Articles/Book Chapters

Lawton R. Burns, Eduardo Cisneros, William Ferniany, and Harbir Singh. "Strategic Alliances Between Buyers and Suppliers: Lessons From the Medical Imaging Industry." In Handbook of Supply Chain Management (Sage Publications). Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns, J. Andrew Lee, Eric T. Bradlow, and Anthony C. Antonacci. "Assessment of Medical Devices: How to Conduct Comparative Technology Evaluations of Product Performance." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns, David Nash, and Douglas Wholey. "The Evolving Role of Third Parties in the Hospital-Physician Relationship." American Journal of Medical Quality. Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns, J. Andrew Lee, Eric T. Bradlow, and Anthony C. Antonacci. "Surgeon Evaluation of Suture and Endo-Mechanical Products." Journal of Surgical Research. 141: 220 - 233, 2007

Robert Town, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman, and Lawton R. Burns. "Hospital Consolidation And Racial/Income Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage." Health Affairs. 26 (4): 1170 - 1180, 2007.

Kwang Jum Kim and Lawton R. Burns. "Factors Affecting the Performance of Hospital Alliances: Evidence from Korea." Health Services Management Research . 20: 141 - 152, 2007.

Lawton R. Burns. "Growth and Innovation in Medical Devices: A Conversation with Stryker Chairman John Brown." Health Affairs. May 1, 2007. Web Exclusive.

James Zazzali, Stephen Shortell, Jeffrey Alexander, and Lawton R. Burns. "Organizational Culture and Physician Satisfaction with Group Practice: A Multilevel Model of Cultural Perception and Context." Health Services Research. 42 (3): 1150 - 1176, 2007.

Robert Town, Roger Feldman, Douglas Wholey, and Lawton R. Burns "Revisiting the Relationship Between Managed Care and Hospital Consolidation. " Health Services Research. 42 (1): 219 - 238, 2007.

Lawton R. Burns. "Clinical Technology: Confronting the Technological Imperative." Future Scan: Healthcare Trends and Implications, 2007 - 2012. pg. 29 - 33.

Lawton R. Burns. “Dealing with Innovation and Costs in Orthopedics: A Conversation with Dane Miller.” Health Affairs. 25 (2006): W241-251. Published online May 18, 2006.

Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra Burns. “Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy." In Stevens, Rosenberg, and Burns (Eds.), History and Health Policy in the United States. Rutgers University Press. 2006.

Lawton R. Burns, Gilbert Gimm, and Sean Nicholson. “The Financial Performance of Integrated Health Organizations (IHOs).” Journal of Healthcare Management. 50(3): 191-213. 2005.

Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, Lawton R. Burns, Clarence Yap. "Two Decades of Organizational Change in Health Care: What Have We Learned?" Medical Care Research & Review 61(3): 247-331. 2004.

Douglas R. Wholey, Jon B. Christianson, Debra Draper, Cara Lesser, and Lawton R. Burns. “Embedded Responses of Communities to National Healthcare Firms.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45(Extra Issue): 118-135. 2004.

Lawton R. Burns, Thomas D’Aunno, and John Kimberly. “Globalization in Healthcare.” In H. Gatignon and J. Kimberly (Eds.), The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Globalizing: Strategies for Building Successful Global Businesses. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). Pp. 395-421. 2003.

Lawton R. Burns. "Physician-Hospital Organizations." Encyclopedia of Health Care Management. 2003.

Lawton R. Burns. "Networks." Encyclopedia of Health Care Management. 2003.

Lawton R. Burns and Mark V. Pauly. "Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs): A Detour on the Road to Integrated Healthcare?" Health Affairs, 21(4): 128-143. 2002.

Lawton R. Burns. "Competitive Strategy." In Daniel Albert (Ed.), A Physician's Guide to Healthcare Management. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Science). Pp. 46-56. 2002.

Grace Kreulen, Manfred Stommel, Barbara Gutek, Lawton R. Burns, Carrie Braden. "Utility of Retrospective Pretest Ratings of Patient Satisfaction with Health Status." Research in Nursing and Health, 25: 233-241. 2002.

Peter Budetti, Stephen M. Shortell, Teresa Waters, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, et al. "Physicians and Health System Integration." Health Affairs, 21(1): 203-210. 2002.

