John S. Butler

John Sibley Butler (born July 19, 1947 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) is an American sociologist and economist . He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

Life

Butler attended high school in the Washington Parish district. In the 1960s he took part in the Vietnam War. He studied from 1965 to 1969 at Louisiana State University (BA) in Baton Rouge and from 1970 to 1974 as a Fellow of Social Change at Northwestern University (Ph.D. in Organizational Science and Statistics 1974) in Evanston, Illinois.

He received grants a. a. by the National Science Foundation (1980), the Donner Foundation (1990), the Rockefeller Foundation (1993) and the Kauffman Foundation (1995). From 1989 he was the founding editor of the National Journal of Sociology for several years . In 1999 he became Chair of the Department of Management of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin . From 2002 to 2013 he was director of the IC² Institute , where he held the Herb Kelleher Chair for Entrepreneurship and Business and became Sam Barshop Centennial Fellow . Butler is the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism at McCombs School of Business . and Darrell K. Royal Regents Professor in Ethics and American Society as well as Dallas Taca Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Arthur James Douglass Centennial Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses . He was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Regional Economic Development and Entrepreneurship at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan; He also worked at Rutgers University , Babson College , Peking University , the University of Southern Maine and the Rochester Institute of Technology . His main research interests are Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship / New Ventures .

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Morehouse Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia and the National Institute for the Study of Minority Enterprise at Langston University in Oklahoma. He has worked as a consultant for the US economy and the military; he was also called in as an expert by national media. In the 2000 presidential election in the United States , he was one of the few professors on the economic advisory board of the Texan Governor George W. Bush . In 2006, US President Bush appointed him to the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board ( Fulbright Program ).

Butler and his wife are among Glofish's latest investors .

Inequality in the Military: The Black Experience . Century Twenty One Publishing, Saratoga 1979, ISBN 0-86548-002-8 .
with Charles C. Moskos : All that we can be. Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way . Basic Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-465-00108-4 .
with George Kozmetsky (Ed.): Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: Building American Communities and Economies . Praeger Publishers, Westport 2002, ISBN 0-275-96512-0 .
with David V. Gibson (Ed.): Global Perspectives on Technology Transfer and Commercialization: Building Innovative Ecosystems . Edward Publishing, Algar 2011, ISBN 978-1-84980-977-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Butler, John S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Butler, John Sibley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sociologist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans , Louisiana