Colloquium of interest to COR community…

Charlotte Cloutier, Associate Professor of Strategy, HEC Montreal [3], UPPP Visiting Scholar

Professor Cloutier will present research from her paper, “The architecture of hard and soft influence: Meta-organizations and

the transformation of institutional fields.”

“In this study, we examine interactions between a mining industry association, its member companies and various SMOs (defined broadly) in an effort to better understand how such interactions come to shape industry-level corporate practices over time.”

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

12:00 – 1:30 pm

SE 1, Room 112

Lunch will be served. Questions? Contact Kate Hartshorn,

khartsho@uci.edu

Colloquium of interest to COR community…

“Applicant Pool Diversity and Hiring Outcomes: Examining the Association Across the Hiring Process”

Prof. Kimberlee Shauman (UC Davis)

Friday, February 2, 2018

Student Center

Doheny Beach CD

12:00-1:30pm

 

Speaker Bio:

Kimberlee Shauman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on gender stratification in education and employment and is characterized by theoretically targeted application of quantitative methods to large datasets. She has studied the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering, gender inequality in postsecondary education and in employment

outcomes among recent graduates, and gender differences in the career causes and consequences of family migration. Her book, Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes (Harvard University Press), examines the underrepresentation of women in science from a life course perspective – from middle school through the career years. Her current projects investigate the effects of gender and race – ethnicity

in the recruitment of STEM faculty, and the influence of course-level characteristics, including student sex ratio and instructor gender, on gender inequality in postsecondary education.

 

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Hannah Absher (habsher@uci.edu) in the Sociology department.

Dear colleagues,

As the year nears a close, we wanted to extend our gratitude to the COR community for your engagement in our center’s activities, and send our very best wishes to you and your families for 2018.

Looking ahead, please join us for the first COR event in 2018…

COR Faculty Development Paper Workshop with Prof. John Joseph (Merage)

Discussants: Martha Feldman (Social Ecology) and Jone Pearce (Merage)

Friday, January 12

SBSG 1321

12:00-1:30pm

RSVP by Jan 2

Lunch will be provided

 

LEARNING WITHIN HIERARCHIES: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, LEARNING AND INNOVATION IN THE MULTI-UNIT FIRM

In this study, we provide an extension and the first empirical test of March’s Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning (1991). Theoretically, we qualify and extend March’s conclusions by examining the possibility that learning varies within the corporate hierarchy of a multidivisional (M-form) firm.  To do so, we consider the impact of turnover at the corporate level and at the subunit level and their impact on the exploration-exploitation tradeoff.  We also unpack the different effects of arrivals and departures.  Empirically, we use company directories from Motorola over a 24-year period, to construct membership turnover measures for the corporate office as well as for the firm’s subunits.  We pair this data with patenting behavior over the same period to test our conjectures and better understand the exploration-exploitation impact of learning within hierarchies.   Our results indicate that corporate departures matter for for learning than either corporate departures or subunit arrivals/departures.  Our theory contributes to perspectives of organizational learning and organizational design.

 

Dear COR colleagues,

You are cordially invited to a COR seminar with Professor David Obstfeld.

“Getting New Things Done: Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action”

Friday, December 1

12:00-1:30

SBSG 1321

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to cor@uci.edu by November 21.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Nina Bandelj

Melissa Mazmanian

COR Co-Directors

 

Talk Abstract

This talk presents the core ideas from my new book with Stanford University Press: “Getting New Things Done: Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action.”  Mobilizing people to pursue action in the pursuit of innovation depends critically on the effective orchestration of social networks and knowledge sharing.  This orchestration is vital to the pursuit of innovation, especially in a world increasingly reliant on collaborative projects that assemble actors with diverse interests, abilities, and knowledge. In the talk, I offer a conceptual framework along with original ethnographic data from an automotive design context for conceptualizing how social network and knowledge processes combine to influence success in both routine and non-routine innovation.  I integrate recent work to propose a theory of social skill with implications at the micro-, organizational-, and industry levels and how it applies (briefly) to artistic movements, collective action, and entrepreneurship.  I will also discuss a new research direction (in collaboration with Richard Arum and others), which applies the above theoretical framework to identifying student behaviors and institutional practices associated with underrepresented minority college student success and career advancement.

 

Speaker Bio

David Obstfeld is Associate Professor of Management at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University at Fullerton. Professor Obstfeld’s research examines how the knowledge-intensive, network-based social processes that result in organizational change and innovation unfold at the local and firm levels. Currently, his interests focus on how the interaction of social network-based brokerage activity, knowledge articulation, creative projects, and collective action influence entrepreneurship, innovation, and firm strategy. David Obstfeld has published in such journals as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Industrial and Corporate Change. At Mihaylo, Professor Obstfeld teaches courses in entrepreneurship and strategy. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Prior to embarking on an academic career, he served as Director of Training and Development at The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).