Winter 2003 SYLLABUS

January 10 Presentation:  James March's "Don Quixote Leadership Film" with commentary from Professor Susan Ashford and Professor Robert Quinn, University of Michigan Business School
Introducer: Professor Michael Cohen, School of Information
January 17
Speaker:  Dr. Allen Hammond, Chief Information Officer & Senior Scientist, World Resources Institute
Presentation: "A Market-Driven Approach to International Development"
Background Reading:  "What Works: Serving the Poor, Profitably," A Private Sector Strategy for Global Digital Opportunity, World Resources Institute Markle Foundation, by C.K. Prahalad and Allen Hammond
Introducer: Sagawa Junko, School of Information
January 24
Professor Paul Adler, Management and Organization Department, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Presentation:  "Knowledge Management in Software Development"
Abstract
Background Reading: "Practice and Process: The Socialization of Software Development"
Introducer: Ryan Quinn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
January 31
Professor Andrew Hargadon, Technology Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis
Presentation:  "When Innovations Meet Institutions: The Role of Design in Mediating Between Technology and Culture"
Background Reading:  "When Innovations Meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of the Electric Light," by Andrew Hargadon and Yellowlees Douglas
Introducer:  Katherine Lawrence, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
February 7
Dissertation Poster Session
Poster Abstracts 

Posters by doctoral students at all stages of progress on organization-related dissertation.  Food plus faculty feedback!
Location:  School of Information, Ehrlicher Room, #411 West Hall, 4th Floor
February 14 Professor Brian Rowan, School of Education, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Notes on the U.S. School Improvement Industry"
Background Reading: "The Ecology of School Improvement: Notes on the School Improvement Industry in the United States"
Introducer: Charles Vanover, School of Education
February 21
Professor Jason Owen-Smith, Sociology Department, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Topology and Technology Transfer: Managing Ambiguity in a University Licensing Office"
Background Reading: "Topology and Technology Transfer: Collaboration, Commensuration, and the Rationalization of Experience"
Introducer: Anne Fleischer, Corporate Strategy
March 7 Professor Theresa Lant, Management & Organizational Behavior, Stern School of Business, New York University
Presentation:  "Emerging Cognitive Community in Silicon Alley"
Background Reading:  Note from Theresa Lant; "Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Fields: Navigating Ambiguity, Leveraging Social Capital, and Creating Identity in Silicon Alley;" "A Situated Learning Perspective on the Emergence of Knowledge and Identity in Cognitive Communities;" "Strategic Groups: A Situated Learning Perspective," by Theresa K. Lant and Corey Phelps
Introducer: Timothy Vogus, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
March 14 Professor Julia Liebeskind, Management & Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Presentation:  "Public Research and Intellectual Property Rights: A Tale of Two Inventions"
Background Reading: "Public Research and Intellectual Property Rights: A Tale of Two Inventions," by Julia Liebeskind and Amalya Oliver
Introducer: Anne Parmigiani, Corporate Strategy & International Business
March 21 Professor Mary Ann Glynn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School, visiting scholar from Emory University, Goizueta Business School
Presentation: "Evangelical Domesticity and Martha Stewart Living Magazine, 1990-2002"
Introducer: Monica Worline, Organizational Psychology
March 28 Professor Scott Page, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture?"
Background Reading: "Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture?" by Jenna Bednar and Scott Page
Introducer: Anthony Mallon, School of Social Work & Political Science
April 4 Professor Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, UM Business School
Presentation: 
"The Social Emotional and The Professional: Studies on American Workways"
Background Reading: "Protestant Relational Ideology and (In)Attention to Relational Cues in Work Settings"
Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
April 11
Professor Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo
Presentation:  "Emotional Consensus in Group Decision Making"
Background Reading:  "How to Make Decisions: Coherence, Emotion, and Practical Inference"
Introducer: Tam Perry, School of Social Work