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Ezra W. Zuckerman SivanProfessor,
MIT Sloan School of Management Director,
Sloan PhD Program Affiliations:
Economic Sociology PhD Program TIES (Technological Innovation,
Entrepreneurship, & Strategic Management) Group Behavioral Policy Sciences Division Contact Info: (617) 253-1918 (phone) |
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Welcome to my website.
Thanks for visiting. I hope you find the materials I have
posted here to be valuable. If you
have comments on anything, please do not hesitate to email me at the email
address below. There are two types of materials on this
website: research papers and essays.
The research papers were
written for publication in academic journals, though some of them have not
been published and some may never be submitted for publication. The essays
were written at various times for various purposes. (There are also some pieces that are
sort of in-between (not surprising since classification
is always crude). |
Research PapersThe papers (and vaporware)
posted here cover a variety of topics/questions, organized by the following
keywords. (Note that each paper
is listed under more than one keyword.
This suggests where the points of overlap are, and also has the benefit
of making it look like I am more productive than is actually the case. Please let it be our little secret. Keywords ·
Classification/Categorization in Markets (most recent paper: December 2012) ·
Conformity, Differentiation, and Deviance (most recent paper: December 2012) ·
Corporate
Strategy (most recent paper: December 2012) ·
Cultural Expression and Fashion (Given names) (most recent paper: July 2012) ·
Financial Markets-- how they work, don’t work, and could be made
to work better (most recent paper: June 2012) ·
Identity—Definition, origins, how it both affects
action and is affected by it (most recent paper: 2011) ·
Labor markets, typecasting as a mechanism driving wedge between skill
and position (most recent paper, 2005) ·
Learning
(and lack thereof)—within organizations, via the market, via
institutions that correct for the market’s weaknesses (most recent paper, 2010) ·
Production of culture (Hollywood) (most recent paper: 2006) ·
Rationality and irrationality, Function and dysfunction (most recent paper: 2011) ·
Social
networks, the advantages and disadvantages of various positions and
configurations (most recent paper: 2008) ·
Social
networks, how economic activity is “embedded” in strong ties (most
recent paper:
2011) ·
Social status, advantage and disadvantages to different various status
positions (most
recent paper:
2012) ·
Theory of the firm/formal
organization (as distinct from markets and other institutions) (most
recent paper:
2011) ·
Team
diversity and productivity (most recent paper: 2007) ·
Valuation—constructionism, realism, and
contrarianism, (most recent paper: July 2012) Classification/Categorization in
Markets
·
Betrayal
as Market Barrier: Identity-Based Limits to Diversification among High-Status
Corporate Law Firms
o Co-authors: Damon Phillips and Catherine Turco o Date of most recent posting: December 2012 o
Date of publication [Research in Sociology of Organizations]:
2005 ·
Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity o
Date of publication [American
Sociological Review]: 2004 · Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Comovement & the Internet Stock Phenomenon (erratum) o Co-author: Hayagreeva Rao o Data of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change]: 2004 ·
Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the
Feature Film Labor Market o Co-authors: Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa, and James von Rittmann o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 2003 ·
The Critical Trade-Off: Identity
Assignment and Box Office Success in the Feature Film Market o Co-author: Tai-Young Kim o Date of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change]: 2003 ·
Middle Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and
Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets o Co-author: Damon Phillips o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 2001 ·
Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and
De-Diversification o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2000 ·
The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the
Illegitimacy Discount o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 1999 ·
Mediating the Corporate Product,
PhD Thesis o Date of acceptance [University of Chicago]: 1997 Conformity, Differentiation, and
Deviance
o
Co-authors: Damon Phillips and Catherine Turco o
Date of most recent draft: December 2012 ·
A Lack of Security or
a Lack of Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in Immigrant Naming o
