Center for Organizational Research (COR)

2010-2011 Calendar of Events

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September 2010

Paul Merage School of Business
Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar

Are Overconfident CEOs Better Innovators?

David Hirshleifer, Angie Low, Siew Hong Teoh
Paul Merage School of Business
University of California – Irvine

September 30, 12:00-1:30
Location:  SB 112
(Host: Christine Beckman)

Lunch RSVP:  Maria E. Gonzalez-Tan (email: mgonzal9@uci.edu)

For more information, contact:
Siew Hong Teoh
Dean’s Professor of Accounting
The Paul Merage School of Business
University of California, Irvine
steoh@uci.edu

October 2010

Department of Informatics Seminar

Handoff Communication Complexity in Critical Care 
Joanna Abraham
AHRQ fellow
Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center

October 4
11:00-12:30
Location: Donald Bren Hall, Room 5011

 

COR Faculty Meeting: Speed Dating

October 8, 12:00-1:30
Location: SE 1 room 306

Lunch will be provided

The Center for Organizational Research in Partnership with the Bren School of Information and Computer Science, presents

Introduction to the Bren School of Information and
Computer Sciences Behavioral Lab (Hanalab)

Friday, October 22nd
Bren Hall 5011
12:00-1:30pm

light lunch will be served

Department of Informatics Seminar

A Story About Storytelling
Brian Landry
Institute for National Security and Education Research (INSER), University of Washington

Friday, October 22nd
Time:  3pm-4pm
Location: DBH 6011

December 2010

Paul Merage School of Business Organization & Management Research Colloquium

Matthew: Effect or Fable?
Toby Stuart

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

December 2nd, 12:00-1:30
Location:  SB 112
(Host: Christine Beckman)

Lunch RSVP:  Maria E. Gonzalez-Tan (email: mgonzal9@uci.edu)

January 2010

Merage School of Business Strategy Colloquium

Mary Benner
Professor of Strategic Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Friday January 7th, 1:00-2:30
Location: conference room 306 (SB)

Merage School of Business Colloquium

Libby Weber
Merage School of Business, UC Irvine

Wednesday, January 19th, 3:00-4:30
Location: SB 223

The Beall Center for Art & Technology, Merage School of Business, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Organizational Research present

Organizational and Institutional Genesis:
The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Woody Powell
Professor of Education, Stanford University

Friday, January 21st
12:00-1:30
Location: SB 117

Details

The Center for Organizational Research presents:

Success in Publishing Workshop
Featuring a panel of faculty who have served as editors and editorial board members on top management journals

Featuring Panelists:
Judy Olson, ICS
Martha Feldman, Planning, Policy, & Design
David White, Sociology
Carroll Seron, Criminology, Law, & Society

Date: January 28th
Time: 12:00-1:30
Location: SBSG 1517

Details

February 2011

The Merage School of Business Colloquium

Venting about work related annoyances: How the responses of third-party listeners impact the venter’s ability to problem solve
Kristin Behfar
Merage School of Business

Wednesday, February 2nd
3:00-4:30
Location: SB 223

Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Coloquium

Prosociality in Theory and Practice
Simon Levin
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton

Thursday, February 17
SSPA 2112
4:00-5:00 PM

COR Faculty Development Workshop

Expanding the Concept of Bounded Rationality in TCE:
Implications of Perceptual Uncertainty for Hybrid Governance

Libby Weber
Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
Assistant Professor of Strategy

Discussants: Phil Bromiley, Gary Olson

Friday February 18th
12:00-1:30
Location: SE1 room 306

COR Faculty Development Workshop

Paper for Discussion

The Merage School of Business Presents

The reciprocal relationship between psychological contract fulfillment and employee performance and the moderating role of perceived organizational support and tenure
Jackie Coyle-Shapiro
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
London School of Economics and Political Science

Wednesday, February 23rd
12:00-1:30
SB 111

Details

The Merage School of Business Colloquium

Learning from Successes and Failures in Mergers and Acquisitions

Yan Gong
Merage School of Business

Wednesday, February 23rd
3:00-4:30
SB 223

March 2011

The Center for Organizational Research, Department of Informatics, Merage School of Business, and Center for Ethnography present a Distinguished Speaker Seminar

