OSG Seminar Series, Fall 2001

Welcome to the
Organization Studies Group's (OSG's)
Fall 2001 OSG Seminar Series

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in E52-598 (Forrester Room) from 1:00-2:30pm on Fridays.
As they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted and can be seen by clicking on the title.

Date	Speaker (affiliation)	Topic/Title
^{Sep 7}	OSG Semester kickoff	We meet at 12:30 in the Forrester room for an informal lunch to welcome the new students.
^{Sep 14}	No Seminar	-
^{Sep 21}	Leigh Thompson (Wharton)	[MOVED TO NOV. 2nd.]
^{Sep 28}	Rachel Croson (Wharton)	Direct and indirect trust and reciprocity [Negotiation series] This talk is grounded on two papers (download paper 1 and paper 2)
Oct 5	Bob Gibbons and John Sterman (MIT/Sloan)	"Potential roles of formal models in organizational analysis" Gibbons' readings: (1) (2) (3) Sterman's Readings: Copies available in OSG Seminar's mailbox in the photocopy room of e52-5th floor
Oct 12	Peter Monge (USC)	A Multitheoretical, Multilevel Decompositional framework for studying organizations. (Download Paper 1 and Paper 2).
Oct 19	Deborah Kolb (Simmons)	The Shadow Negotiation: What we can Learn from Studying Gender [Negotiation series] [click here for a summary of Deborah's book] Papers available in OSG Seminar's mailbox in the photocopy room of e52-5th floor
Oct 26	Christel Rutte (Techniche Universiteit Eindhoven)	Managing time in projects (Download abstract)
Oct 30	Wiebe E. Bijker	[EXTRA SESSION: TUESDAY] Dutch, Dikes, Democracy—and Debate? Questions about the politicization of technological culture
Nov 2	Leigh Thompson (Kellogg)	Improving managerial learning: Does the classroom prepare managers for the real world?
^{Nov 9}	Keith Hampton (MIT / DUSP)	Netville: Social Networks, Social Capital and Local Spaces
^{Nov 16}	Martin Evans (U. of Toronto)	Careers and Downsizing
Nov 23	No seminar	Happy thanksgiving!
Nov 30	No seminar	-
Dec 7	OSG semester wrap up	-
Dec 14	Andrew Pettigrew	New Forms of Organizing and Company Performance: Special Challenges of International Comparative Research (papers will be handed out in the talk).

Traditionally, doctoral students and faculty meet individually and/or in small groups before and after the seminar. Please e-mail Joao Vieira da Cunha if you would like to arrange such meetings (please note the dates in which you're interested).