Winter 2007 SYLLABUS
January 5 Panel on Reviewing, with Mark Mizruchi, Jason Owen-Smith, and Jim Walsh
Background Reading: 
Web Page:  (Mizruchi) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=28
Web Page:  (Owen-Smith) http://www.umich.edu/~jdos
Web Page:  (Walsh) http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119699
January 12 Professor Scott Page, Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, University of Michigan
Presentation: "The Difference: Cognitive Diversity and Predictive Models"
Background Reading:  "Chapter 7, Models of Information Aggregation: Mindless Signals" and "Chapter 8, Diversity and Prediction: The Crowd of Models," from The Difference
Web Page: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~spage/
Introducer: Flannery Stevens, Management & Organizations
      Co-Sponsored with the Networks Seminar
January 19
 Professor David Krackhardt, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Presentation: "The Power of Simmelian Ties in Organizations"
Background Reading:  "The Ties that Torture: Simmelian Tie Analysis in Organizations," Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 16, 183-210, JAI Press, Inc., 1999
Web Page:  http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/krack/index.shtml
Introducer:  Eric Neuman, Management & Organizations
January 26 Professor Jean Wineman and Professor Sophia Psarra, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Presentation: "Space Syntax Theory, Methods, Applications"
Background Reading:  "The Spatial Structure of Environment and Behavior: Space Syntax," J. Peponis and J Wineman, in R. Bechtel and A. Churchman (Eds) Handbook of Environmental Psychology, New York: John Wiley, 2002, 271-291.
Web Page: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jwineman/home
Web Page: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/spsarra/home
Introducer:  Felix Kabo, College of Architecture & Urban Planning
February 2 Research on Non-Profits at the University of Michigan
Moderator:  Ashley Zwick, Managing Director, Nonprofit & Public Management Center
Presenters:
bulletLou Mulligan, Ross School of Business: "What's Good for the Goose is not Good for the Gander: Sarbanes-Oxley-Style Nonprofit Reform."  Background Reading: "What's Good for the Goose is not Good for the Gander: Sarbanes-Oxley-Style Nonprofit Reform."
bulletJohn Tropman, School of Social Work: "Executive Calamity in the Nonprofit Sector."  Background Reading: "Flameout at the Top Executive Calamity in the Nonprofit Sector: It's Precursors and Sequelae"
bulletDiane Kaplan Vinokur, School of Social Work: "Not-for-profit Organizations: I know What They're NOT -- But What are They?"  Background Reading: SNAPSHOTS: Research Highlights from the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
February 9 Professor Neil Fligstein, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley
Presentation: "Shareholder Value and the Transformation of American Industries, 1984-2001"
Background Reading: "Shareholder Value and the Transformation of American Industries, 1984-2001," by Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin
Web Page: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/fligstein/
Introducer:  Helena Buhr, Sociology
February 16 7th Dissertation Poster Session
Organizers:  Marlys Christianson and Brian Hilligoss
Location:  School of Information, West Hall, Ehrlicher Room, 4th Floor,
Abstracts
Web Page: http://www.si.umich.edu/ICOS/PosterAnnounce07.phtml
February 23 Professor Minyuan Zhao, Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Presentation: "Multinational R&D: the Role of Firms' Internal Organization"
Background Reading:  "Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak Intellectual Property Rights Protection," Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 8, August 2006; "Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Co-location in the Semiconductor Industry," Juan Alcacer, New York University and Minyuan Zhao, University of Michigan
Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000796373
Introducer:  Adam Cobb, Management & Organizations

Spring Break
March 9 Professor Karl Aquino, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Presentation: "The Relationship Between Moral Identity and Moral Outcomes: A Social Cognitive Framework"
Background Reading:  "Moral Identity and Judgments of Charitable Behaviors," Americus Reed, II, Karl Aquino, & Eric Levy, Journal of Marketing, Vol.71, pp. 178-193, January 2007; "The Self-Importance of Moral Identity," Karl Aquino, Americus Reed, II, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 1423-1440, 2002; "A grotesque and dark beauty: How moral identity and mechanisms of moral disengagement influence cognitive and emotional reactions to war," Karl Aquino, Americus Reed II, Stefan Thau, Dan Freeman, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2006
Web Page: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/faculty/directory/faculty/aquino.cfm
Introducer:  Adam Grant, Psychology
       Co-Sponsored with Mitsui Center
March 16

Professor Christina Ahmadjian, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitosubashi University
Presentation:  "Co-opting globalization: Local politics and the transformation of South Korea and Japan"
Background Reading:  "Co-opting globalization: Local politics and the transformation of corporate governence in South Korea and Japan"
Web Page: http://www.ics.hit-u.ac.jp/faculty/detail.php?id=103
Introducer:  Aradhana Roy, Strategy
       Co-Sponsored with Strategy Department
March 23 Professor Sidney Winter, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: "Economic Analysis for Business Strategy: The Case of the Evolutionary Approach"
Abstract
Background Reading: "Preface to the Japanese Translation of An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change" and "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Wealth, Profit and Sustainable Advantage," Michael G. Jacobides, Sidney G. Winter, Stefan M. Kassberger
Web Page: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/winters.html
Introducer:  Brian Hilligoss, School of Information
March 30

Professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt, The Johnson School, Cornell University
Presentation: "Too Good to Be True? The Unintended Signaling Effects of Educational Prestige on External Expectations of Team Performance"
Background Reading:  "Too Good to Be True? The Unintended Signaling Effects of Educational Prestige on External Expectations of Team Performance"
Web Page: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Thomas-Hunt/
Introducer:  Dan Gruber, Management & Organizations
April 6
 Professor Kathie Sutcliffe, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Presentation: "Revisiting Information Overload"
Background Reading:  "Information Overload Revisited," Kathleen Sutcliffe and Karl Weick. Forthcoming in W. Starbuck & G. Hodgkinson (eds), Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000199146
Introducer:  Marlys Christianson, Management & Organizations
April 13 Professor Linda Putnam, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University
Presentation:  "Dialectics and Paradoxes as Discursive Strategies for Organizational Analysis"
Background Reading:  Real, K. & Putnam, L. L. (2005). Ironies in the discursive struggle of pilots defending the profession. Management Communication Quarterly, 19, 91-119; Putnam, L. L.(2003). Dialectical tensions and rhetorical tropes in negotiations. Organizational Studies, 25, 35-53; Collinson, D. (2005). Dialectics of leadership. Human Relations, 58, 1419-1442
Web Page: http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/putnam.html
Introducer:  Scott Sonenshein, Management & Organizations