Fall 2007 SYLLABUS
September 7 Professor Sean Safford, Organizations and Strategy, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Presentation:  "How Allentown Got its Groove Back: Social Capital and the Transformation of Mature Industrial Regions"
Background Reading: 
Web Page:  http://gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/portal/server.pt/gateway/
Introducer: Aleksandra Kacperczyk, Management & Organizations, Ph.D. Student

     Co-sponsored with the Sensemaking Interdisciplinary Forum
September 14 Professor Gerardo Patriotta, Nottingham University Business School
Presentation: "Templates as a Vehicle of Knowledge Institutionalization: Lessons from a Green Field Automotive Factory"
Background Reading:  "The Institutionalization of Knowledge in an Automotive Factory: Templates, Inscriptions and the Problem of Durability," Giovan Francesco Lanzara and Gerardo Patriotta
Web Page: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/lizgp.html
Introducer:  Dan Gruber, Management & Organizations, Ph.D. Student
September 21
 Professor Marshall Van Alstyne, Information Systems, School of Management, Boston University
Presentation: "Diffusion, Network Structure & Information Advantage"
Abstract
Background Readings:
(1) Aral, Sinan, Brynjolfsson, Erik and Van Alstyne, Marshall W., "Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks"
(2) Aral, Sinan and Van Alstyne, Marshall W., "Network Structure & Information Advantage"
Web Page:  http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/VanAlstyneMarshall.html
Introducer:  Natalie Cotton, Management & Organizations, Ph.D. Student
     Co-Sponsored with Strategy
September 28 Professor Mark Kennedy, University of Southern California
Presentation:  "The Media, Mainstreaming, and Market Formation"
Location:  Ross School of Business, Room W2740
Background Reading: "The Counting Conundrum: Markets, Media and Reification"
Web Page:  http://mymarshall.usc.edu/portal/subapps/digitalmeasures/faculty.jsp?surveyId=48795
Introducer:  Anne Fleischer, Strategy, Ph.D. Student
October 5 Social Movements and  the Development of Health Institutions
Organizers:  Mayer Zald and Jane Banaszak-Holl
Location:  School of Public Health, 109 S. Observatory, Room 1690
Panelists:
  • A.S. Paul Bate, Chair, Health Services Management, Centre of Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education, University College, London

"Bringing Social Movements Theory to Healthcare Practice"

Background Reading:  "The next phase of healthcare improvement: what can we learn from social movements?" by P. Bate, G. Robert, H. Bevan

  • Constance Nathanson, Professor, Department of SocioMedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

"The Limitations of Social Movements as Vehicles for Health Institutional Change"

Background Reading: "Interest Groups and the Reproduction of Inequality," by Constance A. Nathanson
     Co-Sponsored with Strategy
October 12 Professor Matthew Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presentation: "Institutions, Pluralism, and the Possibility of Organizational Integrity"
Location: Ross School of Business, Room K1310
Background Reading:  "Organizational Implications of Institutional Pluralism," Matthew S. Kraatz, Emily S. Block
Web Page: http://www.business.uiuc.edu/FacultyProfile/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=114
Introducer:  Bo Kyung Kim, Ph.d. Student, Strategy
October 19 Professor Stevan Hobfoll, Kent State University
Presentation:  "Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me: How Burnout Takes its Toll and How Engagement Might be Fostered"
Abstract
Background Readings: 
(1) "Conservation Resources: A New Attempt at Conceptualizing Stress"
(2) "Work Can Burn us Out or Fire Us Up: Conservation of Resources in Burnout and Engagement," Marjan J. Gorgievski, Stevan E. Hobfoll
Web Page: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~shobfoll/
Introducer: J.P. Stevens, Ph.D. Student, Psychology
October 26 Professor John Chamberlin, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Presentation: "Nonprofits, Funders, and the Effectiveness of the Local Social Safety Net"
Abstract
Background Reading:  "Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States,"  Albert O. Hirschman, Harvard University Press, 1970
Web Page: http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty_staff/person_display.php?personid=35
Introducer: Sean Munsun, Ph.D. Student, School of Information
November 2 Professor Jerker Denrell, Stanford University
Presentation: "Learning and Identity Signaling"
Background Reading:
(1) "Why Most People Disapprove of Me: Experience Sampling in Impression Formation"
(2) "Interdependent Sampling and Social Influence," by Jerker Denrell and Gael le Mens
Web Page: http://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultybios/biomain.asp?id=05312654
Introducer:  David Zhu, Strategy, Ph.D. Student
November 9

Professor Mitchell Stevens, New York University
Presentation: "Individualized Consideration and Social Inequality in Selective College Admissions"
Abstract
Background Reading: "Creating A Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites"
Web Page:  http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mitchell_Stevens
Introducer: Ryan Smerek, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Studies
     Co-Sponsored by the Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund of the Center for the Education of Women (CEW) and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
November 16 Low Wage Work and Work Organizations: A Critical Research and Policy Frontier
Panel Discussion on Low-Wage Work
Organizer:  Jane Dutton
Panelists: 
  • Anne Ladky, Executive Director of Women Employed
  • Carrie Leana, Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
  • Amy Wrzesniewski, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management, Yale University

Background Readings:  CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy) Policy Paper:  "Opportunity at Work: Improving Job Quality," by Elizabeth Lower-Basch
November 30

Professor David Thacher, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Values for Practice: Rethinking Applied Research"
Background Reading:  "The Normative Case Study"
Web Page:  http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty_staff/person_display.php?personid=66
Introducer: Adam Cobb, Ph.D. Student, Management & Organizations
December 7
 Professor Greta Krippner, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Presentation: "The Rentier's Return?: The Social Politics of U.S. Financial Deregulation"
Background Reading:  "The Rentier's Return?: The Social Politics of U.S. Financial Deregulation"
Web Page:  http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=136
Introducer:  Helena Buhr, Ph.D. Student, Sociology