2009-2010 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.

Sep 9th
MIT
Eric von Hippel, MIT
Carliss Baldwin, Harvard University
Open Collaborative Innovation: An Ascendent Economic Model
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Sep 16th
Harvard
Chris Wheat, MIT
Ecology Reconsidered: Legitimacy, Naming Rules and Entrepreneurship in U.K. Public Companies, 1879-1904
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Sep 23rd
MIT
Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School
Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in A New Market Category -- Modern Indian Art
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Sep 30th
Harvard
Ray E. Reagans, MIT
The 'Declining' Significance of Critics: Direct and Indirect Effects across the Margins of Status Hierarchies
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Oct 7th
MIT
Soohan Kim, Harvard University
Hard to Get, Easy to Lose: The Effects of Women and Minorities in Management on Establishment Closings, 1984-2002
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Oct 14th
Harvard
Roberto Fernandez, MIT
What Do Employers Do? Networks, Race, and Gender in the Labor Market
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Oct 21st
MIT
Sameer Srivastava, Harvard University
Flexible Opportunism or Relational Commitment? Responses to Uncertainty During Organizational Restructuring
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Oct 28th
Harvard
Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Who's last? Challenges and Advantages for Late Entrants
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Nov 4th
MIT
Jiwook Jung, Harvard University
Why Downsize? The Role of Financial Market Intermediaries
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Nov 18th
Harvard
Jason Greenberg, MIT
Lifeblood or Liability?: Schumpeter, Stinchombe, and the Double-edged Sword of Strangers or Strong ties in the Startup Process
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Dec 2nd
MIT
Robb Willer, University of California, Berkeley
Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem
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Dec 9th
Harvard
Mario Small, University of Chicago
Beyond Social Capital: Routine Organizations and the Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
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Feb 3rd
Harvard
Roman Galperin, MIT
From Context to Agent: Organizational Intervention in Professional Competition — The Case of Retail Clinics
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Feb 10th
MIT
Damon Phillips, University of Chicago
Jazz and the Disconnected: City Structural Disconnectedness and the Emergence of the Jazz Canon (1897 to 1933)
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Feb 17th
Harvard
Mark Suchman, Brown University
Sharing is (S)caring on the Digital Frontier: The Challenges of Information Technology Governance in Health Care Organizations
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Feb 24th
MIT
Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University
How Does Gender Inequality Persist in the Modern World?
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Mar 3rd
Harvard
Lisa Keister, Duke University
Faith and Money: How Religious Belief Contributes to Wealth and Poverty
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Mar 10th
MIT
Andy Abbott, University of Chicago
On Efficiency in Scholarship: Do Keywords Matter?
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Mar 31st
MIT
CANCELLED,

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Apr 7th
Harvard
Denis Segrestin, Sciences Po, Paris
The Firm as an Institution in the Global Economy – Some Empirical Approaches
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Apr 14th
MIT
Enying Zheng, MIT
Motivation for Brokerage: Employee Referrals in Social and Cultural Contexts
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Apr 21st
Harvard
Dick Scott, Stanford University
Entrepreneurs and professionals: The mediating role of institutions.
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Apr 28th
MIT
Brian Rubineau, Cornell University
Yoon Kang, Cornell University
Bias in white: A longitudinal audit study of changes in discrimination
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May 5th
Harvard
Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College
Constructing a New Market Category: Identity, Legitimation and Entrepreneurship in Satellite Radio, 1990-2005
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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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