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 Spring quarter, Sean Safford.

Upcoming Workshops

Schedule

Tuesdays 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Location

Harper Center Seminar 3B

Spring 2008

April 1

Competition and Resource Partitioning in Three Social Movement Industries

Sarah Soule (Cornell)

April 8

Forums vs. Fountains: Knowledge Networks in Akron and Rochester

Sean Safford (Chicago GSB)

April 15

The neglected king: The customer in the new knowledge ecology of innovation

Gernot Grabher (University of Bonn)

April 22

The Dynamics of Inter-Organizational Careers

Matthew Bidwell (INSEAD)

April 29

I am not on the market, I am here with friends: Finding a job or a spouse on an on-line social network

Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Harvard)

May 6

Markets, Genres, and Repertoire Communities in American Recorded Music, 1895-1950

Bill Roy (UCLA)

May 13

What Makes Organizational Imprints Stick? Identity Persistence at the Paris Opera from Louis XIV to the French Revolution

Victoria Johnson (Michigan)

May 20

Relational Dynamics and Gender Devaluation in Organizational Change: The Termination of Undergraduate Fields of Study, 1975-1999

Craig Rawlings (UC Santa Barbara)

NOTE: Huggy Rao canceled due to medical reasons.