CSES organizes research around Laboratories and Working Groups which provide an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to work together through regular meetings to advance ideas for research, present research in progress, and discuss topics of interest.
In accordance to its mission to be a multi-disciplinary research center promoting studies of economic sociology, network analysis, organizational behavior, and political economy, CSES strives to create an environment conducive to research—both in carrying it out and making it financially possible.
“[T]he challenge is to specify and explicate the social mechanisms determining the relationship between the informal social organization of close-knit groups and the formal rules of institutional structures.”— Victor Nee
