Jerry Davis

 Jerry Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and taught at Northwestern and Columbia before moving to the University of Michigan, where he is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Sociology. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1997-98 & 2020-21), International Corporate Governance Society, Michigan Society of Fellows, Responsible Research in Business and Management, and Society for Progress. He served as editor-in-chief of Administrative Science Quarterly  (2011-2016), director of ICOS (2006-2018), chair of Organization and Management Theory, co-founder and executive board member of Responsible Research in Business and Management (2015-2024), co-founder of COSI (2010-present), department chair for Management & Organizations (2002-2005), and inaugural Associate Dean for Business+Impact (2017-2020), among many other administrative roles. He has served on 85 completed dissertation committees and chaired two dozen of them.

Davis has published widely in management, sociology, and finance, including six books and dozens of articles. Books include Social Movements and Organization Theory  (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Organizations and Organizing (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007); Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (Oxford University Press, 2009); Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015); The Vanishing American Corporation (Berrett Koehler, 2016), and Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2022).