Douglas R. Wholey and Lawton R. Burns. "Understanding Health Care Markets: Actors, Products, and Relations." Paper prepared for Center for Studying Health System Change. Forthcoming in Stephen Mick (Ed.), Innovation in Health Care Delivery. 2nd Edition. 2002.

Lawton R. Burns, Jeffrey Alexander, Stephen M. Shortell et al. "Physician Commitment to Organized Delivery Systems." Medical Care, 39(7): I 9-29. July Supplement. 2001.

Jeffrey Alexander, Teresa Waters, Lawton R. Burns et al. "The Ties that Bind: Organizational Linkages and Physician-System Alignment." Medical Care, 39(7): I 30-45. July Supplement. 2001.

Stephen M. Shortell, James Zazzali, Lawton R. Burns et al. "Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine: The Role of Market Pressures, Compensation Incentives and Culture in Physician Organizations." Medical Care, 39(7): I 62-78. July Supplement. 2001.

Stephen M. Shortell, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns et al. "Physician-System Alignment: Introductory Overview." Medical Care, 39(7): I 1-18. July Supplement. 2001.

Robin Gillies, Howard Zuckerman, Lawton R. Burns, Stephen M. Shortell, et al. "Physician-System Relationships: Stumbling Blocks and Promising Practices." Medical Care, 39(7): I 92-106. July Supplement. 2001.

Jeffrey Alexander, Teresa Waters, Shawn Boykin, Lawton R. Burns et al. "Risk Assumption and Physician Alignment with Health Care Organizations" Medical Care, 39(7): I 46-61. July Supplement. 2001.

Teresa Waters, Peter Budetti, Katherine Reynolds, Robin Gillies, Howard Zuckerman, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, and Stephen Shortell. "Factors Associated with Physician Involvement in Care Management." Medical Care, 39(7): I 79-91. July Supplement. 2001.

Lawton R. Burns, Stephen Walston, Jeffrey Alexander, Howard Zuckerman, Ronald Andersen, and Paul Torrens. "Just How Integrated are Integrated Delivery Systems? Results from a National Survey." Health Care Management Review, 26(1): 22-41. 2001.

Stephen Walston, John R. Kimberly, and Lawton R. Burns. "Institutional and Economic Influences on the Adoption and Extensiveness of Managerial Innovation in Hospitals: The Case of Reengineering." Medical Care Research & Review, 58(2): 194-228. 2001.

Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, Michael Morrisey, and Victoria Johnson. "CEO Perceptions of Competition and Strategic Response in Hospital Markets." Medical Care Research & Review, 58(2): 162-193. 2001.

Lawton R. Burns and Darrell P. Thorpe. "Why Provider-Sponsored Health Plans Don't Work." Healthcare Financial Management : 2001 Resource Guide, pp. 12-16. 2001.

Sean Nicholson, Mark V. Pauly, Lawton R. Burns, Agnieshka Baumritter, and David Asch. "Measuring Community Benefits Provided by For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals." Health Affairs, 19(6): 168-177. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns. "A Research Agenda for Health Services Management." Health Care Management Review, 25(4): 85-87. 2000.

Craig Holm and Lawton R. Burns. "The Future of Health System - Physician Integration." Journal of Healthcare Management 45(6): 356-358. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns, Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, and Douglas Wholey. "Impact of HMO Market Structure on Physician-Hospital Strategic Alliances." Health Services Research 35(1): 101-132. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns, John Cacciamani, James Clement, and Welman Aquino. "The Fall of the House of AHERF: The Allegheny Bankruptcy." Paper presented to Association of Professors of Medicine (Pasadena, February). Health Affairs 19(1): 7-41. 2000.

Edward Zajac, Thomas D'Aunno, and Lawton R. Burns. "Managing Strategic Alliances." in Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior 4th Edition. (Albany, NY: Delmar). Pp. 307-329. 2000.

Douglas R. Wholey and Lawton R. Burns. "Tides of Change: The Evolution of Managed Care in the United States." In Handbook of Medical Sociology 5th Edition, Ed. By Chloe Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen Fremont. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall). Pp. 217-237. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns, and Douglas R. Wholey. "Responding to a Consolidating Healthcare System: Options for Physician Organizations." In Advances in Health Care Management Volume 1: 273-335. (New York: Elsevier). 2000.

Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, Lawton R. Burns, and Richard Lindrooth. "Is Provider Capitation Working? Effects on Physician-Hospital Integration and Costs of Care." Medical Care 38(3): 311-324. 2000.

