Rate My Professor David Chandler

David Chandler is Professor of Management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, where he serves as Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Program Director for the Executive MBA, including the Executive MBA in Aviation. He joined the Business School in 2011 as Assistant Professor of Management, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018, and to Professor in 2022. Chandler holds a PhD in Management from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business (2011), MS in Management from the same institution (2007), MBA in Management and International Business from the University of Miami School of Business (2004), MSc in East Asian Business from the University of Sheffield (1999, with Distinction), and BA Honours in American Studies: Politics and Government from the University of Kent at Canterbury (1991).

His research focuses on how organizations interact with their complex institutional environments, with expertise in organization theory, strategic management, stakeholder theory, and corporate social responsibility. Publications appear in premier outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, and Journal of Management. Select works include 'When is it Good to be Bad? Contrasting Effects of Multiple Reputations for Bad Behavior on Media Coverage of Serious Organizational Errors' (Academy of Management Journal, 2020, with Polidoro and Yang), 'The Value of Values for Institutional Analysis' (Academy of Management Annals, 2020, with Kraatz and Flores), 'A Model of Competitive Impression Management: Edison vs. Westinghouse in the War of the Currents' (Administrative Science Quarterly, 2019, with Cole), and 'Organizational Susceptibility to Institutional Complexity: Critical Events Driving the Adoption and Implementation of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Position' (Organization Science, 2014). He co-edited the Special Issue on Corporate Purpose in Strategy Science (2023, with Ocasio and Kraatz) and authored Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (6th edition, Sage Publications, 2023) and Sustainable Value Creation (2nd edition, Routledge, 2021). Awards include the CU Denver Business School Annual Award for Research (2020, 2016), Reviewer of the Year for Academy of Management Review (2020), Outstanding Bridge Reviewer Mentor Award from Academy of Management Review (2022), and Professor of the Year by the One-Year MBA graduating class (2020, 2018, 2013).