[2] He spent most of his career at SUNY Stony Brook and Yale University as a professor of sociology.
In 2004, Perrow was a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, in the winter and spring quarters.
[6] Perrow served as the Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Perrow served as a Resident Scholar for the Russell Sage Foundation at the Shelly Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
[4][7] Perhaps his most widely cited work is Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (ISBN 0-07-554799-6), first published in 1972.