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Richard Harrison

J. Richard Harrison

Associate Professor, Organizations, Strategy & International Management

Email: harrison@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-2569

Home page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~harrison/

Education:
Ph.D. in Business (Organizational Behavior), Stanford University, 1986

Classes:
OB 6303 - Foundations of Organization Theory (masters)
OB 6231 - Power and Politics in Organizations (masters)
OB 7300 - Organization Theory (PhD)
OB 7306 - Macro-Organizational Empirical Investigation (PhD)

Current / recent research:
- Organizational culture
- Corporate governance and control
- Computer simulation of organizational processes  

Awards and recognition:
- International Academy of Sciences for Higher Education (elected 1995)
- Foreign Academician, St. Petersburg (Russia) Academy of Engineering (elected 1993)
- Halliburton Teaching Excellence Award, UTD School of Management (1990)
- "Cultural Transmission in an Organizational Setting: Exploring the Empirical Implications of a Formal Model" (with Jennifer Chatman and Glenn R. Carroll), Citigroup Behavioral Sciences Research Council, $15,988 (1999-2000) 
- "Russian-American Graduate School of Management," United States Information Agency, $293,536 (1994-96)

Current professional organization(s):
- Academy of Management
- Strategic Management Society
- European Group for Organizational Studies
- European Association for Decision Making
- Editorial Board, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
- Editorial Board, Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory

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