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Some papers, links, concepts, that were mentioned in our discussions include...
Some papers, links, concepts, that were mentioned in our discussions include...


=== Visit from Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Tuesday July, 9th) ===
=== Visit from Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Tuesday July 9) ===


* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3230377 From Doctrine to Safeguards in American Constitutional Democracy] - Forthcoming UCLA Law Review paper by Cuéllar that we "might be interested in their picks up on some of yesterday’s themes."
* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3230377 From Doctrine to Safeguards in American Constitutional Democracy] - Forthcoming UCLA Law Review paper by Cuéllar that we "might be interested in their picks up on some of yesterday’s themes."
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* [https://ourpublicservice.org/ Partnership for Public Service] is the non-profit organization arguing for increased civil service that Cuéllar thought did not do enough to emphasize the benefits that come from political appointments coming in
* [https://ourpublicservice.org/ Partnership for Public Service] is the non-profit organization arguing for increased civil service that Cuéllar thought did not do enough to emphasize the benefits that come from political appointments coming in


=== Bob's Round 2 (Wednesday July, 10th) ===
=== Bob's Round 2 (Wednesday July 10) ===


* [https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Future-Organizational-Behavior-Processes/dp/0324055757 Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes] — OB book with the "three lenses:" (1) organizations as machines' (2) organizations as politics; and (3) organizations as culture
* [https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Future-Organizational-Behavior-Processes/dp/0324055757 Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes] — OB book with the "three lenses:" (1) organizations as machines' (2) organizations as politics; and (3) organizations as culture


=== Organizational Ethnography (Thursday July 11th) ===
=== Organizational Ethnography (Thursday July 11) ===


Things that came up:
Things that came up:
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* [Down and Out in the New Economy]: Ethnography of how job seekers look for work and "self brand" as businesses in the new economy
* [Down and Out in the New Economy]: Ethnography of how job seekers look for work and "self brand" as businesses in the new economy


=== Rethinking Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Thursday July 11th) ===
=== Rethinking Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Thursday July 11) ===


* Examples of the "[https://medium.com/swlh/the-very-best-company-culture-decks-on-the-web-5a3de60c0bb9 the very best company culture decks]"
* Examples of the "[https://medium.com/swlh/the-very-best-company-culture-decks-on-the-web-5a3de60c0bb9 the very best company culture decks]"
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[[File:Climbing mount fuji.jpg|thumb|375px|Climbing Mount Fuji. If you get confused on what to do next, just head on up! When you can't do it any more, you must be on the top of Mount Fuji!]]
[[File:Climbing mount fuji.jpg|thumb|375px|Climbing Mount Fuji. If you get confused on what to do next, just head on up! When you can't do it any more, you must be on the top of Mount Fuji!]]


=== Sara Singer Debrief (Friday July 12th) ===
=== Sara Singer Debrief (Friday July 12) ===


* [https://medium.com/@cmpbl/why-one-startup-turned-away-from-medical-record-portability-9a8cacf49794 A Medium article about medical data portability startups including [https://www.ciitizen.com/ Ciitizen] (the startup that [[User:JohnA]] mentioned) and [https://citizenhealth.io/ Citizen Health] (a different startup doing the same thing!).
* [https://medium.com/@cmpbl/why-one-startup-turned-away-from-medical-record-portability-9a8cacf49794 A Medium article about medical data portability startups including [https://www.ciitizen.com/ Ciitizen] (the startup that [[User:JohnA]] mentioned) and [https://citizenhealth.io/ Citizen Health] (a different startup doing the same thing!).


'''Papers about Emotions (Friday July 12th)''':
'''Papers about Emotions (Friday July 12)''':


* Sigal Barsade, [https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&context=mgmt_papers Emotional Contagion]
* Sigal Barsade, [https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&context=mgmt_papers Emotional Contagion]
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* Mandy O'Neil, [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0001839214538636 Creating Emotional Cultures]
* Mandy O'Neil, [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0001839214538636 Creating Emotional Cultures]


=== Bob on Culture (Friday July 12th) ===
=== Bob on Culture (Friday July 12) ===


* Amy Edmondson's done a bunch of work on psychological safety. Places to start might include:
* Amy Edmondson's done a bunch of work on psychological safety. Places to start might include:
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* Tost 2011: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41318091.pdf An Integrative Model of Legitimacy Judgements.] Review of social psych on legitimacy and development of an integrated process model of how legitimacy cognitive judgments work.
* Tost 2011: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41318091.pdf An Integrative Model of Legitimacy Judgements.] Review of social psych on legitimacy and development of an integrated process model of how legitimacy cognitive judgments work.


