Professor Jim Davis, Emeritus Professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, and currently a Trustee of Intermountain Healthcare, brings decades of academic distinction and practical experience in marketing, strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
A leading figure in the field of management theory, Professor Davis is co-author of “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust” (Mayer, Davis & Schoorman, 1995, Academy of Management Review), a foundational paper in organizational trust research cited nearly 19,000 times. He is also a co-originator of Stewardship Theory, which remains a landmark framework in corporate governance scholarship.
Toward a Theory of Higher-Order Influence: From Agency to Stewardship
Speaker: Professor Jim Davis
Date: October 28, 2026
Course: Seminar on Management Theory
Host: Department of Business Administration,
NCHU College of Management
Invited to Taiwan by National Sun Yat-sen University, Professor Davis took the opportunity of his visit to accept an invitation from the Department of Business Administration at National Chung Hsing University's (NCHU) College of Management.
On October 28, 2026, he delivered a guest lecture in the “Seminar on Management Theory” course, titled “Toward a Theory of Higher-Order Influence: From Agency to Stewardship.” The lecture offered faculty and students fresh insight into his evolving thinking on agency and stewardship theory, enriching the college's academic exchange and broadening students' international perspectives on management theory and practice.