WINTER 2000 SYLLABUS |
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| Jan. 7 | Mr. Winslow Farrell,
PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Emergent Solutions Group Introducer: Kerimcan Ozcan, Marketing, University of Michigan Business School Presentation: "Using Agent-Based Models of Consumer Demand" Background Reading: "How Hits Happen," by Winslow Farrell; "Playing the game of life," by Rita Koselka, Forbes 4/7/97; "Virtual Management," by John A Byrne, BusinessWeek 9/21/98; "Welcome to my hype-industrial complex, baby!" by Michael Colton, Brill's Content, 9/99 |
| Jan. 14 | Professor Sidney Winter,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania Introducer: Jeff Bernicke, Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan Business School Presentation: "The Boundaries of the Firms: A System Perspective on the Implications of Information Technology" Background Reading: "From Organizational Routines to Dynamic Capabilities," by Sidney Winter and Maurizio Zollo |
| Jan. 21 | Professor Linda Argote,
Graduate School of
Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University Introducer: David Obstfeld, OBHRM, University of Michigan Business School Presentation: "Knowledge Transfer in Organizations" Background Reading: "Knowledge Transfer: A Basis for Competitive Advantage in Firms" |
| Jan. 28 | Professor Anjali Sastry,
Organizational
Behavior & Human Resource Management Professor Fiona Lee, Psychology and Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Introducer: Monica Worline, Organizational Psychology Presentation: "Pairing Stability with Change: Rules, Operations, and Structures in an Enduring Organization" Background Reading: "Pairing Stability with Change: Rules, Operations, and Structures in an Enduring Organization" |
| Feb. 4 | Professor Lotte Bailyn,
Sloan School of
Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introducer: Gelaye Debebe, OBHRM, University of Michigan Business School Presentation: "Gender Equity in the Workplace -- in Corporations and in Universities" Background Reading: "Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World," by Lotte Bailyn, Chapter 3 and 6, Interlude II and III; "Moving Corporations in the United States Toward Gender Equity: A Cautionary Tale," by Lotte Bailyn, Rhona Rapoport, Joyce Fletcher taken from Organizational Change & Gender Equity; and "A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT" |
| "Redesigning Service Programs: Concepts and Lessons Learned from Human Service Collaborations in the Nonprofit and Public Sectors," Co-Sponsored with the UM Nonprofit and Public Management Center (2-part series organized by Professor Diane Kaplan Vinokur, School of Social Work) | |
| Feb. 11 | Professor John O'Looney,
Human Services
& Civic Education Division, University of Georgia Introducer: Bowen McBeath, School of Social Work Presentation: "Service Integration: Theory, Practice, and Technologies" Background Reading: "Coevolving: At Last, a Way to Make Synergies Work," by Kathleen Eisenhardt, D. Charles Galunic from Harvard Business Review, January-February 2000 issue; "Marking Progress or Marking Time: Lessons from the Trenches of Evaluating Collaboration," by John O'Looney |
| Feb. 18 | Professor Melissa Stone,
Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Introducer: Marc Schlossberg, Urban Planning Presentation: "Collaborative Alliances in Human Services: More or Less Than They Seem?" Background Reading: "Exploring the Effects of Collaborations on Member Organizations: Washington County's Welfare to Work Partnership," by Melissa Stone; "The Institutionalization and Evolutionary Dynamics of Interorganizational Alliances and Networks," by Richard Osborn, John Hagedoorn; "Creating Collaborative Advantage," by Chris Huxham |
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| Feb. 25 | Katherine Lawrence, Ryan Quinn, and Klaus Weber,
University
of Michigan Business School Introducer: Michael Cohen, School of Information Workshop: Using Video Data in Organizational Research Background Reading: "Video as a Research Tool" |
| March 10 | Professor Anthony Bryk, Department of
Sociology, University of Chicago Introducer: Guanglei Hong, School of Education Presentation: "Relational Trust as a Social Resource for School Improvement" Background Reading: "Relational Trust: A Core Resource for School Improvement," Chapters 1 & 2, by Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider |
| March 17 | Professor
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton
University Introducer: Klaus Weber, OBHRM, University of Michigan Business School Presentation: "The 21st Century Corporation" Background Reading: "The 21st Century Corporation," Introduction: "Making Sense of the Contemporary Firm and Prefiguring its Future" and Conclusion: "Change, Paradox and the Futures of Business Organization." |
| March 24 | Professor
Caroline Bartel, New York
University Presentation: "Community Service for Organizational Identification Enhancement: When 'Giving Back' Generates Psychological and Behavioral Profits" Introducer: Professor Richard Saavedra, Psychology Professor Nancy Rothbard, Northwestern University Presentation: "Enriching or Depleting? The Dynamics of Engagement in Multiple Roles" Introducer: Professor Robert Quinn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management Background Reading: "Community Service for Organizational Identification Management: When 'Giving Back' Generates Psychological and Behavioral Profits," by Caroline Bartel and "Enriching or Depleting? The Dynamics of Engagement in Work and Family," by Nancy Rothbard |
| March 31 | Professor Tina Dacin,
Department of
Management, Texas A&M University Introducer: Klaus Weber, OBHRM, UM Business School Presentation: "Partner Selection in Alliance Networks: An Embeddedness Perspective" Background Reading: "The Embeddedness of Organizations: Debates, Dialogue & Directions," by Tina Dacin, M. Ventresca, and B. Beal |
| Studies in Bureaucracy (2-part series organized by Professor Daniel Carpenter, Political Science and Health Management & Policy, University of Michigan | |
| April 7 | Professor
Daniel Carpenter, Political
Science and Health Management & Policy, University of Michigan Introducer: Shawn Henderson, School of Public Health Presentation: "The Riddle of Organizational Networks: Recruitment, Retention and State-Building at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1890-1920" Background Reading: "Agency Reorientation through Recruitment: Merit Reform, Network Coalitions, and the USDA, 1880-1920" and "From Seeds to Science: The USDA as University, 1897-1917" |
| April 14 | Professor
Andrew Whitford, Department
of Political Science, Rice University Introducer: Shawn Henderson, School of Public Health Presentation: "Process Control in Public Bureaucracies" Background Reading: "If I Had a Hammer: Political Control, Prosecution, and Timing" |