Winter 2006 SYLLABUS

January 6 Professor JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management, Behavioral Policy Science
Presentation: 
"Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century"
Background Reading: "Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 6"
Introducer: Melissa Wooten, Management & Organizations
Web Page:
http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/homepopup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=164&co_list=F
Co-Sponsored with The University of Michigan Distinguished Speaker Series on Education and Business
January 13
Professor William Ouchi, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior, Anderson School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles
Presentation: "Power to the Principals"
Background Reading:
 "Power to the Principals: Decentralization in Three Large School Districts"
Additional Readings - Commentary on Ouchi's work: 
Responses to Ouchi Panel, Academy of Management Journal, December 2005;
Academy of Management Public Affairs Forum, August 8, 2005; Public Policy and the Public Interest: What If We Mattered?; The Role of Management Scholarship in the Public Sector: Commentators’ Views
Web Page:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x2194.xml

Web Page: http://www.williamouchi.com/
January 20
Professor Carol Heimer, Department of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
Presentation: 
"Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules, and the Structure of Attention"
Background Reading: DRAFT--DO NOT COPY OR CITE, "Thinking About How to Avoid Thought: Deep Norms, Shallow Rules, and the Structure of Attention," "Table 1," "Table 2"
Introducer:  Emily Heaphy, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business
Web Page:
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/sociology/faculty/heimer.html
January 27 Professor David Woods, Institute for Ergonomics, Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory, Ohio State University
Presentation: 
"Engineering Resilience for Safety Management"
Background Reading: 
"Creating Foresight: Lessons for Resilience from Columbia," D. Woods (2005) in W.H. Starbuck and M. Farjoun (eds.), Organization at the Limit: NASA and the Columbia Disaster. Blackwell
Introducer: Brian Hilligos, School of Information
Web Page:
http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/weblogs/woods/archives/cat_about_bio.html
February 3
Professor David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Columbia University
Presentation: 
"Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary, 1987-2001"
Abstract/Bio
Background Reading:
 
"Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary, 1987-2001"
Introducer:  Daniel Gruber, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business
Web Page:
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/stark/faculty.html
February 10

Professor Eugenia Cacciatori, Centre for Research on Business Organization, Universita Bocconi
Presentation: 
"Between Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Artifacts in the Knowledge Integration Process"
Background Reading: "Between Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Artifacts in the Knowledge Integration Process"
Introducer: Ruth Blatt, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business

February 17 Professor Wayne Baker, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Presentation: 
"Shared Values and Social Capital"
Background Reading: "America's Crisis of Values, Chapter 1," "Voting Your Values and Moral Visions," and "Moral Values and Market Attitudes," by Wayne Baker and Melissa Forbes
Introducer:  Melissa Forbes, Ph.D. in
Public Policy and Sociology
Web Page:
http://www.waynebaker.org/
February 24 Professor Ted London, William Davidson Institute, Ross School of Business
Presentation: 
"The Base of the Pyramid: Theoretical and Practical Implications"
Background Reading: "Reinventing Strategies for Emerging Markets: Beyond the Transnational Model," Ted London, Stuart Hart, Journal of International Business Studies (2004) 35, 350-370; "Beyond 'Stepping Stone' Growth: Exploring New Market Entry at the Base of the Pyramid"
Introducer: Michael Cohen
Web Page:
http://www.wdi.umich.edu/About/People/TedLondon

Spring Break

March 10 Professor Michal Tamuz, Center for Health Services Research, University of Tennessee-Memphis
Presentation: 
"Classifying and Interpreting Threats to Patient Safety: Implications for Organizational Learning"
Background Reading: "Classifying and Interpreting Threats to Patient Safety in Hospitals: Insights from Aviation," Michal Tamuz, Eric Thomas
Introducer: Marlys Christianson, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business
Web Page:
http://www.utmem.edu/CENTER/cgi/start.cgi/CenterStaff.htm
Co-Sponsored with Corporate Strategy & International Business
March 17 Professor Mark deRond, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
Presentation: 
"Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology & Intellectual History"
Location:
 Room W0750, Wyly Hall, Ross School of Business
Background Reading:
 "On the Dialictics of Strategic Alliances," Mark de Rond, Hamid Bouchikhi, in Organization Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-February 2004, pp. 56-69
Introducer: Ben Cole, Strategy, Ross School of Business
Web Page:
http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/faculty/derondm.html
March 24 Professor Kazuo Ichijo, Organizational Behavior & Management, Hitotsubashi University
Presentation: 
"Knowledge-based Management and Organization"
Background Reading: 
"Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers," Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka, Oxford University Press, Fall 2006.
Introducer: Michelle Barton, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business
Web Page:
http://www01.imd.ch/faculty/vitae/index.cfm?id=43630
     Co-Sponsored with Corporate Strategy & International Business
March 31 Professor William Barnett, Business Leadership, Strategy, & Organizations and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for the Environment, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Presentation: 
"The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia"
Location:  Room W0750, Wyly Hall, Ross School of Business
Background Reading:
 "The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia"
Introducer: 
Web Page:
https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultybios/bio.asp?ID=10
April 7
a.m.
Special Session for Ph.D. Students
"Trials and Triumphs of the Dissertation Process"
with the Likert Dissertation Prize Winners: Klaus Weber, Northwestern University and Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia
April 7
Likert Dissertation Prize Winners (RealMedia recording):  Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia and Klaus Weber, Northwestern University
Presentation: 
Ryan Quinn:
“Flow in Knowledge Work: The Merging of Awareness and Application in the Design of National Security Technology”
Background Reading:
 
“Flow in Knowledge Work: The Merging of Awareness and Application in the Design of National Security Technology”
Presentation: 
Klaus Weber: "Organizational Fields and Corporate Cultural Repertoires"
Background Reading: "Organizational Fields and Corporate Cultural Repertoires"
Introducer: Michael Cohen and Jane Dutton
Web Page:
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty/quinn.htm
Web Page:  http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/bio/weber_k.htm
April 14 "Contemporary Research Issues Panel (AKA JaneFest)"
Jason Kanov, Seattle University: http://www.seattleu.edu/asbe/Directory/faculty/Kanov_Jason_info.asp
Michael Pratt, Illinois University: http://www.mba.uiuc.edu/M/Faculty/Featured+Faculty/Professor+Michael+Pratt.htm
Ryan Quinn, University of Virginia:  http://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty/quinn.htm
Laura Morgan Roberts, Harvard University: http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=lroberts&loc=extn
Nancy Rothbard, University of Pennsylvania: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/rothbard.html
Amy Wrzesniewski, New York University: http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=213