More Tales from the Field
John Van Maanen
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Managemen t

Friday March 4th, 12:00-1:30
Location: SEB 117

please rsvp to cor@uci.edu

Details

Paul Merage School of Business Assistant Professor Colloquia Series

Knowledge, Recent Performance, and Risk Taking Under Performance: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry
Yu Zhang
University of California, Irvine

Wednesday, March 9th
SB 223
3:00-4:30 (reception will follow)

Paul Merage School of Business Strategy Colloquium

Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Paradox
Todd Zenger
Washington University, St. louis
Friday March 11th
1:30-3:00
SB 116

Friday Informatics Seminar

IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures
Bill Tomlinson

University of California, Irvine
Friday, March 11th
6011 Bren Hall
3:00-4:30

The Merage School of Business presents

Gerardo Okhuysen
Associate Professor, Management Department
University of Utah

Monday, March 28th
12:00-1:30
SB 117

RSVP:   Maria E. Gonzalez-Tan  (Email:  mgonzal9@uci.edu)

Details

April 2011

Institute for Software Research Distinguished Speaker Series

Social Intelligence for a Smarter Planet
Wendy Kellogg

Friday, April 1st
2:00-3:30
Bren Hall 6011

Social Hour to follow at 4:00

The Merage School of Business presents

The Value of Diversity in Teams? An Integrated Perspective
Kathy Phillips
Associate Professor of Management & Organizations
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Thursday, April 7th
12:00-1:30
SB 306

RSVP for lunch to gho (at) uci.edu

2011 TED AND JANICE SMITH DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES WELCOMES

Knowledge Expression and Values in Information Infrastructures
Professor Geoffrey Bowker
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, April 14, 2011
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Donald Bren Hall 6011

Details

The Center for Organizational Research and the Department of Informatics Present

Routine Dynamics: Producing Stability and Change in Patterns of Action
Martha Feldman 
Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management, UC Irvine

Friday, April 15th
3:00-4:30
Location: Donald Bren Hall Room 6011

Details

Paper

The Merage School of Business Colloquium

The Logics of Mentor-Protégé Matching in Formal Mentoring Programs
Dennis Trapido
Merage School of Business

Wednesday, April 27th
3:00-4:30
SB 223

Workshop: Using Atlas.ti for Qualitative Research
Conducted by: Danielle Rudes, Ph.D., George Mason University
Friday, April 29th
Session for Beginners: 10:00am – noon, Social Science Lab 248
Session for Intermediate and Advanced Users: 1pm – 3 pm, Steinhaus Hall 174
Please contact Liz Chiarello (echiarel@uci.edu) to sign up
The Merage School of Business Presents

Zur Shapira
William Berkley Professor of Management
Stern School of Business, New York University

Friday, April 29th
Time TBD

The Merage School of Business Presents

Economic Effects of the Co-Evolution of Universities and Firms:
Tacit and Deeded Knowledge Protection and Acquisition
Lynn Zucker
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles

Friday, April 29th
12:00-1:30
SB 112

May 2011

The Implicit Influence of Culture
Visiting professor Eric Uhlman, HED Paris, School of Management

Thursday,  May 12, 2011

2:30-4:00 pm, SB 117

The Center for Organizational Research presents

Lean in Public Services: Panacea or Paradox?
Zoe Radnor
Warwick Business School

Friday, May 20th
12:00-1:30
SE1 room 306

details

The Beall Center for Science & Technology Presents

Where do new firms come from? Science and Innovation precursors of
de novo population emergence in nanotechnology 1970-2004
Kaye Schoonhoven

Professor of Organization and Strategy
UC Irvine

Thursday, May 26th
12:00-1:30
SB 112
RSVP to mgonzal9@uci.edu

June 2011

COR end of the year event! 

