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Born 1961.
EDUCATION:University of Michigan, B.A., 1984; Stanford University, M.A. 1987, Ph.D., 1990.
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Kellogg Graduate School of Management, assistant professor, 1990, became associate professor; Stanford University Graduate School of Business, associate professor, 1994, became professor; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, 1997-98; University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker professor of business administration, professor of sociology, 2001—.
WRITINGS
Contributor to periodicals, including Academy of Management Perspectives, Strategic Organization, Perspectives on Work, YaleGlobal Online, Stanford Social Innovation Review, IESE Insight, Brookings Institution Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, American Journal of Sociology, Seattle University Law Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Behavioral Science & Policy, Third Way, Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
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Gerald F. Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he has taught since 2001. He is also a professor in the University of Michigan department of sociology, where he is Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management. Ross’s writing focuses on topics relating to corporate governance, finance and society, and organizational behavior.
Davis graduated from the University of Michigan, with high distinction in philosophy and psychology, in 1984, and completed his graduate studies at Stanford University, earning an M.A. in sociology in 1987 and a Ph.D. in business and organizational behavior in 1990. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty, he taught at the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management, the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Managed by the Markets
In Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America, Davis argues that while Americans had once assumed that corporations would serve as a predictable means of providing them with long-term savings and economic security, this is no longer the case. The author explains that during the era of financial capitalism, from about 1900 to 1930, and during the ensuing period of managerial capitalism, which ended around 1980, industrial production peaked and declined. While Americans had generally trusted corporations as agents of economic activity during these years, the country’s rapid shift toward a service economy changed this attitude. Starting in the 1980s, an era of aggressive corporate mergers and acquisitions dominated the economic news, causing the perception of instability. Extensive deregulation of corporations in the late 1990s and early 2000s exacerbated this perception and a spate of corporate scandals, among them the notorious fraud case against Houston-based Enron Corporation, further eroded public confidence in corporate behavior. As a result, Americans have increasingly relied on financial markets, rather than corporations, as a means of earning reliable returns on savings and investments. In the author’s view, however, “when individuals come to see themselves as free agent investors, the consequences for society can be dire.”
As a writer for Publishers Weekly pointed out, Davis offers few suggestions for mitigating these consequences other than to suggest that it should be government’s responsibility to intervene. Even so, the reviewer deemed Managed by the Markets a “compelling” book that provides stimulating insights into the dynamics of U.S. financial security. Managed by the Markets received the 2010 George R. Terry Book Award.
Changing Your Company from the Inside Out
Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs, written with Christopher J. White, offers advice on effecting positive social change from within an organization. “Intrapreneur,” the authors explain, is a relatively new term describing an individual who has ambitions to initiate change from within an established company and is willing to take risks to achieve this. Intrapreneurs, they write, are leaders who create “change within their organizations, without formal authority, that aligns with core business objectives while also advancing a social or environmental outcome.” As examples of such outcomes, the authors list the creation of more environmentally-sustainable goods, the elimination of business practices that cause pollution, and the provision of training programs for workers.
Davis and White draw on research from major social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Arab Spring uprising, as well as from the records of successful intrapreneurs, to identify the most effective strategies and tactics for changing a company from the inside out. They discuss specifics such as how to determine the right time to initiate change; how to communicate the compelling rationale for this change; and how to use terminology and narrative to demonstrate an initiative’s connection to the organization’s basic values. The authors also offer advice on how to determine those personnel best able to support the initiative, as well as those who might resist suggested change. In addition, the book provides readers with useful online and offline tools that can be used in a variety of situations.
Paul T. Vogel, writing in MBR Bookwatch, praised Changing Your Company from the Inside Out as an exceptionally clear, well-organized, and useful book. Greater Good contributor Jill Suttie, on the other hand, appreciated the book’s positive message but raised some questions about the applicability of its advice. The science behind the authors’ theories, said Suttie, appears to have been “given short-shrift,” and many of the book’s stories about the successful efforts of individual intrapreneurs “seem less instructive than exemplary.” Most ordinary employees, Suttie suggested, have neither the time nor the expertise to effect the kinds of changes on which Davis and White focus. Despite these criticisms, though, the reviewer appreciated the authors’ argument about why company leaders should embrace progressive innovations. When companies advance and support prosocial changes, the authors write, they are likely to have a better-motivated workforce and a more prestigious reputation.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
MBR Bookwatch June, 2015. Paul T. Vogel, review of Changing Your Company from the Inside Out.
