Chris Liu

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Degree History:

DBA, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard University, 2010
PhD, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
BA, Biology, Compton Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, 1997

Previous Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2010-2019

Research/Teaching Awards:

Inman Research Scholar, 2021-22
Rotman Teaching Award, 2017
Connaught New Researcher Award, 2012

Bio:

Chris Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Management, an Inman Research Scholar, and coordinator of the management PhD program at the Lundquist College of Business. His expertise includes spatial networks, firm innovation and productivity, and the organization of science. His research has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Science.

Liu received his DBA in technology and operations management from Harvard University, a PhD in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA in biology from Washington University, St. Louis. Prior to joining the Lundquist College, Liu taught at the University of Toronto. He cofounded PowerTen LLC, a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Turkey, and has also previously worked as a journalist.

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship
Scientists
Social Influences

Journal Articles

Liu, Christopher C. and Matt Marx. "Micro-Geography: a Fundamental Organizing Attribute." Industry and Innovation 27, no. 8: 837-841. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2020.1822153.
September 2020
Liu, Christopher C. and Sameer B. Srivastava. "Efficacy or Rigidity? Power, Influence, and Social Learning in the U.S. Senate, 1973-2005." Academy of Management Discoveries 5, no. 3: 251-265. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2017.0130.
September 2019
Doering, Laura B., and Christopher C. Liu. "From the Ground Up: Gender, Space, and Self-Employment in a Colombian Housing Project." Sociology of Development 5, no. 2: 198-224. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2019.5.2.198.
July 2019
Azoulay, Pierre, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart. "Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs." American Journal of Sociology 122, no. 4: 1223-71. https://doi.org/10.1086/689890.
January 2017
ten Brinke, Leanne, Christopher C. Liu, Dacher Keltner, and Sameer B. Srivastava. "Virtues, Vices, and Political Influence in the U.S. Senate." Psychological Science 27, no. 1: 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615611922.
January 2016
Liu, Christopher C., Sameer B. Srivastava, and Toby E. Stuart. "An Intraorganizational Ecology of Individual Attainment." Organization Science 27, no. 1: 90-105. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1020.
January 2016
Conti, Annamaria, and Christopher C. Liu. "Bringing the Lab Back in: Personnel Composition and Scientific Output at the MIT Department of Biology." Research Policy 44, no. 9: 1633-1644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.01.001.
November 2015
Liu, Christopher C., and Sameer B. Srivastava. "Pulling Closer and Moving Apart: Interaction, Identity, and Influence in the U.S. Senate, 1979-2009." American Sociological Review 80, no. 1: 192-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414564182.
February 2015
Chown, Jillian D., and Christopher C. Liu. "Geography and Power in an Organizational Forum: Evidence from the U.S. Senate Chamber." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2: 177-196. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2209.
February 2015
Liu, Christopher C., and Toby Stuart. "Positions and Rewards: The Allocation of Resources within a Science-Based Entrepreneurial Firm." Research Policy 43, no. 7: 1134-1143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.04.013.
September 2014

Book Chapters

Blit, Joel, Christopher C. Liu, and Will Mitchell. "What Goes on Beneath the Surface of Reconfiguration? The Impact of Redeployment via Activity Addition and Subtraction on Firm Scope and Turnover." In Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 35: Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, edited by Timothy B. Folta, Constance E. Helfat, and Samina Karim, 185-216. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220160000035008.
January 2016
Conti, Annamaria, and Christopher C. Liu. "The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology from 1970-2000." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation, edited by Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones, 49-74. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
January 2015

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