Christine Beckman

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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]

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.”

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.

• 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.

• Official website
• Ep 170. Christine Beckman: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age Work and Life with Stew Friedman, 6/20/2020
• Impact on the Working Family During COVID-19 USC Price, June 19, 2020

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