ES OOW 2017: FELLOW TRAVELERS ON DIFFERENT ROADS: THE INTERSECTIONS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONS, OCCUPATIONS, AND WORK
PROGRAM
Friday, August 11th

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08:30-09:00Breakfast
10:15-11:15 Session 2A: What is the Value of Work?
Location: Bronfman 620
10:15
Michael Gibson-Light (University of Arizona, USA)
Class Difference behind Bars: Inmate Labor Stratification and Access to Formal and Informal Prison Markets ( abstract )
10:45
Marcel Knudsen (Northwestern- Evanston, USA)
Evaluation at Work: Towards an Economic Sociology of Wages ( abstract )
10:15-11:15 Session 2B: Networks, Brokerage, and Institutional Change
Location: Bronfman 210
10:15
Tanja Collavo (Said Business School (Oxford University), Italy)
Managing networks to foster Social and Institutional Change: Brokerage in the Social Entrepreneurship sector ( abstract )
10:45
David Obstfeld (Cal State Fullerton, USA)
Assembly Microsocial Action Logic: Firm, Industry and Field Change through Orchestration of Networks, Knowledge, and Creative Projects ( abstract )
10:15-11:15 Session 2C: Corporate Governance and Finance
Location: Bronfman 179
10:15
Richard Benton (University of Illinois, USA)
Brokerage and Closure in Corporate Control: Structural Sources of Power for a Fractured Corporate Elite ( abstract )
10:45
Adam Goldstein (Princeton University, USA)
Bringing the Financiers Back In: Passive Investors and the Social Consequences of Shareholder Value Capitalism, 2001-2015 ( abstract )
10:15-11:15 Session 2D: Marking the Borders of Professional Identities
Location: Bronfman 245
10:15
Alison Gerber (Uppsala University, Sweden)
There Be Monsters: Valuation and occupational boundaries ( abstract )
10:45
Michel Anteby (Boston University, USA)
Nicholas Occhiuto (Yale University, USA)
The Rise and Challenges of “Stand-in Labor”: Cowriters, Ghostwriters, and the New Economy of the Outsourced Self ( abstract )
10:15-11:15 Session 2E: Workforce Diversity
Location: Bronfman 410
10:15
Fiona Kay (Queen's University, Canada)
Elizabeth Gorman (University of Virginia, USA)
Corporate Clients and the Progress of Women and Racial Minorities in U.S. Law Firms ( abstract )
10:45
Eunmi Mun (Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Jiwook Jung (School of Labor & Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Change above the Glass Ceiling: Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Diversity in Japanese Firms ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 3A: Organization and Workplace Governance in a Neoliberal Age
Location: Bronfman 245
11:30
John Krinsky (The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
Maud Simonet (Centre National de la Recharche Scientifique/IDHES, France)
Reorganizing Public Work, Justifying Profits: Parks Maintenance in New York City ( abstract )
12:00
Erin Kelly (MIT, USA)
Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Selling and Sustaining New Ways of Working? ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 3B: Workforce Management, Organizational Culture, and Performance
Location: Bronfman 620
11:30
Jinia Mukerjee (Montpellier Business School, France)
Anca Metiu (ESSEC Business School, France)
It’s play time: Work and true play in a high-tech organization ( abstract )
12:00
Aruna Ranganathan (Stanford University, USA)
Alan Benson (University of Minnesota, USA)
Hemming and Hawing over Hawthorne: Work Complexity and the Divergent Effects of Monitoring on Productivity ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 3C: Negotiating Professional Identities Through the Lense of Race and Ethnicity
Location: Bronfman 410
11:30
Alexandra Kalev (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Noah Lewin Epastein (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Joshua Guetzkow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Erez Marantz (New York University, USA)
Market-Driven Diversity: The Case of Arab-Israelis Pharmacists in the Jewish Labor Market ( abstract )
12:00
Kelly Thomson (York University, Canada)
Joanne Jones (York University, Canada)
You Belong Here? How professionals in “strange bodies” negotiate position in the “global” accounting profession ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 3D: The Economic Consequences of Closeness
Location: Bronfman 210
11:30
Laura Doering (McGill University, Canada)
Chris Liu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Entrepreneurs in the Making: The Causal Effect of Micro-Geography on New Business Formation ( abstract )
12:00
Brandy Aven (Tepper School of Business, CMU, USA)
Lily Morse (Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University, USA)
