Gerald F. Davis. Associate Professor Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University ( )

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1 Revised 5/6/02 Gerald F. Davis University of Michigan Business School 701 Tappan Street Ann Arbor, MI (734) FAX: (734) Martin Place Ann Arbor, MI Research Interests Academic Appointments Corporate governance; organization theory; financial globalization; social networks; social movements. Professor, University of Michigan Business School (1998 to present) and Sociology (2001-present) Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford California ( ). Associate Professor Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University ( ) Assistant Professor Associate Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University ( ). Education Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, June Dissertation: Agents without principles? The spread of the poison pill takeover defense through the intercorporate network. Stanford University, A.M. in Sociology, June University of Michigan, A.B. with High Distinction in Philosophy and Psychology, April Publications Gerald F. Davis and Michael Useem, Top management, company directors, and corporate control. In Andrew Pettigrew, Howard Thomas, and Richard Whittington (eds.), Handbook of Strategy and Management: London: Sage. Michael Useem and Gerald F. Davis, Stockholders, ownership, and control. In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Pergamon/Elsevier (forthcoming). Gerald F. Davis and Christopher Marquis, The globalization of stock markets and convergence in corporate governance. In Richard Swedberg and Victor Nee (eds.),

2 The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. New York: Cambridge (forthcoming). Hayagreeva Rao, Henrich R. Greve, and Gerald F. Davis, Fool s gold: social proof in the initiation and abandonment of coverage by Wall Street analysts. Administrative Science Quarterly 46: Gerald F. Davis and Gregory E. Robbins, The fate of the conglomerate firm in the United States. In Walter W. Powell and Daniel L. Jones (eds.), How Institutions Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (forthcoming). Hayagreeva Rao, Gerald F. Davis, and Andrew Ward, Embeddedness, social identity and mobility: why firms leave the NASDAQ and join the New York Stock Exchange. Administrative Science Quarterly 45: Gerald F. Davis and Douglas McAdam, Corporations, classes, and social movements. In Barry Staw and Robert I. Sutton (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior 22: Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science. Gerald F. Davis and Mark S. Mizruchi, The money center cannot hold: commercial banks in the U.S. system of corporate governance. Administrative Science Quarterly 44: Gerald F. Davis, Corporate boards in times of turbulent change. In Donald C. Hambrick, David A. Nadler, and Michael L. Tushman (eds.), Navigating Change: How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation: Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Gerald F. Davis and Henrich R. Greve, Corporate elite networks and governance changes in the 1980s. American Journal of Sociology 103: Tracy A. Thompson and Gerald F. Davis, The politics of corporate control and the future of shareholder activism in the United States. Corporate Governance 5: Gerald F. Davis, The significance of board interlocks for corporate governance. Corporate Governance 4: Gerald F. Davis and Tracy A. Thompson, A social movement perspective on corporate control. Administrative Science Quarterly 39:

3 Gerald F. Davis, Kristina A. Diekmann, and Catherine H. Tinsley, The decline and fall of the conglomerate firm in the 1980s: The de-institutionalization of an organizational form. American Sociological Review 59: Gerald F. Davis, The corporate elite and the politics of corporate control, in Christopher Prendergast and J. David Knottnerus (eds.), Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Supplement 1: Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press. Gerald F. Davis and Suzanne K. Stout, Organization theory and the market for corporate control: a dynamic analysis of the characteristics of large takeover targets, Administrative Science Quarterly 37: Gerald F. Davis and Walter W. Powell, Organization-environment relations, in Marvin D. Dunnette and Leaetta M. Hough (eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, second edition, Vol. 3: Palo Alto, Cal.: Consulting Psychologists Press. Gerald F. Davis, Agents without principles? The spread of the poison pill through the intercorporate network. Administrative Science Quarterly 36: Gerald F. Davis, Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald, Contracts, treaties, and joint ventures, in Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald (eds.), Organizations and nation states: new perspectives on conflict and cooperation: San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Gerald F. Davis and Walter W. Powell, Accounting for escalation: organizations and the arms race, in Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald (eds.), Organizations and nation states: new perspectives on conflict and cooperation: San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Roderick M. Kramer, Debra Meyerson and Gerald Davis, How much is enough? Psychological components of guns vs. butter decisions in a security dilemma, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 58: Roderick Kramer, Debra Meyerson, and Gerald Davis, Deterrence and the management of international conflict: cognitive aspects of deterrent decisions, in M. Afzalur Rahim (ed.), Theory and research in conflict management: New York: Praeger. Refereed Conference Gerald F. Davis, Who gets ahead in the market for 3

