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Please note: Talks since September 7, 2007 have been recorded as part of experiments with new ICOS recording technology. In some cases sound quality may be uneven. Quality should improve in the more recent recordings, as new techniques have been refined. As with earlier recordings, these are presented in the Real Audio format, and users will need to have the RealPlayer available on their systems. A free version can be obtained from http://www.real.com/.

April 11, 2008
Professor Kai Zheng, UM Schools of Information and Public Health, "User Reaction to IT Systems in Health Care: A Multi-Site Multi-Approach Study".  NOTE: This presentation contains audio only.

April 4, 2008
Professor Cristina Gibson, UC-Irvine, "The Science and Art of Global Collaborations: Investigating Antecedents and Consequences of External Adjustment"

March 28, 2008
Professor Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, London Business School, "Relationship Duration and Returns to Brokerage in the Staffing Sector"

March 21, 2008
Likert Dissertation Award Winners: Professor Adam Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill,
 "The Significance of Task Significance: Job Performance Effects, Relational Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions" and Professor Franciso Polidoro, UT-Austin, "Inertia in the Assessment of Technological Innovations: An Examination of the FDA Approval of New Drugs"

March 14, 2008
Professor Jeff Edwards, UNC-Chapel Hill,
 "Methods for Integrating Moderation and Mediation: A General Analytical Framework Using Moderated Path Analysis "

February 8, 2008
Professor Rebecca Henderson, MIT Sloan School,
 "Diseconomies of scope between existing businesses and growth opportunities: evidence from the history of computing"

February 1, 2008
Professor John Hollenbeck, Michigan State University,
" Tactical Leadership and Sub-Unit Coordination: Structure and Planning in Teams of Teams"

January 25, 2008
Professor Martin Ruef, Department of Sociology, Princeton University,
"Credit and Classification: Defining Industry Boundaries in 19th Century America"

January 18, 2008
Professor
Raanan Lipshitz, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, "Paradigms and Mindfulness in Decision Making: Why the Israel Defense Force Failed in the Second Lebanon War"

January 4, 2008
Professor David Harrison,
Management & Organization, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, "What's the Difference? Making (Further) Sense of the Diversity Narrative in Organizations"

2007                                                                                            Back to Top

November 30, 2007
Professor David Thacher, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, "Values for Practice: Rethinking Applied Research"

November 9, 2007
Professor Mitchell Stevens, New York University, "Individualized Consideration and Social Inequality in Selective College Admissions"

November 2, 2007
Professor Jerker Denrell, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, "Learning and Identity Signaling"

October  26, 2007
Professor John Chamberlin, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, "Nonprofits, Funders, and the Effectiveness of the Local Social Safety Net"

October 19, 2007
Professor Stevan Hobfoll, Kent State University: "Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me: How Burnout Takes its Toll and How Engagement Might be Fostered"

October  12, 2007
Professor Matthew Kraatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Institutions, Pluralism, and the Possibility of Organizational Integrity"

September 28, 2007
Professor Mark Kennedy, University of Southern California: "The Media, Mainstreaming, and Market Formation"

September 21, 2007
Professor Marshall Van Alstyne, Information Systems, School of Management, Boston University: "Diffusion, Network Structure & Information Advantage"

September 14, 2007
Professor Gerardo Patriotta, Nottingham University Business School: "Templates as a Vehicle of Knowledge Institutionalization: Lessons from a Green Field Automotive Factory"

September 7, 2007
Professor Sean Safford, Organizations and Strategy, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: "How Allentown Got its Groove Back: Social Capital and the Transformation of Mature Industrial Regions "

April 13, 2007
Professor Linda Putnam, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University: "Dialectics and Paradoxes as Discursive Strategies for Organizational Analysis"

April 6, 2007
Professor Kathie Sutcliffe, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan: "Revisiting Information Overload"

March 30, 2007
Professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt, The Johnson School, Cornell University:
"Too Good to Be True? The Unintended Signaling Effects of Educational Prestige on External Expectations of Team Performance"

March 23, 2007
Professor Sidney Winter, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: "Economic Analysis for Business Strategy: The Case of the Evolutionary Approach"

March 16, 2007
Professor Christina Ahmadjian, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University: "Co-opting globalization: Local politics and the transformation of South Korea and Japan"

March 9, 2007
Professor Karl Aquino, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia: "The Relationship Between Moral Identity and Moral Outcomes: A Social Cognitive Framework"

February 23, 2007
Professor Minyuan Zhao, Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan:
"Multinational R&D: the Role of Firms' Internal Organization"

February 9, 2007
Professor Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley:
"Shareholder Value and the Transformation of American Industries, 1984-2001"

February 2, 2007
Research on Non-Profits at the University of Michigan
Moderator:  Ashley Zwick, Managing Director, Nonprofit & Public Management Center
Presenters:

January 26, 2007
Professor Jean Wineman and Professor Sophia Psarra, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan: "Space Syntax Theory, Methods, Applications"

