Gerald R. Salancik

Gerald R. Salancik (1943 to 1996) was an American organizational theorist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for his work with Jeffrey Pfeffer on organizational decision making and the external control of organizations. He obtained a BS in journalism from Northwestern University in 1965 and a PhD in experimental social psychology from Yale University in 1971, then worked as a researcher at the Institute for the Future for a year. In 1972 he was appointed associate professor of organization behavior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was eventually appointed the D. B. Kirr Professor of Organization at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.