Gerald F. Davis

Business, Management and Accounting · University of Michigan

Established · publishing since 1967

Management and Organizational Studies Corporate Finance and Governance Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Publications

221

Citations

22,008

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1967

In context

Among 233 established Business, Management and Accounting PIs within our index

Citations: 22,008cohort median 2,799

Publications / year (recent): 5.2cohort median 1.8

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 62% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 26 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.2/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Institutional Death: Denial, Distrust, and Their Roles in Disrupting Institutions
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2026
Societal Governance in the Face of Polycrisis
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2026
Assumptions Underlying Sociological Models in Business Schools
2025
Politics, Governance, and Leadership: What Can we Learn from the Academy of Management's Response to EO13769?
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Business Education and the Public Benefit of Research
2025
Real Utopias for Organizational Governance: Exploring Alternatives to the Corporation
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2025
Advancing International Comparative Research on National, Governmental and Organizational Responses
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2025
Concluding Reflections: Creating a Corporate Governance Architecture for the Sustainable Transition
2025
Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI
Administrative Science Quarterly · 2024
Can Strategy Address the Climate Crisis Without Losing its Essence?
Journal of Management Studies · 2024
Is ‘Contribution to Theory’ an Unhealthy Obsession for Management Research? A Response to Zhang and Chen
Management and Organization Review · 2024
Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational Structure and Digital Technologies
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024
Studying the Designers Behind Technologies of Coordination and Control
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024
Shareholder Activism and Societal Challenges
Academy of Management Proceedings · 2024
Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming
Nature · 2023

Publishes in

Academy of Management Proceedings×21
University of Toronto Press eBooks×16
SSRN Electronic Journal×4
Cambridge University Press eBooks×3
Journal of Management Studies×2

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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