Marshall W. Meyer

Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management and Sociology

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago, 1967; MA, University of Chicago, 1965; AB, Columbia University, 1964

Research Areas

• Organizational theory and design; organizational change; organizational performance; not-for-profit organizations

Recent Consulting

• Design and analysis of performance measurement systems in computer hardware, financial services, and pharmaceutical industries

Current Projects

• Current research focuses on properties of performance measures-how performance expectations arise, why measures lose their capacity to discriminate good from bad performance with use, how firms adapt to multiple and inconsistent performance measures.

Academic Positions Held

• Wharton : 1987-present (named Richard A. Sapp Professor, 2002; Anheuser-Busch Term Professor of Management, 1987-92). University of Pennsylvania: 1988-present.
• Previous appointments : University of California, Irvine; University of California, Riverside; Cornell University; Harvard University.
• Visiting appointments : Yale University; University of California, Los Angeles

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

• Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1993-94

Professional Leadership 2001-2005

• Associate Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1987-present
• Consulting Editor, DeGruyter Studies on Organizational Theory, 1991-present
• Editorial Board, Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series, American Sociological Association, 1992-present

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2001-2005

• Member of Council and Honorary Member, The Foundation for Performance Measurement, Metapraxis, Inc., 1994-present

Representative Publications

• "Measuring Performance in Economic Organizations." Handbook of Economic Sociology, N.Smeker and R. Swedberg, eds., Princeton University Press, 1994.
• "The Performance Paradox." Research in Organizational Behavior (1994).
• "Organizational Design and the Performance Paradox." Explorations in Economic Sociology, R.Swedberg, ed., New York: Russell Sage Foundation 1993.
• Permanently Failing Organizations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989. (with L.G. Zucker).

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