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# Maxim Sytch

**Profile.** Maxim Sytch is a professor at the **University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business**, researching organizational behavior, networks, and strategy. He is a co-author of *"What Companies Get Wrong About Decision Rights"* with [[entity-lindy-greer]] and [[entity-jennifer-jordan]].

**Role in this source.** Co-author of the decision-rights research that forms the article's spine.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- [[framework-decision-rights-mistakes]] — the four failure modes.
- [[claim-roles-before-goals-turf-wars]], [[claim-static-raci-ignored]], [[claim-raci-misunderstood]].
- [[quote-why-frameworks-fail]].

> **Enrichment note:** His Ross faculty profile fits the organizational-behavior and strategy research context underpinning the decision-rights critique.

## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 48 — a048

# Maxim Sytch

**Profile.** Maxim Sytch is a professor of **management and organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business**, focusing on networks, power, and strategic decisions. He is the author of [[entity-the-influence-economy|*The Influence Economy*]] (Oxford University Press, 2025).

**Role in this source.** Co-author (with [[entity-lindy-greer|Lindy Greer]] and [[entity-jennifer-jordan|Jennifer Jordan]]) of *What Companies Get Wrong About Decision Rights*; his network-and-power research underpins the argument that accountability should follow expertise and context, not rank ([[claim-senior-leaders-over-accountable]], [[quote-tailoring-roles]]).

**Attributed contributions (jointly authored):**
- The quotes [[quote-conversation-starters]] and [[quote-tailoring-roles]]
- The diagnosis [[framework-four-mistakes]] and its repairs [[concept-goal-disentanglement]], [[concept-co-created-racis]], [[concept-role-institutionalization]]
- The contrarian design heuristics [[contrarian-four-decisions-a-year]], [[contrarian-inclusion-reduces-buy-in]], and [[contrarian-raci-as-conversation]]