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

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Workshop Participants

Junior Scholars, Their Interests, and Paper Submissions

Name Discipline/Affiliation Region Preliminary Small Group Assignments Paper Submission (PDF) Research Abstract (PDF)
Nina Bandelj Soc, Princeton Central/Eastern Europe E
G
"Invested Transactions - Foreign Direct Investment into Central and Eastern Europe" Research Summary
Sarah Busse Soc, U Chicago Russia A
F
"Social Capital and Organizational Growth in the Russian Context" Research Summary
Kuang-chi Chang Soc, U Chicago Taiwan B
G
"The Contingent Value of Embeddedness" Research Summary
Haeng-ja Chung Anthro, UCLA Japan A
H
"Embedded Post-Coloniality: Commodification of Emotion, Sexuality, and Ethnicity among Korean Hostess Club Workers in Japan" Research Summary
Julian Dierkes Soc, Princeton Japan
Dario Gaggio Hist, Michigan Italy D
F
"The Epistemology of Craftmanship - Patterns of Style and Skill Formation in Two Italian Gold Jewelry Towns, 1900-1975" Research Summary
Vanessa Gomez Anthro, Northwestern Burkina Faso D
H
"Making Gains from Industrial Scrap. Small-Scale Production in Burkina Faso" Research Summary
Didier Guillot Org Theory, Berkeley Japan E
I
"The Permeability of Keiretsu Boundaries: Strategic Alliances in the Japanese Electronics Industry in the 1990s" Research Summary
Antoinette Handley PoliSci, Princeton Ghana, Mauritius, South Africa, Zambia E
J
"Power and Profit: The business sector and economic policymaking in developing countries" Research Summary
Kathryn Ibata-Arens PoliSci, Northwestern Japan
Yushi Inaba Management, Cambridge Japan B
I
"Managing New Local Industry Creation: A Japanese Case" Research Summary
Arang Keshavarzian PoliSci, Princeton Iran D
I
"Politics, Networks, and the Tehran Bazaar: Towards a Dynamic View of Tehran's Embedded Marketplace" Research Summary
Thibaut Kleiner Management, LSE France/Britain E
H
"Importing New Ways of Organizing Production and Labor: lessons from the French asset management industry" Research Summary
Huei-ying Kuo Soc, SUNY Binghamton East/Southeast Asia C
I
"Coordination and Competition Among Chinese Sub-Ethnic Business Networks in Inter-war Singapore, 1919-41" Research Summary
Bernard Leca Management, Lille France A
G
"Bending Embeddedness: Institutional Entrepreneurship in a Mature Industry - The French Movie Theaters Industry Example" Research Summary
Kun-Chin Lin PoliSci, Berkeley China C
J
"Institutional Constraints on State Capacity for Liberalization: Evidence from the Chinese Oil and Petrochemical Sectors" Research Summary
Dag MacLeod Soc, Johns Hopkins Mexico C
J
"Can Atomization Be Socially Constructed? Exploring the Disembedding of Mexico's Airlines" Research Summary
Francesca Odella Soc, U Trento Italy D
F
"Divided Under the Same Clock Tower? Institutions and Economic Practices in a Firms District of North East Italy" Research Summary
Kenneth Pechter Management, U Tokyo Japan B
J
"Comparative Analysis of Intersector Innovation Enterprises: The Case of University-Industry Linkage Reform in Japan and the United States" Research Summary
Ayse Saka Econ, Groningen UK/Japan B
H
"The Double Barrier to the Internalization of Work Systems: A Comparative Study of 3 Japanese Operations in the UK" Research Summary
Deniz Yukseker Soc, Johns Hopkins Turkey A
F
"'Embedding' Trust in a Transnational Trade Network: Capitalism, the Market and Socialism" Research Summary
Forrest Zhang Soc, Yale China C
G
"Embedded Industrial Production in Chinese Enterprises: Firm Performace, Workplace Power Relations, and Social Structure" Research Summary
Dirk Zorn Soc, Princeton USA

Faculty Mentors, and Their Recent Work

Name Discipline, Affiliation Preliminary Small Group Assignments Recent Work
Paul DiMaggio Soc, Princeton A * P. DiMaggio (ed.), 2001. The Twenty-First Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective (Princeton University Press).
* P. DiMaggio and H. Louch. "Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions, ." American Sociological Review 63 (1998): 619-37. 
Frank Dobbin Soc, Princeton G * F. Dobbin and T. Dowd. "The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922."(PDF) American Sociological Review 65 (2000): 635-657.
* F. Dobbin and T. Boychuk. "National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Autonomy is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the U.S., Canada, and Australia." (PDF) Organization Studies 20 (1999): 257-291.
Ron Dore Soc, LSE E
H
* R. Dore. Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism, Japan and Germany Against the Anglo-Saxons. Oxford University Press, 2000.
* R. Dore and D.H. Whittaker, eds. Social evolution, Economic development and Culture: What it means to take Japan seriously. Edward Elgar, 2001
Doug Guthrie Soc, NYU C
F
Brian Uzzi Business, Northwestern D
I
* B. Uzzi. "Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Finance." (PDF), American Sociological Review, 1999
* B. Uzzi. "Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness" (PDF), Administrative Science Quarterly, 1997.

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