Jeffrey Alexander, Thomas Vaughn, and Lawton R. Burns. "The Effects of Structure, Strategy, and Market Conditions on the Operating Practices of Physician-Organization Arrangements." Health Services Management Research 13:1-15. 2000.

Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, and Lawton R. Burns. "Capitated Contracting of Integrated Health Provider Organizations." Inquiry 36(4): 426-444. 2000.

Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, and Lawton R. Burns. "Capitated Contracting Roles and Relationships in Health Care." Journal of Healthcare Management 45(3): 170-187. 2000.

Stephen Walston, Lawton R. Burns, and John Kimberly. "Does Reengineering Really Work? An Examination of the Context and Outcomes of Hospital Reengineering Programs." Health Services Research 34(6): 1363-1388. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns, Kevin Anbari, and Jasmin Patel. "The Physician Practice Management Industry: A Partner for Pharmaceutical Companies in Clinical Trials?" Spectrum: Health Care Delivery and Economics. 2000.

Lawton R. Burns, Robert DeGraaff, and Harbir Singh. "Acquisition of Physician Group Practices by For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations." Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 39(4): 465-490. 1999.

Michael Morrisey, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, and Victoria Johnson. "The Effects of Managed Care on Physician and Clinical Integration in Hospitals." Medical Care 37(4): 350-361. 1999.

Lawton R. Burns. "Polarity Management: The Key Challenge for Integrated Health Systems." Journal of Healthcare Management 44(1): 14-33. 1999.

Lawton R. Burns, Terry Connolly, and Robert DeGraaff. "The Impact of Physicians' Perceptions of Malpractice and Adaptive Changes on Intention to Cease Obstetrical Practice." Journal of Rural Health 15(2): 134-146. 1999.

Douglas R. Wholey, Lawton R. Burns, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey. "Managed Care and the Delivery of Primary Care to the Elderly." Health Services Research Part II, 33(2): 322-353. 1998.

Lawton R. Burns, Michael Morrisey, Jeffrey Alexander, and Victoria Johnson. "Managed Care and Processes to Integrate Physicians/Hospitals." Health Care Management Review 23(4): 70-80. 1998.

Linda Dynan, Gloria Bazzoli, and Lawton R. Burns. "Assessing the Extent of Operational and Financial Integration Achieved Through Physician-Hospital Arrangements." Journal of Healthcare Management 43(3): 242-262. 1998.

Howard Zuckerman, Diana Hilberman, Ronald Andersen, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, and Paul Torrens. "Physicians and Organizations: Strange Bedfellows or a Marriage Made in Heaven?" Frontiers of Health Services Management, 14(3): 3-34. 1998.

Jeffrey Alexander, Michael Morrisey, Lawton R. Burns, and Victoria Johnson. "Physician and Clinical Integration in Rural Hospitals." Journal of Rural Health, 14(4): 312-326. 1998.

Lawton R. Burns, Stephen M. Shortell, and Ronald M. Andersen. "Does Familiarity Breed Contentment? The Effects of Physician-Hospital Integration." Research in the Sociology of Health Care, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press). Pp. 85-110. 1998.

Lawton R. Burns and James C. Robinson. "Physician Practice Management Companies: Implications for Hospital-Based Integrated Delivery Systems." Frontiers of Health Services Management, 14(2): 3-35. 1997.

Lawton R. Burns, Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, and Douglas Wholey. "Managed Care, Market Stages, and Integrated Delivery Systems: Is There a Relationship?" Health Affairs 16(6): 204-218. 1997.

Lawton R. Burns. "Physician Practice Management Companies." Health Care Management Review, 22(4):32-46. 1997.

Lawrence Van Horn, Lawton R. Burns, and Douglas R. Wholey. "The Impact of Physician Involvement in Managed Care on Efficient Use of Hospital Resources." Medical Care, 35(9): 873-889. 1997.

Lawton R. Burns, Jill Egan, and Susan Van Duyne. The Process of Physician-System Integration In Illinois. (Naperville, IL: Illinois Hospital & Health System Association). 1997.

Lawton R. Burns and Darrell P. Thorpe. "Physician-Hospital Organizations: Strategy, Structure, and Conduct." In R. Conners (Ed.), Integrating the Practice of Medicine. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association Publishing Co. Pp. 351-371. 1997.

