Fall 2004 SYLLABUS

September 10 Professor Max Bazerman, Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets, Harvard Business School
Presentation:  "Predictable Surprises"
Background Reading: "Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments," Idson, Chugh, Bereby-Meyer, Moran, Grosskopf, Bazerman; "Bounded Awareness: Focusing Failures in Negotiation," Bazerman, Chugh; "Predictable Surprises, Chapter 1: What is a Predictable Surprise? A Preview," Max Bazerman
Introducer: Eric Neuman, Management and Organizations
Web Page:
http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman
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September 17
Professor Barry Schwartz, Social Theory and Social Action, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College
Presentation: "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less"
Background Reading: "Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom," (Jan 2000) American Psychologist, Vol. 55, No. 1, 79-88
Introducer: Adam Grant, Psychology Department
Web Page: 
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/
Session 1: Global Companies and Well-Being (1:30-3:00)
Session 2: The View from the Real World (3:30-5:00): All ICOS Participants are welcome to stay for Session 2
September 24
Professor Jerry Davis, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000393958
Professor Timothy Fort, Business Ethics & Business Law, Michigan Business School
Web Page:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000260912
Professor Richard Price, Organizational Studies, Department of Psychology, Institute of Social Research, Management & Organizations
Web Page:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/orgstudies/people_detail.asp?id=268
Presentation:  "The Global Corporation and Human Well-Being"
Background Readings: Outline for Mini-Conference, The Global Corporation and Human Well-Being Proposal, "Regulation and the Globalization of Corporate and Securities Law," by Jerry Davis; "The Times and Seasons of Corporate Responsibility," by Tim Fort; "Taking Stock of Stakeholder Management," by James Walsh
Session 2 Panelists:
David Featherman, Director, Institute for Social Research and Center for Advancing Research and solutions for Society; Dave Berdish, Ford Motor Company; Rob Frederick, Ford Motor Company; Matthew Hirchland, Business for Social Responsibility; Robert Mallett, Pfizer
October 1
Presentation:  "Positive Relationships at Work"
Guest Panelists:
Steven Duck, University of Iowa; William Kahn, Boston University; and Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University
General Introducer to the Panel: 
Professor Belle Ragins, School of Business Administration, Organizations & Strategic Management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Session Introducer:
Jane Dutton, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Business/faculty/sbafaculty/ragins.html
Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119663

Background Reading:  "Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation," Jane Dutton, Belle Ragins
Location:  Michigan Business School, 1st Floor, Room E1540
October 8
Professor Frank Dobbin, Sociology Department, The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
Presentation: "Affirmative Action in Action: Women and Minorities in Management"
Background Reading:  "Two to Tango: Affirmative Action, Diversity Programs and Women and African-Americans in Management," Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin, Erin Kelly
Introducer: Christopher Marquis, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/dobbin/
October 15

Professor Art Brief, Organizational Behavior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Presentation: "Communities Matter"
Background Reading: "Organizations as Reflections of their Environments: The Case of Race Composition," Arthur Brief, Rebecca Butz, Elizabeth Deitch
Introducer: Jacoba Lilius, Psychology
Web Page: http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/faculty/vitas/brief.pdf

October 22
Professor Charles Tilly, Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Presentation:  "Trust and Predation"
Background Reading: "Trust and Rule," Theory and Society 33 (2004) 1-30
Introducer: Peter Anderson, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page:
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/people/faculty/tilly/index.html
October 29 Professor Beth Bechky, Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis
Presentation:
  "Coordination in Context: A Work-Based Approach to Coordination in Organizations"
Background Reading:
"Coordination in Context: A Work-Based Approach to Coordination in Organizations"
Introducer:  Emily Heaphy, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page:
http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Bechky/
November 5 Professor Fiona Lee, Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizations, Michigan Business School
Presentation: 
"Can Power Change People"
Background Reading: 
"Is it lonely at the top? Independence and interdependence of power holders," F. Lee, L. Tiedens (2001).  In B. Staw and R. Sutton (eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol 23, p. 43-91
Introducer: Sandy Lim, Psychology
Web Page: 
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=fionalee
November 12 Professor Mustafa Emirbayer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Web Page:
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/pages/emirbayerhome.html
Professor Victoria Johnson,
Management and Organizations, Michigan Business School
Web Page:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000599249
Presentation:  "Bourdieu and Organizational Analysis"
Background Reading: "Vive le crise!" in Theory and Society, 17:773-87, 1988; "Some Properties of Fields" in Sociology in Question, pp. 72-77; "Haute Couture and Haute Culture" in Sociology in Question, pp. 132-38; "Programme for a Sociology of Sport" in In Other Words, pp. 156-67, all readings by Pierre Bourdieu
Introducer:  Baris Buyukokutan, Sociology
November 19 Professor Heather Elms, Strategy & Ethics, Department of Business & Society, Graduate School of Business, Central European University at Budapest
Presentation: "Lying, Cheating, Stealing -- and the Ring of Gyges"
Background Reading:  "Book II, The Republic of Plato," "Chapter 4, Acts of Submission," from Social Psychology and Social Relevance, by Alan C. Elms, "Lying, Cheating, Stealing: Groups and the Ring of Gyges," by Amir Erez, Heather Elms, Eric Fong
Introducer:  Larry Hearld, Health Management and Policy
Web Page: 
http://www.gsb.ceu.hu/page.php?page=70&l=1
              Two-Part Series on Imaginative Theorizing
December 3 Professor Karl Weick, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School
Presentation: "Imagination in Organizational Studies"
Background Reading:  "Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination," Karl Weick, Academy of Management Review 1989; "Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes," Chapter 4, The Sign of Three, Carlo Ginzburg; "Foresight -- and Hindsight," Chapter 11, The 9/11 Commission Report
Introducer:  Daniel Gruber, Management & Organizations
Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119782
December 10
Professor Karen Locke, Organizational Behavior, School of Business Administration, The College of William & Mary
Presentation:  "Imaginative Theorizing in Qualitative Research"
Background Reading: "You know my method": A juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes, Chapter 2 in Umberto Eco and Thomas Sebeok (eds.), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington Indiana University Press and "Imaginative Theorizing in Organizational Research," by Karen Locke, Karen Golden-Biddle, Martha Feldman
Introducer: Brianna Barker, Psychology
Web Page: http://business.wm.edu/homepage.asp?PID=425