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Organization Theory
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The Multimedia Encyclopedia in Organization Theory. From Taylor to Today (2011), E. Friedberg (ed)
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The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Organization Theory

"A wonderful resource for students of organization theory at all levels..."
Christopher Marquis, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (Feb. 2012)

"Professor Erhard Friedberg has done a tremendous service to the field of organization theory with the production of this DVDROM. [...] the DVDROM adds a new level of intrigue to the dynamics of our intellectual community because the biographies and videos bring the people, perspectives and recollections to life in a way that cannot be replicated with typical summary texts. Students and professors alike will find much to love in the Encyclopedia."
Lori Rosenkopf, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsyvania (Feb. 2012)

"Erhard Friedberg’s terrific new DVD-ROM will change the way we teach organization theory to undergraduates, MBAs, and Ph.Ds. Live interviews with three generations of organization-theory rock stars (from James March to Ronald Burt), slides of pioneering workplaces, a graphic chronology of the history of management thought, cogent discourses of the leading paradigms, and hundreds of pithy summaries of innovative studies make this an engaging, dynamic resource for students and faculty alike."
Frank Dobbin, Harvard University (March 2012)


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Decision-Making (E. Friedberg, ed)
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"This collection of comments and reflections by many of the grand masters of organization theory brings the challenge of analyzing organizational decision-making to life, and turns abstract concepts into vivid human challenges. Students of public and private organizations will delight in seeing some of the leading social scientists of our times responding to the skillful inquiries of Erhard Friedberg"
Walter W. Powell, Stanford University


Series "The Living Archives of the Theory of Organizations"
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Jean-Daniel Reynaud. The Rules of Collective Action
1 film in French, subtitled in English.
Jean-Daniel Reynaud is one of the most eminent organizational theorists in France. In this film, he proposes an intensive reflexion about negotiation, conflict, rules, and regulation.


Peter Drucker. A Perceptive Man
1 film in French, subtitled in English.
Peter Drucker is known as the "guru" of management, a discipline he has more than anybody else contributed to establish.

Series "Firms in Globalization"
Films of Bernard Ganne (sociologist) and Jean-Paul Pénard. Bernard Ganne is specialist in Asian clusters.

DVD PAL (English Version)
VIETNAM /Ceramic Activities. Bat Trang, a craft village in the global economy.
2 DVD: 1 film (95') and 1 round table "Understanding the Bat Trang case (65')- Film in French and Vietnamese, subtitled in English and Chinese languages)

CHINA / Focus on China. A Feverish Beginning. The MERIAL Case
1 film + 2 bonus, (Subtitled in English and French languages)

JAPAN /Target Japan. Mission: Total Quality. The MERIAL Case
1 film + 3 bonus, English, French and Japanese Subtitles

JAPAN and CHINA / Clips ans Clicks. Starting Up in China and in Japan
1 film + 2 bonus, (Subtitled in English and French languages)

GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALIE / Going International
3 films (with subtitles in Deutsch, English, French and Italian languages)

Anthropoly
DVD PAL (France) and NTSC (Brasil) FRANCE / Belongingness. The Case of Canson and Montgolfier Paper-Mills
1 film (with subtitles in English and French languages) Reedition

BRASIL / Nice, doméstica no Brasil
A film by Armelle Giglio-JacquemotFilm (62'), (in Brasilian subtitled in French)



A pedagogical experimentation in American universities
It is not always easy to use pedagogical devices designed by others in one's own courses. This is the reason why, following a suggestion by Woody Powell, we have decided to organize a pedagogical experimentation by asking some seasoned professors of organization to use in their courses some of the audio-visual materials of our Multi-media Encyclopedia and to provide us with their feedback on this experience: what kind of use have they made of these materials, what was the reaction of the students and and in what way has this affected their teaching.
We want to thank Jerry Davis (University of Michigan), Martin Ruef (Princeton University), Frank Dobbin (Harvard University), and Heather Haveman (University of California Berkeley) for having accepted to participate in this pedagogical experimentation, and we shall report their remarks, their critique and their suggestions. The Multimedia Encyclopedia team


For Herbert A. SIMON (Nobel Prize of Economics, 1978), we perceive and therefore process information differently according to our identification with an organization or any part of it. (Excerpt of Encyclopedia. Interview directed by E. Friedberg in 1998).