January 19, 2007
Professor David Krackhardt, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University: "The Power of Simmelian Ties in Organizations"

January 12, 2007
Professor Scott Page,
Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, University of Michigan: "The Difference: Cognitive Diversity and Predictive Models"

January 5, 2007
Panel on Reviewing,  with Mark Mizruchi, Jason Owen-Smith, and Jim Walsh, University of Michigan

2006                                                                                            Back to Top

December 8, 2006
Professor James Baron, Yale School of Management, Department of Management:
"Organizational Identities and the Hazard of Change"

December 1, 2006
"Making Sense of Organizing":
Karl Weick Special Issue
Organizers:  Michael Cohen, School of Information and Kathie Sutcliffe, Ross School of Business
Guest Panel Speakers: Sally Maitlis, University of British Columbia; Doug Orton, The George Washington University; Tim Vogus, Vanderbilt University

November 17, 2006
Professor William Ocasio, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Management & Organizations:
"Governance Channels, Structures, and Capabilities in Multibusiness Organizations: A Historical Case Analysis of the General Electric Co."

November 10, 2006
"Lessons Learned about School Improvement from Comprehensive School Reform Providers"
Organizers:  Professor Brian Rowan, School of Education; Professor Rick Price, Organizational Studies; Professor David Cohen, School of Education; Charlie Vanover, School of Education
Presenters:  Gene Chasin, Director, Accelerated Schools; Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the Economy, Co-founder, America’s Choice; Robert Slavin (Chairman) and Nancy Madden (President)
Success for All Foundation; Marshall Smith, Director, Education Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

November 3, 2006
Professor Neal Ashkanasy, University of Queensland, UQ Business School, Management: "Research on Emotion in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective"

October 27, 2006
Professor Kate Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business, Organizational Studies:
"Micromobilization: Making institutional change in surgery via cycles of challenge in everyday workplace encounters"

October 20, 2006
Professor Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young University, Marriott School, Organizational Leadership and Strategy: 
"Bodies of Knowledge: Analyzing Practices of Understanding by Surgical Teams in a Teaching Hospital"

October 13, 2006
Professor Robert Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business, Department of Economics: "Organizational Economics"

October 6, 2006
Professor Stephanie Brown, General Medicine, Medical School, University of Michigan: Tentative: "Social Bonds and Investing in Others: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships"

September 29, 2006
Professor Lada Adamic, School of Information, University of Michigan:  "Information Diffusion in Online Communities"

September 22, 2006
Professor Stuart Hart, Cornell University, The Johnson Graduate School of Management:
"A Theory of Fringe Stakeholder-Driven Innovation"

September 15, 2006
Jon Udell, Author, Strategic Developer, InfoWorld:  "Superpatrons and Superlibraries"

September 8, 2006
Professor Martha Feldman, University of California-Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Department of Planning, Policy & Design: "Routine Dynamics"

April 14, 2006  (AKA JaneFest)
"Contemporary Research Issues Panel"
Jason Kanov, Seattle University
Michael Pratt, Illinois University
Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia
Laura Morgan Roberts, Harvard University
Nancy Rothbard, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Wrzesniewski, New York University:

April 7, 2006
Likert Dissertation Prize Winners (RealMedia recording):  Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia and Klaus Weber, Northwestern University

April 7, 2006 (9:00-10:30 a.m. at Ross School of Business)
Special Session for Ph.D. Students
"Trials and Triumphs of the Dissertation Process"
with the Likert Dissertation Prize Winners: Klaus Weber, Northwestern University and Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia

March 31, 2006
Professor William Barnett,
Business Leadership, Strategy, & Organizations and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for the Environment, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University:  "The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia"

March 24, 2006
Professor Kazuo Ichijo, Organizational Behavior & Management, Hitotsubashi University
"Knowledge-based Management and Organization"

March 17, 2006
Professor Mark deRond, Judge Business School, Cambridge University "Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology & Intellectual History"

March 10, 2006
Professor Michal Tamuz, Center for Health Services Research, University of Tennessee-Memphis
"Classifying and Interpreting Threats to Patient Safety: Implications for Organizational Learning"

February 24, 2006
Professor Ted London, William Davidson Institute, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan: "The Base of the Pyramid: Theoretical and Practical Implications"

February 17, 2006
Professor Wayne Baker, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan "Shared Values and Social Capital"

February 10, 2006
Professor Eugenia Cacciatori, Centre for Research on Business Organization, Universita Bocconi: "Between Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Artifacts in the Knowledge Integration Process"

February 3, 2006
Professor David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Columbia University:
"Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary, 1987-2001"

January 27, 2006
Professor David Woods, Institute for Ergonomics, Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory, Ohio State University:  "Engineering Resilience for Safety Management"

January 20, 2006
Professor Carol Heimer, Department of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University "Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules, and the Structure of Attention"

January 13,2006
Professor William Ouchi, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior, Anderson School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles:  "Power to the Principals"

January 6, 2006
Professor JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management, Behavioral Policy Science "Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century"

2005                                                                                                    Back to Top

December 2, 2005
Professor Susan Ashford, Ross School of Business and Ruth Blatt, Ross School of Business:  "Meaning-Making at Work: Insights from Independent Workers"

November 18, 2005
Professor Debra Meyerson, Stanford University, School of Education and Graduate School of Business, Organizational Behavior: "Reconstructing Gender through Organizational Learning"

November 11, 2005
Professor Sara Rynes, University of Iowa,
Tippie College of Business, Management & Organizations: "Across the Great Divide: Some Explorations in the Human Resource Management Field"

November 4, 2005
Professor Quy Huy, Corporate Strategy INSEAD: "Emotional Triggers in Strategy Implementation"

October 28, 2005
Organizational Resilience Conference: "Resilience in Context"

Daniel Beunza, Assistant Professor, Economics and Business Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Mary Ann Glynn, Professor of Organization and Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Paul Schulman, Professor, Government Department, Mills College

October 21, 2005
Professor Jeffrey Polzer, Harvard Business School, Organizational Behavior "Too many cooks spoil the broth: How high status individuals decrease group effectiveness" 

October 7, 2005
Dr. James Loehr, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, LGE Performance Systems, Inc.: 
"The Power of Full Engagement."  Presentation not recorded per Dr. Loehr's request.

September 30, 2005
Professor Dan Levinthal, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Management: 
"The Gradualists Dynamics of Punctuated Change and their Implications for Management Research"

September 23, 2005
Professor Jason Owen-Smith, Organizational Studies and Sociology Department: 
"Epochal Institutional Change and Academic Research Commercialization"

September 16, 2005
Professor Haridimos Tsoukas, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA): "How is New Knowledge Created in Organizations? A Post-Rationalist Account"

September 9, 2005
Professor Dick Scott, Stanford University and Jerry Davis, Ross School of Business:
"Alternative Futures for Organization Theory"

April 15, 2005
Professor Marlena Fiol, Health Administration, Management, Business School, University of Colorado-Denver:  "Identity & Legitimacy: Borrowed, Broken Down, and Built Up,"

April 8, 2005
Professor Marc Schneiberg, Department of Sociology, Reed College:  "Private, Public or Cooperative?: Ownership, Organizational Form and Industrial Order in the US Electrical Utility Industry in the Progressive Era and Early New Deal"

April 1, 2005
Professor Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University:  "Border Patrol: Culinary Categories as Constraints in French Gastronomy"

March 25, 2005
Professor Jeff Liker, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan:  "The Toyota Way: A Sociotechnical Learning Organization in Action"

March 18, 2005
Professor Joel Podolny, Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School: "A Sociological (De)construction of the Relationship Between Status and Quality"

March 11, 2005
Professor John Paul MacDuffie, Management, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania: "Collaboration in Supply Chains: With and Without Trust"

February 25, 2005
Professor Andy Hoffman, Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan:  "Reconsidering the role of the practical-theorist: (Re) connecting organizational theory to practice"

February 4, 2005
ICOS 15th Anniversary Symposium, celebrating fifteen years of interdisciplinary community focused on the science of organizational studies at the University of Michigan
Guest Panelists:  Paul Courant, Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; June Howard, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Rackham Graduate School; Robert Kahn, Research Scientist Emeritus, Survey Research Center
; Rick Price, Director of LSA Organizational Studies, Professor of Psychology, Research Professor Survey Research Center

January 28, 2005
David Bornstein, Independent Journalist:  "Will Our Great-Grandchildren Go to Museums to See What Poverty Was?: The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship and its Implications on Our Lives and on the World"

January 21, 2005
Professor Allan Afuah, Corporate Strategy & International Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan:  "A Resource-based View of Africa: Why Africa cannot take care of itself despite its numerous valuable resources"

January 14, 2005
Professor Claus Rerup, Organizational Behavior, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario: Presentation has not been posted per Professor Rerup's request

January 7, 2005
Professor Sheena Iyengar, Management and Psychology, Columbia University:  
"How Choices are Demotivating: Evidence from 401(k) Investors and Speed Daters"

2004                                                                                    Back to Top

December 10, 2004
Professor Karen Locke, Organizational Behavior, School of Business Administration, The College of William & Mary:  "Imaginative Theorizing in Qualitative Research"

December 3, 2004
Professor Karl Weick, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School: "Imagination in Organizational Studies"

November 19, 2004
Professor Heather Elms, Strategy & Ethics, Department of Business & Society, Graduate School of Business, Central European University at Budapest: "Lying, Cheating, Stealing -- and the Ring of Gyges"

November 12, 2004
Professor Mustafa Emirbayer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Victoria Johnson, Management and Organizations, Michigan Business School: "Bourdieu and Organizational Analysis"