Co-authors: Jiayin Zhang and Elena Obukhova o
Date of forthcoming posting: December 2011 o
Date of most recent posting: June 2011 ·
Middle Status Conformity: Theoretical Restatement and
Empirical Demonstration in Two Markets o Co-author: Damon Phillips o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 2001 Corporate Strategy
o
Co-authors: Damon Phillips and Catherine Turco o
Date of most recent draft: December 2012 ·
Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and De-Diversification o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2000 ·
The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the
Illegitimacy Discount o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 1999 ·
Mediating the Corporate Product,
PhD Thesis o Date of
acceptance [University of Chicago]: 1997 Cultural Expression and Fashion
·
Construction,
Concentration, and (Dis)Continuities in Social
Valuations o Annual Review of Sociology 38: 223-245 ·
Why Was
There No Fashion in Mao’s China? Effects of Politics on Culture in the
Case of Chinese Naming Practices
o Date of most recent
posting: June 2011 ·
A Lack of Security or
a Lack of Capital? Acculturative Conservatism in Immigrant Naming o
Co-authors: Jiayin Zhang and Elena Obukhova o
Date of forthcoming posting: Fall 2012 Financial
Markets-- How they work, don’t work, and could be made to work better
·
So You Think You Can Dance? Lessons on Distorted Public Valuation
from the U.S. Private Equity Bubble
o Co-author: Catherine Turco
o Date of most recent draft: June 2012 (abstract
here; full version available upon request)
·
Market Efficiency: A Sociological
Perspective
o
Date of most recent posting: July 2012 ·
What if We Had Been in Charge: The
Sociologist as Builder of Rational Institutions o
Date of Publication [Research in the Sociology
of Organizations—“Markets on Trial”]: 2010 ·
Structural Incoherence and Stock Market Activity o
Date of publication [American
Sociological Review]: 2004 ·
Comment: Towards the Social Reconstruction of an
Interdisciplinary Turf War o Date of publication [American Sociological Review]: 2004 o
Important note on this debate and why some things
I wrote in the published version are inaccurate · Shrewd, Crude, or Simply Deluded? Comovement & the Internet Stock Phenomenon (erratum) o Co-author: Hayagreeva Rao o Data of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change]: 2004 ·
Focusing the Corporate Product: Securities Analysts and
De-Diversification o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2000 ·
The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the
Illegitimacy Discount o Date of publication [American Journal of Sociology]: 1999 ·
Mediating the Corporate Product,
PhD Thesis o
Date of acceptance
[University of Chicago]: 1997 Identity—Definition, social
foundations; how it both affects action and is affected by it (*)
·
For papers relevant to this topic, see also those listed under
“Classification...,” “Conformity…,” and “Social status”
·
Why Identity? A Prolegomenon to any
Account of Social Organization or Human Action o Under revision. Slated to be posted in spring 2011 ·
Managerial Control is Alienating and Often
Inefficient, So
Why Do Firms Dominate the Capitalist Economy and Sometimes Even Perform Well?
o Co-author: Bob Freeland
o Date of expected posting: March 2012
·
Speaking with
One Voice: A “Stanford School” Approach to Organizational
Hierarchy
o Date of publication [Research in the Sociology of Organizations—“Stanford’s Organization Theory Renaissance”]: 2010 ·
All in the family: Reply to Burt, Podolny, and van de Rijt, Ban, and Sarkar o
Co-author: Ray Reagans o
Date of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change, in Symposium on Structural Holes]:
2008 ·
Identity Imperatives o Date of original completion: 2008 o No longer in circulation. Contact me if interested o Co-author: John T. Jost o Date of publication [Social Psychology Quarterly]: 2001 Rationality and irrationality, Function and dysfunction
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment
in Commitment to an Industry Peer Network
o
Co-author: Stoyan Sgourev o Date of publication [Rationality and Society]: 2011. ·
Nasty, Brutish, and Short:
Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry o Co-authors: Pierre Azoulay and Nelson Repenning o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2010 ·
See also my essay
“Bringing (Crude)
Functionalism Back in” Labor markets, typecasting as a
mechanism driving wedge between skill and position
·
Typecasting
and Generalism in Firm and Market: Genre-Based
Career Concentration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995
o Date of publication [Research in Sociology of Organizations]:
2005 ·
Robust Identities or Non-Entities?
Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market o Co-authors: Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa, and James von Rittmann o
Date of publication [American
Journal of Sociology]: 2003 Learning (and lack
thereof)—within organizations, via the market, via institutions that
corrects for the market’s weaknesses
· Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industryo Co-authors: Pierre Azoulay and Nelson Repenning o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2010 ·
Peer Capitalism: Parallel
Relationships in the U.S. Economy o Co-author: Stoyan Sgourev o Publication date [American
Journal of Sociology]: 2006 ·
How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as
Criteria for Designing Effective Projects o Co-authors: Ray Reagans and Bill McEvily o Publication date [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2004 ·
Networks, Diversity, and Performance: The Social Capital of
Corporate R&D Teams o Co-author: Ray E. Reagans o Publication date [Organization Science]: 2001 · See also the papers listed under “Financial markets…” Production of culture (Hollywood)
·
Do Firms and Markets
Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995
o
Date of most recent
posting: 2006 o
Date of publication [Research in Sociology of Organizations]:
2005 ·
Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the
Feature Film Labor Market o Co-authors: Tai-Young Kim, Kalinda Ukanwa, and James von Rittmann o
Date of publication [American
Journal of Sociology]: 2003 Social networks, general
o Date of publication [Journal of Economic Literature]: 2003 · See also my essay, “Why Social Networks are Overrated: Downsides of the Commensuration that Underlies Social Network Analysis” Social networks, the advantages and
disadvantages of various positions and configurations
·
A Shortcut to Efficiency? Implications of the Small but
Stratified World
o
Co-author: Ray Reagans o
Date of most recent
posting: August 2008 ·
Why Knowledge Does Not Equal Power: The Network Redundancy Trade-Off (A note for use with this paper) 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
Co-author: Ray Reagans o
Date of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change, in Symposium on Structural Holes]:
2008 ·
How to Make the Team: Social
Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Projects o Co-authors: Ray Reagans and Bill McEvily o Publication date [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2004 ·
Networks, Diversity, and Performance: The Social Capital of
Corporate R&D Teams o Co-author: Ray E. Reagans o Publication date [Organization Science]: 2001 o
Co-author: Shaul Gabbay o
Publication date [Social Science Research]: 1998 Social networks, how economic
activity is “embedded” in strong ties
·
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment
in Commitment to an Industry Peer Network
o Co-author: Stoyan Sgourev o Date of publication [Rationality and Society]: 2011. · Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical IndustryCo-authors: Pierre Azoulay and Nelson Repenning o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2010 o Date of most recent posting: May 2008 ·
Peer Capitalism: Parallel
Relationships in the U.S. Economy o Co-author: Stoyan Sgourev o
Publication date [American Journal of Sociology]: 2006 ·
Do
Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film
Industry, 1933-1995
o
Date of most recent
posting: 2006 Social status, advantage and
disadvantages to different various status positions
·
For papers relevant to this topic, see also those listed under
“Classification...,” “Conformity…,” and “status”
·
It’s the Conventional Thought That Counts: The Origins of Status Advantage in Third-Order Inference
o Co-authors: Shelley Correll, Cecilia Ridgeway, Sara Bloch Sharon Jank o Date of most recent version: April 2012 (abstract here; full version available upon request) ·
The Denigration of
Heroes: Why High-Status Actors Are Viewed as Cold
and Inauthentic o
Co-author: Oliver Hahl o
Date of most recent
version: March 2012 Theory of the firm/formal
organization (as distinct from markets and other institutions)
·
Managerial Control is Alienating and Often Inefficient,
So Why Do Firms Dominate the Capitalist Economy and
Sometimes Even Perform Well?
o Co-author: Bob Freeland
o Date of expected posting: September 2012
·
Speaking with One Voice: A “Stanford School” Approach to
Organizational Hierarchy
o Date of publication [Research in the Sociology of Organizations—“Stanford’s Organization Theory Renaissance”]: 2010 ·
Nasty, Brutish, and Short:
Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry o Co-authors: Pierre Azoulay and Nelson Repenning o Date of publication [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2010 · Do Firms and Markets Look Different? Repeat Collaboration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995 o
Date of most recent
posting: 2006 Team
diversity and productivity
·
On Firmer Ground: The
Collaborative Team as Strategic Research Site for Verifying Network-Based
Social Capital Hypotheses
o Co-authors: Ray Reagans and Bill McEvily o Publication date [The Missing Link, Rauch ed.]: 2007 ·
How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as
Criteria for Designing Effective Projects
o Co-authors: Ray Reagans and Bill McEvily o Publication date [Administrative Science Quarterly]: 2004 ·
Networks, Diversity, and
Performance: The Social Capital of Corporate R&D Teams o Co-author: Ray E. Reagans o Publication date [Organization Science]: 2001 Valuation—constructionism,
realism, and contrarianism
·
Construction, Concentration, and (Dis)Continuities in Social
Valuations
o
Annual Review of Sociology 38: 223-245 · All in the family: Reply to Burt, Podolny, and van de Rijt, Ban, and Sarkar o
Co-author: Ray Reagans o Date of publication [Industrial and Corporate Change, in Symposium on Structural Holes]: 2008 · See also the papers listed under “Financial markets…” |
Essays etc.
·
Why
Social Networks are Overrated:
Downsides of the Commensuration that Underlies Social Network Analysis
o Essay published in May 2010 issue of Perspectives: Newsletter of the American Sociological Ass’n Theory Section (revision of this essay)
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