Fall 2005 SYLLABUS

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
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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
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September 23
Professor Jason Owen-Smith, Organizational Studies and Sociology Department
Presentation: "Epochal Institutional Change and Academic Research Commercialization"
Abstract
Background R
eading: "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
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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
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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)
"A Retreat: Pondering and Exploring Puzzles in the Study of Organizations"
Off-Site Retreat, Portage Point Inn,
Onekama, Michigan
Web Page: 
http://www.portagepointinn.com

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
Speakers:

Daniel Beunza, Assistant Professor, Economics and Business Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
http://www.econ.upf.edu/eng/faculty/onefaculty.php?id=p1395

Mary Ann Glynn, Professor of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
http://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/MaryGlynn/

Paul Schulman, Professor, Government Department, Mills College
http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/govt/paul/paul.php

Presentation: "Resilience in Context"
Location:  Rackham Graduate School, Rackham Amphitheater, 4th Floor
Background Reading:

K.M. Sutcliffe and T.J. Vogus (2003) Organizing for Resilience.  In Positive Organizational Scholarship

D. Beunza and D. Stark (2005) Resolving Identities: Successive Crises in Trading Room after 9/11.  In N. Foner (ed.) Wounded City: The Social Effects of the Attack on the World Trade Center.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation

P.A. Schulman, E. Roe, M. van Eeten, M. Bruijine (2004) High Reliability and the Management of Critical InfrastructuresJournal of Contingencies and Crises Management, 12(1) 14-28

Introducers: Dan Gruber and Marlys Christianson, Management & Organizations, Ross Business School

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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/

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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
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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
Presentation:  "Organizational Foundations of Workplace Bullying: Lessons from a Systematic Analysis of Workplace Ethnographies"
Background Reading: "Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complimentary or Contradictory?" Hodson, Randy and Vincent J. Roscigno (2004), American Journal of Sociology 110,3 (November): 672-708; "Organizational Trustworthiness: Findings from the Population of Organizational Ethnographies" Hodson, Randy (2004), Organization Science,15,4 (July-August):432-445; "Disorganized, Unilateral and Participative Organizations: New Insights from the Ethnographic Literature" Hodson, Randy (2001), Industrial Relations, 40,2 (April):204-230
Introducer: Brianna Barker, Psychology
Web Page:
http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/faculty/rdh.php