WINTER 2001 SYLLABUS |
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| January 5 | Professor Michael Cohen, School
of Information, University of Michigan Presentation: "Harnessing Complexity" Background Reading: None Introducer: Jane Dutton, UM Business School |
| January 12 | Professor & Associate Dean H. Brinton
Milward, Eller College of Business & Public Administration, University of
Arizona Presentation: "Managing the Hollow State: Contracting and Collaboration" Background Reading: "Governing the Hollow State," by H. Brinton Milward and Keith G. Provan and "A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Four Community Mental Health Systems," by Keith G. Provan and H. Brinton Milward, taken from Administrative Science Quarterly, March 1995 Introducer: Bowen McBeath, School of Social Work |
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| January 19 | Professor Judy Olson, School of
Information; Professor Tom Finholt, School of Information; Professor
Stephanie Teasley, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work; and Professor
Gary Olson, School of Information, University of Michigan Presentation: "Collaboratories: An Emerging Form for Organizing Research" Background Reading: "From Laboratories to Collaboratories: A New Organizational Form for Scientific Collaboration," by Thomas A. Finholt and Gary M. Olson and "Collaboratories," by Thomas A. Finholt Introducer: Matthew Bietz, School of Information |
| January 26 | Professor Tom Malone, Sloan
School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation: "Inventing the Organizations of the New Economy" Background Reading: "Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes," by Malone, T. W., Crowston, K. G., Lee, J., Pentland, B., Dellarocas, C., Wyner, G., Quimby, J., Osborn, C. S., Bernstein, A., Herman, G., Klein, M., & O'Donnell, E. Management Science, 1999, 45, 3 (March), 425-443. "The Dawn of the E-lance Economy," Malone, T. W. & Laubacher, R. J. . Harvard Business Review, September October 1998, 76 (5), 144-152. Introducer: Charles Williams, Corporate Strategy, UM Business School |
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| February 2 | Professor Jane Dutton,
Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management and Monica Worline,
Psychology Department, University of Michigan Presentation: "Organizing of Compassion" Background Reading: "Three Students and a Fire: A Case of Study of Spontaneous Organizing," by Monica Worline and Jane Dutton Introducer: Andrew Suhy, School of Education |
| February 9 |
Dissertation Poster Session Poster Abstracts Organized by Ryan Quinn and Monica Worline Location: East Hall, 4th Floor, Colloquium Room #4448 Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m |
| February 16 | Professor Wayne Baker,
University of Michigan Business School; Professor Jerry Davis, University
of Michigan Business School; and Professor Mark Mizruchi, University of
Michigan, Sociology Department Presentation: "New Developments in Network Research": Wayne Baker, "Markets Without Networks"; Jerry Davis, "The Small World of Corporate Elite"; Mark Mizruchi, "Network Formation and Network Outcomes: A Strategic Paradox" Background Reading: None Introducer: Professor Jane Dutton UM Business School, OBHRM |
| February 23 | Professor John Jost, Graduate
School of Business, Stanford University Presentation: "The Psychology of System Justification and the Palliative Function of Ideology" Background Reading: "Conflicts of Legitimation Among Self, Group, and System: The Integrative Potential of System Justification Theory," by John T. Jost, Diana Burgess, and Cristina Mosso and "Attitudinal Ambivalence and the Conflict Between Group and System Justification Motives in Low Status Groups," by John T. Jost and Diana Burgess Introducer: Markus Vodosek, UM Business School, OBHRM |
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| March 9 | Professor Carliss Baldwin,
Harvard Business School Presentation: "Design Rules" Background Reading: Introduction: "Artifacts, Designs, and the Structure of Industries" and Chapter 9: "Design Options and Design Evolution," taken from "Design Rules," by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark Introducer: Anne Parmigiani, UM Business School, Corporate Strategy |
| March 16 | Professor Michael Pyatok,
Washington University Presentation: "Citizen Participation in Design and Planning within Lower Income Communities" Background Reading: "The Politics of Design: The New Urbanists Find Gore, the Grass Roots Find Nader" and "Neighborhood Development in a Democratic City Toward a 'Real' Urbanism," by Michael Pyatok Introducer: Janice Barnes, College of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| March 23 | Professor Barbara Fredrickson,
Psychology, University of Michigan Presentation: "Why Positive Emotions Matter in Organizations" Background Reading: "What Good are Positive Emotions?" Introducer: Luis Ponjuan, School of Education |
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| March 30 | Professor Dvora Yanow,
California
State University Presentation: "Translating Local Knowledge at Organizational Peripheries" Background Reading: "Seeing Organizational Learning: A Cultural View," by Dvora Yanow, taken from Organization 7:2, May 2000, 247-268 Introducer: Zenzele Isoke, Political Science Department |
| April 6 | Professor Patricia Benner,
School of Nursing, University of California-San Francisco Presentation: "From Beginner to Expert: Creating Organizational Climates for Experiential Learning" Abstract Background Reading: "Taking a Stand on Experiential Learning and Good Practice," by Patricia Benner from American Journal of Critical Care; "The Quest for Control and the Possibilities of Care," by Patricia Benner from In Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus; and "A Dialogue Between Virtue Ethics and Care Ethics," by Patricia Benner from Theoretical Medicine, 18:47-61, 1997 Introducer: Charles Vanover, School of Education |
| April 13 | Workshop on the Study of Adapting
Social Systems Professor Michael Cohen, University of Michigan; Professor Dan Levithal, University of Pennsylvania; and Professor James March, Stanford University Presentation: "ICOS Round Table: Research Directions in the Study of Organizational Adaptation" Location: UM Business School, Kresge Library Building, 1st Floor, Room K1320 |
| May 11-12 | Workshop on Social Movements and
Organizations Special ICOS Open Session: "Organizations and Social Movements: Prospects for Theoretical Convergence" Date/Time: Friday, May 11, 2001, from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Location: University of Michigan Business School, Assembly Hall Building, The Michigan Room, 1st Floor Participants: Professor Lis Clemens, University of Arizona; Professor Doug McAdam, Stanford University; Professor Kelly Moore, Columbia University; Professor Dick Scott, Stanford University Discussant: Professor Mayer Zald, University of Michigan Introducer: Professor Jerry Davis, University of Michigan |