=== Morning Session/Stealing Sessions (Monday July 15) ===
=== Maria Guadalupe Session #1 (Monday July 15) ===
=== Maria Guadalupe Session #1 (Monday July 15) ===


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* Brendan Nyhan and Jacob M. Montgomery's 2015 paper on “[https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12143 Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections]” in the American Journal of Political Science.
* Brendan Nyhan and Jacob M. Montgomery's 2015 paper on “[https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12143 Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections]” in the American Journal of Political Science.


=== Reflections on the Guests (Thursday July 18) ===
=== Morning Recap (Thursday July 18) ===
* Donald Mackenzie's "[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M3x5tvAwzrQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=mckinzie+black+scholes+an+engine+not+a+camera&ots=nU8aNXwtSK&sig=BW7D-Pq6oQuZTGhdWdX_MygZ5rg#v=onepage&q=mckinzie%20black%20scholes%20an%20engine%20not%20a%20camera&f=false An Engine Not a Camera]" performativity and how models shape markets
* Brubaker and Cooper "[https://https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3108478.pdf Beyond Identity]" (paper attempt to "clean up the house" within the discussion of identity within sociology mentioned by [[User:Clarkest]])


=== Morning Recap (Thursday July 18) ===
=== Adam Reich Session 1/2 (Thursday July 18) ===
* Donald Mackenzie's [https:https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M3x5tvAwzrQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=mckinzie+black+scholes+an+engine+not+a+camera&ots=nU8aNXwtSK&sig=BW7D-Pq6oQuZTGhdWdX_MygZ5rg#v=onepage&q=mckinzie%20black%20scholes%20an%20engine%20not%20a%20camera&f=false An Engine Not a Camera] performativity and how models shape markets
 
* [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10938.html Private Government How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)] by Elizabeth Anderson
* [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/048661347400600206 WHAT DO BOSSES DO?: The Origins and Functions of Capitalist Hierarchy Production] by Stephen A. Marglin
* [https://www.amazon.com/Labor-Monopoly-Capital-Degradation-Twentieth/dp/0853459401 Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century] by Harry Braverman
*Dev's comment on [https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10887-007-9017-z.pdf precolonial state centralization]
* [http://sgpwe.izt.uam.mx/pages/egt/Cursos/SeminarioTNC/SmileFactory.pdf THE SMILE FACTORY: WORK AT DISNEYLAND] by John Van Manaan
*Hoschild on emotional labor [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=whi61UWpoJ4C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=arlie+hochschild+the+managed+heart&ots=A8x9iP22jv&sig=gE-1-Resfr9p0vf5IeB7gE9mWFs#v=onepage&q=arlie%20hochschild%20the%20managed%20heart&f=false Managed Heart]
 
=== Adam Reich Session 2/2 (Friday July 19) ===
 
* On the hack -- "high-stakes battle between Uber executives and drivers in California": https://www.vox.com/2019/6/18/18682002/uber-lyft-drivers-california-ab5-bill
* Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star's [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sorting-things-out Sorting Things Out: Classification and It's Consequences]
* Evgeny Morozov's [https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov Capitalism’s New Clothes], a Baffler review of Shoshana Zuboff's book [https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/285355?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other] by Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker
* Harvard Business Review on shutting down Uber: [https://hbr.org/2017/06/uber-cant-be-fixed-its-time-for-regulators-to-shut-it-down Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down] by Benjamin Edelman
 
=== Fred Turner (Thursday July 18) ===
 
* [https://soundcloud.com/rawdatapodcast/sets/raw-data-season-3 Fred Turner on the Raw Data podcaston Soundcloud]
 
=== Stealing (Friday July 19) ===
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_distinctiveness_theory Optimal distinctiveness theory]


== Ideas for things to talk about ==
== Ideas for things to talk about ==
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** State Capacities
** State Capacities
** Theorizing about location
** Theorizing about location
* Friday 12:10-12:40 Centralized-decentralization, emergent coordination, and materialized coordination
* Friday 12:40-1:15 Centralized-decentralization, emergent coordination, and materialized coordination (so we have time to visit Adam too)


=== Further Ideas ===
=== Further Ideas for Friday discussion ===
* How to ask good questions that open a conversation
* That a theory may change but social mechansims stay the same
* Woody and Bob's intellectual journey as scholars (e..g, how do you refine you ideas about networks; how do navigating going in w/ an idea in your head, modifying it over time)
* Woody and Bob's intellectual journey as scholars (e..g, how do you refine you ideas about networks; how do navigating going in w/ an idea in your head, modifying it over time)
* Our biggest research "failure"
* Our biggest research "failure"
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Round 3:
Round 3:


* <span style="color: magenta;">'''Pink'''</span>: Building an equilibrium
* <span style="color: magenta;">'''Magenta'''</span>: Building an equilibrium

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Previous sessions[edit]

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Papers and Links[edit]

Some papers, links, concepts, that were mentioned in our discussions include...

