Christopher Liu

Other Info

Email: chris.liu@rotman.utoronto.ca

Non-Academic Positions

Selected Publications - Papers

• Boundaries Awry? Knowledge Production and Social Networks in a Corporate R&D Lab

  with Toby Stuart

  Under revision

  2018

• Brokerage by Design: Formal Structure, Geography and Crosscutting Ties

  Under revision

  2018

• Freedom to Act? Negative Relationships, Brokerage and Evaluation

  with Jason Greenberg

  Under Review

  2018

• From the Ground Up: Housing Assignment, Informal Business, and Gender in a Colombian Housing Project

  with Laura Doering

  Sociology of Development (forthcoming)

  2018

• Is Bigger Better? Lab Productivity and Lab Size

  Under Revision

  2018

• Efficacy And Rigidity? Power, Influence, and Social Learning in the U.S. Senate, 1973-2005

  with Sameer Srivastava

  Academy of Management Discoveries

  2018

• Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

  with Pierre Azoulay and Toby Stuart

  American Journal of Sociology

  Issue:122(4)

  2017

  Pages: 1223-71

• An Intra-organizational Ecology of Individual Attainment

  with Sameer Srivastava and Toby Stuart

  Organization Science

  Issue:27(1)

  2016

  Pages: 90-105

• Virtues, Vices, and Political Influence in the U.S. Senate.

  with Leanne ten Brinke, Dacher Keltner, and Sameer Srivastava

  Psychological Science

  Issue:27(1)

  2016

  Pages: 85-93

• What Goes on Beneath the Surface of Reconfiguration? The Impact of Redeployment via Activity Addition and Subtraction on Firm Scope and Turnover

  with Joel Blit and Will Mitchell

  Advances in Strategic Management

  Issue:35

  2016

  Pages: 185-216

• The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department ofBiology for 1970-2000

  with Annamaria Conti

  The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

  Issue:NBER Book Volume and WP #20037

  2015

  Pages: 49-74

• Bringing the Lab Back In: Personnel Composition and Scientific Output at the MIT Department of Biology

  with Annamaria Conti

  Research Policy

  Issue:44

  2015

  Pages: 1633-1644

• Geography and Power in an Organizational Forum: Evidence from the U.S. Senate Chamber

  with Jillian Chown

  Strategic Management Journal

  Issue:36(2)

  2015

  Pages: 177-196

• Pulling Closer and Moving Apart: Interaction, Identity, and Influence in the U.S. Senate, 1973-2009

  with Sameer Srivastava

  American Sociological Review

  Issue:80(1)

  2015

  Pages: 192-217

• Positions and Rewards: The Allocation of resources within a Science-Based Entrepreneurial Firm

  with Toby Stuart

  Research Policy

  Issue:43

  2014

  Pages: 1134-1143

• Complete Replication of Hepatitis C Virus in Cell Culture

  with Lindenbach BD, Evans MJ, Syder AJ, Wold B, Tellinghuisen TL, Maruyama T, Hynes RO, Burton DR, McKeating JA, Rice CM

  Science

  2005

• The Large Extracellular Loop of Murine CD9 is an Autonomously Folding Dimer

  with Richard O. Hynes and Peter S. Kim

  mimeo

  2005

• Eschericia coli DegP Protease Cleaves Between Paired Hydrophobic Resieus in a Natural Substrate

  with Jones CH, Dexter P, Evans AK, Hultgren SJ, and Hruby DE

  J. Bacteriology

  2002

• Residues SFQ (173-175) in the Large Extracellular Loop of CD9 are Required for Gamete Fusion

  with Zhu GS, Miller BJ, Boucheix C, Rubinstein E, Hynes RO, Myles, DG, and Primakoff P

  Development

  2002

• Periplasmic Chaperone Recognition Motif of Subunits Mediates Quarternary Interactions in the Pilus

  with Soto GE, Dodson KW, OggD, Heuser J, Knight S, Kihlberg, Jones CH, and Hultgren SJ

  EMBO J

  1998

• Ectopic Overexpression of Asparagine Synthetase in Transgenic Tobacco

  with Brears T, Knight TJ, and Coruzzi GM

  Plant Physiol.

  1993

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

• The Emergent Lab

  MIT Press (under contract)

  2019

Recent Presentations

• Keep Your Friends Close & Your Enemies Closer?

  Rotman

  2015

• Accompaniment to Geography and Power in an Organizational Forum

  Chris Liu

  2014

Research and Teaching Interests

My research explores the a) geographic antecedents of networks and the b) scientist careers and scientific laboratories. As some examples, I am currently working on projects examining i) the email networks of life scientists, ii) co-sponsorship patterns of US Senators and iii) a large scale reconstruction of biological laboratories. I teach Core Strategy as well as Cooperative Strategy, for which I received the Rotman Teaching Award in 2017.

Honors and Awards

Academic / Professional Service