Ceramic Activities. Bat Trang, a craft village in the global economySeries "Firms in Globalisation"
Bernard Ganne is a senior research fellow at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Sociologist of firms and work, he is particularly interested in industrial SMEs. In the early 2000s, as part of an European project, Bernard Ganne has observed and compared three SMEs (Italy, Germany and France) that grew internationally in Asia. This research will lead to the first dvd Going International (vol. 1).
Passionate about Asia and convinced that globalisation becomes a major issue, B. Ganne has begun a new program of observations of growing businesses in China and Japan: The company A. Raymmond, a family business in Grenoble, (Clips and Clicks vol. 2), and the subsidiaries of the Merial laboratory in China and Japan (Operation Japan. Mission: Total Quality. The Merial Case vol. 3, and Focus on China. A Feverish Beginning. The Merial Case vol. 4). In recent years, he has developed a new research program on the effects of globalisation on clusters in Asia (Vietnam and China). Ceramic Activities in Vietnam. A Craft Village in the Global Activity (vol. 5) is a documentary directed in 2008 and 2009. It looks at the craft village of Bat Trang located near Hanoi, which manufactures ceramics since centuries. But with economic openness associated with globalisation, the traditional local economy is totally transformed.
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Nice, bonne au Brésil
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"Nice, doméstica no Brasil"
A film by Armelle Giglio-Jacquemot (nominated in several festivals in France and Brazil).
The daily life of a live-in maid in a large house in Brazil. A beautiful portrait of a woman who thinks with amazing insight on her social status. (Film in Brasilian, subtitled in French)




SEPTEMBRE 2011 - PROFESSOR FRIEDBERG INTERVIEWS JOHN MEYER
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John Meyer is one of the initiators and his work one of the main sources of inspiration of the neo-institutional approach in sociology. In a series of publications all through the Seventies and the first half of the Eighties which are based on a series of empirical studies on schools and education as an institution, he proposed a theory of society in which the latter is conceptualized as an ensemble of skills, knowledge, and culture. This ensemble constitutes a matrix (the analogy with the” script” in cinema is often used) on the basis of which and out of which actors construct themselves and in which activities are inscribed.

MAY 2011 - PROFESSOR FRIEDBERG INTERVIEWS JOHN PADGETT
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John Padgett has published on the topics of organization theory, social network analysis, federal budgeting, plea bargaining, and stochastic processes. But he is best known for his path-breaking work on the Medici and Renaissance Florence. During the past 20years, he has constructed a unique relational database about social network evolution in Renaissance Florence between the years 1300-1500. This database allows him to trace empirically the co-evolution of multiple, cross-cutting social networks over time and to use this knowledge to better understand the emergence of modern markets as well as of the organizational innovations of which Renaissance Florence was the theater.

SEPTEMBER 2009 - A NEW INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR STINCHCOMBE
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University (IL)

Professor Stinchcombe’s areas of interest include law and society; science and technology; economy and society. He used quantitative methods in Rebellion in a High School and in Crime and Punishment (with co-authors); historical methods in Theoretical Methods in Social History and Economic Sociology, and field methods in the studies of organizations reported in Organization Theory and Project Management (with Carol Heimer). His last book, The Logic of Social Research, outlines how to use historical, ethnographic, quantitative, and experimental methods to develop and text causal theories in sociology and other social sciences.

AUGUST 2009 - AN INTERVIEW WITH RONALD BURT
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Ronald Burt is Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy (Chicago University)

Ronald Burt studies the social structure of competitive advantage in careers, organizations, and markets. Burt is the author of six books, two software programs, and numerous articles and chapters in academic works. His publications include Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital published by Oxford University Press in 2005; "Secondhand Brokerage: evidence on the importance of local structure for managers, bankers, and analysts," which appeared in the Academy of Management Journal in 2007; and "The Social Capital of French and American Managers," which appeared in Organization Science in 2000.

APRIL 2009 - A NEW INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MACCOBY
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SEPTEMBER 2008 - AN INTERVIEW IN STOCKHOLM (SCORE) OF OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON
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JULY 2008 - ERHARD FRIEDBERG MET MICHAEL HANNAN - STANDFORD UNIVERSITY
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More information on Michael Hannan.

OCTOBER 13, 2007 - ERHARD FRIEDBERG INTERVIEWED JOHAN P. OLSEN (OSLO)
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Johan P. Olsen is the Research Director of ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanization of the Nation State). He has held the position since the programme began in 1994.

Olsen is one of the developers with James G. March (Stanford) of the perspective of organizational decision making known as the Garbage Can Model.
He is very important in the field of new institutionalism.

JUNE 18, 2007 - A FRENCH SOCIOLOGIST OF WORK, MARC MAURICE, INTERVIEWED BY ERHARD FRIEDBERG
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JULY 2006 - ERHARD FRIEDBERG MEETS JAY LORSCH
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Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which are Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World (with Colin B. Carter, 2003), Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (with Thomas J. Tierney, 2002), and Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards (1989). Organization and Environment (with Paul R. Lawrence) won the Academy of Management's Best Management Book of the Year Award and the James A. Hamilton Book Award of the College of Hospital Administrators in 1969.

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MARK GRANOVETTER - AN INTERVIEW REALISED ON JUNE 19, 2006
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Professor Mark Granovetter is currently concentrating on three main projects. The first is a general treatment of economic sociology with the preliminary title Society and Economy: The Social Construction of Economic Institutions, to be published by Harvard University Press. The theoretical scheme that will inform the book is laid out in his 1985 American Journal of Sociology paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness".

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