Christine Beckman
Professor, Technology Management
Dr. Christine Beckman is a Professor in the Technology Management Program at UC Santa Barbara. She is also the current Editor in Chief at Administrative Science Quarterly. Professor Beckman has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is known for her research on entrepreneurship, organizational learning, gender inequality, technology and innovation, and interorganizational networks. She has a 2020 ethnographic book, Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age (with M. Mazmanian, Stanford University Press), and edited a 2021 Research in the Sociology of Organizations volume on the legacy of Jim March’s scholarship. She was previously the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, with courtesy appointments at the Marshall School of Business and in the Department of Sociology. She has also 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. She is a native Californian and received her B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Sociology, and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.
Recent Publications
Battilana, J., Beckman, C. M., & Yen, J. (2025). On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(2), 297-327.
Bailyn, L., Bear, J. B., Beckman, C. M., Carboni, I., Clair, J., De Vos, A., ... & Wittman, S. (2025). The Crisis of Care: A Curated Discussion. Journal of Management Inquiry, 10564926241311511.
Beckman, C. M., Rosen, J., Estrada-Miller, J., & Painter, G. (2023). The Social Innovation Trap: Critical Insights into an Emerging Field. Academy of Management Annals, 17(2), 684-709.
Henriques, I., & Beckman, C. M. (2022). Researching Social Innovation: How the Unit of Analysis Informs the Questions We Ask. Researching Social Innovation: How the Unit of Analysis Informs the Questions We Ask (July 1, 2022). Rutgers Business Review, 7(2), 153-165.
Beckman, C. M. (Ed.). (2021). Carnegie Goes to California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Beckman, C. M. (2021). Alternatives and Complements to Rationality1. In Carnegie Goes to California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March (Vol. 76, pp. 3-18). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Simpson, S. S., Beckman, C. M., Martin, G. S., & Shapiro, D. L. (2021). Preventing and Controlling Corporate Crime: The Dual Role of Corporate Boards and Legal Sanctions, United States, 1996-2013.