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Gerald F. Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (Business/Organizational Behavior, 1990). Previously, he taught at Northwestern and Columbia Universities and has held leadership roles such as Director of ICOS (2006-2018), Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division, and Inaugural Associate Dean for Business+Impact (2017-2020).
- Academy of Management Fellow
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow (1997-98, 2020-21)
- International Corporate Governance Society Fellow
His research explores the sociological and economic dimensions of corporate power, shareholder capitalism, and organizational alternatives to traditional corporate structures. Recent work examines supply chain transparency, platform capitalism, generative AI’s impact on scholarship, and strategies for escaping shareholder-dominated capitalism.
His publications span six books and over 100 articles, with a focus on financialization, corporate governance, and institutional dynamics. Current projects investigate the historical roots of shareholder capitalism’s dominance and its potential alternatives.
- Served on 85 dissertation committees, chaired 24
- Editor-in-Chief of Administrative Science Quarterly (2011-2016)
- Co-founder of Responsible Research in Business and Management (2015-2024)
- Co-founder of COSI (2010-present)
