Winter 2004 SYLLABUS |
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| January 9 | Professor Joanne
Martin, Organizational Behavior and Sociology, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University Presentation: "Institutional Interlocks and the Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities: Technology Training in Mexico" Background Reading: None Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Management & Organization, Michigan Business School |
| January 16 |
Professor Malcolm
McCullough,
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Abstract Presentation: "Digital Craft -- Form-Giving, Work Practices, and the Idea of Design" Background Reading: Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand, Chapter 7 Introducer: Felix Kabo, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Website: http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/facultystaff/faculty/McCulloughMProfile.html |
| Joint Session with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| January 23 |
Professor Linda
Argote, Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University Presentation: "Knowledge Transfer and Social Identity" Background Reading: "Knowledge transfer between groups via personnel rotation: Effects of social identity and knowledge quality," by Aimee A. Kane, Linda Argote, John M. Levine Introducer: Prashant Kale, Corporate Strategy & International Business Location: Michigan Business School, Paton Accounting Center Building, 1st Floor, Room P1016 Website: http://web.gsia.cmu.edu/staging/display_faculty.aspx?id=38&print=1 |
| January 30 |
Professor Anat Rafaeli,
Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology Presentation: "Emotion as the Connection of Artifacts and Organizations" Background Reading: "Managing Organizational Artifacts to Avoid Artifact Myopia," by Anat Rafaeli and Iris Vilnai-Yavetz and "Emotion as a Connection of Physical Artifacts and Organizations," by Anat Rafaeli and Iris Vilnai-Yavetz Introducer: Ruth Blatt, Management & Organization, Michigan Business School Website: http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/anatr.phtml?YF |
| Joint Session with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| February 6 |
Professor Joel
Baum,
Strategic Management and Sociology, Rotman School of management, University
of Toronto Presentation: "Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners" Background Reading: "Dancing with Strangers: Aspiration Performance and the Search for Underwriting Syndicate Partners," by Joel A.C. Baum, Timothy J. Rowley, Andrew V. Shipilov Introducer: Prashant Kale, Corporate Strategy & International Business Website: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facBios/viewFac.asp?facultyID=baum |
| February 13 |
Professor Ed Diener, Department
of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| February 20 |
Professor Shirli
Kopelman, Management & Organization, Michigan Business School and
Professor Stephen Garcia, Ford School of Public Policy, University of
Michigan Presentation: "Resource Allocation in Negotiations: Crossing Social Categories and Cultural Boundaries" Background Reading: "Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Joint Evaluation: Social Category-Based Preference Reversals," by Stephen Garcia, Avishalom Tor, Max Bazerman, Dale Miller; "Culture and Power Asymmetry in Resource Negotiations: Implications for Self-Interested Behavior in Social Dilemmas," by Shirli Kopelman; from The Drama of the Commons, Chapter 4, "Factors Influencing Cooperation in Common Dilemmas: A Review of Experimental Psychological Research," by Shirli Kopelman, J. Mark Weber, David M. Messick Introducer: Eric Neuman, Management & Organization, Michigan Business School Website: http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/kopelman/htm/site/ Website: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/people/Faculty/garcia.htm |
| March 5 | Professor
Chip Heath, Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University Presentation: "On the Psychology of Culture: Urban Legends, Mad Cow Disease, Drinking Tales, and the Mozart Effect" Abstract Background Reading: "Language as a Coordinating Mechanism: How Linguistic Memes Help Direct Appropriate Action," by Chip Heath, Victor Seidel; "The Mozart Effect: Tracking the Evolution of a Scientific Legend," by Chip Heath, Adrian Bangerter; "Emotional Selection in Memes: The Case of Urban Legends," by Chip Heath, Chris Bell, Emily Sternberg Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Management & Organization, Michigan Business School Website: http://gobi.stanford.edu/facultybios/bio.asp?ID=245 |
| March 12 | Professor David
Cohen,
School of Education, University of Michigan Presentation: "The Dilemma of Implementation, and Standards-Based School Reform" Background Reading: none Introducer: Josh Glazer, School of Education Website: http://www.soe.umich.edu/faculty/cohen/index.html |
| March 19 | Professor James
Spillane,
Learning Sciences; Human Development & Social Policy; Institute for Policy
Research, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Presentation: "Standards Deviation: A Sense-Making Account of Education Standards Implementation" Background Reading: "Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research," by James Spillane, Brian Reiser, Todd Reimer Introducer: Kristi Khorsheed, School of Education Website: http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/People/faculty/j_spillane.html |
| Joint Session with Corporate Strategy & International Business | |
| March 26 | Professor Michael
Tushman, Business Administration, Harvard Business School Presentation: "Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities" Background Reading: "Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities," by Michael Tushman, Wendy Smith, Robert Wood George Westerman, Charles O'Reilly Introducer: Prashant Kale, Corporate Strategy & International Business Website: http://pine.hbs.edu/external/facPersonalShow.do?pid=6584 |
| April 2 | "ICOS Goes to
the Movies" ICOS Movie Page: Film Discussion Forum "12 Angry Men" (1957), Directed by Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, Lee J. Cobb, John Fiedler (Piglet), Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, Robert Webber Synopsis (taken from the Internet Movie Database) Jury Room Seating Chart Background Reading: "Increasing Turmoil on Jury Threatens Tyco Trial," by Andrew Ross Sorkin; Jonathan D. Glater and Jennifer Bayot contributed reporting for this article; The New York Times, March 27, 2004 |
| April 9 |
Professor Lloyd
Sandelands,
Management & Organizations and Psychology, University of Michigan Presentation: "Whither Positive Organizational Scholarship?" Background Reading: "Thinking about Social Life," Chapter 1: Introduction, by Lloyd Sandelands, University Press of American, Inc. 2003 Introducer: Connie Boudens Website: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/facultyBio.asp?id=000119726 |
| April 16 |
Professor
Kristian Kreiner, Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology,
Copenhagen Business School Presentation: "Making Knowledge Manageable" Background Reading: "The Co-Production of Chip and Society: Unpacking Packaged Knowledge," by Kristian Kreiner, Kjell Tryggestad, from Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2002 Introducer: Jeremy Birnholtz, School of Information Website: http://www.cbs.dk/departments/ioa/staff/kreiner.shtml |