Christine M. Beckman

Christine Beckman is The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Governance, Management, and Policy in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at University of Southern California, with a joint appointment at the Marshall School of Business and Department of Sociology. She is the current editor at Administrative Science Quarterly. Her research focuses on organizational learning, interorganizational networks, entrepreneurship, and social innovation, particularly on how collaborative relationships and diverse experiences facilitate change. Recent work examines the organizational reaction to and individual experience of operating in a technology-enabled world where boundaries between the personal and the professional are blurred.  Her research sites are varied and include F500 companies, Silicon Valley start-ups, mutual funds, law firms, the U.S. Navy, German football teams, American baseball teams, and urban charter schools. She is a native Californian and received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University.