Oliver Schilke joined the Eller College of Management in 2014 after earning his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also had the opportunity to spend two years as a research fellow at Stanford University’s Department of Sociology. Schilke’s research interests can be summarized along the following three dimensions: at a theoretical level, he studies micro-institutional processes such as trust, routines and legitimacy; at a substantive level, his research addresses inter-organizational relationships, R&D and entrepreneurship; and at a methodological level, he utilizes experiments, surveys and large archival data sets.