April 26
Walter Powell, Stanford University
“Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form”

April 21

Jeong-Yoo Kim, Kyung Hee University
“Centrality Concepts in Social Network Theory: Applications to Economic and Social Situations”

April 14
Hakan Holm & Sonja Opper,Lund University
“Symposium on Uncertainty and Economic Action: Survey Research and Field Experiments”

March 31
Ronald Burt, University of Chicago
“The Social Psychology of Social Capital”

March 10
Erin Cornwell, Cornell University
"Private Attorneys and Case Outcomes in Criminal Trials"

March 3
Mark Mizruchi, University of Michigan
“The Decline of the American Corporate Elite”

February 10
Diane Burton, Cornell University
“Structural Disadvantage: Organizational Forms in the Non-Profit Sector”

December 2
Matthew Brashears, Cornell University
“Networks, Discussion and Resources”

November 18
Elena Obukhova, Ezra Zuckerman, and Jiayin Zhang

"Politics of Conformity: Exogenous Triggers for Endogenous Cultural Change in Chinese Naming Practices,1945-2005"

November 4
Carlo Trigilia, University of Florence
"The Social Construction of Innovation"

Click here for a related paper co-authored with Francesco Ramella (.pdf format)

October 21
Matthew Bothner, Cornell University
"School Status and Rates of Tuition Growth for U.S. Colleges and Universities"

October 14
Christopher Yenkey, Cornell University
"Contagious Capitalism: Recruiting Investors in Unstable Markets and Contested Terrain."

October 4 (Monday)
Robert Frank, Cornell University
"The Libertarian Welfare State"

September 30
Jeremy Schulz, Cornell University
"Societies and Professional Workscapes"

September 23
Richard Miller, Cornell University
"Global Economic Justice"

September 9
Victor Nee, Cornell University,
"Capitalism from Below: Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change"