PHDBA 259S-1, MORS Colloquium, Professor Andreea Gorbatai. Cheit 320, Tuesdays from 12:30-2:00 pm (* unless otherwise noted)
| Sept. 3 | Klaus Weber Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University “Theorizing Theorization: The Case of Alternative Livestock Agriculure Theorization.” The formulation of patterned relationships among abstract categories in discourse has been portrayed as an important process in the justification, elaboration, diffusion and legitimation of controversial or novel practices. Existing research has implicitly treated theorization as the output of a linear knowledge production process, which, once completed, leads to non-discursive outcomes. We suggest that despite its importance, the concept itself has been undertheorized. We propose a more comprehensive view that distinguishes theorization as output from theorization as throughput, and explore the utility of this view for understanding knowledge creation in the new field of alternative livestock agriculture from 1980-2010. We use quantitative text analyses of a large text corpus produced by leading proponents of this field to understand the relationship between theorization practices and outcomes. Our preliminary findings suggest that the linear view of theorization may be too limiting for understanding knowledge creation around contested innovations. [PDF] |
| Sept. 10 | Leanne ten Brinke Postdoctoral Fellow Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley “The New Truth About Lies.” |
| Sept. 17 | Brayden King Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University “Matthew Effects and Status in Major League Baseball.” [PDF] |
| Sept. 24 | Kerry Kawakami York University “Intergroup Bias.” Related Readings [1] [2] |
| Oct. 1 | Paul van Lange VU University Amsterdam “Trust and Prosociality: The Psychology of Human Cooperation.” Related Readings [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] |
| Oct. 8 | Paolo Parigi Department of Sociology Stanford University |
| Oct. 15 | Barry Schwartz Swarthmore College “What Does It Mean to Be a Rational Decision Maker?” [PDF] |
| Oct. 22 | David Amodio Department of Psychology New York University “Motivated Perception as Self-Regulation: Evidence from the Brain and Behavior.” Related Readings [1] [2] [3] |
| Oct.29 | Brandy Aven Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University “Structural Complementarity: Entrepreneurial Performance of Founding Teams in Late Imperial Russia.” [PDF] |
| Nov. 5 | Huggy Rao Graduate School of Business Stanford University “Do Technology Enthusiasts Matter? Electric Auto Association Members and EV Charging Stations in California, 1995-2012*” |
| Nov. 12 | Dan McFarland Graduate School of Education Stanford University “We Just Clicked. Conversational Features of Social Bonding in Speed Dates.” |
| Nov. 19 | David Mayer Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan “Do We Want Business Leaders to be Ethical?” |
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving Break—No Colloquium |
| Dec. 3 | Matt Killingsworth Harvard University “Happiness from the Bottom Up” |
| Dec. 10 | No Colloquium |