November 5, 2004
Professor Fiona Lee, Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizations, Michigan Business School: 
"Can Power Change People"

October 29, 2004
Professor Beth Bechky, Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis: "Coordination in Context: A Work-Based Approach to Coordination in Organizations"

October 22, 2004
Professor Charles Tilly, Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University:  "Trust and Predation"

October 15, 2004
Professor Art Brief, Organizational Behavior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University:  "Communities Matter"

October 8, 2004
Professor Frank Dobbin, Sociology Department, The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University:  "Affirmative Action in Action: Women and Minorities in Management"

October 1, 2004
"Positive Relationships at Work"
Guest Panelists: Steven Duck, University of Iowa; William Kahn, Boston University; and Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University
Moderators:  Professor Belle Ragins, School of Business Administration, Organizations & Strategic Management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Jane Dutton, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School

September 24, 2004
"The Global Corporation and Human Well-Being?": Professor Jerry Davis, Professor Tim Fort, Professor Richard Price, Professor Mayer Zald, Professor Marina Whitman, Professor David Hess, Marlys Christiansen, Adam Grant, University of Michigan

September 17, 2004
Professor Barry Schwartz, Social Theory and Social Action, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College:  "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less"

September 10, 2004
Professor Max Bazerman, Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets, Harvard Business School:  "Predictable Surprises"

April 16, 2004
Professor Kristian Kreiner, Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School:  "Making Knowledge Manageable"

April 9, 2004
Professor Lloyd Sandelands, Management & Organizations and Psychology, University of Michigan: "Whither Positive Organizational Scholarship?"

March 26, 2004
Professor Michael Tushman, Business Administration, Harvard Business School: "Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities"

March 19, 2004
Professor James Spillane, Learning Sciences; Human Development & Social Policy; Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University:  "Standards Deviation: A Sense-Making Account of Education Standards Implementation"

March 12, 2004
Professor David Cohen, School of Education, University of Michigan: "The Dilemma of Implementation, and Standards-Based School Reform"

March 5, 2004
Professor Chip Heath, Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University:  "On the Psychology of Culture: Urban Legends, Mad Cow Disease, Drinking Tales, and the Mozart Effect"

February 13, 2004
Professor Ed Diener, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "A Scientific Analysis of Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Well-Being"

February 6, 2004
Professor Joel Baum, Strategic Management and Sociology, Rotman School of management, University of Toronto:  "Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners"

January 30, 2004
Professor Anat Rafaeli, Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology:  "Emotion as the Connection of Artifacts and Organizations"

January 16, 2004
Professor Malcolm McCullough, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan:  "Digital Craft -- Form-Giving, Work Practices, and the Idea of Design"

January 9, 2004
Professor Joanne Martin, Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University:  "Institutional Interlocks and the Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities: Technology Training in Mexico"

 2003                                                           Back to Top

December 5, 2003
Professor David Obstfeld, Organization & Strategy, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine:  "Social Networks, Personal Knowledge, and Entrepreneurial Action: An Integrative Approach to Innovation"

November 21, 2003
Professor Sim Sitkin, Management, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University: "An Empirical Examination of Leadership as a Determinant of Trust"

November 14,2003
Professor Tim Fort,
Business Ethics and Business Law and Professor Cindy Schipani, Business Law and The William Davidson Institute Area Director of Corporate Governance, Michigan Business School:
"The Role of the Corporation in Fostering Peaceful Societies?"

October 31, 2003
Professor Dev Jennings,
Strategic Management & Organization, School of Business, University of Alberta: "Discovering the Dynamics of Institutional Environments: Modeling Legal Rule Revision"

October 24, 2003
Professor Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School: "A Theory of Real-Time Revolution," the public portion of the workshop on "Reading Dewey: Augmenting the Foundations of Organization Studies"

October 17, 2003
Professor Mary Jo Hatch, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia:  "Should Organizing Be More Like Jazz?"

October 10, 2003
Workshop: "Strategies for Renewal: Getting Beyond Surviving and Working Towards Thriving!"
Professor Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management; Professor Barbara Fredrickson, Department of Psychology; Professor Karl Weick, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

October 3, 2003
Professor Terry Dworkin, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University: "Controlling Organizations through Whistleblowing: Global Trends and the Impact of Gender"

September 26, 2003
Professor Jennifer Crocker, Psychology Department, University of Michigan: "The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem"

September 19, 2003
The Role of Organizational Environment in Health and Performance Conference
Professor Kim Cameron, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School: "How Do Organizations Foster Extraordinary Performance in People?"

Professor Gretchen Spreitzer, Professor Kathie Sutcliffe, and Professor Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School: "Work Organizations that Enable Human Thriving"

September 12, 2003
Professor James Walsh, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School: "Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business"

September 5, 2003
Professor Royston Greenwood, Strategic Management & Organization, School of Business, University of Alberta:  "Organizations, Ownership and Privilege: Does Anybody Care?"