Visit from Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Tuesday July 9)[edit]

Other potentially useful links:

Bob's Round 2 (Wednesday July 10)[edit]

Organizational Ethnography (Thursday July 11)[edit]

Things that came up:

Rethinking Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Thursday July 11)[edit]

Climbing Mount Fuji. If you get confused on what to do next, just head on up! When you can't do it any more, you must be on the top of Mount Fuji!

Sara Singer Debrief (Friday July 12)[edit]

Papers about Emotions (Friday July 12):

Bob on Culture (Friday July 12)[edit]

Legitimacy (Friday July 12)[edit]

  • Johnson et al. 2006: Legitimacy as a Social Process. Review of (mostly) the Soc literature on legitimacy up to 2006.
  • Subbady et al. 2017: Legitimacy. Review of a broader swath of organizations work on legitimacy and the development of a useful meta-theoretical framework.
  • Tost 2011: An Integrative Model of Legitimacy Judgements. Review of social psych on legitimacy and development of an integrated process model of how legitimacy cognitive judgments work.

Maria Guadalupe Session #1 (Monday July 15)[edit]

Maria Guadalupe Session #2 (Tuesday July 16)[edit]

Hahrie Han #1 (Tuesday July 16)[edit]

Hahrie Han #2 (Wednesday July 17)[edit]

Morning Recap (Thursday July 18)[edit]

Adam Reich Session 1/2 (Thursday July 18)[edit]

Adam Reich Session 2/2 (Friday July 19)[edit]

Fred Turner (Thursday July 18)[edit]

Stealing (Friday July 19)[edit]

Ideas for things to talk about[edit]

Scheduled Lunch Discussions in Week 2[edit]

  • Monday 12:10ish-1:10 How should we conceptualize organizational "openness"?
  • Tuesday 12:40-1:15 Stigmergy🐜🐜🐜 and autocatalysis
  • Thursday: Two sessions:
    • State Capacities
    • Theorizing about location
  • Friday 12:40-1:15 Centralized-decentralization, emergent coordination, and materialized coordination (so we have time to visit Adam too)

Further Ideas for Friday discussion[edit]

  • How to ask good questions that open a conversation
  • That a theory may change but social mechansims stay the same
  • Woody and Bob's intellectual journey as scholars (e..g, how do you refine you ideas about networks; how do navigating going in w/ an idea in your head, modifying it over time)
  • Our biggest research "failure"
  • Under what conditions might delegation work? In absence of resources, in high stress, etc.?
  • Emotions and/in organizations (see links above)
  • Technology & organizations

Questions and Answers[edit]

If you have a question, add one below. If you've got an answer to a question that's been asked, you should add it too!

What's the Weberian bureaucracy?[edit]

There's a section on the section on Weber's theory in the Wikipedia article about bureaucracy. According to that summary, key features include:

  • hierarchical organization
  • formal lines of authority (chain of command)
  • fixed area of activity
  • rigid division of labor
  • regular and continuous execution of assigned tasks
  • all decisions and powers specified and restricted by regulations
  • officials with expert training in their fields
  • career advancement dependent on technical qualifications
  • qualifications evaluated by organizational rules, not individuals

Autocatalysis, stigmergy, and multiple-networks, oh my![edit]

Jon, Clark, and Bob had a brief conversation trying to unpack the autocatalysis argument and draw on Jon's expertise with modeling autocatalytic cycles. Clark's thrown together a strawman sketch of his understanding of the argument for correction, critique, and additional questions.

How are people OK with the IP transfer issue in an NASA-style open innovation?[edit]

This Innocentive FAQ provides the firms answers. Here's an interview with the CEO of Innocentive that discusses this in some depth. There's a great HBS case by Karim Lakhani that goes into quite a lot of detail on this.

Key for colors in Bob's slides[edit]

Round 1 (SpPs/UpPs):

  • Orange: Unsolved political problems (UpPs) — invisible hand not working
  • Purple: "there is a boss"; e.g., firms, formal organizations
  • Green: organized (but not an organization) — communities, etc.
  • Black (sometimes): Solved political Problems (SpP) — solved by a market

Round 2 (formal/informal governance):

  • Blue: formal governance instruments (contracts, algorithms)
  • Red: informal governance
  • Grey: shared understanding (→culture)`

Round 3:

  • Magenta: Building an equilibrium