James Davis
Associate Professor, John F. O'Shaughnessy Chair of Family Enterprise and Ray and Milan Siegfried Director of Entrepreneurial Studies
Office: 353 Mendoza College of Business
Phone: 574-631-8614
Email: Davis.31@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Family business, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, strategic planning, trust, executive behavior, stewardship, social capital, boards of directors, compensation
Davis is the founder and director of Notre Dame’s Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, which consistently has ranked among the top 20 programs of the country and received the NASDAQ Center of Excellence Award. His research interests and publications are in the areas of corporate governance, strategic decision-making, trust, stewardship and social capital, and his articles have appeared in many publications including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review, and International Journal of Value-Based Management. The Academy of Management recently recognized his research on trust as the best theoretical research of the second decade of the Academy of Management Review. He also has served on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Review and Business Horizons and currently serves on the board for Journal of Venture Capital.
