2011-2012
Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 pm

 
Seminars at the MIT location meet in the new Sloan Building in E62-450.
Seminars at the Harvard location meet at 1550 William James Hall.

Sep 14th
Harvard
Jiayin Zhang, MIT
A Lack of Security or a Lack of Capital: Acculturative Conservatism in Immigrant Naming
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Sep 21st
MIT
Eunmi Mun, Harvard
The Downside of Social Construction: Organizational Responses to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law in Japan
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Sep 28th
Harvard
Cristobal Young, Stanford
ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE MARKET FOR MEDICINE: The Relationship Between Patient Satisfaction and Hospital Quality
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Oct 5th
MIT
Christopher Rider, Emory
Networks, hiring, and attainment: Evidence from law firm dissolutions
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Oct 12th
MIT
Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University
Trust, Social Intelligence and Culture
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Oct 19th
Harvard
John Lyneis, MIT
Choreographed Compliance: The Failure of Bureaucratic Rules in Petrochemical Plants
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Oct 26th
MIT
Jiwook Jung, Harvard
Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1984-2006
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Nov 2nd
Harvard
Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim
The Governance of European Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty
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Nov 9th
Harvard
Michael Sauder, University of Iowa and Robert Wood Johnson Fellow
Football and Status
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Nov 16th
MIT
Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard
Aligning Collective Production with Social Need: Evidence from Wikipedia
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Nov 30th
Harvard
George Lan, MIT
Do Job-Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test
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Feb 8th
Harvard
Marion Fourcade, U.C. Berkeley
Kieran Healy, Duke University
Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society.
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Feb 15th
MIT
Steven Vaisey, Duke
Cultural Depth and Social Change
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Feb 22nd
Harvard
Kaisa Snellman, Kennedy School
Window-Dressers and Closet-Conformists: Dual Decoupling in the Spread of the Wall-Street Model of the Firm
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Feb 29th
MIT
Christopher Marquis, HBS
The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?
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Mar 7th
Harvard
Duncan Gallie, Oxford
Economic Crisis and the Quality of Work
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Mar 21st
MIT
Donald MacKenzie, Edinburgh
Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: Liquidity, Materiality and High-Frequency Trading
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Apr 4th
MIT
Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk, MIT
Internal Social Comparisons and Risky Organizational Change: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry
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Apr 11th
Harvard
Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University
The Dynamics of Institutionalization as Translation
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Apr 18th
MIT
Rene Almeling, Yale
A Market for Bodily Knowledge: Analyzing the Medical Profession's Response to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
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Apr 25th
Harvard
John Skrentny, U.C. San Diego
After Civil Rights: Race and Reform in the New American Workplace
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May 2nd
MIT
Anne Fleischer, University of Toronto
Social Categories and Market Value: The Market for Engagement Rings on eBay
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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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