Dr. Larry J. Williams
Professor of Management
CARMA Director

Former members of the CARMA Team

Dr. Larry J. Williams (up)
Professor of Management / Dean's Research Chair and Professor of Psychology
CARMA Director

Biography page: http://business.wayne.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=63412

Dr. Larry J. Williams joined the faculty of Wayne State University in January 2010.  Previously he was on the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University as University Professor of Management, and he also was Associate Professor and Jay Ross Young Faculty Scholar at the Krannert School of Management of Purdue University and the Fisher Distinguished Scholar in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at the University of Tennessee.  Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Indiana University School of Business and his main research interests involve the application of structural equation methods to various substantive and methodological concerns.  Dr. Williams served as the Founding Editor of Organizational Research Methods (ORM), a journal sponsored by the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management, and he previously served as Consulting Editor for the Research Methods and Analysis section of the Journal of Management (1993-1996).  He has been a member of the editorial board of Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal.  Dr. Williams also has served as Chairperson for the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management. Professor Williams established and currently serves as Director of the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), an interdisciplinary center devoted to helping faculty and students advance their knowledge of  organizational  and social science research methods and data analysis techniques.

Among his recent accomplishments, in 2004 Dr. Williams was recognized by the Southern Management Association as an author of 2 of the 6 most highly cited articles in the 30 year history of the Journal of Management.  He was also elected in 2004 to be a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior, an international group of approximately 80 leading scholars from the field of organizational behavior.  In 2005, Dr. Williams was selected to be the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Career Contributions Award by the Academy of Management’s Research Methods Division.  In 2008, Professor Williams was recognized as one of the 150 most-cited authors in the field of management (1981-2004) in an article published in the Journal of Management.  He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology in 2010.