Spring 2008 Schedule
Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 pm

 
Seminars at the MIT location meet at the Sloan Building, E52-598.
Seminars at the Harvard location meet at 1550 William James Hall.

Feb 6th
Harvard
Julie Battliana, Harvard
Center or Periphery?: Identifying the Locus of Different Types of Divergent Organizational Change
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Feb 13th
Harvard
Peter Marsden, Harvard
Informants in Establishment Studies
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Feb 20th
Harvard
John Meyer, Stanford
Social Rationalization and Economic Imagery
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Feb 27th
MIT
Rachel Sherman, New School for Social Research
The Value of Free Time: Commodification, Marketing, and Gender in the Personal Concierge and Errand Industry
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Mar 5th
Harvard
Kieran Healy, Arizona
The Performativity of Networks
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Mar 12th
MIT
David Strang, Cornell
The Best Benchmarking the Best
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Mar 19th
Harvard
Heather Haveman, UC Berkeley
Going (More) Public: Ownership Reform among Chinese Firms
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Apr 2nd
MIT
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton
Filiz Garip, Harvard
How Network Externalities and Relational Homophily Induce Intergroup Inequality: Illustrations from Technology Diffusion and Rural-Urban Migration
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Apr 9th
Harvard
Boris Groysberg, Harvard
The Portability of Stardom
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Apr 16th
MIT
William Roy, UCLA
Markets, Genres, and Repertoire Communities in American Recorded Music, 1895-1950
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Apr 23rd
Harvard
Robert Gibbons, MIT
Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, and Path-Dependence
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Apr 30th
MIT
Jason Davis, MIT
Network Plasticity and Collaborative Innovation: Pruning, Pairing, and Spontaneous Processes in Network Reorganization
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About the Seminar
Inaugurated at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1997, the Economic Sociology Seminar aims to be the home for cutting-edge economic sociology in the greater Boston social science research community. Since 2003, the seminar has been jointly run by faculty from the Sloan School's Economic Sociology Program and the Harvard Department of Sociology. Meeting at MIT and Harvard in alternating weeks during the academic year, presenters and participants represent a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. What we share is a commitment to engage the array of research that has recently come under the heading of economic sociology and thereby to improve upon existing models of organizations, markets, and other key economic institutions.

Other Related Seminars and
Workshops in Town
MIT-Harvard Economics of Organizations Workshop
Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks
MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) Research Seminar
MIT Organization Studies Group (OSG) Research Seminar
MIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Seminar
Harvard Culture and Social Analysis (CSA) Workshop
Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior (OB) Seminar
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