April 11, 2003
Professor Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo:
"Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making"

April 4, 2003
Professor Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School: 
"The Social Emotional and The Professional: Studies on American Workways"

March 28, 2003
Professor Scott Page, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan:
"Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture?"

March 21, 2003
Professor Mary Ann Glynn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School, visiting scholar from Emory University, Goizueta Business School:
"Evangelical Domesticity and Martha Stewart Living Magazine, 1990-2002"

March 14, 2003
Professor Julia Liebeskind, Management & Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California:
"Public Research and Intellectual Property Rights: A Tale of Two Inventions"

March 7, 2003
Professor Theresa Lant, Management & Organizational Behavior, Stern School of Business, New York University:
"Emerging Cognitive Community in Silicon Alley"

February 21, 2003
Professor Jason Owen-Smith, Sociology Department, University of Michigan:
"Topology and Technology Transfer: Managing Ambiguity in a University Licensing Office"

February 14, 2003
Professor Brian Rowan, School of Education, University of Michigan:
"Notes on the U.S. School Improvement Industry"

January 31, 2003
Professor Andrew Hargadon, Technology Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis:
"When Innovations Meet Institutions: The Role of Design in Mediating Between Technology and Culture"

January 24, 2003
Professor Paul Adler, Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California:
"Knowledge Management in Software Development"

January 17, 2003
Dr. Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute:
"A Market-Driven Approach to International Development"

January 10, 2003
James March's "Don Quixote Leadership Film" with commentary from Professor Susan Ashford and Professor Robert Quinn, University of Michigan Business School

2002                                                                    Back to Top

November 15, 2002
Professor Lee Sproull, Information Systems Management/OB, Director of the Digital Economy Initiative, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University: 
"Voluntary Associations on the Net: A New Form of Social Organization"

November 8, 2002
Professor Christopher Ansell, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley: 
"The Institutional Integration of Europe"

November 1, 2002
Roger Nierenberg, Conductor, Stamford Symphony Orchestra: 
"The Musical Paradigm: Fostering High Performance Teams, Leadership Styles, and Organizational Dynamics"

October 25, 2002
Professor Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan Business School:
"Organizational Persistence and Institutional Rupture: The Paris Opera in the French Revolution"

October 18, 2002
Professor Steven Bernstein and Professor Richard Van Harrison, University of Michigan Medical School: 
"Changing Physician Behavior at the University of Michigan Health Systems: Guidelines, Performance Measurement, and Interventions"

October 11, 2002
Professor Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School, Columbia University: 
"Racetalk: Experiments with Learning and Transformation"

October 4, 2002
Professor Gregory Markus, Institute for Social Research, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan: 
"The Organizational Basis of Civic Participation"

September 27, 2002
"New UMBS Research on Strategy."  Professor Sendil Ethiraj, Professor Fritz Foley, Professor Arvids Ziedonis, and Professor Rosemarie Ziedonis, Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan Business School

September 20, 2002
Professor Brian Pentland, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University:
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Organizational Routines"

September 13, 2002
Professor Gabriel Szulanski, Strategy and Management, INSEAD/Wharton: "A Replication Perspective of Stickiness: The Role of Accuracy in Knowledge Transfer"

September 6, 2002
Professor Walter Powell, School of Education, Organizational Behavior, Sociology and Director, Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational Research, Stanford University: "Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences"

April 12, 2002
Professor Wanda Orlikowski, Information Technologies and Organizational Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  "Studying Technology, Time, and Knowledge in Organizations: A Practice Perspective"

March 29, 2002
Professor John Bryson, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota:
"What To Do When Stakeholders Matter: The Case of Problem Formulation for the African American Men Project of Hennepin County, Minnesota"

March 22, 2002
Professor Michael Barzelay, Reader in Public Management, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Government Department, London School of Economics:
"Strategic Visioning in Government: Analyzing the U.S. Air Force Experience"

March 15, 2002
Professor David Knoke, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota: 
"Dynamics of Strategic Alliance Networks in the Global Information Sector, 1989-2000"

February 22, 2002
Professor Paul Goodman, Director of the Institute for Strategic Development, Carnegie Mellon University: 
"Understanding Complex Systems: The Dabbawallas"

February 15, 2002
Professor Rachel Kaplan, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Professor Stephen Kaplan, Department of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan: 
"Physical and Conceptual Environments that Bring out the Best in People"

February 8, 2002
Professor Mara Adelman, Department of Communications, Seattle University: 
"Retail Activists: The Intersection between Consumption and Social Transformation"

February 1, 2002
Professor Gautam Ahuja, Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan:
"When Atlas Shrugged: Pre-emption, Complexity and Division in a Theory of Approppriability"

January 25, 2002
Professor Jack E. Dixon, Co-Director, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and Karl Bates, Director of Communications, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute:
"The Organization of the Life Sciences Institute"

