MIT

Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan

Nanyang Technology University Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Economic Sociology
Co-Director, Economic Sociology PhD Program
Sloan School of Management, E52-564
MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142-1347

(617) 253-1918 (phone)
(617) 253-2660 (fax)
ewzucker@mit.edu

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Working Papers

·         Do Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995

·         Embeddedness for Control, for Compatibility, or by Constraint?  Within-Network Exchange in the Selection of Home Remodelers

·         Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment in an Industry Peer Network

o        With Stoyan V. Sgourev

·         High-Status Deviance or Conformity? Professional Purity or Impurity? Silicon Valley Law Firms’ Engagement in Family and Personal Injury Law

o        With Damon J. Phillips

·         A Shortcut to Efficiency? Implications of the Small but Stratified World

o        With Ray E. Reagans

Recent Published Papers

·         Why Knowledge Does Not Equal Power: The Network Redundancy Trade-Off 

·         (For use with this paper: A Note on the Incorporation of Seller’s Targets in the Network Redundancy Tradeoff)

o        With Ray E. Reagans, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008 (in Symposium on Structural Holes)

·          All in the family: Reply to Burt, Podolny, and van de Rijt, Ban, and Sarkar

o        With Ray E. Reagans, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008 (in Symposium on Structural Holes)

·         Peer Capitalism: Parallel Relationships in the U.S. Economy

o        With Stoyan V. Sgourev (American Journal of Sociology, 2006)

·         Typecasting and Generalism in Firm and Market: Genre-Based Career Concentration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995

o        (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 23: Transformation in Cultural Industries, 2005)

·         How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Projects

o        With Ray E. Reagans and Bill McEvily; Administrative Science Quarterly 2004

·         Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity

o        American Sociological Review, 2004

·         Comment: Towards the Social Reconstruction of an Interdisciplinary Turf War  (Note)

o        American Sociological Review, 2004

·         Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Comovement & the Internet Stock Phenomenon

o        With Hayagreeva Rao. Industrial and Corporate Change, 2004

·         Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market

o        With Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa, and James von Rittmann; American Journal of Sociology, 2003

·         On Networks and Markets

o        Journal of Economic Literature, 2003

·         The Critical Trade-Off: Identity Assignment and Box Office Success in the Feature Film Market

o        With Tai-Young Kim; Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003

·         Middle Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets

o        With Damon Phillips; American Journal of Sociology, 2001

·         What Makes You Think You're So Popular? Self-Evaluation Maintenance and the Subjective Side of the "Friendship Paradox"

o        With John T. Jost; Social Psychology Quarterly, 2001

·         Networks, Diversity, and Performance: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Teams

o        With Ray E. Reagans; Organization Science, 2001

·         Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-Diversification

o        Administrative Science Quarterly, 2000

·         The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount

o        American Journal of Sociology, 1999

 

 

Miscellaneous

    • Some thoughts on how to write good, publishable papers
    • Essay Prepared for Spring 2003 issue of Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology
    • Essay prepared for Fall 2006 issue of Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology

 

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