Christine Beckman is the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy.[1] She is the current Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly.[2] She studies social innovation and inequality.[3]

Early life and education

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Beckman holds a B.A. in Psychology, with distinction, an M.A. in Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.[4] Her Ph.D Dissertation was called “Learning from difference: The influence of network partners on organizational learning.”

Career and research

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Beckman served on the faculty at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. At UC Irvine, she was a Chancellor’s Fellow from 2008-2011 and Faculty Director of the Don Beall Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

She studied the LA2050 Grants Challenge.[5] She was the 2006 Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar.

Selected publications

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  • Irene, H., Mair, J., & Beckman, C. M., "Researching Social Innovation: How the unit of analysis informs the questions we ask"; Rutgers Business Review, 7(2): 153-165; 2022.
  • Beckman, C. M., Alternatives and Complements to Rationality; In C. M. Beckman (Ed.), Carnegie goes to California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley; 2021.
  • Beckman, Christine M. and Melissa Mazmanian, Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age; Stanford University Press; 2020, ISBN 9781503602557 [6][7][8][9]
  • Mazmanian, M. A., & Beckman, C. M., "Making your numbers: Engendering Organizational Control through a Ritual of Quantification"; Organization Science; 2019.

References

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  1. ^ "Christine M. Beckman". USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  2. ^ "Beckman, Christine". SAGE Publications Inc. 2023-03-03. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  3. ^ "Christine M. Beckman". Rutgers Business Review. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  4. ^ "Christine M. Beckman".
  5. ^ "A Conversation on Social Innovation: Christine Beckman and Tara Roth". LA2050. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  6. ^ Antoni, Anne (October 2022). "Media Review: Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian Dreams of the overworked: Living, working, and parenting in the digital age". Organization Studies. 43 (10): 1684–1687. doi:10.1177/01708406221103966. ISSN 0170-8406. S2CID 252684110.
  7. ^ Kossek, Ellen Ernst (June 2022). "Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian. Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age". Administrative Science Quarterly. 67 (2): NP30–NP33. doi:10.1177/00018392221076260. ISSN 0001-8392. S2CID 246448576.
  8. ^ Bagger, Christoffer (December 2020). "Book review: Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age". European Journal of Communication. 35 (6): 634–636. doi:10.1177/1368430220961249. ISSN 0267-3231. S2CID 227295232.
  9. ^ Medzerian, David (2022-03-28). "Q&A: COVID shook the scaffolding for working women, exposing need for better family policy". USC News. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
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