Publishers Weekly March 16, 2009, review of Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America, p. 56.
ONLINE
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Website, https://michiganross.umich.edu/ (October 9, 2017), author profile.
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Jerry Davis’s research is broadly concerned with corporate governance and the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine why companies choose the kinds of directors they do and what effect they have; changes in the ownership and control of US firms; how conflicts of interest affect the ways mutual funds vote their shares in annual elections; the effects of social movements on what companies do; and how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations.
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Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan. Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (with Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald; Cambridge University Press, 2005), Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives (with W. Richard Scott; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), Managed By the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (with Chris White, Harvard Business Review Press, 2015). Davis has published widely in management, sociology, and finance. He is currently Editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly and Director of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies (ICOS) at Michigan.
Davis’s research is broadly concerned with corporate governance, finance and society, and new forms of organizations. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.
His latest book is The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy (Berrett-Koehler, 2016). It is good.
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Organization theory and the dilemmas of a post-corporate economy
AuthorsDavis, G
Published Date2017
SourceResearch in the Sociology of OrganizationsVolume: 48BIssue: 1Pages: 311-322
Post-Corporate: the Disappearing Corporation in the New Economy
AuthorsDavis, G
Published Date02/2017
SourceThird Way
Using organizational science research to address U.S. federal agencies’ management and labor needs
AuthorsAguinis, H, Davis, G, et al.
Published Date2017
SourceBehavioral Science & PolicyVolume: 2Issue: 2Pages: 67-76
Can an economy survive without corporations? Technology and robust organizational alternatives
AuthorsDavis, G
Published Date05/2016
SourceAcademy of Management PerspectivesVolume: 30Issue: 2Pages: 129-140
Challenges for global supply chain sustainability: Evidence from conflict minerals reports
AuthorsKim, Y. and Davis, G.
Published Date12/2016
SourceAcademy of Management JournalVolume: 59Issue: 6Pages: 1896-1916
What might replace the modern corporation? Uberization and the web page enterprise
AuthorsDavis, G.
Published Date03/2016
SourceSeattle University Law ReviewVolume: 39Issue: 2Pages: 501-515
Who killed the inner circle? The decline of the American corporate interlock network
AuthorsChu, J and Davis, G
Published Date11/2016
SourceAmerican Journal of SociologyVolume: 122Issue: 3Pages: 714-754
Capital markets and job creation in the 21st century
AuthorsDavis, G.
Published Date12/2015
SourceBrookings Institution Initiative on 21st Century CapitalismVolume: 00Issue: 00Pages: 00
How your company can change the world
AuthorsDavis, G. & White, C.
Published Date06/2015
SourceIESE InsightVolume: 00Issue: 25Pages: 48-55
The new face of corporate activism
AuthorsDavis, G and White, C
Published Date09/2015
SourceStanford Social Innovation ReviewVolume: 13Issue: 4Pages: 2-7
Can global supply chains be accountable?
AuthorsDavis, G
Published Date06/2013
SourceYaleGlobal OnlineVolume: 0Issue: 0Pages: 0
Shareholder value and the jobs crisis
AuthorsDavis, G
Published Date06/2013
SourcePerspectives on WorkVolume: 17Issue: 1Pages: 47-50
Not just a mortgage crisis: How finance maimed society.
AuthorsGerald F. Davis
Published Date2010
SourceStrategic OrganizationVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 75-82
The rise and fall of finance and the end of the society of organizations.
AuthorsGerald F. Davis
Published Date2009
SourceAcademy of Management PerspectivesVolume: 23Issue: 3Pages: 27-44
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Gerald Fredrick (Jerry) Davis (born 1961) is an American sociologist, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, known for his work on corporate networks,[1] social movements[2] and organization theory.[3]
Contents [hide]
1 Life and work
2 Selected publications
3 References
4 External links
Life and work[edit]
Davis obtained his AB in philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan in 1984, his MA in Sociology from Stanford University, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1990.
After graduation Davis started his academic career at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management as assistant professor in 1990, and got promoted to associate professor. In 1994 he returned to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as associate professor, and got promoted to full professor. In the year 1997–98 he was research fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. Since 2001 he is professor of sociology at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he was also professor of management and organizations from 2002 to 2004.
