Gerald Davis is the Sparks/Whirlpool Corporation Professor and Chair of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at Michigan. After receiving his PhD in business from Stanford, Davis taught at Northwestern and Columbia and spent a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford before joining the Michigan faculty in 1998. Davis’s research examines how politics and social networks shape the evolution of corporate governance institutions.

His work appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the Annual Review of Sociology, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Management Inquiry, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organization Science, Research in Organization Behavior, Strategic Organization, and elsewhere. Recent publications include Social Movements and Organization Theory (co-edited with Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer Zald; Cambridge University Press); “Firms and Environments” (in the Handbook of Economic Sociology, 2nd ed., edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg); and “The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance” (with Christopher Marquis, in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Richard Swedberg and Victor Nee).