Plenary SessionsProgram

Featured Speakers

** All featured speakers will give their talks at PolytecnicalMuseum: Grand Conference Hall** ¾ Novaya Ploshchad’, entrance № 9

Conference Openning
Thursday, 25 October
15-30 – 16-00
Polytechnical Museum, Grand Conference Hall / Welcome to Moscow
Vadim Radaev, Higher School of Economics
Plenary session 1. / Capitalist Development and Institutional Change
16-00 – 18-00
Polytechnical Museum, Grand Conference Hall / Chair: Victor Nee (CornellUniversity)
Glenn Morgan (UniversityofCardiff)
Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century
Frank Dobbin (Harvard University)
The Fund-Manager-Value Revolution: How Institutional Investors Rewrote Shareholder Value
Friday, 26 October
Plenary session 2. / Power of Networks
15-30 – 17-30
PolytechnicMuseum, Grand Conference Hall / Chair: Valery Yakubovich (ESSECBusinessSchool,Paris)
Roberto Fernandez (MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology)
The Power of Networks in Labor Markets
Brian Uzzi (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Collective Wisdom and Embeddedness: Decoding Stock Traders' Social and Instant Message Networks
Saturday, 27 October
Plenary session 3. / Culture and Valuation
15-30 – 17-30
Polytechnical Museum, Grand Conference Hall / Chair:Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Marion Fourcade (UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley& Sciences Po, Paris)
The Economy as Morality Play
Laurent Thevénot (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Shifting Modes and Loci of (E)valuation: A Transcultural Critical Perspective
Sunday, 28 October
Plenary session 4. / Knowledge, Technology, and Markets
15-30 – 17-30
Polytechnical Museum, Grand Conference Hall / Chair: Nicole Biggart, University of California, Davis
Karin Knorr (UniversityofChicago)
What is a Financial Market? Architecture and Sociology
David Stark (ColumbiaUniversity)
Peripheral Vision: Cognitive Networks in Financial Markets
Conference Closure

Featured Speakers

Frank Dobbin is Professor of Department of Sociology at HarvardUniversity. He received his B.A. from OberlinCollege in 1980 and his Ph.D. from StanfordUniversity in 1987.Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy. He is the author of Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age(1994), The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy(2008), Inventing Equal Opportunity(2009), Stanford’s Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970–2000(2010).

Roberto Fernandez is the William F. Pounds Professor in Managementand Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management Fernandez. He currently serves as the co-director of the Economic Sociology PhD. His research focuses on the areas of organizations, social networks, and race and gender stratification. He is the co-author of Gendering the Job: Networks and Recruitment at a Call Center (ASJ, 2005), Networks, Race and Hiring (ASR, 2006) and the author of Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence From a Plant Retooling (AJS, 2001), Creating Connections For the Disadvantaged: Networks and Labor Market Intermediaries at the Hiring Interface (2010) and From Metaphors to Mechanisms: Gender Sorting In(to) an Organizational Hierarchy ( 2010).

Marion Fourcade isAssociate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley(on leave 2012–2013) and currently co-director of theMax Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societiesand professor of sociology at Sciences Po, Paris.A comparative sociologist by training and taste, she is interested in variations in economic and political knowledge and practice across nations. She is the author of Economists and Societies(2009) that explores the distinctive character of the discipline and profession of economics in three countries.

Karin Knorr is the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is interested in financial markets, knowledge and information, as well as in globalization, theory and culture. Her current projects include a book on global foreign exchange markets and on post-social knowledge societies. She is the author of The Manufacture of Knowledge — An Essay on the Constructivist and contextual Nature of Science (1981), Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999) and Maverick Markets. The Virtual Societies of Global Financial Markets (2011).

Glenn Morgan is Professor of International Management at CardiffBusinessSchool, CardiffUniversity. He is interested in comparative management and the impact of globalization, multinationals, institutional change, institutions and markets, particularly the regulation of financial markets. He is the co-editor of Changing Capitalisms? Institutional Change and Systems of economic organization (2005),Images of the Multinational Firm(2009), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (2010) and the author of Power and Legitimacy in Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Default Swaps (SER, 2010).

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at ColumbiaUniversity where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. His areas of interest are economic sociology, sociology of innovation, democratization and organizational change in Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Some of his publications include: Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism (AJS, 1996), Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firm (2001), Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2004), Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups (AJS, 2010),the most recent book is The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (2009).

Laurent Thévenotis Research Director at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Écoledeshautesétudesensciencessociales, EHESS). He co-authored, withLuc Boltanski, of On Justification. The Economies of Worth (2006), which analyzes the most legitimate repertoires of evaluation governing political, economic and social relationships. More recently, Laurent Thévenot developed collaborative and comparative research (in Western and Eastern cultures) on the political and moral grammars of making things and issues common, and he co-edited with Michèle LamontRethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (2000).

Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Distinguished chair in leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, NorthwesternUniversity. He also co-directsNICO, the Northwestern Institute in Complex systems and holds professorships in Sociology and in the McCormick School of Engineering. Brian’s award winning and highly cited research uses social network analysis and complexity theory to model creativity, change, and outstanding human achievement in banking, law, science, and the arts. His research is multidisciplinary and his work has appeared in numerous journals. He is the author of The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect (ASR, 1996), Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness (ASQ, 1997), Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Finance (ASR, 1999), and the co-author of Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market (ASR, 2004), Strong Contributors to Network Persistence are the Most Vulnerable to Extinction (Nature, 2011).