Michael A. Morrisey, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, and Victoria A. Johnson. "Managed Care and Physician-Hospital Integration." Health Affairs 15(4): 62-73. 1996.

Jeffrey Alexander, Thomas Vaughn, Lawton R. Burns et al. "Organizational Approaches to Integrated Healthcare Delivery: A Taxonomic Analysis of Physician- Organization Arrangements." Medical Care Research and Review. 53(1):71-93. 1996.

Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, Howard Zuckerman et al. "An Exploratory Analysis of Market-based Physician-Organization Arrangements." Hospital and Health Services Administration 41(3): 311-329. 1996.

Stacie Geller, Lawton R. Burns, and David Brailer. "The Impact of Non-Clinical Factors on Practice Variations: The Case of Hysterectomies." Health Services Research 30(6): 729-750. 1996.

Lawton R. Burns, Gerri S. Lamb, and Douglas R. Wholey. "Impact of Integrated Community Nursing Services on Hospital Utilization and Costs in a Medicare Risk Plan." Inquiry 33(1): 30-41. 1996.

Stephen Walston, John Kimberly, and Lawton Burns. "Owned Vertical Integration and Health Care: Promise and Performance." Health Care Management Review 21(1): 83-92. 1996.

Lawton R. Burns. "Medical Organization Structures that Promote Quality and Efficiency: Past Research and Future Considerations." Quality Management in Health Care 3(4): 10-18. 1995.

Lawton R. Burns and Darrell P. Thorpe. "Managed Care and Integrated Healthcare." Health Care Management: Managed Care. Ed. by Harvey Jolt. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus. Pp. 101-108. 1995.

Lee R. Beach and Lawton R. Burns. "The Service Quality Improvement Strategy (QIS): Identifying Priorities for Change." International Journal of Service Industry Management 6(5): 5-15. 1995.

Lawton R. Burns, Stacie Geller, and Douglas Wholey. "The Effect of Physician Factors on the Cesarean Section Decision." Medical Care, 33(4): 365-382. 1995.

Lawton R. Burns, Jon Chilingerian, and Douglas Wholey. "The Effect of Physician Practice Organization on Efficient Utilization of Hospital Resources." Health Services Research, 29(5): 583-603. 1994.

Lawton R. Burns and Lee Sechrest. "Key Challenges Posed by the Clinton Healthcare Reform Proposal." Health Care Management: U.S. Healthcare in Transition. Ed. by Harvey Jolt. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, Pp. 81-90. 1994.

Lawton R. Burns and Lee R. Beach. "The Quality Improvement Strategy (QIS): A Method for Tying Quality Improvement to Physician Satisfaction with Hospital Services." Health Care Management Review. 19(2): 21-31. 1994.

Lawton R. Burns. "Network Models of the Dissemination of Innovations and Information." Effective Dissemination of Clinical and Health Information, Edited by Lee Sechrest, Everett Rogers, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, Pp. 153-158. 1994.

Lawton R. Burns and Douglas R. Wholey. "Adoption and Abandonment of Matrix Management Programs: Effects of Organizational Characteristics and Interorganizational Networks." Academy of Management Journal, 36(1): 106-138. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns, Douglas R. Wholey, and Marty O. Abeln. "Using Managed Care to Mainstream the Poor: Hospital Utilization and Mortality Levels for Patients in the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System." Inquiry, 30(2): 142-156. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns, Ronald M. Andersen, and Stephen M. Shortell. "Trends in Hospital/Physician Relationships." Health Affairs 12(3), 213-223. 1993.

Douglas R. Wholey and Lawton R. Burns. "Organizational Transitions: Form Changes by Health Maintenance Organizations." Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Samuel Bacharach (ed.), Greenwich, CN: JAI Press, pp. 257-293. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns. 1991 Medical Staff Survey Report. Division of Medical Affairs. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns and Darrell P. Thorpe." Trends and Models in Physician- Hospital Organization." Health Care Management Review, 18(4): 7-20. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns. Physician-Hospital Relations: Bibliography Drawn from the Academic and Trade Literatures. Chicago, IL: Hospital Research & Educational Trust. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns, Jon Chilingerian, and Douglas R. Wholey. "Factors Affecting Physician Efficiency in Managing Hospitalized Patients." In M. Malek (Ed.), Strategic Issues in Health Care Management. Chichester: John Wiley, Pp. 211-228. 1993.

