Center for Organizational Research (COR)

November 2009

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Colloquium

November 12
Time and Location TBA

Renee Rottner
Paul Merage School of Business
UCI

About the Speaker

rottner[1]

Renee Rottner is a doctoral candidate at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine. Her research draws on organizational theory and strategy and focuses on the process of innovation in R&D-intensive organizations, including new ventures, research universities, and government labs. Renee’s dissertation, partly funded by NASA, examines how innovation is sustained in established organizations. Her related interests include entrepreneurship, public policy, and the social impact of technology. Prior to her doctoral studies, Renee earned a masters degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and co-founded three ventures (one has since been acquired by a public company).

October 2009

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October 2009

October 29, 11:30am – 1:00pm
School of Business, 117

 Multiple Identities: Putting your Best Self Forward

Margaret Shih
Anderson School of Management
University of California – Los Angeles

Abstract

People carry multiple social identities simultaneously.  For instance, an Asian American Woman can be simultaneously identified by her ethnicity (i.e. Asian), nationality (i.e. American) or gender (i.e. female).  Each of these identities are associated with a different set of expectations or stereotypes.  Priming different identities can make different stereotypes salient. The talk will present a series of studies examining the effects of identity primes on different outcomes.

About the Speaker

shih[1]

Margaret Shih is an Associate Professor in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her research focuses on the effects of diversity in organizations. In particular, she focuses on social identity and the psychological effects of stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and stigma in organizations. Prior to joining the faculty at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Professor Shih served on the faculty at the University of Michigan for 8 years, and also worked at the RAND Corporation. She serves on the executive committee for the International Society for Self and Identity and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She was also an editor for the special issue of the Journal of Social Issues. She has received fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, Social Sciences and Humanities of Research Council of Canada, John Templeton Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University.

Grant Recipients 2009-2010

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COR Grant Recipients
2009 – 2010

Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients

  • Janet Alexanian – Social Sciences
    Constructing Iran: Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Representation in the Digital Age
  • Natalie Baker – Social Ecology
    Place-Based Practices of Recovery: Re-Definitions of Role and Task in Mental Healthcare Organizations-New Orleans, LA
  • Elizabeth Chiarello – Social Sciences
    Doctoral Dissertation Research: A proposal to study organizational and institutional bases of pharmacists’ decision-making about birth control dispensation
  •  Nalika Gajaweera – Social Sciences
    Cultivating Goodness: Buddhist Generosity and Development Work in the Aftermath of the Sri Lankan Tsunami 
  •  Heather Goldsworthy – Social Ecology
    Compassionate Capitalism? The Institutionalization of Microfinance
  •  Phillip Goodman – Social Ecology
    Hero or Inmate, Prison or Camp, Rehabilitation or Labor Extraction? A Multi-Level Study of California’s Prison Fire Camps
  •  Alexis Hickman – Social Ecology
    East Asia Regional Seas: The Case of Cities
  •  Jasmine Kerrissey – Social Sciences
    Structural Change and the Labor Movement: The Historical and Contemporary Role of Union Mergers
  •  Sang-Tae Kim – Social Ecology
    Emergence of a biotech cluster: The socio-cultural development of the San Diego biotech community and the role of research organizations
  •  Ben Lind – Social Sciences
    The Formation of Contention Cycles: Strikes and Lockout Waves in the U.S., 1881-1894
  •  Silvia Lindtner – Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
    Facing the Crowd: The Role of Voluntary Game Player Organizations in Urban China
  •  Dana McDaniel – Merage School of Business
    Energy at Work: An Investigation of Relational Energy in Organizations
  •  Diana Pan – Social Sciences
    From Great Expectations to Mainstream Ambitions: the Socialization of Second-Generation Law Students
  •  Katie Pine – Social Ecology
    The Influence of Organizational Context on Routines for Childbirth in the Hospital Setting
  •  Kathy Quick – Social Ecology
    Boundary Work: Supporting Inclusive Communities of Practice
  •  Daisy Reyes – Social Sciences
    Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities through Organizations
  •  Aaron Roussell – Social Ecology
    Black, Brown and Blue: Violence, Power, and Subjectivity in Police-Community Relations in South Los Angeles
  •  Rita Shah – Social Ecology
    Reemergence of Rehabilitation? Comparing the policies and practices of California parole before 1977 and after 2005
  •  Chitvan Trivedi – Social Ecology
    Social enterprises and corporate enterprises: Fundamental differences and defining features
  •  Lydia Zacher – Social Sciences
    A New Medical Model for Childbirth: Understanding the Cultural Effects of Mexico’s Emergent Professional Midwifery
  •  Shaozeng Zhang – Social Sciences
    Governmental organization as the product and producer of knowledge— The reinvention of Payment for Environmental Services policy in Amazonas, Brazil

Faculty Small Grant Recipient

  •  Nina Bandelj (with Elizabeth Sowers) – Social Sciences
    Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective

COR Goes to Taiwan

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This past spring three COR faculty – director Professor Martha Feldman (PPD), Professor Paul Dourish (ICS), and Professor Cal Morrill (Sociology) – travelled to Taiwan to lead a three-day workshop on qualitative field research in organizations. From April 28 – May 1 they were hosted by National Taiwan University and National SunYat Sen University. Faculty and students participated in the workshop activities, including presentations by the workshop leaders, and discussions of workshop exercises and research experiences.