Featuring research conducted by 2011/12 COR Fellowship Recipients

Friday, June 3rd
Room 306 SE1
12:00-1:30
Refreshments will be served

The COR interview: Christine Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian

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Christine Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian are two young and dynamic faculty members who are highly involved in the COR community.  Christine is an Associate Professor of Organization and Management in the Merage School of Business and Melissa is an Assistant Professor of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences.  They sat down with COR recently to discuss their own work, their experiences with COR, and an exciting new collaborative research project they are working on.

Interview by Katie Pine

Mazmanian and Beckman cropped

COR- How long have you been affiliated with COR, and how did you first get involved?

CB- Since the beginning, in 2004.  I was on the first executive committee.  Martha brought the idea from Michigan, and I had been involved in a similar thing at Stanford, so I jumped into it quickly.

MM- At Michigan, I got involved with ICOS and it changed my life.  It made me realize I was interested in organizations, and it gave me a community of people with shared interests.  It is my second year here, and I am unusual because I am from a business school and I am faculty in an informatics department.  I knew about Martha and COR before coming here, and COR was a big part of making me comfortable accepting the job.  Knowing this community was here was very heartening to me.

COR- Could you tell me a little about your research?  I’ve heard you’re working on a project together.  Could you each tell me about your own work, and the project you’re collaborating on?

CB- My interests fall into three categories.  The first centers on how organizations learn through networks and relationships.  The next is how an organization’s ability to learn is shaped by the internal constraints that exist, the path dependencies that arise from an organizations’ early development, and how this impacts their ability to learn from partnerships.  And the newest goes into the joint work I’m doing with Melissa.  It has to do with culture and control, and how norms both structure social dynamics and frame how people interact with each other.  I’ve been doing some work for the Navy, looking at how technologies shape communication between sailors and spouses.  The sailors use technologies to do this, email and texting, so I’m interested in how the Navy shapes communication patterns around technology.  Melissa’s work on blackberries is very related, because she looks at how, through technologies, work comes into the home life, while I’m looking at how home life comes into work, and that’s how we intersect.

MM- We’re working on a concept about how multiple layers of communication occur simultaneously.  People engage in different layers at the same time- so a lawyer may come home and be with her family but she is getting emails on her blackberries.  In each context, work and home, there are expected rules and norms for engagement, and the person has to negotiate those rules and norms for both contexts at the same time, and transition back and forth- their co-workers might expect them to be available at all hours through the blackberry, but they have their kid standing in front of them and wanting their attention too.  I’m working with the concept that there are multiple layers of communication happening at the same time, and examining how people engage in different layers with near simultaneity.  There are different technologies and modes of communication being used in the same temporal space.  There is a lot of role blurring, and that is a dynamic process as people make micro-transitions from one role to another through their communication technologies.

COR- how did you start doing this work?

CB- well, we knew of each other and have been meaning to work on something.  COR really helped facilitate the connection in a huge way.

COR- Melissa, can you tell me about your work?

MM- my own work looks at new capacities for communication in organizations at the organizational, group, and individual levels.  Technologies have given us the capacity to communicate in new ways.  I am interested in how people deal with those capacities, and how it affects work/life balance.  I look at the expectations of coordination in different organizations and groups, and the key mechanisms by which groups make sense of the capacities for communication that are enabled by technologies like blackberries.  Some groups have an expectation for constant connectivity- members are expected to be available any moment of the day.  Others have much stronger boundaries between work and home life.  Technology gives you a really good way to look at these things- the question “when do you turn your blackberry off?” tells you a lot about an organization’s expectations of their members.

COR- what drew you to your current research?

CB- I’m pretty eclectic.  I have a lot of diverse projects.  My dissertation was on networks and path dependencies.  Now, I get inspired by my students.  I really enjoy working with graduate students, and I find that tends to open up new directions for my work as well.

MM- I’ve been working on this research for a long time.  I’ve always found this topic really interesting.  I worked with a guy when I was a graduate student who used to work at Goldman Sachs, and I asked him “what was the hardest thing to leave?” and he said “my blackberry!”

COR- How has your involvement with COR affected you as a scholar?

CB- It has been a great help.  The faculty workshop today was a good example.  We had faculty from around the university.  We are very interdisciplinary, but we are all interested in the same core phenomenon.  So we are able to come at things from different angles.

