Profile

Chris Marquis is a Visiting Professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Professor Marquis' current research is focused on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical processes and community relations have shaped firms' and entrepreneurs' social strategies and activities. He is currently pursuing several streams of research. The first seeks to assess how organizations can be designed to maximize both business and social value. Questions that drive his inquires include: How can companies grow in reach and profit, while staying true to a social mission and maintaining their quality of services or products? And, should social entrepreneurs focus their efforts on leading change of the broader system in which they operate, or should they focus on achieving impact within the existing system? The second explores how environmental sustainability initiatives have developed in China. This research investigates questions such as: What are the implications of transitioning to greener technology when government and business are structurally intertwined? These research projects build on Marquis' earlier work that analyzed how firm behavior is shaped by broader contexts such as embeddedness in geographic communities and how environmental conditions during founding periods leave a lasting imprint on organizations. In particular, Marquis' prior research examined the effects of these processes in the contexts of community-based social networks and the evolution of the US banking industry.

Marquis' research has won a number of national awards including the 2006 William H. Newman Award for best dissertation across the entire the Academy of Management, the 2006 Louis R. Pondy award for best dissertation in organizational theory from the Academy of Management, the 2003 James D. Thompson Award for best graduate student paper from the American Sociological Association and the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was a finalist for the 2010 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, a runner-up in the Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009 and a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. He has published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal as well as a number of edited collections. He is a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science and Strategic Organization.

Marquis received a BA in History from Notre Dame, MA in History and MBA in Finance from Pitt, and MA and PhD in Sociology from Michigan. Prior to his academic career, he worked for 6 years in the financial services industry, most recently as Vice President and Technology Manager for a business unit of Bank One Corporation (now J.P. Morgan Chase).

Websites

• Professor Marquis' website

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Click here to view the curriculum vitae (PDF document).

Accepted Papers

• Sullivan, Bilian Ni; Tang, Yi; Marquis, Christopher.  "Persistently Learning: How Small-world Network Imprints and Organizational Adaptation Affect Firm Performance"  Strategic Organization  (Accepted)

• Marquis, Christopher; Sullivan, Bilian Ni; Tang, Yi.  "Persistently Learning: How Small-world Network Imprints and Organizational Adaptation Affect Firm Performance"  Strategic Organization  (Accepted)

Published Papers

• Marquis, Christopher; Almandoz, Juan.  "Can an 'Ethical' Bank Support Guns and Fracking?"  Harvard Business Review  92.4  (2014):  123-127.

• Marquis, Christopher; Park, Andrew.  "Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model"  Stanford Social Innovation Review  12.1  (2014):  28-33.

• Marquis, Christopher; Qian, Cuili.  "Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?"  Organization Science  25.1  (2014):  127-148.

• Marquis, Christopher; Lee, Matthew.  "Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms"  Strategic Management Journal  34.4  (2013):  483-497.

• Marquis, Christopher; Zhang, Hongyu; Zhou, Lixuan.  "China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles"  Stanford Social Innovation Review  11.2  (2013):  52-57.

• Marquis, Christopher; Tilcsik, Andras.  "Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory"  Academy of Management Annals  7.1  (2013):  195-245.

• Tilcsik, Andras; Marquis, Christopher.  "Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities"  Administrative Science Quarterly (Cornell)  58.1  (2013):  111-148.

• Marquis, Christopher; Davis, Gerald F.; Glynn, Mary Ann.  "Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities"  Organization Science  24.1  (2013):  39-57.

• Marquis, Christopher; Margolis, Joshua D..  "How Much Is Sweat Equity Worth?"  Harvard Business Review  90.12  (2012):  121-125.

• Guthrie, Doug; Almandoz, Juan; Marquis, Christopher; Guthrie, Doug; Almandoz, Juan.  "State Activism and the Hidden Incentives Behind Bank Acquisitions"  Social Science Research   41.1  (2012):  130-145.

