Global Research Team
Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy
University of Texas–Austin / Harvard University, Business / Economics
James L. Ritchie-Dunham is a Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Associate and Director of the Flourishing Network at Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program. He holds a PhD in decision sciences from UT Austin and completed postdoctoral work at MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on ecosynomics — the study of abundance-based systems of agreements — and on organizational and leadership dimensions of human flourishing.
An exploratory cross-national analysis of the childhood predictors of inner peace in the Global Flourishing Study
Scientific Reports · 2025
Childhood predictors of balance in life: a cross-national analysis of the global flourishing study
Scientific Reports · 2025
Childhood predictors of social support and intimate friends in a Cross-National analysis of the global flourishing study
Scientific Reports · 2025 · First author
Demographic Variation in Balance in Life Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of the Global Flourishing Study
Applied Research in Quality of Life · 2025
Demographic Variation in Inner Peace Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of the Global Flourishing Study
Journal of Happiness Studies · 2025
Demographic Variation in Social Support and Intimate Friend Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology · 2025 · First author
Identifying childhood correlates of adult purpose and meaning across 22 countries (Global Flourishing Study)
npj Mental Health Research · 2025
Sociodemographic variation and childhood predictors of showing love and care for others in 22 countries
Scientific Reports · 2025
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025