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 End-of-Year Event on Friday, May 20 2016 at Noon

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COR End-of-Year Event

Friday, May 20
12:00-1:30pm
SBSG 1321

RSVP by May 15 to cor@uci.edu

Lunch and conversation

Short presentations by COR Small Grant Recipients

Harsh Jha, Organization & Management, Merage School of Business
“Organizational engagement with transformational change in an established professional field: The case of legal services reforms in England”

Gregory Kohler, Anthropology, Social Sciences
“Tracing food and building trust: Audit cultures in the European Union”

Christoffer Zoeller, Sociology, Social Sciences
“Old paradigms, new policy: Institutional change and state economic policy-making in organizational context”

All are welcome!

We very much hope to see you for this final COR event of the year!
Best wishes,

Nina Bandelj and Melissa Mazmanian
COR Co-Directors

Emilie R. Feldman – “Activist-Led Divestitures” on April 29 at 2pm

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Activist-Led Divestitures

Friday, April 29
2:00-3:30pm
SB1 5100 Corp Partners Board Room

Emilie R. Feldman
Assistant Professor of Management
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract
This study analyzes how the divestitures that are impelled by activist investors in their campaigns against public corporations affect shareholder value. Using hand-collected data on nearly 3,500 divestitures undertaken by Fortune 500 companies between 2007 and 2014, we find that activist-led divestitures are more positively associated with immediate and longer-term measures of shareholder value than comparable non-activist-led divestitures. These performance differences persist for over a year following the completion of these deals. Our results show how activist investors can shape firms divestiture decisions, with significant implications for corporate performance. Our work also sheds light on the phenomenon of activist investors and the ways in which these stakeholders might induce changes in firms corporate strategies.