Center for Organizational Research (COR)

September 2005

Seminar

W. Richard Scott

Evolving Professions: An Institutional Field Approach

September 30, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112

October 2005

Seminar

Hayagreeva Rao

Border Crossing: Bricolage and the Erosion of Culinary

October 21, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

November 2005

COR Faculty Workshop

Alladi Venkatesh

Design as a State of Mind:  Aesthetics of Design and The Art of Marketing

Discussants

Paul Dourish

Sanjoy Mazumdar

November 4, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Room 306, Social Ecology I

January 2006

Seminar

Francesca Polletta

Stories and Reasons in Public Deliberation: Toward a Sociology of Rhetorical Forms

Discussants

Nina Bandelj

Martha Feldman

Rodney Lacey

January 20, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Room 306, Social Ecology I

February 2006

Graduate Seminar and Seminar

Debra Meyerson

Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Mens Identity and

Relations in Dangerous Workplaces

February 10, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

March 2006

Graduate Seminar and Seminar

Chris Ansell 

Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice

co-author: Alison Gash

March 3, 12:00 – 1:30
Social Ecology I, Room 306

PPD Seminar

Judith Innes

Collaborative Governance as a New Model for Action: The Case of California Water Management

Thursday, March 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Social Ecology I, Room 306

Panel

Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory
Western Digital Executive Chairman Matthew Massengill

Friday, March 17, 2006
10:30am-12:00pm
Social Ecology I, Room 306

April 2006

Seminar

Spring 2006 Critical Legalities Symposium

Constructing Legalities in Scientific Organizations, Fields and Cultures
Jointly sponsored by the Center for Organizational Research and the Center in Law Society and Culture

Symposium Presenters
Susan Silbey
Jason Owen-Smith
Mark Suchman
Calvin Morrill

Discussants
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Martha Feldman

April 7, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

SSPA 2112

Discussion

2:00 – 3:30 in SSPB 4206 (Refreshments will be served)

Seminar

Mark Granovetter

Norms, Moral Economy and the Social Construction of Corruption

April 14, 3:30 PM

MPAA 120

May 2006

Seminar

Dvora Yanow

Reflecting on Reflection and Practice: In it or on it?

May 5 , 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Social Ecology I, Room 306

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COR Faculty Workshop

Val Jenness

Beyond Symbolic and Instrumental Law: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice

(with Ryken Grattet)

Discussants

Helen Ingram

Aladi Venkatesh

May 19, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Social Ecology I, Room 306

June 2006

COR Faculty Workshop

Paul Dourish

The Human Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

Discussants

Christine Beckman

Roberta Lamb

June 9, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Social Ecology I, Room 306

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Seminar

Reflecting on Reflection and Practice: In it or on it?

May 5 , Noon – 1:30p.m.
Social Ecology I Room 306

Dvora Yanow

Abstract

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”
—  Kurt Lewin (ca. 1946)

“How d’ ya get to Carnegie Hall?”
“Practice.”

How does an administrator or a manager know how to do what she does?  Most likely, she was not born knowing whatever this knowledge (know-how? know-that?) is.  How did she come by it?

The act of reflectivity or reflexivity has come, in certain areas of “practice studies,” to play a central role in theorizing about learning and about knowing as aspects of work practices.  And yet there seems to be some lack of clarity concerning the character of the relationship between “reflecting” and “practicing” in the context of work:  is the relationship one of reflecting on practice, or is it a matter of reflecting in practice — or is there no difference between the two?  I will argue that there is a difference, and that understanding the difference is of central importance to understanding something about the character of organizational learning and other management practices.  This paper is situated in the context of collective approaches to organizational learning.  It is intended to be a theoretical contribution, but one informed by empirical research that serves here to illustrate the theoretical argument.

Biography

Dvora Yanow (Ph.D., 1982, Planning, Policy, and Organizational Studies, M.I.T., Department of Urban Studies and Planning) teaches and conducts research in two substantive areas, public policy and organizational studies, as well as in the philosophy of social science and interpretive research methods.

