Winter 2006 SYLLABUS |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |