Colloquium Archive Spring 2008

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) spring 2008 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.

Spring 2008
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Feb 8	Doug Creed, College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island What Red Light, Officer? The Grooming of Political Opportunity in Institutional Change Processes (PDF)
Feb 15	Steve Kelman, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Impacts of the Emergency Room Waittime Target in the English National Health Service (PDF)
Feb 22	No Seminar
Feb 29	Paul Ingram, Columbia Business School Sharper in Relief: Opposition, Identity and the Maintenance of Social Movement Organizations (PDF)
Mar 7	Melissa Thomas Hunt, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University
Mar 14	Linda Argote, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon Working Alone or Together: Individual Motivation, Group Identification and the Development of Transactive Memory Systems
Mar 21	Bill Gamson, Boston College Sociology Organizational Barriers to University-Community Partnerships Charlotte Ryan, UMASS-Lowell The Practice of Collaborative Theorizing (PDF)
Mar 28	No Seminar - Spring Break
Apr 4	Shelley Correll, Cornell Sociology Workplace Evaluations of Mothers and Others* (*jointly sponsored by the Economic Sociology Program)
Apr 11	Mark Mortensen, MIT Organization Studies Group Cross-cultural global work, expatriates, and the mutual knowledge proble
Apr 18	Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School The Dynamics of Collaborative Innovation: Exploring the tension between knowledge novelty and reuse
Apr 25	Spela Trefalt, Harvard Business School, PhD candidate Between You and Me: A Relational Perspective on Managing Work-Life Boundaries (PDF)
May 2	Raghu Garud, Penn State Smeal College of Business
May 9	No Seminar - Jr. Faculty Conference

Past OSG Seminar Schedules