Economic Sociology Workshop

Spring 1996

Frank Dobbin


Here is the spring schedule for the Economic Sociology Workshop. We will have five speakers, and will cosponsor a mini-conference titled Rethinking Business History with the Davis Center. Regular meetings take place on Mondays at noon, in 2-C-8 of Green Hall. The papers will be available in the Sociology mailroom about a week in advance. Please phone Donna DeFrancisco at 258-4531 if you would like a copy of any paper mailed to you. Details about the mini-conference will follow.


Monday, February 19

Peter Karnoe, Copenhagen Business School

The Social Process of Competence Building:

National Business Systems and the Development of Wind Turbine

Technology


Monday, March 4

John Meyer, Stanford University

The Impact of World Society on National States and Societies


Monday, April 1

Julian Dierkes, Princeton Sociology

The Seven Dwarfs -- Downsizing Among Corporate Officers


Saturday, April 13

Rethinking Business History

Mini-Conference, Cosponsored with the Davis Center


Monday, April 29

Helmut Anheier, Rutgers University

The Role of Movement Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Nazi Party, 1925-1930


Monday, May 13

Charles Perrow, Yale University and the Institute for Advanced Study

Wealth and Power in the Society of Organizations: the Early Years


blanche@pucc.princeton.edu February 1996