Winter 2003 SYLLABUS |
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| 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 |