Marshall W. Meyer Faculty Profile

Marshall W. Meyer
Richard A. Sapp Professor; Professor of Management and Sociology

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

Research Areas
Management in China; measurement of organizational performance; organizational design; organizational change

Recent Consulting
Strategies for Chinese firms; design and evaluation of performance measurement systems

Current Projects
State-owned enterprise reform in China; internationalization of Chinese firms; technology and knowledge transfer in Chinese high-tech industrial parks.

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 (Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, 2004-present). Previous appointments: University of California, Riverside; Cornell University; Harvard University. Visiting appointments: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Singapore Management University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University; Yale University; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Irvine

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1993-94

Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Senior Editor, Management and Organization Review; Advisory Editor, Harvard Business Review—China; Board of Scholars, Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Yale University

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Board of Directors, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; Board of Directors, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (US)

Representative Publications
“Managing Indefinite Boundaries: The Strategy and Structure of a Chinese Business Firm.” Management and Organization Review (March 2005).

“Subjectivity and the Weighting of Performance Measures: Evidence from the Balanced Scorecard.” Accounting Review (July 2003).

Rethinking Performance Measurement: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard. Cambridge University Press, (translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Russian), 2002.