• Marquis, Christopher; Zhang, Jianjun; Zhou, Yanhua.  "Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China"  California Management Review  54.1  (2011):  39-63.

• Marquis, Christopher; Huang, Zhi.  "Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry"  Academy of Management Journal  53.6  (2010):  1441-1473.

• Marquis, Christopher; Battilana, Julie.  "Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations"  Research in Organizational Behavior  29  (2009):  283-302.

• Marquis, Christopher; Huang, Zhi.  "The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking"  Academy of Management Journal  52.6  (2009):  1222-1246.

• Marquis, Christopher; Lounsbury, Michael.  "Vive La Resistance: Competing Logics and the Consolidation of U.S. Community Banking"  Academy of Management Journal  50.4  (2007):  799-820.

• Marquis, Christopher.  "Historical Environments, Coordination and Consolidation in the U.S. Banking Industry, 1896-2001"  Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings  (2006)

• Khurana, Rakesh; Marquis, Christopher.  "Diagnosing and Dissolving Our 'Translation Gap'"  Journal of Management Inquiry  15.4  (2006):  406-409.

• Mizruchi, Mark S.; Marquis, Christopher.  "Egocentric, Sociocentric, or Dyadic? Identifying the Appropriate Level of Analysis in the Study of Organizational Networks"  Social Networks  28.3  (2006):  187-208.

• Anderson, Peter J.; Blatt , Ruth; Christianson, Marlys K.; Grant, Adam M.; Marquis, Christopher; Newman, Eric J.; Sonenshein, Scott; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M..  "Understanding Mechanisms in Organizational Research"  Journal of Management Inquiry  15.2  (2006):  102-113.

• Mizruchi, Mark S.; Brewster Stearns, Linda; Marquis, Christopher.  "The Conditional Nature of Embeddedness: Borrowing by Large U.S. Firms, 1973-1994"  American Sociological Review  71.2  (2006):  406-409.

• Davis, Gerald F.; Marquis, Christopher.  "Prospects for Organizational Theory in the Early 21st Century: Institutional Fields and Mechanisms"  Organization Science  16.4  (2005):  332-343.

• Marquis, Christopher.  "Review of Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts by Rikki Abzug and Jeffrey S. Simonoff"  Administrative Science Quarterly (Cornell)  50.2  (2005):  314-317.

• Marquis, Christopher.  "The Pressure of the Past: Network Imprinting in Intercorporate Communities"  Administrative Science Quarterly (Cornell)  48.4  (2003):  655-689.

Scholarly Books

• Marquis, Christopher; Lounsbury, Michael; Greenwood, Royston, 2011, Communities and Organizations; Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Book Chapters

• Marquis, Christopher; Lounsbury, Michael; Greenwood, Royston, 2011, Community as an Institutional Order and a Type of Organizing, in Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), eds Chris Marquis and Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

• Marquis, Christopher; Huang, Zhi, 2011, Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the U.S. Banking Industry, in Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), eds Chris Marquis and Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

• Marquis, Christopher; Davis, Gerald F., 2009, Organizational Mechanisms Underlying Positive Community Identity and Reputation, in Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, eds Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, Taylor & Francis Group.

• Marquis, Christopher; Glynn, Mary Ann, 2005, How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names, in Artifacts and Organizations: Beyond Mere Symbolism, eds Anat Rafaeli and Michael G. Pratt, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc..

• Marquis, Christopher; Davis, Gerald F., 2005, The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance, in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, eds Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, Princeton University Press.

• Marquis, Christopher; Glynn, Mary Ann, 2004, When Good Names Go Bad: Organizational Illegitimacy, and the Dotcom Collapse, in Legitimacy Processs in Organizations, Volume 22 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations), eds Cathryn Johnson, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Book Sections

• Marquis, Christopher; Mizruchi, Mark , 2005, Interlocking Directorates, in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, eds Jens Bckert and Milan Zafirovski, Routledge.

• Marquis, Christopher; Mizruchi, Mark, 2005, Banks, in International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, eds Jens Bckert and Milan Zafirovski, Routledge.