“Cultural Persistence and Change”

Speaker:

Nathan Nunn, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Jeanne Winner
jwinner@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about Economic Development Workshop

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

10:30-11:00AM Breakfast
61 Kirkland Street

11:00AM-12:15PM Organizations and Career Processes
“When Professionals Meet the Crowd: A Study of Journalists Co-producing News with Readers”
Elena Raviola, Copenhagen Business School and University of Gothenburg.

“Why are so Many COOs Promoted to CEO?”
Yamin Xie, Hanken School of Economics.

12:15PM-12:30PM
Relocate to William James Hall, Room 1550

12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch

1:45PM-3:30PM Negotiating Roles of Societal Sectors
“Some Assumptions About the Relationship Between Higher Education, the Labor Market, Vocational Education and the Political System”
Ivar Bleiklie, University of Bergen.

“Forms of Social and Economic Value Creation and Co-evolutionary Structural Transformations”
Seija Kulkki, Aalto University.

“Decline of the Welfare State: Merging the Public and Private Sector”
Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University.

3:45PM-5:00PM Roundtable: Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States
Guro Refsum Sanden, Tiina Ritvala, Ivar Bleiklie, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg

5:00-7:00PM Dinner

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

9:30AM-10:00AM Breakfast

10:00AM-11:00AM Roundtable: Organizational Theory and Transnationalism
Samuli Patala, Elena Raviola, Antoinette Hetzler

11:15AM-1:00PM Cross-Border Coordination
“Catalyzing Institutional Work: Building a Bridge over Troubled Waters”
Tiina Ritvala, Aalto University.

“What can Foreign Policy Analysis Offer Research on National Reservations on the Use of Force (“Caveats”) in Coalition Operations?”
Gunnar Fermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

“Discretionary Power on the Front Line: A Bottom-up Perspective on Corporate Language Management”
Guro Refsum Sanden, Copenhagen Business School.

1:00PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:45PM Theorizing Institutions
“Translating New Ideas into the Field of Organizational Studies”
Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg.

“The Role of Verbal and Visual Text in the Process of Institutionalization”
Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

“Legitimacy Under Institutional Change: How Incumbents Appropriate Clean Rhetoric for Dirty Technologies”
Samuli Patala, Aalto University.

4:00PM-5:00PM Reflections on Scancor-Weatherhead
Seija Kulkki, Dennis Jancsary, Yamin Xie, Gunnar Fermann

5:00-7:00PM Dinner

NOTE: This event has been cancelled.

"Making Politics Work for Development: Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement"

Author:

Stuti Khemani, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Group.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

Moderator:

Melani Cammett, Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Discussants:

Evan Lieberman, Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science; Director of the MIT Brazil Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University.

Details:

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