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Overview

Gerald F. Davis is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their work spans major fields including Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Accounting.

The main research topics covered in their publications include Management and Organizational Studies, Economic Theory and Institutions, Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism, Innovation and Knowledge Management, as well as studies related to Coral and Marine Ecosystems, Marine and Fisheries research, and Coastal and Marine Management.

Recent scholarly papers authored by Gerald F. Davis include:

  • Organization Theory and the Resource-Based View of the Firm: The Great Divide (2021, Journal of Management)
  • Varieties of Uberization: How technology and institutions change the organization(s) of late capitalism (2021, Organization Theory)
  • Corporate Purpose Needs Democracy (2020, Journal of Management Studies)

Davis has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Joel Gehman, Theodore H. DeWitt, Dror Etzion, Jamison M. Gove, and Gareth J. Williams.

Their work has been published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to the Academy of Management Proceedings, the Journal of Management Studies, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Management, and Organization Theory.

Among book contributions, Gerald F. Davis published "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" through Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Special report on emissions scenarios

    Nebojsa Nakicenovic;Joseph Alcamo;Gerald Davis;Bert de Vries

  • Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

    W. Richard Scott;Gerald F. Davis

  • Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network

    Gerald F. Davis

  • The economic structure of corporate law

    Frank H. Easterbrook;Daniel R. Fischel

  • Corporate Elite Networks and Governance Changes in the 1980s

    Gerald F. Davis;Henrich R. Greve

  • Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America

    Gerald F. Davis

  • Community isomorphism and corporate social action

    Christopher Marquis;Mary Ann Glynn;Gerald F. Davis

  • A Social Movement Perspective on Corporate Control

    Gerald F. Davis;Tracy A. Thompson

  • Social movements and organization theory

    Gerald F. Davis

  • The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an Organizational Form

    Gerald F. Davis;Kristina A. Diekmann;Catherine H. Tinsley

  • The Small World of the American Corporate Elite, 1982-2001

    Gerald F. Davis;Mina Yoo;Wayne E. Baker

  • Prospects for Organization Theory in the Early Twenty-First Century: Institutional Fields and Mechanisms

    Gerald F. Davis;Christopher Marquis

  • Fool's Gold: Social Proof in the Initiation and Abandonment of Coverage by Wall Street Analysts

    Hayagreeva Rao;Henrich R. Greve;Gerald F. Davis

  • Chapter 2 Resource dependence theory: Past and future

    Gerald F. Davis;J. Adam Cobb

  • Organization Theory and the Market for Corporate Control: A Dynamic Analysis of the Characteristics of Large Takeover Targets, 1980-1990

    Gerald F. Davis;Suzanne K. Stout

  • Business ties and proxy voting by mutual funds

    Gerald F. Davis;E. Han Kim

  • New Directions in Corporate Governance

    Gerald F. Davis

  • Embeddedness, Social Identity and Mobility: Why Firms Leave the NASDAQ and Join the New York Stock Exchange:

    Hayagreeva Rao;Gerald F. Davis;Andrew Ward

  • The Money Center Cannot Hold: Commercial Banks in the U.S. System of Corporate Governance

    Gerald F. Davis;Mark S. Mizruchi

  • Financialization of the Economy

    Gerald F. Davis;Suntae Kim

  • The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy

    Gerald F. Davis

  • Challenges for Global Supply Chain Sustainability: Evidence from Conflict Minerals Reports

    Yong Hyun Kim;Gerald F. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
W. Richard Scott
W. Richard Scott Stanford University
Mary Ann Glynn
Mary Ann Glynn Boston College
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Mark S. Mizruchi
Mark S. Mizruchi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anne S. Tsui
Anne S. Tsui Arizona State University
Hayagreeva Rao
Hayagreeva Rao Stanford University
Michael Lounsbury
Michael Lounsbury University of Alberta
Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott City, University of London
Frank Dobbin
Frank Dobbin Harvard University

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