Linda D. Michigan, Lon N. Larson, JoLaine R. Drugalis, J. Lyle Bootman, and Lawton R. Burns. "Time Preference for Health Gains Versus Health Losses." PharmacoEconomics, 3(5): 374-386. 1993.

Lawton R. Burns et al. "The Use of Continuous Quality Improvement Methods in the Dissemination of Medical Practice Guidelines." Quality Review Bulletin Vol. 18(12):434-439. 1992.

Lawton R. Burns and Douglas R. Wholey. "The Impact of Physician Characteristics in Conditional Choice Models for Hospital Care." Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 11: 43-62. 1992.

Lawton R. Burns and Douglas R. Wholey. " " Health Services Research, Vol. 27(1): 1-24. 1992.

Lawton R. Burns, Denise Hurtado, and Leila Shehab. "Hospitals' Investment and Return from Volunteer Departments and Auxiliaries: Evidence from One Community." Health Care Management Review, Vol. 16(4): 79-89. 1991.

Douglas R. Wholey and Lawton R. Burns. "Convenience and Independence: Do Physicians Strike a Balance in Admitting Decisions?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 32(3): 254-272. 1991.

Lawton R. Burns and Douglas R. Wholey. "Differences in Access and Quality of Care Across HMO Types." Health Services Management Research Vol. 4 (1): 32-45. 1991.

Lawton R. Burns and Douglas R. Wholey. "The Effects of Patient, Physician, and Hospital Characteristics on Length of Stay and Mortality." Medical Care, Vol. 29 (3): 251-271. 1991.

Lawton R. Burns, Ronald M. Andersen, and Stephen M. Shortell. "The Effect of Hospital Control Strategies on Physician Satisfaction and Hospital-Physician Conflict." Health Services Research, Vol. 25 (3): 527-560. 1990.

Lawton R. Burns. "The Transformation of the American Hospital: From Community Institution Towards Business Enterprise." In Craig Calhoun (Ed.) Comparative Social Research, Vol. 12: Business Institutions. JAI Press. 77-112. 1990.

Lawton R. Burns. "Matrix Management in Hospitals: Testing Theories of Matrix Structure and Development." Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 34 (3): 349-368. 1989.

Lawton R. Burns, Ronald M. Andersen, and Stephen M. Shortell. "The Impact of Corporate Structures on Physician Inclusion and Participation." Medical Care, Vol. 27 (11): 967-982. 1989.

Lawton R. Burns, Douglas R. Wholey, and John Huonker. "Physician Use of Hospitals: Effects of Physician, Patient, and Hospital Characteristics." Health Services Management Research, Vol. 2 (3): 191-203. 1989.

Lawton R. Burns and Selwyn Becker. "Leadership and Managership," in Stephen Shortell and Arnold Kaluzny (eds.), Health Care Management: A Text in Organizational Theory and Behavior, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 147-186. 1987.

Lawton R. Burns. "Hospital-Medical Staff Tensions: An Historical Overview and Analysis," Medical Practice Management, Vol. 1 (3): 191-198. 1986.

Lawton R. Burns, Ronald M. Anderson, and Stephen M. Shortell. "Evidence on Changing Hospital-Physician Relationships," in Cost Containment and Physician Autonomy: Implications for Quality Care, George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, pp. 122-142. 1986.

Lawton R. Burns. "A Framework to Measure the Impact of Hospital-Sponsored Primary Care on Patient Access." In Hospital-Physician Sponsored Primary Care: Marketing and Impact, by Lu Ann Aday, Ronald M. Anderson, et al. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Health Administration Press, pp. 20-34. 1985.

Lawton R. Burns and Selwyn Becker. "Leadership and Decision Making," in Stephen Shortell and Arnold Kaluzny, (eds.), Health Care Management: A Text in Organizational Theory and Behavior, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 128-166. 1983.

Lawton R. Burns. "Diffusion of Unit Management Among United States Hospitals," Hospital and Health Services Administration, Vol. 27 (2): 43-57. 1982.

Lawton R. Burns. "The Chicago School and the Study of Organization-Environment Relations." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 16: 342-358. 1980.

Kenneth E. Friend and Lawton R. Burns. "Sources of Variation in Job Satisfaction: Job Size Effects in a Sample of the U.S. Labor Force." Personnel Psychology, Vol. 30 (Winter): 589-605. 1977.