Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) fall 2007 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 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Date | Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title |
| Sep 14 | Robin Ely, Harvard Business School Unmasking manly men: The organizational reconstruction of men's identity. (PDF) |
| Sep 21 | Daniel Beunza, Columbia Business School Plotting the spread, constructing risk: distributed calculation and the use of the spread plot in merger arbitrage (PDF) |
| Sep 28 | Ruthanne Huising, MIT IWER Becoming an Agent of Change: Personal Transformation in the Pursuit of Organizational Change |
| Oct 5 | Karen Golden-Biddle, Boston University School of Management Abduction, belief and doubt in theorizing new ideas. |
| Oct 12 | Jason Davis, MIT Strategy Rotating Leadership and Symbiotic Organization: Relationship Processes in the Context of Collaborative Innovation (PDF) |
| Oct 19 | Frank Dobbin, Harvard Sociology Kicking and Screaming: Commitment and Resistance in Organizational Diversity Programs |
| Oct 26 | Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan Organizational Sets, Populations and Fields: Evolving Board Interlocks and Environmental NGOs Structure and Role Heterogeneity in Organizational Fields: Evolving Board Interlocks in the Environmental Movement (PDF) |
| Nov 2 | Marc Steinberg, Smith Sociology Revisiting Polanyi's “The Great Transformation” (PDF) |
| Nov 9 | Maureen Scully, UMass Boston College of Management Mobilizing the Wealthy to Contest Economic Inequality (PDF) |
| Nov 16 | Ezra Zuckerman, MIT High Status Deviance or Conformity? Silicon Valley Law Firms' Engagement in Family and Personal Injury Law. |
| Nov 23 | No seminar, Thanksgiving |
| Nov 30 | Gavin Schwarz, UNSW Australian School of Business The Logic of Deliberate Structural Inertia (PDF) |
| Dec 7 | Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School, University of Navarra Accounting for Sustainability: Analogical Work and the Global Reporting Initiative (PDF) |
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