| Sept. 5 | "Current
Research in the ICOS Community: A Sampler" Presentation: Featuring ten minute presentations by current and new members of the UM organizational studies community describing their current research agendas. Featured Speakers: Will Mitchell, Corporate Strategy & International Business; Mark Mizruchi, Sociology; Laurie Morgan, Institute for Research on Women & Gender; Robert Quinn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management; Anat Rafaeli, Organizational Psychology |
| Sept. 12 | Discussion:
The work of Professor Edwin L. Hutchins prior to his
presentation on September 19 (see readings listed below) Discussion Moderator: Stephanie Teasley, Assistant Research Scientist, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, Business School |
| Sept. 19 | Professor
Edwin L. Hutchins, University of California-San
Diego, Cognitive Science Department Presentation: "The Scope of Distributed Cognition" Background Reading: "How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speed," by Edwin Hutchins; "Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit," by Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen; "How to invent a lexicon: The development of shared symbols in interaction," by Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst; and "Learning in the Cultural Process," by Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst |
| Sept. 26 | Presentation:
Forum "Organizational Change in Transition
Economies" Location: UM Business School, Room #K1320, reception to follow in Executive Residence Moderator: Professor Daniel Denison, University of Michigan Business School Guest Speakers: Professor Paul Lawrence, Harvard Business School; Professor Karen Newman, Georgetown University; Professor Meinolf Dierkes, Wissenschalftzentrun Berlin fur Sozialforsaching |
| Oct. 3 | Professor
Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University, Department
of Psychology Presentation: "Basking in Reflected Glory: Self-Presentation via Raw Association" Background Reading: "Social Influence and the Triple Tumor Structure of Organizational Dishonesty," by Robert B. Cialdini |
| Oct. 10 | Professor
Jane Banaszak-Holl, University of Michigan, School of
Public Health Presentation: "Specialization As a Strategy in the Nursing Home Industry" Background Reading: "The impact of market and organizational characteristics on nursing care facility service innovation: A resource dependency perspective," by J. Banaszak-Holl, J.S. Zinn, and V. Mor. |
| Oct. 17 | Professor
Anat Rafaeli, University of Michigan, Organizational
Psychology Presentation: "Self Presentation and Self Validation: Observations of Employment Advertising and Letters of Application for Employment" Background Reading: "Employment Advertising and Employee Socialization: Organizational Contributions to Society," and Validation in Self Presentation: Impression Management in Letters of Application for Employment" |
| Oct. 24 | Professor
Steve Mick, University of Michigan, School of Public
Health Presentation: "Organizations and Stratification: The Case of International Medical Graduates" Background Reading: "Sector Theory, Stratification, and Health Policy: Foreign and U.S. Medical Graduates in Medical Practice" |
| Oct. 31 | Professor
Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao, University of
Michigan Business School Presentation: "The Formation of Technical Criteria: The role of reliability competitions in the early American automobile industry" Background Reading: "Tests Tell: Institutional Dynamics of Performance Measurement in the American Automobile Industry; 1895-1912" |
| Nov. 7 | Professor
Roy Baumeister, Case Western Reserve University,
Social Psychology Presentation: "Self-Control and Ego Depletion: Destructive Patterns Involving Emotion, Risk Taking, Decisions, Passivity, and Temptations" Background Reading: "Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource?," by Roy Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne M. Tice; "Esteem Threat, Self-Regulatory Breakdown, and Emotional Distress as Factors in Self-Defeating Behavior," by Roy Baumeister; "Why Do Bad Moods Increase Self-Defeating Behavior? Emotion, Risk Taking, and Self-Regulation," by Roy Baumeister, Karen Pezza Leith |
| Series: Non-Profit Organizations (Two-part series organized by Diane Vinokur) | |
| Nov. 14 | Professor
Burton Weisbrod, Institute for Policy Research/Dept.
of Economics, Northwestern University Presentation: "To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercialism Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector" Background Reading: "The Future of the Nonprofit Sector: Its Entwining with Private Enterprise and Government" |
| Nov. 21 | Professor
Helmut K. Anheier, Johns Hopkins University,
Institute for Policy Studies Presentation: "The Emerging Sector: A Cross-National Study of Non-Governmental Organizations" Background Reading: : "The Civil Society Sector," by Lester M. Salamon and Helmut K. Anheier |
| Dec. 5 | Professor
John Mohr, University of California-Santa Barbara,
Sociology Presentation: "Why Organizational Ecology Should (And Can) Become an Interpretive Social Science" Background Reading: "The Differentiation of Institutional Space: Organizational Forms in the New York Social Welfare Sector, 1888-1917," by John Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson. |