[phd.students.socioeco] Fwd: Einladung zu einem weiteren Vortrag von Prof. Walter W. Powell

[Ann Hartell]

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.
(Sorry for the ugly formatting below!)

***Walter W. Powell*

*(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*/./*)*

*"The Problem of Emergence"***

Ort:  TC.4.13
Zeit: *Dienstag, 28. April 2015, 16:00 Uhr***

*Abstract zum Vortrag:*

*The Problem of Emergence*

John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell

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.

The introductory chapter of the book is attached, along with the jacket 
copy.

*/Walter W. Powell/*/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. /

/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. /

/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./



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