Fall 2002 SYLLABUS

September 6 Professor Walter 'Woody' Powell, School of Education, Organizational Behavior, Sociology, and Director, Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational Research, Stanford University
Presentation:  "Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences"
Background Reading: "Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences," Tables, Figures by Walter Powell, Douglas White, Kenneth Koput, and Jason Owen-Smith
Introducer: Klaus Weber, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, UM Business School
"New Research on Organizational Strategy" (3-part Series)
September 13
Part I
Professor Gabriel Szulanski, Strategy and Management, INSEAD/Wharton
Presentation: "A Replication Perspective of Stickiness: The Role of Accuracy in Knowledge Transfer" 
Abstract
Background Reading: "Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Transfer: The Role of Replication Accuracy," by Gabriel Szulanski, Sidney Winter, Rossella Cappetta, and Christophe Van den Bulte
Introducer: Jeremy Birnholtz, CREW, School of Information
September 20
Part II
Professor Brian Pentland, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University
Presentation:  "Conceptualizing and Measuring Organizational Routines"
Background Reading: "Sequential Variety in Work Processes," and "Re-Theorizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change,"  by Martha Feldman and Brian Pentland
Introducer: Michael Cohen, School of Information
September 27
Part III
"New UMBS Research on Strategy" Panel organized by Allan Afuah and Gautam Ahuja, Corporate Strategy & International Business, UM Business School
Professor Sendil Ethiraj,
Corporate Strategy, UM Business School
Presentation:  "Exploring Complex System Design: Where do Modules Come From?"
Professor Fritz Foley, Corporate Strategy, UM Business School
Presentation:  "The Effects of Having a Foreign Parent: An Analysis of the Growth of U.S. Multinational Affiliates"
Background Reading: "The Effects of Having an American Parent: An Analysis of the Growth of U.S. Multinational Affiliates"
Professor Arvids Ziedonis, Corporate Strategy & International Business, UM Business School
Presentation:  "Real Options in Technology Acquisition: The Case of University Technology Licensing"
Background Reading:  "Real Options in Technology Acquisition"
Professor Rosemarie Ziedonis, Corporate Strategy & International Business, UM Business School
Presentation:  "Intellectual Property Rights and Firm Strategy"
Background Reading:
"When the Giants' Shoulders are Crowded: Fragmented Rights and Patent Strategies in Semiconductors"
Introducers: Professor Allan Afuah and Professor Gautam Ahuja, Corporate Strategy & International Business, University of Michigan Business School
October 4
Professor Gregory Markus, Institute for Social Research, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "The Organizational Basis of Civic Participation"
Background Reading:  "Civic Participation in American Cities"
Introducer: Bowen McBeath, School of Social Work
October 11 Professor Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School, Columbia University
Presentation:  "Racetalk: Experiments with Learning and Transformation"
Background Reading:  "Racetalk: Experiments with Learning and Transformation,"  with Lani Guinier
Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Business School
"Organizational Change in the Health Sector" (2-part Series organized by Jane Banaszak-Holl and Diane Kaplan Vinokur)
October 18
Part I
Professor Steven Bernstein, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
Professor Richard Van Harrison,
Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School
Presentation:  "Changing Physician Behavior at the University of Michigan Health System: Guidelines, Performance Measurement, and Interventions"
Background Reading: "The Clinical Guideline Process within a Managed Care Organization," by Robin Richman, Diane R. Lancaster; "The Development of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines," by Richard T. Connis, David G. Nickinovich, Robert A. Caplan, James F. Arens; "Improving the Quality of Medical Care: Building Bridges Among Professional Pride, Payer Profit, and Patient Satisfaction," by Richard Grol
Introducer: Julie Berson-Grand, School of Public Health
"Music, Metaphors, and Organizations" (two-part series)
October 25
Part I
Professor Victoria Johnson, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management and Fellow, Society of Scholars, University of Michigan Business School
Presentation:  "Organizational Persistence and Institutional Rupture: The Paris Opera in the French Revolution"
Background Reading: "Organizational Persistence and Institutional Rupture: The Paris Opera in the French Revolution"
Introducer: Diane Kaplan Vinokur, School of Social Work
November 1
Part II
Roger Nierenberg, Conductor, Stamford Symphony Orchestra
Presentation:  "The Musical Paradigm: Fostering High Performance Teams, Leadership Styles, and Organizational Dynamics"
Background Reading: "Speak Softly, but Carry a Big Baton"
Introducer: Katherine Richards-Schuster, School of Social Work
"Organizations in Europe and the European Union" (Co-sponsored with the European Union Center, UM International Institute)
November 8 Professor Christopher Ansell, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
Presentation:  "The Institutional Integration of Europe"
Background Reading: "Territoriality, Authority, Democracy," Chapter 12, by Christopher Ansell from On Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and North America, Christopher K. Ansell and Giuseppe Di Palma, Eds.
Introducer: Klaus Weber, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Business School
"New Trends in Information Technology" (Session organized by Bud Gibson and Co-sponsored with UM Business School, Computer and Information Systems Department)
November 15 Professor Lee S. Sproull, Information Systems Management/OB, Director of the Digital Economy Initiative, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Presentation: 
"Voluntary Associations on the Net: A New Form of Social Organization"
Abstract
Location: UM Business School, Room D1273, First Floor
Background Reading: "Essence of Distributed Work: The Case of the Linux Kernel," by Jae Yun Moon and Lee Sproull
Introducer: Matthew Bietz, School of Information, University of Michigan
"Organizational Change in the Health Sector" (2-part Series organized by Jane Banaszak-Holl and Diane Kaplan Vinokur)
November 22
Part II
Professor Alfred Franzblau, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Research on Musculoskeletal Disorders: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"
Background Reading:  "What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome," by Alfred Franzblau, M.D. and Robert A. Werner, M.D.
Introducer:   Jacoba Lilius, Organizational Psychology, University of Michigan
November 29 Thanksgiving Break -- No Classes
December 6
Professor J. Frank Yates, Psychology Department, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Decision Management Challenges"
Background Reading: "Decision Management: How to Assure Better Decisions in Your Company," Chapter 1, The Art of Decision Management, by J. Frank Yates (to appear January 2003, Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco)
Introducer: Monica Worline, Organizational Psychology