WORKING GROUP ON FORMATION AND DECAY OF ECONOMIC NETWORKS

Concluding Meeting, July 19, 2004
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY

Agenda

8:30 am         Continental breakfast

8:55 am         Introductions and Opening Remarks

9:00 am         "Agents of Embeddedness"
                       Pierre Azoulay, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

10:00 am        Discussion

10:30 am        Break

11:00 am        "Routes into Networks: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1833"
                        Peter Bearman, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Noon               Discussion

12:30 pm         Lunch

1:30 pm           "The Devil Company: Networks and Naked Emperors"
                        Michael Macy, Department of Sociology, Cornell University

2:30 pm          Discussion

3:00 pm         Break

3:30 pm          "Effects of Hospitalists on Costs and Outcomes on a General Medicine Service: Learning by Doing and Social Network Effects"
                       David Meltzer, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago

4:30 pm         Break

5:00 pm         "The Market as Social Structure? Collaborative Relationships in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995"
                      Ezra Zuckerman, Sloan School of Management, MIT

6:00 pm         Break

7:00 pm         Dinner

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