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, 3B, is on the third floor, on the west side of the atrium, in the Charles M. Harper Center.
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 coordinator for the Spring quarter, Damon Phillips.
Upcoming Workshops
Schedule
Tuesdays 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM (except for 12/3 and 12/10)Location
Harper Center Seminar 3B
Fall 2008
Sept 30
Trouble in Store: Community Cohesion, Organization, and Anti-Wal-Mart Protest
Huggy Rao (Stanford)
October 7
Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility
Rajshree Agarwal (UIUC)
October 14
Go(Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams
Mark Mortensen (MIT)
October 21
Outstanding Scientific Knowledge: How Status and Cohesion Shapes Scientists' Collaboration Networks and their Performance (ABSTRACT)
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern)
October 28
Coherence and Persistence: A New Perspective on Legitimacy
Steve Kahl (Chicago)
November 4
Home Sweet Home: Social Capital and Location Choice
Olav Sorenson (Toronto)
November 11
NO TALK
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November 18
Space Invaders: Categories, Valuation and Union Organizing Drives, 1961-1999
John Paul Ferguson (MIT)
November 25
NO TALK
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December 2
Uncertainty Reduction Mechanisms in Fashion
Frederic Godart (Columbia)
December 3 (Wed)
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization
Adam Kleinbaum (HBS)
December 9
Environmental Changes and the Dynamics of Organizational Mortality
Gael Le Mens (Stanford)
December 10 (Wed) Room change: C24 (Classroom level)
Informal Ties and Entrepreneurship Choices
Aleksandra Kacperczyk (Michigan)
December 16
Attention or Evaluation: How Do Social Ties Matter in Venture Financing?
Yanbo Wang (MIT)
Past Workshops