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<div class="moz-forward-container">Talk next week by visiting
professor. For those interested in institutions, innovation, and
organizational theory. Plus, Woody is a very engaging speaker and
skilled researcher. <br>
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</span></b><b><span
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lang="EN-US">Walter W. Powell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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align="center"> <b><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"
lang="EN-US">(Professor of Education (and, by
courtesy) Sociology, Organizational Behavior,
Management Science and Engineering, and Communication,
Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil
Society</span></b><i><span
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lang="EN-GB">.</span></i><b><span
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align="center"> <b><span
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lang="EN-US">"The Problem of Emergence"</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p>Ort: TC.4.13<br>
Zeit: <b>Dienstag, 28. April 2015, 16:00 Uhr</b></span><b><span
style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
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zum Vortrag:</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US">The Problem of Emergence</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
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lang="EN-US">John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>The social sciences are rich
with ideas about how choice occurs among alternatives,
but have little to say about the invention of new
alternatives in the first place. John Padgett and Woody
Powell directly address the question of emergence, both
of what we choose and who we are. With the use of
sophisticated deductive models building on the concept
of autocatalysis from biochemistry and rich historical
cases studies spanning seven centuries, they develop a
novel theory of the co-evolution of social networks.
Novelty in new persons and new organizational forms
emerges from spillovers across multiple, intertwined
networks. To be sure, actors make relations; but the
mantra of this book is that in the long run relations
make actors. Through case studies of early capitalism
and state formation, communist economic reforms and
transition, and technologically advanced capitalism and
science, the authors analyze speciation in the context
of organizational novelty. Drawing on ideas from both
the physical sciences and the social sciences, and
incorporating novel computational, historical, and
network analyses, this book offers a genuinely new
approach to the question of emergence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"
lang="EN-US">The introductory chapter of the book is
attached, along with the jacket copy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span
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lang="EN-US">Walter W. Powell</span></i></b><i><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"
lang="EN-US"> is Professor of Education (and, by
courtesy) Sociology, Organizational Behavior,
Management Science and Engineering, and Communication,
Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil
Society, and was Director of the Scandinavian
Consortium for Organizational Research at Stanford
University. He has been a member of the board of
directors of the Social Science Research Council since
2000, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe
Institute since 1999. Powell works in the areas of
organization theory, economic sociology, and the
sociology of science. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span
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lang="EN-US">His 1990 article, “Neither Market Nor
Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization” won the 1991
Max Weber prize for best paper in the field of
organizations; and “Network Dynamics and Field
Evolution: The Growth of Inter-Organizational
Collaboration” with D. White, K. Koput, and J.
Owen-Smith (American Journal of Sociology, 2005),
received the 2007 Viviana Zelizer prize for best paper
in economic sociology. “Technological Change and the
Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in
Biotechnology” with K. Koput and L. Smith-Doerr
(1996), was recognized by Administrative Science
Quarterly as its most influential scholarly
publication in 2002. His 1983 paper, “The Iron Cage
Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective
Rationality in Organizational Fields” with Paul
DiMaggio, is the most cited article in the history of
the American Sociological Review. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"
lang="EN-US">Powell is the author or editor of: The
Culture and Commerce of Book Publishing, with Lewis
Coser and Charles Kadushin (Basic Books, 1982);
Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in
Scholarly Publishing (U. of Chicago Press, 1985); The
New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, with
Paul DiMaggio (U. of Chicago Press, 1991); Private
Action and the Public Good, with Elisabeth Clemens
(Yale U. Press, 1997); and The Nonprofit Sector, with
Richard Steinberg (Yale U. Press, 2006). He received
his PhD in Sociology from SUNY – Stony Brook in 1978,
and previously taught at Yale, MIT, and the University
of Arizona. He holds honorary degrees from Uppsala
University, Copenhagen Business School, and the
Helsinki School of Economics, and is a foreign member
of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.</span></i><br>
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