THE EXISTENCE OF A COST OF CAPITAL UNDER PURE CAPITAL RATIONING." The Journal of Finance 29, no. 4 (September 1974): 1165-1173.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, Damon, WW, and Loughridge, DW. "THE ECONOMICS OF DECOMPOSITION: RESOURCE ALLOCATION VS TRANSFER PRICING." Decision Sciences 5, no. 3 (July 1974): 297-310.  Full Text
    • Burton, R, and Rivett, P. "SURVEY OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS IN GREAT BRITAIN." Operational Research Quarterly 23, no. 2 (1972): 117-123.
    • Burton, RM, and Howard, GT. "Optimal Design for System Reliability and Maintainability." IEEE Transactions on Reliability R-20, no. 2 (May 1971): 56-60.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, and Laughhunn, DJ. "On the Optimality of Single-Item, Incremental Cost Rules for the Make-Buy Decision." The Engineering Economist 16, no. 4 (January 1971): 227-246.  Full Text
    • Burton, RM, and Laughhunn, DJ. "A Make-Buy Decision in a Production Planning Context." Journal of Business Administration 1, no. 2 (1970): 53-64.
    • Burton, RM, and Howard, GT. "Optimal System Reliability for a Mixed Series and Parallel Structure." Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 28, no. 2 (1969): 370-382.
    • Burton, RM, and Holzer, HP. "To Make or Buy." Management Services 5, no. 4 (1968): 26-31.
    • Burton, RM, and Obel, B. "Organization Structure Experiments Using Operations Research Models." Advances in Management Studies 2, no. 4: 297-310.
    • Håkonsson, DD, Obel, B, and Burton, RM. "Can organizational climate be managed? Making emotions rational (Published online)." Journal of Leadership Studies 1, no. 4: 62-73.  Full Text

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