Fall 2005 SYLLABUS |
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| September 9 | Professor Dick
Scott, Stanford University and Jerry Davis, Ross School of
Business Location: Ross School of Business, Room D1275, 1st Floor Presentation: "Alternative Futures for Organization Theory" Background Reading: "Prospects for Organization Theory in the Early 21st Century: Institutional Fields and Mechanisms," Gerald Davis and Christopher Marquis, Organization Science, pp.1-12, 2005 INFORMS; Institutional Theory: Contributing to a Theoretical Research Program," W. Richard Scott, Chapter prepared for Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development, K.G. Smith and M.A. Hitt, eds., Oxford UK: Oxford University Press; "Reflections on a Half-Century of Organizational Sociology," http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110644 Introducer: Eric Neuman, Management & Organizations, Ross Business School Web Page: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/faculty/scott/scott.html Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000393958 |
| Co-Sponsored with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| September 16 |
Professor Haridimos Tsoukas, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA) Presentation: "How is New Knowledge Created in Organizations? A Post-Rationalist Account" Location: Ross School of Business, Kresge Administration Building, Room K1320 Background Reading: "What is Organizational Knowledge?" H. Tsoukas and E. Vladimirou (2001) Journal of Management Studies, Pg. 38, pp. 973-993; "The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System: A Constructionist Approach" H. Tsoukas (1996) Strategic Management Journal, 17, pp. 11-25; "Do We Really Understand Tacit Knowledge" H. Tsoukas (2003) In M. Easterby-Smith and MA. Lyles (eds), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 410-427; "Noisy Organizations: Uncertainty, Complexity, Narrativity" H. Tsoukas (2005), in H. Tsoukas Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology, Oxford, Oxford University Press Introducer: Anne Fleischer, Corporate Strategy & International Business, Ross School of Business Web Page: http://www.alba.edu.gr/faculty/faculty/resident/index.asp?prof_id=20 Corporate Strategy & International Business Fall 2005 Speaker Schedule |
| September 23 |
Professor Jason
Owen-Smith, Organizational Studies and Sociology Department Presentation: "Epochal Institutional Change and Academic Research Commercialization" Abstract Background Reading: "Epochal Institutional Change and Academic Research Commercialization" Introducer: Jane Dutton, Management & Organizations Org Studies Web Page: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/orgstudies/people_detail.asp?id=281 Sociology Web Page: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=99 |
| Co-Sponsored with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| September 30 | Professor Dan Levinthal, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Management Presentation: "The Gradualists Dynamics of Punctuated Change and their Implications for Management Research" Location: Ross School of Business, Kresge Administration Building, Room K1320 Background Reading: "The Gradualists Dynamics of Punctuated Change and their Implications for Management Research," Gino Cattani and Daniel Levinthal Introducer: Hongquan (David) Zhu, Corporate Strategy & International Business, Ross School of Business Web Page: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/levinthd.html Corporate Strategy & International Business Fall 2005 Speaker Schedule |
| October 7 |
Dr. James Loehr,
Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, LGE Performance Systems, Inc. Presentation: "The Power of Full Engagement" Location: Ross School of Business, 1st Floor, Room D1275 Full Engagement Handout Background Reading: "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review (January 2001) Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business Web Page: http://www.leadingauthorities.com/4561/James_Loehr,_EdD.htm Web Page: http://www.corporateathlete.com |
| October 14-16 |
ICOS Special
Event (no class)(Limited
spots for faculty and ph.d. students; details will follow in September) |
| October 21 | Professor Jeffrey
Polzer, Harvard Business School, Organizational Behavior Presentation: "Too many cooks spoil the broth: How high status individuals decrease group effectiveness" Abstract Introducer: Brian Sandovol, Organizational Psychology Web Page: http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=jpolzer&loc=extn |
| October 28 |
Organizational
Resilience Conference -- Professor Kathleen Sutcliffe
Presentation: "Resilience in
Context"
Introducers: Dan Gruber and Marlys Christianson, Management & Organizations, Ross Business School |
| Co-Sponsored with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| November 4 | Professor Quy Huy,
Corporate Strategy INSEAD Presentation: "Emotional Triggers in Strategy Implementation" Abstract Location: Ross School of Business, Kresge Administration Building, Room K1320 Background Reading: "Emotional Triggers in Strategy Implementation: Emotions as Advance Feedback Signals" Introducer: Ben Cole, Corporate Strategy & International Business, Ross School of Business Web Page: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/strategy/huy/ Corporate Strategy & International Business Fall 2005 Speaker Schedule |
| November 11 | Professor Sara
Rynes, University of Iowa,
Tippie College of Business,
Management & Organizations Presentation: "Across the Great Divide: Some Explorations in the Human Resource Management Field" Background Reading: Rynes, S.L., Bartunek, J.M. & Daft, R.L. (April 2001). Across the great divide: Knowledge creation and transfer between practitioners and academics. Academy of Management Journal, 44, Vol 2, 340-355 Introducer: Adam Grant, Organizational Psychology Web Page: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/faculty/results.cfm?id=314 |
| Co-Sponsored with the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise | |
| November 18 | Professor Debra
Meyerson, Stanford University, School of Education and Graduate School
of Business, Organizational Behavior Presentation: "Reconstructing Gender through Organizational Learning" Background Reading: "Reconstructing Gender: Learning Practices as a Mechanism for Disrupting Masculinity in Male Dominated Work," Debra Meyerson and Robin Ely Introducer: Deborah Bey Web Page: http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/displayRecord.php?suid=debram Web Page: http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=debram |
| Two-Part Series on Organizations and Work | |
| December 2 | Professor Susan
Ashford, Ross School of Business and Ruth Blatt, Ross School of
Business Presentation: "Meaning-Making at Work: Insights from Independent Workers" Background Reading: "Making Meaning and Taking Action: Insights from Independent Workers," by Ruth Blatt and Susan Ashford Introducer: Dan Gruber, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000120086 Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/Academics/Departments/OBHRM/OBHRM/Phd/Students/Blatt.htm |
| December 9 |
CANCELLED
DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS Professor Randy
Hodson, Ohio State University, Department of Sociology |