OSG Seminar Series, Fall 2000

Welcome to the
Organization Studies Group's (OSG's)
Spring 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
^{Feb 9}	No seminar this week
Feb 16	Roberto Fernandez (MIT/Sloan)	"Skill Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from a Plant Retooling"
Feb 23	Beth Bechky (Wharton)	"Gofers, gaffers, and grips: Playing a role in a temporary total institution"
Mar 2	Richard Whittington (Oxford)	"The Practice of Strategy: Theoretical Resources and Empirical Possibilities"
^{Mar 9}	Laura Black (Doctoral Student at MIT/Sloan)	"A Dynamic Analysis of Different Cross-Boundary Behaviors Emerging in Similar Organizations"
Mar 16	No seminar this week
^{Mar 23}	Pam Hinds (Stanford)	"The Role of Organizational Context in Knowledge Sharing and Seeking"
April 6	Rod Kramer (Stanford)	"Exploring the Fragility of Trust: Insights from the Study of Social and Organizational Paranoia"
^{April 13}	Richard Whitley (Manchester Business School)	"Developing Innovative Competences: The role of institutional frameworks"
^{April 20}	Mary Jo Hatch (UVA)	"The Dynamics of Organizational Culture, Identity and Image"
^April 27	Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola (Lappeenranta University of Technology)	"Organizations as Cultural Realities: gender, entrepreneurial cultures, and cultural change in focus."
^{May 4}	Martha Feldman (University of Michigan)	"Resources in Emerging Structures and Processes of Change"
^{May 11}	Pablo J. Boczkowski (MIT/Sloan)	"When we were print people": technology, work, and organization in online newsrooms
postponed until Fall	Bob Gibbons and John Sterman (MIT/Sloan)	"Potential roles of formal models in organizational analysis"

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

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