WINTER 2001 SYLLABUS

New Ideas in Public Management (2-part series organized by Professor Diane Kaplan Vinokur and Professor Janet Weiss)

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

New Ways of Organizing with Information Technology

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

How Organizations Relate to Their Members' Human Needs

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

Design and Organizations

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

Expertise in Organizations

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