Organizations & Markets Workshop
This workshop focuses on the sociology of organizations, networks, and markets. A wide variety of topics are addressed, including how organizations operate, why they differ, how they emerge from prior organizations, how future growth depends on position in a structure of other organizations, and how people survive and thrive within organizations.
Anyone interested in these topics is welcome to attend the workshop. Graduate student participation is strongly encouraged. The workshop room, 3B, is on the third floor, on the west side of the atrium, in the Charles M. Harper Center.
Whenever possible, papers are made available in advance of the workshop. To download a paper, click on the highlighted text. For further information, or to schedule time to meet with an outside speaker, please email the workshop coordinator for the Autumn quarter, Ron Burt .
Upcoming Workshops
Schedule
Tuesdays 3:00 PM to 4:30 PMLocation
Harper Center Seminar 3B
Past Workshops
Autumn 2007
September 25
"The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881 - 1941"
Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business SchoolOctober 2
Asymmetric Peer Effects in Physician Prescription Behavior: The Role of Opinion Leaders"
Puneet Manchanda, University of MichiganOctober 9
"Imitation at Work"
Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern UniversityOctober 16
"Getting a Bonus: The Effects of Social Networks on Pay among Commercial Bankers" PDF
Mark Mizruchi, University of MichiganOctober 23
"Network Structure and Information Advantage" PDF
Sinan Aral, NYU SternOctober 30
"Hoping for A to Z while Rewarding only A: Complex Organizations and Multiple Goals" PDF
Dan Levinthal, Wharton, U. PennNovember 6
"Search Problems and Information Flow in Social Networks" (Based on "Group Formation in Large Social Networks") PDF and pp 1-3 of "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network," PDF
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell UniversityNovember 13
"An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities, and Segregation"
Matt Jackson, Stanford UniversityNovember 20
"A Political Mediation Model of Corporate Response to Social Movement Activism" PDF
Brayden King, Brigham Young UniversityNovember 27
"From Ideals to Institutions: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Change in Small Business Finance" PDF
Rodrigo Canales, MITDecember 4
NO MEETINGDecember 11
"Fitting in or Starting New? An Analysis of Technological Innovation, Category Constraint, and the Emergence of New Categories in the Software Industry, 1990-2002" PDF
Elizabeth Pontikes, Stanford UniversityDecember 12
"Does Conflict Between Groups Create Norms and Hierarchies Within Groups?" PDF
Stephen Benard, Cornell UniversityPast Workshops