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you've entered ... the skocpol zone!!!2 comments

fabiorojas wrote 3 days ago: Orgheads know that I [heart] Theda Skocpol. I [heart] her because she’s a rockin’ dean. … more →

Tags: Fabio, Political Science, Sociology

agentic organizational theory15 comments

Eric Abrahamson wrote 3 weeks ago: A hello from Eric Abrahamson, Thanks Sean for introducing me, hello everyone, and thanks all of you … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Guest Bloggers, Academia

value-neutral vs. conflict of values6 comments

fabiorojas wrote 3 weeks ago: In sociology, it’s common to talk about value-neutral research.  It’s an intuitive alter … more →

Tags: Academia, Fabio

karl popper vs. the identification people9 comments

fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: Truth be told, I think Popper would have approved of the identification effort. How could the person … more →

Tags: Fabio, mere empirics

surveying organizations can be a tricky thing3 comments

fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: Previously on orgtheory: counting organizations can be a tricky thing. The literature on surveying o … more →

Tags: Research, Fabio

writing ethnography for a wider audience1 comment

katherinekchen wrote 1 month ago: So you’re thinking about writing up your research for a wider audience.  How can you effectively com … more →

ethnography... what is it good for?11 comments

katherinekchen wrote 1 month ago: In the comments of my last post about guides for conducting ethnography, Teppo raised the question o … more →

conducting ethnographic research15 comments

katherinekchen wrote 2 months ago: In my previous posts, I’ve discussed the issues of analyzing “unusual” cases,  gai … more →

sotomayor questions the corporate actor1 comment

fabiorojas wrote 2 months ago: In her first hearing, Justice Sotomayor said something that startled a number of observers: During a … more →

Tags: Political Science, Fabio

Research, the IRB, and Risk: “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and “unknown unknowns”8 comments

katherinekchen wrote 2 months ago: Just over a decade ago, going through the IRB process seemed relatively new and simple: While in gra … more →

Tags: Research

the two social sciences20 comments

fabiorojas wrote 2 months ago: In general, there seem to be to two mindsets in the social sciences. The first I call “precisi … more →

Tags: Fabio

analyzing “unusual” cases to understand larger phenomena9 comments

katherinekchen wrote 2 months ago: Howdy, folks!  I just flew back from the annual Burning Man event located in the Nevada Black Rock D … more →

Tags: Books

azoulay bait: russian dolls and the identification movement9 comments

seansafford wrote 3 months ago: The Economist airs some inter-disciplinary dirty laundry within the identification movement.  On one … more →

Tags: Economics, mere empirics, Sean Safford

A detour through health care reform5 comments

Pierre wrote 3 months ago: Lots of good stuff in the comments about my post on the identification movement. I’ll take tha … more →

Tags: Sociology, Economics, Academia, mere empirics

why the identification movement?6 comments

Pierre wrote 3 months ago: I made three claims in my previous posts. First that economists were, as a group, much less wedded t … more →

Tags: Sociology, Economics, Academia, mere empirics

two empirical cultures?9 comments

Pierre wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Sean for inviting me to contribute to orgtheory, a blog I read avidly. I am indeed an appl … more →

Tags: Sociology, Economics, Academia, mere empirics

books are still awesome3 comments

fabiorojas wrote 4 months ago: While driving around Indiana one day, I heard Glenn Beck get into an argument with a guest on his ra … more →

Tags: Books, Fabio

what can performativity do for you?15 comments

Fabrizio Ferraro wrote 5 months ago: Hello Orgtheorists! I am new to blogging but I have been enjoying this blog for a while so I am real … more →

Tags: Sociology, Economics, Philosophy, performativity, Economic Sociology, Organization Theory

performativity: the future of economic sociology?25 comments

Teppo wrote 5 months ago: The performativity literature has been getting lots of attention in organization theory and economic … more →

Tags: Sociology, Economics, Philosophy


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