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Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's ("OSG") Fall 2006 Seminar Series.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in E52-598 (Forrester Room) from 1:00-2:30 p.m. on Fridays. As they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted below.

Fall 2006
Date Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Sep 8 Shmuel Ellis, Tel Aviv University
The Emergence of Variety: Genesis Events and Genealogical Evolution of the Israeli Communication Sector
Sep 15 No Seminar — Team Day
Sep 22 No Seminar — Faculty Retreat
Sep 29 Brian Rubineau, MIT Sloan
Modeling identity work: Peer effects on professional identity formation among engineers
Oct 6 Joanne Martin, Stanford University
Institutional Interlocks and the Process of Socially Constructing Gender
Oct 13 Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School
Everyday failures in organizational learning: The high threshold for speaking up at work
Oct 20 Sim Sitkin, Duke University
Toward a more theory-driven approach to studying leadership
Oct 27 Pamela Laird, University of Colorado, Denver
Inventing the Social Capital Lexicon
Nov 3 Margaret Neale, Stanford University
Nov 10 No Seminar — Veterans Day
Nov 17 Paul Carlile, Boston University
Toward a Performative Theory of Distributed Innovation: Stretching from OSS Communities to Toyota
Nov 24 No Seminar — Thanksgiving
Dec 1 Ryon Lancaster, University of Chicago
Monks, Lawyers, and All the King’s Men: Formal Office and the Emergence of Bureaucratic Careers in the Medieval English Church
Dec 8 Hayagreeva Rao, Stanford University
No Barrique, No Berlusconi: Identity, Inertia and Innovation in the Barolo Wine District of Italy
Dec 15 Paul Adler, USC
The Evolving Organization of Professional Work (tentative title)

Past OSG Seminar Schedules

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