Alessandro Iorio (Tepper School of Business, CMU, USA)
Honest Mistakes? Uncovering the effects of the Auditor-Client Relationship on Errors in Audits ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 3E: Narratives and Practices Around Debt
Location: Bronfman 179
11:30
Steven Lopez (The Ohio State University, USA)
Corey Pech (The Ohio State University, USA)
Busted: Debt and Working-Class Unemployment ( abstract )
12:00
Charlie Eaton (Stanford Graduate School of Education, USA)
Debt by Design: How a Slow Motion Fiscal Crisis Led to a New Dependency on Student Loans ( abstract )
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:00 Session 4A: Diversity & Homophily in Work Organizations
Location: Bronfman 410
14:00
Apoorva Ghosh (University of California-Irvine, USA)
Mary Bernstein (University of Connecticut, USA)
Workplace Incivility and Gendered Institutions ( abstract )
14:30
Santiago Campero (HEC Montreal, Canada)
Olenka Kacperczyk (London Business School, UK)
Like Attracts Like? Revisiting Demographic Homophily in Entrepreneurship ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 4B: Emotional Work and Payment in Professional Services
Location: Bronfman 620
14:00
Eliza Benites Gambirazio (University of Arizona and CREDA/IHEAL, USA)
Selling a house: The social and moral work on value in residential sales ( abstract )
14:30
Daniel Fridman (University of Texas - Austin, USA)
Psychologists and Money: the Payment for Psychotherapy in Argentina ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 4C: Workplace Finance
Location: Bronfman 245
14:00
Angelina Grigoryeva (Princeton University, USA)
Company Compensation Structures and Employees’ Financial Risk-Taking ( abstract )
14:30
Yally Avrahampour (Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK)
Towards a financial sociology: Explaining the rise and transformation of UK occupational pension funds (1948-1960) ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 4D: Networks: What Are They Good For?
Location: Bronfman 210
14:00
Steve McDonald (North Carolina State University, USA)
Vincent Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Elena Obukhova (McGill University, Canada)
Joonmo Son (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Of Markets and Networks: Chinese Marketization and Job Lead Receipt ( abstract )
14:30
Mark Suchman (Brown University, USA)
Meghan Kallman (Brown University, USA)
Net Negatives: Transcending Pro-Network Bias in Organizational Analysis ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 4E: Language and Organizational Performance
Location: Bronfman 179
14:00
Pedro Aceves (University of Chicago, USA)
The Effect of Language Structure on Group Performance ( abstract )
14:30
Matthew Corritore (Stanford University, USA)
Amir Goldberg (Stanford University, USA)
Sameer Srivastava (UC Berkeley, USA)
What Difference Does Difference Make? A Language-Based Model of Cultural Heterogeneity and Firm Performance ( abstract )
15:15-16:16 Session 5A: Recruitment and Management of the Workforce
Location: Bronfman 245
15:15
Roberto Fernandez (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
Brian Rubineau (Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University, Canada)
Network Recruitment and the Glass Ceiling in Biotech ( abstract )
15:45
Valery Yakubovich (ESSEC Business School, France)
Roman Galperin (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Mouna El Mansouri (ESSEC Business School, France)
Flexibility, Insecurity, and Employment with Dynamic Commitment in a Virtual Call Center ( abstract )
15:15-16:15 Session 5B: What Affects Wages and Wage Inequality
Location: Bronfman 620
15:15
Nathan Wilmers (Harvard University, USA)
Wage Stagnation and Economic Governance: How Buyer-Supplier Relations Affect U.S. Workers’ Wages, 1978-2014 ( abstract )
15:45
Tom Vanheuvelen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Unionization, Wage Inequality, and the Moral Economy: A Longitudinal Reassessment ( abstract )
15:15-16:15 Session 5C: Professional and Organizational Ethics
Location: Bronfman 410
15:15
Kartikeya Bajpai (Northwestern University, USA)
Klaus Weber (Northwestern University, USA)
Explaining Occupational Variation: Privacy Officers in the United States, France and Canada ( abstract )
15:45
Sarah Babb (Boston College, USA)
Not Your Grandfather's IRB: Institutional Logics and the Decline of Amateur Ethics Review ( abstract )
15:15-16:15 Session 5D: Organizational Fields
Location: Bronfman 210
15:15
Aaron Horvath (Stanford University, Department of Sociology, USA)
Christof Brandtner (Stanford University, Department of Sociology, USA)
