Organizations, Culture, Modernity - a workshop with Professor Walter W. (Woody) Powell (Stanford/LSE)
September 12th 2018, 1 - 4.30 p,m London School of Economics Old Building OLD 4.10
Organizers: Monika Krause, [email protected] Michael McQuarrie, [email protected].
Session 1: 1-2 Rani Suleman (LSE): The Governance of Charities Rong A (LSE): The Battle of Defining “Environment Protection” in the Field of Chinese Environmental NGOs. Discussant: Walter W. Powell
Session 2: 2.15 - 3.15 Max Kiefel (LSE): Constructing Momentum: the mobilisation identities in the British Labour Party Alisdair Marsden (LSE) How participants in a major research project respond to accounting schedules Discussant: Walter W. Powell
Session 3: 3.30 - 4.30
Walter W. Powell in Conversation, Chair: Monika Krause
About Walter W. Powell: Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education (and) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering and Communication at Stanford University. He is also Centennial Professor of Sociology and the Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics, and Lewis A. Coser Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. His interests focus on the processes through which knowledge is transferred across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation and of institutions in codifying ideas. Powell is the author or editor of many books, including 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); and The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, with John Padgett, (Princeton University Press, 2012). His 1983 paper with Paul DiMaggio, “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.