January 18, 2002
Professor Tom Gladwin, Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan: 
"Organizations as Superorganisims: Reinhabiting Organizational Theory in the More-Than-Human World"

January 11, 2002
"Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century University"
B. Joseph White, Interim President; Dean Noreen Clark, School of Public Health; Dean Jeffrey Lehman, Law School; and Professor Janet Weiss, Business School & School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

2001                                                                Back to Top

December 7, 2001
Professor Peter Frost, University of British Columbia; Professor James Ludema, Benedictine University; and Professor Amy Wrzesneiwski, New York University: 
Conference Finale: "Positive Organizational Scholarship"

November 30, 2001
Professor Jerry Davis, Business School; Professor Martha Feldman, School of Public Policy; Stephen Raudenbush, School of Education; and James Walsh, Business School, University of Michigan: 
"So How Do I Review Articles: Panel on the Craft of Article Reviewing"

November 16, 2001
Professor Loraleigh Keashly, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University:  "By Any Other Name: American Perspectives on Workplace Bullying"
Professor Christine Pearson, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario: 
"Assessing the Characteristics and Consequences of Workplace Incivility"

November 9, 2001
Professor Richard Price, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: 
"JOBS in Finland, China, and California: Three Stories of Culture and Politics in Innovation"

November 2, 2001
Professor Julia Wondolleck, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan: 
"What Enables People to Overcome Differences and Begin Working Together?: Insights from Collaborative Efforts in Natural Resource Management"

October 26, 2001
Professor Michael Pratt, Business Administration, College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Illinois:
"Making Sense of Work: The Role of Identity Menus During Medical Residencies"

October 19, 2001
Professor Amiram Vinokur, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan: 
"From Field Experiments to Community Interventions for Unemployed Job Seekers"

October 12, 2001
Professor Avner Greif, Humanities and Sciences, Economics Department, Stanford University: 
"Self-Reinforcing Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change"

October 5, 2001
Professor Gretchen Spreitzer, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School: 
"Empowerment and Trust in the Context of Downsizing"

September 28, 2001
Professor Hilary Bradbury, Case Western REserve University, Weatherhead School of Management:  "Sustainability and Sustaining Relational Change" 

September 21, 2001
Professor Nelson Repenning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management:
"Structuring Low Capability"

September 14, 2001
"A Different Kind of ICOS"
What does Organizational Studies have to offer to help us make sense and cope with the horrible set of events in New York and Washington, D.C., and the unknown future.  Here is what we invite you to do.  Please come with an overhead to share with people two things:  1) what question/questions are raised about organizations from this tragedy?  2) from where you sit, what ideas from Organizational Studies do you see as helpful in understanding or dealing with these events? 

April 13, 2001
Workshop on the Study of Adapting Social Systems
Professor James March, Stanford University; Professor Dan Levinthal, Wharton Business School; and Professor Michael Cohen, University of Michigan: 
"ICOS Round Table: Research Directions in the Study of Organizational Adaptation"

April 6, 2001
Professor Patricia Benner, School of Nursing, University of California-San Francisco:
"From Beginner to Expert: Creating Organizational Climates for Experiential Learning"

March 30, 2001
Professor Dvora Yanow, School of Arts, Letters & Social Science, California State University: 
"Translating Knowledge at Organizational Peripheries"

March 23, 2001
Professor Barbara Fredrickson, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan: 
"Why Positive Emotions Matter in Organizations"

March 16, 2001
Professor Michael Pyatok, Department of Architecture, Washington University:
"Citizen Participation in Design and Planning within Lower Income Communities"

March 9, 2001
Professor Carliss Baldwin, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University: 
"Design Rules"

February 23, 2001
Professor John Jost, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University: 
"The Psychology of System Justification and the Palliative Function of Ideology"

February 16, 2001
Professor Wayne Baker, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School; Professor Jerry Davis, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School; and Mark Mizruchi, Sociology Department, University of Michigan:
"New Developments in Network Research"

February 2, 2001
Professor Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, and Monica Worline, Psychology Department, University of Michigan:
"Organizing of Compassion"

January 26, 2001
Professor Tom Malone, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
"Information Technology and New Forms of Organization"

January 19, 2001
Professor Tom Finholt, School of Information; Professor Gary Olson, School of Information; Professor Judy Olson, School of Information; Professor Stephanie Teasley, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, University of Michigan: 
"Collaboratories: An Emerging Form for Organizing Research"

January 12, 2001
Professor H. Brinton Milward, Eller College of Business & Public Administration, University of Arizona:
"Managing the Hollow State: Contracting and Collaboration"

January 5, 2001
Professor Michael Cohen, School of Information, University of Michigan: 
"Harnessing Complexity"

2000                                                                Back to Top

December 8, 2000
Professor Allan Afuah, Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan Business School:
"Redefining Firm Boundaries in the Face of the Internet: Are Firms Really Shrinking?"

