Professor Marshall W. Meyer Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania Head, Wharton School China Research Initiatives

Marshall W. Meyer is the Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management in the Wharton School, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Member of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Meyer has taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, the Riverside, Irvine, and Los Angeles campuses of the University of California, and Yale University, and has been a visiting professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, and the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Singapore Management University. Meyer was also a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 1993-94.

Meyer is currently conducting several research projects in the Peoples Republic of China. One concerns the transformation, strategy, and structure of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Meyer and his team have conducted extensive interviews with senior managers of more than thirty of the largest Chinese enterprises including Baosteel, China International Marine Container, Haier, Legend, Pearl River Piano, Shanghai Auto, Shanghai Pharmaceutical, TCL, and Tsingtao Beer. Recent publications from this project include “Decentralized Enterprise Reform: Notes of the Transformation of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises,” “Managing Indefinite Boundaries: The Strategy and Structure of a Chinese Business Firm.” A second project titled focuses on China 's domestic markets and connects trade barriers in domestic markets to early internationalization of Chinese firms. Articles from this project include “Which Way through the Open Door? Notes on the Internationalization of Chinese Firms” and “China's Second Economic Transition: Building Domestic Markets”, which was first presented to the China Institute for Policy Studies in January 2007.

Meyer is a senior member of the editorial team of a new journal on Chinese management studies, Management and Organization Review, sponsored by the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also an advisory editor of Harvard Business Review— China. Meyer was Associate Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly from 1987­ to 1995 and has served on the editorial boards of the Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association, Organization Studies, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, Contemporary Sociology, and the American Sociological Review.

Meyer's books include Structures, Symbols, and Systems: Readings on Organizational Behavior, Little-Brown, 1971; Bureaucracy in Modern Society, 2nd ed. with Peter M. Blau, Random House, 1971, 3rd ed., 1987; Bureaucratic Structure and Authority: Coordination and Control in 254 Government Agencies, Harper and Row, 1972; Theory of Organizational Structure, Bobbs-Merrill, 1977; Environments and Organizations, with several coauthors, Jossey-Bass, 1978; Change in Public Bureaucracies, Cambridge University Press, 1979; Limits to Bureaucratic Growth, Walter de Gruyter, 1985; Permanently Failing Organizations, with Lynne Zucker, Sage Publications, 1989; Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau, with W. Richard Scott and Craig Calhoun, Cambridge University Press, 1990; The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field (ed., with Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, and Paula England), Russell Sage Foundation, 2001; Rethinking Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Rethinking Performance Measurement has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Russian. Meyer's most recent journal publications include “Subjectivity and the Weighting of Performance Measures: Evidence from the Balanced Scorecard” (with Christopher Ittner and David Larcker), Accounting Review, July 2003, and “Managing Indefinite Boundaries: The Strategy and Structure of a Chinese Business Firm” (with Lu Xiaohui), Management and Organization Review, March 2005; “China's Second Economic Transition: Building Domestic Markets,” Management and Organization Review, March, 2008; “No Free Lunch: Dilemmas of Product Quality in China,” Management and Organization Review, July, 2008; and “Which Way through the Open Door: Notes on the Internationalization of Chinese Firms,” Management and Organization Review, November, 2008.

Meyer is a vice president and a member of the executive committee of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and a member of the advisory board of Anvil Global Partners. Meyer also serves on the boards of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute of Yale University, Knowledge@Wharton, the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management of the Wharton School , and the Wharton Global Family Alliance. He also heads the three Wharton School faculty research initiatives in Greater China: the Chinatrust Research Fund on Greater China, the CEIBS-Wharton Joint Research Initiative, and the Guanghua-Wharton Joint Research Initiative on Firms and Markets in China.