Walter W. Powell (Stanford University, Graduate School of Education, USA)
Serve or Conserve: Mission, strategy, and multilevel nonprofit change during the Great Recession ( abstract )
15:45
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Dustin Avent-Holt (Agusta State University, USA)
Producing Organizational Resources ( abstract )
15:15-16:15 Session 5E: Cultural Barriers and Contestation in Market Emergence
Location: Bronfman 179
15:15
Edward Walker (UCLA, USA)
Ion Bogdan Vasi (University of Iowa, USA)
The Situation Room: Stigma Management and the Claims-Making of Contested Industry Groups ( abstract )
15:45
John Park (Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA)
Anand Swaminathan (Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA)
Religious Denominations and the Institutional Legacy of Prohibition: Evidence from the US Brewing Industry ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6A: Who creates markets and why? (Mentor: Mike Sauder, University of Iowa)
Location: Bronfman 620
16:30
Tim Rosenkranz (The New School for Social Research, USA)
Processing the Nation: Organization and Contingencies of National Destination Marketing ( abstract )
17:00
Brandon Folse (University of Oregon, USA)
Arafaat Valiani (University of Oregon, USA)
Legitimating Chinese Birth Markets in the United States Through Quasi Metrics ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6B: State in the Economy (Mentor: Heather Haveman, University of California, Berkeley)
Location: Bronfman 410
16:30
Tina Lee (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Contracts, Collusion, and Public Misconduct: Private-Public Coordination in the Chinese Economy ( abstract )
17:00
Ningzi Li (Cornell University, USA)
Political and Non-Political Connections in Pricing China's Emerging Corporate Bonds ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6C: Institutional Change (Mentor: Robert David, McGill U.)
Location: Bronfman 210
16:30
Chris Rea (UCLA, USA)
The Nature of Regulation: Environmental Protection and Institutional Innovation in the United States and Germany ( abstract )
17:00
Yuhao Zhuang (University of Chicago, USA)
Spatial Considerateness: The Ecology of Micro-Institutional Change in Organizations ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6D: Workplace practices: Trust, Cooperation, Control (Mentor: Joseph Broschak, U. of Arizona)
Location: Bronfman 179
16:30
Brittany Bond (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
Dilemmas of Embeddedness: Structured Management Practices and Performance Management ( abstract )
17:00
Jillian Chown (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA)
Negotiating change in professional organizations ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6E: Precarious work (Mentor: Michel Anteby, Boston U.)
Location: Bronfman 178
16:30
Jina Mao (Skidmore College, USA)
Yongqiang Xue (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Career Contingencies and Perspectives of Work in McJobs: A Case Study of Fast Food Work ( abstract )
17:00
Shelly Steward (UC Berkeley Dpt of Sociology, USA)
Making Sense of Precarious Work in Flexible Capitalism: A Comparison of Oil and Tech ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6F: Careers and intra-organizational inequality (Mentor: Emilio Castilla, MIT)
Location: Bronfman 422
16:30
Sue H. Moon (Long Island University, USA)
H. Colleen Stuart (Johns Hopkin University, USA)
Golden Escalator: Work-Linked Marital Status, Gender, & Career Progression ( abstract )
17:00
Evelyn Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Adina Sterling (Stanford University, USA)
Brandy Aven (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Structural Blindness? Mobility and Performance Disruption in Organizations ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6G: Entrepreneurship and venture capital (Mentor: Olenka Kacperczyk, London Business School)
Location: Bronfman 245
16:30
Adam Hayes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Business Plans as Rational Myths ( abstract )
17:00
Demetrius Lewis (Emory Goizueta Business School, USA)
Anand Swaminathan (Emory Goizueta Business School, USA)
Network Reselection and Familiarity as an Adverse Feedback Loop ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 6H: Inequality, Meaning of Work and Employee Well-being (Mentor: Erin Kelly, MIT)
Location: Bronfman 310
16:30
Atsushi Narisada (Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada)
The Unjust Greedy Institution: When Work Outside of Work Doesn't Pay ( abstract )
17:00
Jason Budge (UW Madison, USA)
Worker Cooperatives: The Limitations of Cooperative Workplaces and the Meaning of Working Together ( abstract )