Fall 2006 SYLLABUS
Presentation: "Routine Dynamics"
Background Reading: "A performative perspective on stability and Change in organizational routines;" "Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of flexibility and Change," Martha Feldman and Brian Pentland; "Organizational routines as a unit of analysis," Brian Pentland and Martha Feldman
Web Page: http://www.seweb.uci.edu/faculty/feldman/
Introducer: Kathryn Dekas, Management & Organizations
Presentation: "Superpatrons and Superlibraries"
Location: Ehrlicher Room, 4th Floor, School of Information, West Hall
Web Page: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/
Introducer: Jude Yew, School of Information
Presentation: "A Theory of Fringe Stakeholder-Driven Innovation"
Background Reading: "Engaging fringe stakeholders for competitive imagination," Stuart Hart and Sanjay Sharma, Academy of Management Executive, 2004, Vol. 18, No. 1
Web Page: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Hart/
Introducer: Maria Farkas, Ross School of Business
Presentation: "Information Diffusion in Online Communities"
Background Reading: "The Dynamics of Viral Marketing," Jurij Leskovec, Lada Adamic, Bernardo Huberman and "The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Davided They Blog," Lada Adamic, Natalie Glance
Web Page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/
Introducer: Eric Neuman, Management & Organizations
Presentation: Tentative: "Social Bonds and Investing in Others: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships"
Background Reading: "Selective Investment Theory: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships," Stephanie Brown, R. Michael Brown in Psychological Inquiry, 2006, Vol. 17., No. 1, 1-29
Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Management & Organizations
Presentation: "Organizational Economics"
Background for ICOS Seminar
Background Reading: "What the Folk Theorem Doesn't Tell Us," and "What is Economic Sociology and Should any Economists Care?"
Web Page: http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/popup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=232&co_list=F
Introducer: Aradhana Roy, Ph.D. Student, Strategy
Presentation: "Bodies of Knowledge: Analyzing Practices of Understanding by Surgical Teams in a Teaching Hospital"
Abstract
Background Reading: "The Mystery of the Missing Referent: Objects, Procedures, and the Problem of he Instruction Follower," Koschmann, T., LeBaron, C., Goodwin, C., & Feltovich, P. (In press). Proceedings for Computer Supported Collaborative Work, 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada. New York: ACM. "Gestures, Knowledge, and the World," LeBaron, C., & Streeck, J. (2000). In McNeill, D. (Ed.), Language and gesture. Cambridge: University Press. "Considering the Social and Material Surround: Toward Microethnographic Understandings of Nonverbal Communication," LeBaron, C. (2005). In V. Manusov (Ed.), The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures (pp. 493-506)Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Web Page: http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/employee.cfm?emp=cdl35
Presentation: "Micromobilization: Making institutional change in surgery via cycles of challenge in everyday workplace encounters"
Background Reading: "Cross-rank mobilization: Explaining institutional change through collective action in everyday workplace encounters"
Web Page: http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/popup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=13273&co_list=F
Introducer: Brian Hilligoss, School of Information
Presentation: "Research on Emotion in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective"
Background Reading: Ashkanasy, N. M. (2003). Emotions in organizations: A multilevel perspective. In F. Dansereau and F. J. Yammarino (Eds.), Research in multi-level issues, volume 2: Multi-level issues in organizational behavior and strategy (pp. 9-54). Oxford, UK: Elsevier/JAI Press
Web Page: http://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/academic/nashkanasy.phtml
Introducer: Emily Darling, Management & Organizations
Organizers: Professor Brian Rowan, School of Education (Web Page); Professor Rick Price, Organizational Studies (Web Page); Professor David Cohen, School of Education (Web Page); Charlie Vanover, School of Education (Web Page)
Presenters:
Gene Chasin
Director, Accelerated Schools
http://www.acceleratedschools.net/Marc Tucker
President, National Center on Education and the Economy
Co-founder, America’s Choice
http://www.ncee.org/acsd/acindex.jsp?setProtocol=trueRobert Slavin (Chairman) and Nancy Madden (President)
Success for All Foundation
http://www.successforall.net/Marshall Smith
Director, Education Program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/Default.htm
Abstract and Background on Session
Background Reading:
"How Comprehensive School Reform Works:
Insights from A Study of Instructional Improvement," Brian
Rowan, Eric Camburn, Richard Correnti, Robert Miller;
"Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations,"
J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson, Jane Wei-Skillern
Presentation: "Governance Channels, Structures, and Capabilities in Multibusiness Organizations: A Historical Case Analysis of the General Electric Co."
Background Reading: "Governance channels and Organizational Design at General Electric: 1950-2001," William Ocasio, Joseph John. Forthcoming (2006), in Organization Design: The Dynamics of Adaptation and Change and the Evolving State-of-the-Art, Eriksen, Burton, Hakonsson, Eds.
Web Page: http://www20.kellogg.northwestern.edu/facdir/facpage.asp?sid=542
Introducer: J.P. Stephens, Psychology
Organizers: Michael Cohen, School of Information and Kathie Sutcliffe, Ross School of Business
Guest Panel Speakers:
 | Sally Maitlis, University of British Columbia |
| Doug Orton, The George Washington University |
| Tim Vogus, Vanderbilt University |
Background Reading: "Making Sense of Organizing: A Special Issue in Honor of Karl Weick"
Presentation: "Organizational Identities and the Hazard of Change"
Background Reading: "Organizational Identities and the Hazard of Change"
Location: Ross School of Business, Room E1530
Web Page: http://www.mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/baron.shtml
Introducer: Ruth Blatt, Management & Organizations