Chris Rider

Chris Rider is the Thomas C. Kinnear Professor and Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Professor Rider's research examines how classic strategic management issues – firm founding, competition, and survival – shape societal inequality. Much of his current research focuses on the appeal and the impact of entrepreneurship.

His research is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, ILR Review, Industrial & Corporate Change, Sociological Science, the American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, and California Management Review. Many media outlets -- including ESPN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, and the Boston Globe -- featured his research

Professor Rider is an Associate Editor for Administrative Science Quarterly and was previously a Senior Editor for Organization Science and an Associate Editor for Management Science. He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship, strategic management, leadership, and research methods. Prior to joining the Ross faculty, he was on the faculties of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He also held strategic management positions at Cars.com, Intel Corporation, and Verizon Communications.

EDUCATION

• PhD University of California
• Berkeley 2008
• MBA University of Chicago 2003
• BA The Johns Hopkins University 1998

Companies

• Thomas C. Kinnear Professor & Associate Professor of Strategy University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business (2019)
• Visiting Associate Professor University of Basel (2018 — 2019)
• Akkaway Term Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Georgetown University McDonough School of Business (2018 — 2019)
• Associate Professor & Graham Family Faculty Fellow Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business (2016 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business (2014 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor of Organization & Management Goizueta Business School, Emory University (2008 — 2014)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Organizations & Markets University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (2013 — 2014)
• Ph.D. Candidate University of California, Berkeley (2003 — 2008)
• Strategic Planning Classified Ventures, L.L.C. (2003 — 2003)

Publications

Articles in Journals (11)

• Tan, David and Christopher I. Rider.. "“Let them go? How losing personnel to competitors can enhance firm status.”." Strategic Management Journal (2016)
• Rider, Christopher I. and David Tan. "Labor market advantages of organizational status: A study of lateral partner hiring by large U.S. law firms.." Organization Science, 26, 2 (2015): 356-372.
• Rider, Christopher I. and Giacomo Negro. "Organizational failure and intraprofessional status loss.." Organization Science, 26, 3 (2015): 633-649.
• Haveman, H. A., and C. I. Rider. "The spatial scope of competition and the geographic distribution of entrepreneurship: Magazine foundings and the U.S. Post Office." Sociological Science, 1 (2015): 111-127.
• de Figueiredo, R.J. P., E. Rawley, and C. I. Rider. "Why are firms rigid? A general framework and empirical tests." Organization Science, 26, 5 (2015): 1502-1519.
• Rider, C. I.. "How employees’ prior affiliations constrain organizational network change: A study of U.S. venture capital and private equity.." Administrative Science Quarterly, 53, 3 (2012): 453-483.
• Rider, C. I. and A. Swaminathan. "They just fade away: Mortality in the U.S. venture capital industry.." Industrial and Corporate Change, 21, 1 (2012): 151-185.
• Roberts, P. W., M. Khaire, and C. I. Rider. "Isolating the symbolic implications of employee mobility: Price increases after hiring winemakers from prominent wineries.." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings,, 101, 3 (2011): 147-151.
• Audia, P. G. and C. I. Rider. "Close, but not the same: Locally-headquartered organizations and agglomeration economies in a declining industry.." Research Policy, 39, 3 (2010): 360-374.
• Rider, C. I.. "Constraint on the control benefits of brokerage: A study of placement agents in U.S. venture capital fundraising.." Administrative Science Quarterly,, 54, 4 (2009): 575-601.
• Audia, P. G. and C. I. Rider. "A garage and an idea: What more does an entrepreneur need?." California Management Review, 48, 1 (2005): 6-28.

Articles in Books (2)

• Rider, C. I., A. D. Sterling, and D. Tan. "Career mobility and racial diversity in law firms." Diversity in Practice: Race, Class, and Gender in Legal and Professional Careers, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2016.
• Audia, P. G. and C. I. Rider. "Entrepreneurs as organizational products: Revisited.." The Psychology of Entrepreneurship., 113-130. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates., 2006.