Davis described his research interests as "broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States."[4]
Selected publications[edit]
Davis, Gerald Fredrick, ed. Social movements and organization theory. Cambridge Univ Pr, 2005.
Scott, W. Richard, and Gerald F. Davis. Organizations and organizing: Rational Natural and Open System Perspectives, (2006) (sixth edition).
Articles (selection)
Davis, Gerald F., and Tracy A. Thompson. "A social movement perspective on corporate control." Administrative science quarterly (1994): 141-173.
Davis, Gerald F. "Agents without principles? The spread of the poison pill through the intercorporate network." Administrative science quarterly (1991): 583-613.
Davis, Gerald F., Kristina A. Diekmann, and Catherine H. Tinsley. "The decline and fall of the conglomerate firm in the 1980s: The deinstitutionalization of an organizational form." American Sociological Review (1994): 547-570.
Davis, Gerald F., and Henrich R. Greve. "Corporate elite networks and governance changes in the 1980s." American journal of sociology 103.1 (1997): 1-37.
Davis, Gerald F., Mina Yoo, and Wayne E. Baker. "The small world of the American corporate elite, 1982–2001." Strategic organization 1.3 (2003): 301-326.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Gulati, Ranjay. "Alliances and networks." Strategic management journal 19.4 (1998): 293-317.
Jump up ^ Lee, Min‐Dong Paul. "A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead." International journal of management reviews 10.1 (2008): 53-73.
Jump up ^ Frooman, Jeff. "Stakeholder influence strategies." Academy of management review 24.2 (1999): 191-205.
Jump up ^ Jerry Davis at bus.umich.edu, Accessed 25.01.2015.
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256.11 (Mar. 16, 2009): p56.
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How Finance Reshaped America
Gerald F. Davis. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (320p)
ISBN 978-0-19-921661-1
This academic analysis of our evolution from an industrial to a postindustrial "portfolio society" offers provocative
clues for anyone seeking to understand the current financial crisis and Americans' financial security. Davis, professor
of management at the University of Michigan, asserts that in the eras of financial capitalism (1900-1930) and
managerial capitalism (1930-1980), Americans looked to the corporation and long-term savings to provide them with
security. In the wake of the takeovers and financial move to high risk savings in the 1980s, and deregulation and
corporate scandals in the late 1990s, however, Americans have become disillusioned with the corporation as a source
of lifetime employment and retirement capital and have instead relied on financial markets for security and "wealth
creation." In describing George W. Bush's "ownership society," Davis notes that "when individuals come to see
themselves as free agent investors, the consequences for society can be dire." While a compelling read, this book
offers few predictions for the new investor society, suggesting only that big government might have to clean up the
mess that individual Americans have made. (May)
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Changing Your Company from the Inside Out
Paul T. Vogel
MBR Bookwatch.
(June 2015):
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Changing Your Company from the Inside Out
Gerald F. Davis & Christopher J. White
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9781422185094, $28.00, 224pp, www.amazon.com
Synopsis: A social 'intrapreneur' is someone whose is ambitious, not afraid to take risks, seeks to bring about positive
social change, and wants to initiate change from within an established company, where he or she can have a more farreaching,
even global impact. "Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs"
provides the tools to empower its readers to jump-start initiatives that matter to them and that should matter to their
companies. Drawing on lessons from social movements as well as on the work of successful 'intrapreneurs', authors
Gerald Davis and Christopher White provide a guide for creating positive social change from within your own
organization and addresses such questions as: When is the right time for change? Learn how to read your
organization's climate; Why is this a compelling change? Use language and stories to connect your initiative to your
organization's mission, strategy, and values; Who will make this innovation possible? Identify the decision makers
you need to persuade and the potential resisters you need to steer around; How can you mobilize your supporters to
collaborate on your innovation? Readers will be able to use the online and offline tools and platforms that best support
their initiatives.
Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A
Guide for Social Intrapreneurs" is as practical as it is 'user friendly' and is very highly recommended for personal,
professional, corporate, community, and academic library instructional reference collections. It should be noted that
"Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs" is also available in a Kindle edition
($15.12).
Paul T. Vogel
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Vogel, Paul T.
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