Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Management, Political Science and Sociology; Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management
PhD, Stanford University
feldmanm@uci.edu
Social Ecology I, 226G
Department:
Urban Planning and Public Policy
Specializations:
Organization theory and behavior, organizational routines and routine dynamics, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing, public management, qualitative research methods
Martha S. Feldman (Stanford University PhD, 1983) is the Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management at the University of California, Irvine. Her research on organizational routines explores the role of performance and agency in creating, maintaining and altering these fundamental organizational phenomena. She was a Senior Editor for Organization Science from 2006 to 2018 and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. She received Administrative Science Quarterly’s 2009 award for Scholarly Contribution and the 2011 Academy of Management Practice Scholarship Award. In 2014 she was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the approximately 3000 Highly Cited Researchers worldwide, a distinction earned by ranking among the top 1% most cited for field and year indexed in the Web of Science during the period 2002-2012. She has received the Academy of Management Distinguished Scholar Award for the Organization and Management Theory Division (2015) and the Keith G. Provan Award for Outstanding Contribution to Empirical Theory from the Public and Nonprofit Division (2016) of the Academy of Management. In 2014, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of St. Gallen School of Management and in 2019 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Hanken School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and an Honorary Member of the European Group for Organization Studies.