MM- It is very motivating to me.  To be able to turn to someone for inspiration or support who has the same research interests.  For me, the sense of community is really valuable.  COR provides this motivating space, and also a generative space to discuss and share ideas.       

Hanalab Now Open in the School of Information & Computer Sciences

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On Friday, October 22nd COR faculty and students took a tour of the innovative Hanalab, which recently opened.

The Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences has built a behavioral lab to support faculty and graduate students to conduct research in which real people are observed using various technologies on various tasks in various conditions.  For example, Andre van der Hoek and his students are studying how teams of software developers conduct design using an electronic whiteboard.  Judy and Gary Olson and their students observe groups of 10 people working on a coordination task, with 5 of the group members meeting face-to-face and 5 others communicating only by email (“remote workers”).  Susan Sims and her group study how software developers understand source code by having them think aloud while doing a design or maintenance task.  In the future, some of the undergraduate classes may participate in usability studies, where they also observe people using software to uncover where their designs need to change in order to be user friendly.

All of these (and many more) projects require video and audio capture of these participants doing their work, as well as logs of their behavior on various technologies. The lab consists of one room large enough to hold up to 8 people, working either at a table (on computers) or on an electronic whiteboard or other technology.  This room can be used for studies of team or group work as well as for conducting focus groups.  A second existing room has been divided into 5 rooms, where “remote” group members can participate in a virtual group study from different locations.  These rooms can be used for individuals working on a task or for one on one interviews.   All of the rooms have the ability to video and audio record.  A control room houses sophisticated recording and switching equipment.  Additionally, the experimenter can speak to and hear people in the various rooms, e.g., for telling them when to start and stop a task, or to answer clarifying questions.

Faculty and students from all school may request to use the Hanalab, although priority is given to ICS.

An attendee of the event commented:

“Thanks so much for organizing a tour of the Hana Lab in the School of Informatics last Friday. Events like this are what make COR so valuable – exposing people from departments across campus to people and resources we likely never would have discovered on our own. I’m very grateful and am already looking forward to the next COR event.”–Beth Karlin

Please contact Amy Voida (amyvoida@uci.edu) for more information about Hanalab.

Hanalab Event Details

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The Center for Organizational Research, in partnership with the Bren School for Information and Computer Sciences, presents

Introduction to the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Behavioral Lab (HanaLab)

Friday, October 22nd
Bren Hall 5011
12:00-1:30pm

light lunch will be served

RSVP to dana.mcdaniel (at) uci.edu

Description:

The Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences is building a behavioral lab to support faculty and graduate students to conduct research in which real people are observed using various technologies on various tasks in various conditions.  For example, Andre van der Hoek and his students are studying how teams of software developers conduct design using an electronic whiteboard.  Judy and Gary Olson and their students observe groups of 10 people working on a coordination task, with 5 of the group members meeting face-to-face and 5 others communicating only by email (“remote workers”).  Susan Sims and her group study how software developers understand source code by having them think aloud while doing a design or maintenance task.  In the future, some of the undergraduate classes may participate in usability studies, where they also observe people using software to uncover where their designs need to change in order to be user friendly.

All of these (and many more) projects require video and audio capture of these participants doing their work, as well as logs of their behavior on various technologies. The lab consists of one room large enough to hold up to 8 people, working either at a table (on computers) or on an electronic whiteboard or other technology.  This room can be used for studies of team or group work as well as for conducting focus groups.  A second existing room has been divided into 5 rooms, where we can have “remote” group members in an Olson-type study or individuals working on a task, or an individual and an experimenter (e.g. for interviews).   All of the rooms will have the ability to video and audio record, independently.  The third room is between the other two, and will serve as a control room.  It is here that the recording and switching equipment will be housed.  It is here, too, that the experimenter can speak to and hear people in the various rooms, e.g., for telling them when to start and stop a task, or to answer clarifying questions. There is also an office next to the lab to be used by the lab manager, for storage, and for an analysis/editing workstation.  This room will have a rack of 12 PC laptops ready (charged) for use in the individual and group rooms.