Administrivia
Professor AnnaLee Saxenian
Email: anno@sims.berkeley.edu
Course Information
Course Dates: January 24 to May 9, 2005
Lecture Schedule: Monday 10:00am-1:00pm in 107 South Hall
Units: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Work
January 31 : Monday
Information and Organizations: Classics
Required Readings
""Of the division of labour" and other excerpts from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith [Reader, Chapter 1]
The Economic Nature of the Firm, Louis Putterman, ed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,UK (1986)
"The use of knowledge in society" Frederich Hayek [Reader, 519-530]
American Economic Review 35 (1945)
"The nature of the firm" Ronald Coase [Reader, 386-405]
Economica 4 (1937)
"The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing" Clifford Geertz [Reader, 29-32]
Supplement to the American Economic Review Vol 68, No 2 (May 1978)
February 7 : Monday
Information and Organizations: Historical Perspective
Required Readings
"The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism" Alfred Chandler [Reader, 131-158]
The Sociology of Economic Life, Granovetter and Swedberg, eds. Westview Press: Boulder, CO (1992)
"Information Technology and Organizational Change in the British Census, 1801-1911" Martin Cambell-Kelly [Reader, 35-58]
Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric, and Practice, Joanne Yates and John Van Maanen, eds. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA (2001)
"Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era" Gina Neff and David Stark [Reader, 173-188]
Society Online: The Internet in Context, Howard and Jones, eds. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA (2003)
"The Role of Information Technology in the Transformation of Work: A Comparison of Post-Industrial, Industrial, and Proto-Industrial Organization" Susan J. Winter and S. Lynn Taylor [Reader, 7-33]
Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric, and Practice, Joanne Yates and John Van Maanen, eds. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA (2001)
February 14 : Monday
Managing Knowledge in Organizations
Required Readings
"Managing Knowledge in Organizations: An Integrative Framework and Review of Emerging Themes" Linda Argote, B. McEvily and R. Reagans [Reader, 571-582]
Management Science 49 (2003)
"Knowledge Networks: Explaining Effective Knowledge Sharing in Multiunit Companies" T Morten and M. Hanson [Reader, 232 -248]
Organization Science 13 (2003)
"Why IT Inspired But Cannot Deliver Knowledge Management" Robert McDermott [Reader]
California Management Review (July 1999)
February 28 : Monday
Required Readings
Chapter 1, 2, 4 & 5 [Reader]
Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, eds. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK (1991)
"The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations" Marcie J. Tyre and Eric von Hippel [Reader, 71-83]
Organization Science Vol. 8, No.1 (Jan-Feb 1997)
"Organizational Learning" Barbara Levitt and James March [Reader, 319-240]
American Review of Sociology 14 (1988)
"Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams" Samer Faraj and Lee Sproull [Reader, 1554-1568]
Management Science Vol 46, No 12 (2000)
March 7 : Monday
Information and the Organization of Production
Required Readings
"Managing Innovation on the Factory Floor" Marcie J. Tyre [Reader, 59-65]
Technology Review (October 1991)
Chapters 1 & 4 [Reader]
The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota, Takahiro Fujimoto. Oxford University Press: New York (1999)
"Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks" Karl E. Weick and Karlene H. Roberts. [Reader, 357-381]
Administrative Science Quarterly 38 (1993)
"The Self-Designing High Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight Operations at Sea" Gene I. Rochlin, Todd R. LaPorte and Karlene H. Roberts [Reader]
Naval War College Review (Summer 1998)
March 14 : Monday
Small Worlds and Social Networks
Required Readings
"Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness" Marc Granovetter [Reader, 481-510]
American Journal of Sociology 19 (1985)
"Bandwidth and Echo: Trust, Information, and Gossip in Social Networks" Ronald S. Burt [Reader, Chapter 2]
Networks and Markets, James Rauch and Alessandra Casella, eds. Rusell Sage Foundation: New York (2001)
"Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration" Rob Cross, Stephen Borgatti and Andrew Parker [Reader, 25-46]
California Management Review Vol 44, No 2 (Winter 2002)
"Face-to-Face: Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action" Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles [Reader, 288-308]
Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action, Nitin Nohria and Robert G. Eccles, eds. Harvard Business School Press: Cambridge, MA (1992)
March 28 : Monday
New Business Models: Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Required Readings
"Entrepreneurship as Innovation" Joseph Schumpeter [Reader]
Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View,, R. Swedberg, ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford UK (2000)
Chapters 1-3 [Reader]
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, AnnaLee Saxenian. Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA (1994)
Introduction, Chapters 10 & 11 [Reader]
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen. Harper Business: New York (2000)
Chapter 1 [Reader]
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Henry Chesbrough. Harvard Business School Press: Cambridge, MA (2003)
April 4 : Monday
New Business Models: Redefining Firm Boundaries
Required Readings
"Managing in an Age of Modularity" Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark [Reader, 84-93]
"Pragmatic Collaborations: Advancing Knowledge While Controlling Opportunism" Susan Helper, John Paul MacDuffie and Charles Sabel [Reader, 443-489]
Industrial and Corporate Change Vol 9, No 3 (2000)
"Fractal Design: Self-Organizing Links in Supply Chain Management" Toshihiro Nishiguchi and Alexandre Beaudet [Reader, 199-230]
Knowledge Creation: A Source of Value, G. von Krogh and et. al., eds. St. Martin’s Press: New York (2000)
"Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology" Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput and Laurel Smith-Doerr [Reader, 116-145]
Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (1996)
April 11 : Monday
Required Readings
"The Second Toyota Paradox: How Delaying Decisions Can Make Better Cars Faster" Allen Ward, Jeffrey Lliker, John Cristiano and Durward [Reader, 43-61]
Sloan Management Review Vol 36, No. 3 (Spring 1995)
Ch. 1-3 and 8 [Reader]
Innovation: The Missing Dimension, Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore. Harvard University Press: Cambridge MA (2004)
April 18 : Monday
New Business Models: Heterarchy
Required Readings
"Tags: The Power or Labels in Shaping Markets and Organizations" John Henry Clippinger [Reader, Chapter 4]
The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise, John Henry Clippinger, ed. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA (1999)
"Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room" Daniel Beunza and David Stark [Reader, 369-400]
Industrial and Corporate Change V13, No 2 (2004)
"Distributed Intelligence and organizing diversity in new-media projects" Monique Girard and David Stark [Reader, 1927-1949]
Environment and Planning Vol 34 (2002)
April 25 : Monday
Information Systems and Globalization
Required Readings
"An Empirical Study of Global Software Development: Distance and Speed" James Herbsleb, Thomas Hinholt and Rebecca Grinter [Reader, 81-90]
IEEE (2001)
"Rapid Software Development through Team Collocation" Stephanie Teasley, Lilsa Covi, M.S. Krishnan and Judith Olsen [Reader]
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Vol 28, No. 7 (July 2002)
"Mitigating the Effects of Distance On Collaborative Intellectual Work" Gary Olson and Judith Olson [Reader, 27-42]
Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol 12 (1) (2003)
"Helping Relations Between Technology Users and Developers: A Vignette Study" Shmuel Ellis and Marcie J. Tyre [Reader, 56-69]
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Vol 48, No 1 (February 2001)
May 2 : Monday
Required Readings
"Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History" Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin [Reader]
The American Historical Review Vol 108, No 2
"The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism" Richard N. Langlois [Reader, 351-385]
Industrial and Corporate Change 12/2 (2003)
"Neither Modularity or Relational Contracting: Inter-firm Collaboration in the New Economy" Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin [Reader]
Enterprise and Society 5, 3 (Sept 2004)
May 9 : Monday
Required Readings
"Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces" Susan L. Star and Karen Ruhleder [Reader, 305-345]
Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric, and Practice, Joanne Yates and John Van Maanen, eds. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA (2001)
"Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution" Peter M. Senge and Goran Carstedt [Reader, Chapter 19]
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, Malone Laubacher and Morton, eds. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2003)
last updated on 2005-01-30 by dLH