Winter 2004 SYLLABUS

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
Presentation: "A Scientific Analysis of Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Well-Being"
Abstract
Background Reading: "Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being, with Policy Implications"
Introducer: Adam Grant, Organizational Psychology
Website: http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/personal/personal.html

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