Coordinators: Michael Lounsbury and David Strang

Examining issues at the intersection of contemporary economic change and sociological research on organizations is the mission of this working group.

Topics of discussion include:

• The emergence and deinstitutionalization of organizational practices
• Economic vs. social or humanistic conceptions of rationality and efficiency
• Comparison of organizational forms across national and industrial contexts
• The politics of classification systems
• The impact of organizational policies on careers and social inequality
• Formal models of the diffusion and abandonment of managerial practices

September 17, 2003
Ed Carberry (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Cornell)

October 1, 2003
Paul Adler (University of Southern California)
Sponsored by ILR and JGSM, M&O Speaker Series

October 20, 2003
Richard Hackman (Harvard University)
Sponsored by ILR and JGSM, M&O Speaker Series

October 29, 2003
Elaine Howard Ecklund (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Cornell)

November 3, 2003
David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon)
Sponsored by ILR and JGSM, M&O Speaker Series

November 12, 2003
Dong-Il Jung (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Cornell)

November 19, 2003
Sheena Sethi-Iyengar (Columbia University)
Sponsored by ILR and JGSM, M&O Speaker Series

December 4, 2003
Elaine Romanelli (Georgetown University)
Sponsored by ILR and JGSM, M&O Speaker Series

February 13, 2004
Brandon Lee, Cornell University
"Certifying the Harvest: Legal and Private Governance in the Organic Food Industry"

February 20, 2004
Lisa Troyer
University of Iowa
"Technology as Social Actor: The Social Psychology of Work Technologies"
Co-Sponsored by Department of Sociology and Joint ILR/JGSM Markets & Organizations Speaker Series

February 27, 2004
Peer Fiss, Queen's School of Business
"The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The [Non]Adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation Among German Firms"

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