December 1, 2000
Professor John King, Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan:
"Commerce with an E: The Transformational Dimensions of Information and Technology in Global Provisioning"

November 10, 2000
Professor Patrick Wright, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University: Studying Organizations through the Lens of Sport:
"Opportunities and Challenges: The Case of NCAA Basketball and Strategic Human Resource"

October 27, 2000
"Panel on Micro Perspectives: Theories of Identity and Individuals in Organizations":   Professor Jane Dutton, Professor Monique Fleming, Professor Ronit Kark, Professor Margaret Shih, and Professor Theresa Welbourne, University of Michigan

October 20, 2000
Professor David Whetten, Organizational Behavior and Director of BYU Faculty Center, Brigham Young University: 
"Organizational Identity Claims"

October 13, 2000
Professor Karen 'Etty' Jehn, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania:
"Diversity, Conflict, and Performance in Business Units, Workgroups, and Punk Rock Bands"

October 6, 2000
Professor Erika Hayes James, Organization & Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University and Professor Lynn Wooten, Corporate Strategy, Business School, University of Michigan: "Being in the Spotlight: The factors that influence firms' responses to public diversity crises"

September 29, 2000
Professor Yitzhak Fried, Wayne State University; Professor Mark Mizruchi, University of Michigan; and Professor Jim Walsh, University of Michigan: "Persisting and Surviving the Journal Review Process"

September 22, 2000
Professor Kathie Sutcliffe, University of Michigan Business School, OBHRM and Discussant Professor Karl Weick, University of Michigan Business School, OBHRM: "Adverse Medical Events: The Resurrection of Systems Theory"

September 15, 2000
Professor John Carroll, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jenny Rudolph, Organizational Studies Department, Boston College:
"Safety in Nuclear Power and Health Care: Bridging Industry and Professional Epistemologies"

September 8, 2000
Professor Robert Kahn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Professor Rick Price, Psychology, OBHRM, Survey Research Center; and Professor Mayer Zald, Sociology, Social Work, and Business Administration, University of Michigan: ICOS Founders' Day
"Organizational Theory and Research at Michigan: The Heritage"

April 14, 2000
Professor Andrew Whitford, Department of Political Science, Rice University:
"Process Control in Public Bureaucracies"

April 7, 2000
Professor Daniel Carpenter, Political Science & Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan:
"The Riddle of Organizational Networks: Recruitment, Retention and State-Building at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1890-1920"

March 24, 2000, Likert Dissertation Paper Award Winners
Professor Caroline Bartel, New York University: "Community Service for Organizational Identification Enhancement: When 'Giving Back' Generates Psychological and Behavioral Profits"
Professor Nancy Rothbard, Northwestern University: "Enriching or Depleting?: The Dynamics of Engagement in Multiple Roles"

March 10, 2000
Professor Anthony Bryk, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago:
"Relational Trust as a Social Resource for School Improvement"

February 25, 2000
Katherine Lawrence, Ryan Quinn, and Klaus Weber, University of Michigan Business School:
"Using Video Data in Organizational Research"

February 18, 2000
Professor Melissa Stone, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota:
"Collaborative Alliances in Human Services: More or less than they seem?"

February 11, 2000
Professor John O'Looney, Human Services & Civic Education Division, University of Georgia:
"Service Integration: Theory, Practice, and Technologies"

January 28, 2000
Professor Anjali Sastry, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management; Professor Fiona Lee, Psychology and Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan:
"Pairing Stability with Change: Rules, Operations, and Structures in an Enduring Organization"

January 21, 2000
Professor Linda Argote, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University:
"Knowledge Transfer in Organizations"

January 14, 2000
Professor Sidney Winter, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania:
"The Boundaries of the Firms: A System Perspective on the Implications of Information Technology"

January 7, 2000
Winslow Farrell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Emergent Solutions Group:
"Using Agent-Based Models of Consumer Demand"

1999                                                                Back to Top

December 10, 1999
Hubert Dreyfus, University of California-Berkeley:
"Nihilism on line: The Promise and Dangers of Information on the Internet"

December 3, 1999
David Blair, Computer & Information Systems, University of Michigan Business School:
"Is the Philosophy of Language Relevant to Information System Design?"

November 19, 1999
Martha Feldman, Political Science & Public Policy, University of Michigan; Jeannine Bell, Law, Indiana University; and Michele Berger, Political Science & Women's Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Workshop in
"Gaining Access to Research Sites"

October 29, 1999
Ken Gergen, Swarthmore College; Mary Gergen, Pennsylvania State University; Jean Baker Miller, Wellesley College & The Stone Center; and Joyce Fletcher, Simmons Graduate School of Management:
"Relational Practice and Organizations"

October 22, 1999
Alan Fiske, Anthropology Department, University of California-Los Angeles:
"Four Ways to Organize Any Social Interaction"

October 15, 1999
Steve Barley, Stanford University, Department of Industrial Engineering:
"Why Do Contractors Contract?: The Theory and Reality of High End Contingent Labor"

