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Friday, November 9, 2007 - Chicago Booth Gleacher Center
TIME	EVENT	EVENT DETAILS	LOCATION
11:30-1:00	Registration	Ongoing	Gleacher Center Room 600
11:30-1:00	Lunch	Buffet	Gleacher Center 320 Lounge
1:15-1:30	Welcome & Opening Comments	Richard Leftwhich Deputy Dean for Faculty, Chicago Booth	Gleacher Center Room 600
1:30-3:05	Agents and Their Social Structure	Presenters: Matt Bothner (Chicago Booth) A Model of Robust Positions in Social Structure (PDF) Henning Hillmann (Stanford - Sociology) Entrepreneurship in Fragmented Networks: Evidence from Tsarist Russia (PDF) Victor Nee (Cornell – Sociology) Political Connections in a Market Economy (PDF) John Padgett (Chicago - Political Science) Organizational Genesis in Florentine History: Four Multiple-Network Mechanisms (PDF) Discussant: Joe Galaskiewicz (University of Arizona – Sociology)	Gleacher Center Room 600
3:05-3:15	Break
3:25-4:35	Technologies and Ideas	Presenters: James Evans (Chicago - Sociology) Industry Collaboration and Sharing in Academic Science Lee Fleming (Harvard Business School) Status Effects in Technological Communities (with Timothy Simcoe and Dave Waguespack) (PDF) Steve Kahl (Chicago Booth) Social Beliefs and Markets: The Problem of Categorization, Justification, and Innovation (PDF) Discussant: Toby Stuart (Harvard Business School)	Gleacher Center Room 600
6:30	Dinner Reception	Keynote Presentation: Neil Fligstein (Berkeley - Sociology) Organizing Technologies and the Emergence of New Social Space (PDF)	Conrad Hotel Sycamore Room (10th floor)

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - Chicago Booth Gleacher Center
TIME	EVENT	EVENT DETAILS	LOCATION
7:30-8:30	Breakfast	Buffet	Gleacher Center Room 600
8:30-9:50	Industry Emergence	Presenters: Stanislav Dobrev (Chicago Booth) The Survival Chances of New Firms in New Industries: Legitimacy Vacuum, Structural Imprinting, and the First-Mover Disadvantage (PDF) Heather Haveman (Berkeley - Sociology) Antislavery in America: The Press, the Pulpit, and the Rise of Antislavery Societies (PDF) Bruce Kogut (Columbia U Business School) Evolving Networks and Comparative Dynamics: Results from Two Research Projects (PDF) Discussant: Frank Dobbin (Harvard - Sociology)	Gleacher Center Room 600
9:50-10:00	Break
10:00-11:20	Market and Community Emergence	Presenters: Woody Powell (Stanford - Education/Sociology) Emergence and Resilience in the Life Sciences: The Effects of Public Science on Regional Agglomeration and Industry Dynamics (PDF) Gary Herrigel (Chicago - Political Science) Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany (PDF) Mario Small (Chicago - Sociology) Is Chicago an Outlier? Organizational Density in Poor Urban Neighborhoods (PDF) Discussant: Marc Ventresca (Oxford U – Saïd Business School)	Gleacher Center Room 600
11:30-1:00	Lunch	Buffet	Gleacher Center 621 Dining Room
1:00-2:20	Regimes and Institutions	Presenters: Lis Clemens (Chicago - Sociology) Shocks Happen: War, Depression, and More War in the Making of the Nonprofit Sector Sean Safford (Chicago Booth) How Allentown Got Its Groove Back: Networks, Organizations and Regional Identity Marc Schneiberg (Reed - Sociology) Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Embeddedness and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Company Form (PDF) Discussant: Jack Goldstone (GMU - Public Policy)	Gleacher Center Room 600
2:20-2:30	Break
2:30-3:50	Comparative Organizations and Markets	Presenters: Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern - Sociology) Institutional Transplants and Market Economies: How Capitalist Institutions Move Around (PDF) Ryon Lancaster (Chicago - Sociology) From Custom to Rule: The Mechanisms of Authority in the Medieval English Church (PDF) David Stark (Columbia - Sociology) Open Closure: Intercohesion and Entrepreneurial Dynamics in the Evolution of Business Groups (PDF) Discussant: Martin Ruef (Princeton - Sociology)	Gleacher Center Room 600
3:50-4:00	Closing Comments		Gleacher Center Room 600
4:00	Adjourn

This conference was generously supported by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Polsky Center, the Division of the Social Sciences, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.