Research Workshops

Organizations & Markets Workshop

This workshop focuses on the sociology of organizations, networks, and markets. A wide variety of topics are addressed, including how organizations operate, why they differ, how they emerge from prior organizations, how future growth depends on position in a structure of other organizations and how people survive and thrive within organizations.

Anyone interested in these topics is welcome to attend the workshop. Graduate student participation is strongly encouraged. The workshop room, Seminar 3B, is located on the third floor of the Charles M. Harper Center, on the west side of the building, overlooking the Winter Garden. When a workshop is scheduled for a room other than 3B, it is indicated in ALL CAPS.

Whenever possible, papers are made available in advance of the workshop. To download a paper, click on the highlighted text. For further information, or to schedule time to meet with an outside speaker, please email the workshop coordinatorr, Julie Magar (julie.magar@chicagobooth.edu).

Upcoming Workshops

 
Schedule
Wednesday 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location
Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B

Winter Quarter 2012

Date
Speaker
Title of Talk
January 11

Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University

"Decoding Collective Wisdom from Stock traders Social Networks" (Paper 1, Paper 2)

January 18 Chris Yenkey, University of Chicago "Speculation as a Learned Behavior? Adaptive Rationality Among
New Investors and the Evolution of a Nascent Market"
January 25 Ron Burt, University of Chicago "Network-Related Personality and the Agency Question: Multi-Role Evidence from a Virtual World"
February 1 Toby Stuart, University of California Berkeley "Matthew: Effect or Fable?" (With Pierre Azoulay and Yanbo Wang)
February 8 Ned Smith, University of Michigan "Cognitive Network Activation"
February 15 Maxim Sytch, Univeristy of Michigan “Where Do Lawsuits Come From? The Role of Spatial Distribution of Principals and Legal Mediating Agents.” (Paper available upon request)
February 22 Lior Strahilevitz, University of Chicago "Social Networks Theory of Privacy"
February 29 Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD "Contested Institutional Change: External Goals Versus Internal Performance Feedback" (With Timothy Rowley adn Henrich Greve)

Spring Quarter 2012

Date
Speaker
Title of Talk
March 28

Tarek Hassan, Chicago Booth

TBA

April 4 Ari Adut, The University of Texas at Austin
TBA
April 11 Elizabeth Pontikes, Chicago Booth
TBA
April 18 Gael Le Mens, Universitat Pompeu Fabra TBA
April 25 Matt Marx, MIT TBA
May 2 Greta Hsu, University of California Davis TBA
May 9 Sarah Soule, Stanford TBA
May 16 Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland TBA
May 23 Amanda Sharkey, Chicago Booth TBA

 

Past Workshops

 

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