Faculty Workshop
February 26
12:00 – 1:30pm
Social Ecology I, Room 306
Denis Trapido
Paul Merage School of Business
UCI
Relational Counterbalances to Economic Endogamy
Discussants:
Yan Gong
Paul Merage School of Business
UCI
Matt Huffman
Department of Sociology
UCI
About the Speaker
Denis Trapido joined the Merage School of Business in 2008. His research focuses on formation of social relations in economy. He currently examines the social effects of economic competition and the role of motive signaling in shaping interfirm social networks. As part of this project, he has studied the evolution of the venture capital industry and of 18th century maritime merchant communities. His fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area, supported the National Science Foundation, has mapped the networks of competition and interorganizational ties among two thirds of the active drug development companies in the region. Professor Trapido’s research has appeared in Social Forces, European Sociological Review, and Society and Economy. He has also contributed book chapters and published wider-interest interdisciplinary work.