Joint Princeton-Northwestern Junior Scholars' Workshop April 11 - 14, 2002

Young Scholars' Workshop on Embedded Enterprise in Comparative Perspective

Organizers

Julian Dierkes is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Princeton and the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Fellow at the Japan Centre, University of Cambridge. His dissertation, Teaching National Identity - Portrayals of the Nation in History Education in Postwar Germany and Japan, analyzes the institutional framework of decision-making in educational policy and the consequences of this framework in terms of the substantive orientations of portrayals of the nation in history education. In addition, he has been working on a project examining changes in the structure of large US corporations over time together with Frank Dobbin, Man-shan Kwok, Dirk Zorn. In 2000, Julian co-organized a graduate workshop on "National Identity and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective".

Kathryn Ibata-Arens received her doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University in June 2001. Her dissertation, supported in part by a Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, The Politics of Innovation: High Technology Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Japan, analyzes successful firm-level innovative and competitive strategies in the context of local, regional and national policies and concomitant institutional barriers. Ibata-Arens is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Comparative and International Studies at Northwestern, where she is working on post-doctoral research on the politics of the embedded enterprise. Ibata-Arens is concurrently a Fellow in the Alfred P. Sloan/Social Science Research Council Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution.

Dirk Zorn is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Princeton. In his dissertation, he examines the origins and consequences of the shareholder value movement among large German corporations. Together with Frank Dobbin, Man-shan Kwok and Julian Dierkes, he also works on a major study of the shifts in the organizational structures of American Fortune 500 companies in the last 3 decades. He holds a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Society of Fellows. In addition, he received a research grant and is a fellow in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/Social Science Research Council's Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution.