Center for Organizational Research (COR)

Welcome from the Directors

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Hello,

The Center for Organizational Research (COR) is pleased to kick off the 2023-2024 academic year. This is COR’s 21th year and we continue to be proud of the cross-campus events and interdisciplinary relationships that this center fosters.

Please join us for our events! Email cor@uci.edu to be added to our distribution list.

We look forward to seeing old friends and new faces.

Sincerely,

Sharon Koppman & Melissa Mazmanian
COR Co-Directors 2023-24

Mission

The Center for Organizational Research (COR) facilitates research on organizations by connecting scholars from many different disciplines, providing a focal point and common meeting ground for scholars and practitioners, creating a venue for and financial support for developing collaborative research projects, and offering educational and financial resources for students.

About The Center for Organizational Research

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The Center for Organizational Research (COR) facilitates research on organizations by connecting scholars from many different disciplines, providing a focal point and common meeting ground for scholars, creating a venue for and financial support for developing collaborative research projects, and offering educational and financial resources for graduate students.

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COR Research Showcase 2024

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We had a chance to hear about exciting research conducted by the 2023 COR Small Grants recipients and announce the 2024 cohort!

 

2024 COR Small Grant Cohort:

Alisson Rowland

Jessica Taghvaiee

Malia Baricuatro

Joma M Geneciran

Elena Slominski

COR Small Grant Program 2024

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The Center for Organizational Research (COR) is pleased to offer small grants (up to $1,000) to facilitate graduate student research on organizations. Funds can be used for any expenses related to the research process. COR supports a broad definition of research on organizations and welcomes proposals from members of any department or school.

Eligibility: PhD students doing research related to organizations.

Projects that meet the following criteria will be prioritized: student-driven, related to organizations broadly construed, and first-time awardees.

Deadline: Sunday, May 12, 2024 @ 11:59 pm

Applications should include the following:

Student Applicants will complete this Grant Proposal Form answering a few short questions. At the end of the form, a grant proposal should be submitted as a single document titled LastName-FirstName-COR-application-2024. The proposal must include:

    1. Completed cover sheet using the template provided here: (link)
    2. Proposal Narrative (1-page maximum, answering the following questions in 12-point font, with 1 inch margins), including:
      1. What is your research question or hypothesis?
      2. What are you doing this summer to answer your research question or test your hypothesis?
      3. What is organizational about your research?
      4. Budget and brief justification
    3. Applicants who have previously received COR funding should include at the end of their proposal (this may be included on a 2nd page) a description of how that money was used, resulting publications/presentations, and any outside funding they have applied for and/or received to support that research.
    4. Faculty Advisors will complete this Letter of Support Form answering a few short questions. At the end of the form, a 1-page maximum letter of support that addresses question 2b above should be submitted.

Please see the COR website section on grants (http://cor.web.uci.edu/grants) for the responsibilities of grant recipients to COR. For additional information, contact COR at COR@uci.edu

We look forward to receiving your application!

Center for Organizational Research Seminar

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You are cordially invited to join us for the Center for Organizational Research Seminar by Prof. Michel Anteby, a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Michel will be discussing his new book, The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field.  The book is designed to help field researchers make sense of what might seem to them like “failed” access attempts.

Monday, April 1
12:00-1:30
Merage School SB1 (new building) 5200, Porter Room
Lunch will be provided.

 

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