October 1, 1999
Margaret Somers, University of Michigan, Sociology and History:
"Power, Perversity, and Path Dependence in the State of Nature: Institutional vs. Cognitive Change in the 1996 Welfare Reform"

September 24, 1999
Ellen O'Connor, Logos Associates: Workshop
"Narrative Theories and Methods: New Insights into Organizational Life"

September 17, 1999
"Institutions, Organizations and Movements," part of the "Zaldfest" with panelists Richard Scott, Sociology, Stanford University; Elisabeth Clements, Sociology, University of Arizona; Charles Perrow, Sociology, Yale University; discussant Margaret Somers, Sociology and History, University of Michigan; and Chair of Panel Mark Mizruchi, Department of Sociology

September 10, 1999
"Gazing Toward 2000: Future Trends in Organizational Studies" with University of Michigan panelists Jeff Alexander, School of Public Health; Michael Cohen, School of Information; Jane Dutton, Business School and Psychology; Mark Mizruchi, Department of Sociology; Lloyd Sandelands, Psychology and Business School; Diane Vinokur, School of Social Work; and Karl Weick, Business School and Psychology

April 16, 1999
Jean Lave, University of California-Berkeley, Graduate School of Education, Social & Cultural Studies:
"The Politics of Learning in Everyday Life"

April 9, 1999
Reading and discussion of the work of Professor Jean Lave prior to her presentation on April 16, 1999

March 12, 1999
Nicole Biggart, University of California-Davis, Management and Sociology:
"An Institutional Perspective on Development: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina"

February 19, 1999
Ulla Johansson, Malmo University College, Center for Competence Development:
"Reconstructing Selves" - A story about ethnographic research undertaken in order to catch the performative meaning of "being responsible"

February 5, 1999
Leigh Star, University of Illinois-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science:
"Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work"

January 29, 1999
Barbara O'Keefe, University of Michigan, School of Information and Media Union:
"Discourse by design: Using theory-based interaction protocols to support learning and labor"

January 15, 1999
Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University:
"Secrecy, Trust and Dangerous Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations"

1998                                                                    Back to Top

November 6, 1998
Karl Weick, University of Michigan Business School, OBHRM:
"Firefighting as a Microcosm of Organizing"

October 30, 1998
C.V. Harquail, Darden School, University of Virginia:
"Why Some Women Advocate While Others Assimilate: The influence of social identification on individuals' advocacy for a group"

October 23, 1998
Allan Afuah, University of Michigan Business School, Corporate Strategy:
"Competitive Advantage from Intellectual Capital: The Case of Cholesterol Ethical Drugs"

October 9, 1998
Ruth Wageman, Columbia University, School of Business:
"Toward a Theory of Team Coaching"

October 2, 1998
Jennifer Chatman, University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business:
"Being different yet feeling similar: The influence of demographic composition and organizational culture on work processes and outcomes"

April 17, 1998
William Barnett, Stanford University, Strategic Management & Organizational Behavior:
"The Red Queen in Organizational Creation and Development"

April 10, 1998
Stephanie-Mackie Lewis, Senior Consultant, Booz-Allen & Hamilton; Sirkka Kauffman, Coordinator of Institutional Assessment at Marymount University; Margaret Weigers, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, US Department of Health & Human Services; Erhard Bruderer, President, Swiss Consulting Group; and Tom Lehker, University of Michigan, Career Planning & Placement Office:
Roundtable - "Non-Academic Careers for Ph.D.s"

April 3, 1998
Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics:
"The Evolution of Competitive Advantage in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1947-1996"

March 27, 1998
Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, School of Information; Richard Cox, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences; Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies; and Elizabeth Yakel, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences:
"Organizational Setting of Record-Keeping"

March 20, 1998
Hayagreeva Rao, Emory University, Goizueta Business School and Joseph Porac, University of Illinois at Urbana, Business Administration:
"Personnel Flows and Social Structure: Two Empirical Studies"

March 13, 1998
F.P. (Bud) Gibson, University of Michigan, Business School, Computer & Information Systems: "Learning in Dynamic Decision Tasks: Computational Model and Empirical Investigations"

February 13, 1998
Joyce Fletcher, Northeastern University, Cooperative Education: "Beyond 'Disappearing:' Further Implications of Relational Practice for Organizational Studies"

January 30, 1998
Michael Morris, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Organizational Behavior:
"Culture, Sense-Making and Networking: Comparative Studies of Cognitive Structure and Relationship Structure"

January 23, 1998
John Holland, University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science:
"Emergence"

1997                                                                        Back to Top

December 5, 1997
John Mohr, University of California-Santa Barbara, Sociology: "Why Organizational Ecology Should (and Can) Become an Interpretive Social Science"

November 21, 1997
Helmut Anheier, Rutgers University, Sociology Department and Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies: "The Emerging Sector: A Cross-National Study of Non-Governmental Organizations"