An organizational and policy anthropologist, her research focuses on interpretive approaches to policy and organizational analysis, guided by an overall interest in the communication of meaning in policy and organizational settings. In a policy context she is particularly interested in immigration and race-ethnic related policies. In organizational studies, she has focused on organizational learning (from a collective, practice-based perspective), organizational culture, and organizational diagnosis.

Her books include How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions (Georgetown University Press, 1996); Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis (Sage, 2000); and Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-making in Public Policy and Administration (M. E. Sharpe, 2003. winner of the first “Best Book” prize awarded by the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration), and the co-edited Knowing in Practice (M.E. Sharpe, 2003) and Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the “Interpretive Turn,” co-edited with Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (ME Sharpe, forthcoming).

October 2004

Working Group Seminar

Rodney Lacey

Organizational Politics of Prevention

Discussants

Martha Feldman

David Obstfeld

October 15, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

November 2004 

Working Group Seminar

Raul Lejano

A Phenomenology of Institutions: Reflections from a Coral Reef

Discussants

Nina Bandelj

Victoria Beard

November 12, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

December 2004

Seminar

Akos Rona-Tas

Uncertainty and Formal Rationality in Emerging Credit Card Markets

December 10, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza B, Room 4206

January 2005

Working Group Seminar

Bonnie Nardi

Creating Conversation Environments for Ecological Data

Discussants

Paul Dourish

Dan Stokols

January 14, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

John M. Bryson

Barbara C. Crosby

Power, Collaboration, and the Creation of Public Value

January 28, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250

February 2005

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

Nancy C. Roberts

Collaborative Strategy in a Shared-Power World

February 11, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

Corrine Bendersky

Calvin Morrill

Power from below

February 18, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250

March 2005

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

Cristina Gibson

The Impact Of Team Empowerment On Virtual Team Performance:

The Moderating Role Of Face-To-Face Interaction

March 4, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250

April 2005

Working Group Seminar

Jone Pearce

Why the Rich Get Richer: The Role of Organizations in the Wealth of Nations

Discussants

Martha Feldman

Judy Stepan-Norris

April 8, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology 1, Room 306

May 2005

Working Group Seminar

Judy Stepan-Norris

Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography

of Religion and Political Voting in Post-War Detroit

Discussants

Rodney Lacey

David S. Meyer

May 6, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I , Room 306

June 2005

Presentations

Lynn Eden

W. Richard Scott

Organizations, Knowledge and Catastrophe

June 3, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

October 2003

Working Group Seminar

Why COR?

Discussants

Martha Feldman

Calvin Morrill

October 22, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

November 2003

Working Group Seminar

Marc Ventresca

Why Organizations Change

Discussants

Martha Feldman

Calvin Morrill

November 21, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

February 2004

Seminar

Judith Olson

February 13, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

 March 2004

Working Group Seminar

Joy Pixley

Career Hierarchy in Dual-Earner Couples: Implications for Occupational Attainment.

Discussants

Marlon Boarnet

Kaye Schoonhoven

March 12, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

 April 2004

Seminar

Leslie Perlow

Creating Communities of Organizational Scholars

April 07, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Seminar

Mayer Zald

Collective Action and Resistance in Organizations: The Intersection of Career,

Discipline and Social Change

April 08, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
SSPA 2112 

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

Mayer Zald

Political Economy of Power

April 09, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
SSPB 5250

Working Group Seminar

Christine Beckman

Founding the future: Founding and early teams in emerging companies

Discussants

Nina Bandelj

Martha Feldman

April 16, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

Social Ecology I, Room 306

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

James G. March

An Exchange Theory of Power

April 23, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
SSPB 5250

Seminar

James G. March

Thinking about Rationality, Foolishness and Adaptation

April 23, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
GSM 112
Reception following 

 May 2004

Working Group Seminar

Where do we go from here? How do we keep going?

May 14,12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306

Seminar

Calvin Morrill

Covert Political Conflict in Organizations

May 21, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
SSPB 5250

Seminar

A Journey of Empowerment: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?

May 28, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
SSPB 5250

Graduate Seminar and Presentation

May 28, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

 June 2004

Seminar

High Control, High Participation Power Regimes

June 11,12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306 

Seminar

Paul Adler

High Control, High Participation Power Regimes

June 11, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I, Room 306
Graduate students invited to seminar