Organizational Studies Info Night
OS is an interdisciplinary major based in the social sciences where students customize their own education. Enjoy a small community of...
Public Service Organizations and Institutional Pluralism: How Structural Filtering Generates Inequality in Client Service and Complicates Mission Fulfillment
Christina Ciocca Eller, Harvard University
Public service organizations (PSOs) in the United States are mission-driven entities that reflect American commitments to democratic...
How Quantification Shapes What We See in Organizations and Social Movements: Three Examples of Visibility and Invisibility
Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
In this talk I examine how quantification constructs relations of visibility: How what we attend to and ignore is mediated by numbers. The...
The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders
Maryam Kouchaki, Northwestern University
The prevailing view among scholars has been that the preference for strong leaders is an idiosyncratic feature of right-wing individuals....
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse
Rachel Wetts, Brown University
In this research, I investigate why some framings of climate change are publicized in American mainstream media while others are not,...
Windows of Opportunity: How Shareholder Activists Capitalize on Periods of Disruptive Organizational Change
Mark DesJardine, Dartmouth College
Inspired by research on the temporal nature of opportunities, we extend the idea that financially motivated shareholder activists target...