4 Proceedings corporate directors, in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 1993: Tracy Thompson and Gerald F. Davis, Collective action and the battle for corporate control: institutional investors as a social movement, in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 1992: Gerald F. Davis, Networks and corporate control: comparing agency theory and interorganizational explanations for the diffusion of the poison pill, in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 1991: Book Reviews Review symposium of Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, edited by Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra Singh, in Administrative Science Quarterly 41: Review of Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization by Michael Useem, in Contemporary Sociology 23: Review of The Economic Structure of Corporate Law by Frank H. Easterbrook and Daniel R. Fischel, in Contemporary Sociology 22: Working Papers Gerald F. Davis, Mina Yoo, and Wayne Baker, The small world of the corporate elite. Mark Mizruchi and Gerald F. Davis, The globalization of American finance: sources of foreign activity among large US commercial banks, Klaus Weber and Gerald F. Davis, The global spread of stock exchanges, Gerald F. Davis and Gregory E. Robbins, Nothing but net? Networks and status in corporate governance. Conference Presentations Gerald F. Davis and Christopher Marquis. The globalization of stock markets and convergence in corporate governance, presented at Cornell conference The economic sociology of capitalism, September (Prior version presented at Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Washington, August 2001.) Gerald F. Davis, Mina Yoo, and Wayne E. Baker, The small world of the corporate elite, presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, August 2001 and Sunbelt Conference, New Orleans, Timothy J. Vogus and Gerald F. Davis, Socialism, Pennsylvania style: the corporate elite and the spread of 4

5 antitakeover laws, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Washington, August Gerald F. Davis and Mark Mizruchi, The globalization of American banking, , presented at the Princeton Conference on Economic Sociology, April Gerald F. Davis, Contributions of sociology to the study of corporate governance, presented at the American Association of Law Schools annual meeting, San Francisco, January Gerald F. Davis and Klaus Weber, The global spread of stock exchanges, , presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Toronto, August Gerald F. Davis, Financial markets and classes in late capitalism, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Chicago, August Gerald F. Davis and Gregory E. Robbins, The fate of the conglomerate firm in the United States, presented at the conference Make versus buy: The new boundaries of the firm, Columbia Law School, November Gerald F. Davis and Gregory E. Robbins, Status and interlock network centrality over time, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Boston, August Hayagreeva Rao, Gerald F. Davis, and Andrew Ward, Embeddedness and defection: why firms leave NASDAQ and join NYSE, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Boston, August Gerald F. Davis and Gregory E. Robbins, Changes in the market for corporate directors, , presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Cincinatti, August Gerald F. Davis, The money center will not hold: commercial banks in the U.S. system of corporate governance, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Cincinatti, August Gerald F. Davis, The significance of board interlocks for corporate governance, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Vancover, August Gerald F. Davis and Henrich R. Greve, Social characteristics of organizations and the embedded evolution of governance regimes, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Vancover, August

6 Gerald F. Davis, Who gets ahead in the market for corporate directors: the political economy of multiple board memberships, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August Gerald F. Davis, Is the interlock network a real social structure? Evidence from the market for corporate control, presented at the 13th International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Tampa, February Tracy Thompson and Gerald F. Davis, Collective action and the battle for corporate control: institutional investors as a social movement, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, August Gerald F. Davis, The interlock network as a selfreproducing social structure, presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual International conference, Irvine, California, March Gerald F. Davis, Networks and corporate control: comparing agency theory and interorganizational explanations for the diffusion of the poison pill, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Miami, August 1991 Gerald F. Davis and Walter W. Powell, Organizations and the arms race: accounting for escalation, presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, August 1989 Gerald F. Davis and Suzanne K. Stout, Determinants of corporate mergers and acquisitions: an event history analysis, , presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 1989 Roderick M. Kramer, Debra Meyerson and Gerald F. Davis, How much is enough? Psychological aspects of guns versus butter decisions in a simulated security dilemma, presented at the International Association for Conflict Management biannual conference, Athens, Georgia, June 1989 Gerald F. Davis, Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald, Contracts, treaties and joint ventures in organizational theory and international relations, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, New Orleans, August 1987 Roderick M. Kramer, Debra Meyerson and Gerald F. Davis, Agenda-setting in competitive environments, presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, New 6

7 Orleans, August 1987 Editorial Positions Editorial board, Administrative Science Quarterly (1993- present) Consulting editor, American Journal of Sociology ( ) Occasional reviewer, Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; American Sociological Review; California Management Review; Group Decision and Negotiation; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Management Studies; Organization Science; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Social Forces; Social Problems; Strategic Management Journal Honors and Awards University of Michigan Business School Award for Teaching Excellence in the PhD Program (2002) Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division, Best Symposium Award (2000) Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1997/1998) Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division, Best Paper Award (1993) State Farm Companies Doctoral Dissertation Award (1989) Academy of Management OB/OD/OMT Doctoral Consortium (August 1989) Pre-doctoral Fellow, NIMH Organizations Research Training Program, Stanford University ( ) Doctoral Program Merit Fellow, Graduate School of Business ( ) Psi Chi National Honors Society in Psychology (1983) Professional Memberships Academy of Management American Sociological Association Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 7