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I co-planned the Joint Northwestern-Princeton Junior Scholars' Workshop on the Embedded Enterprise in Comparative Perspective (www.princeton.edu/~embedded) with my colleagues Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia, and Dirk Zorn, Princeton. The workshop brought together twenty-eight junior scholars and senior faculty from fields including political science, sociology and business history on the campus of Princeton University in April 2002.
This project is related thematically to the Berkeley Workshop of the Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution (www.ssrc.org/programs/corporation/). Our work on the embedded enterprise will be presented in an upcoming Special Issue of the journal Enterprise and Society.
Summary
The Joint Princeton-Northwestern Junior Scholars' Workshop, "Embedded Enterprise in Comparative Perspective", held on the campus of Princeton University from April 11-14 2002, was an unqualified success in terms of its two main goals: connecting young researchers with a common shared research interest on embedded enterprise across regions and disciplines, and providing participants with useful feedback on their research. The workshop brought together twenty doctoral candidates and junior faculty from across the United States and around the world with five senior faculty mentors from a variety of disciplines within the social sciences. The success of the workshop was based primarily on the enthusiastic participation of graduate students and faculty, as well as the careful planning of innovative session formats, and the use of electronic communication at each stage of planning and implementation. Participants were asked at the end of the workshop to complete an on-line evaluation form. The small-group sessions, which required significant advance preparation by participants, were found to be especially useful as a workshop format. A selection of the papers presented at the workshop will be published in a special issue of Enterprise & Society, the official journal of the Business History Conference. A different selection of papers will be published in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies.
For more information, please contact us at embedded@princeton.edu
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