Workshop Faculty
Imran Chowdhury
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Imran Chowdhury
Dr. Imran Chowdhury is the Diana Davis Spencer Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin’s International Summer and Winter University. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship, strategic management and international management, and conducts research at the intersection of business and society, encompassing domains such as social entrepreneurship and innovation, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and community-focused organizations. He was previously a faculty member at Pace University in New York City.
Chowdhury graduated from Stuyvesant High School and earned his undergraduate degree in anthropology and geography at Hunter College, where he was the recipient of an Athena Scholarship and a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. He completed graduate studies in France, obtaining a master’s degree at L’Institut européen d’administration des affaires (INSEAD), and a Ph.D. from L’École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC Business School). He serves on the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Learning & Education and is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
James Faulconbridge
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James Faulconbridge
D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World
James Faulconbridge is Professor of Transnational Management in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School, UK. His research focuses upon the way processes of globalization and financialization have transformed the professions and professional service firms, as well as the way knowledge and practice move internationally within and between professional organizations. James has published widely in journals including Environment and Planning A, The Journal of Economic Geography, Economic Geography, Organization Studies and Work, Employment and Society. He has co-authored the book The Globalization of Advertising (Routledge) and edited the book International Business Travel in the Global Economy (Ashgate).
Glenn Morgan
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Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan is Professor of Management in the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK. He has previously worked at Manchester Business School, Warwick Business School and Cardiff Business School. He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School and a number of other institutions in Europe and North America. He was President of SASE in 2014-15. His research interests lie in the areas of globalisation, financialization, institutions, multinationals, regulation and elites. As well as studies in Europe, he has written on East Asian and Latin American forms of capitalism. He has published in a wide range of journals including Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of European Public Policy. He was editor of the Journal Organization from 2005-2008 and serves on a number of editorial boards. Recent jointly edited collections Research in the Sociology of Organizations Vol.43 Elites on Trial (Emerald Publishing 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organisation Studies (Oxford UP 2014), New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics (Oxford UP 2013) and Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford UP 2012).
Christine Musselin
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Christine Musselin
Christine Musselin is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS. She leads comparative studies on university governance, public policy in higher education and research, state-university relationships, and academic labor markets. Two of her books, La longue marche des universités françaises (published by the P.U.F in 2001) and Le marché des universitaires, France Allemagne, Etats-Unis, were published in English translation by Routledge in 2004 and 2009, respectively. She was a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999. She is co-editor of Higher Education and a member of the editorial board of Sociologie du Travail.
Roberto Pedersini
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Roberto Pedersini
Roberto Pedersini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Director of the interdepartmental research centre “WTW – Work, Training and Welfare” at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His main research interests concern labour market regulation and policies and industrial and employment relations. He has both participated and coordinated several research projects in these fields since the early 1990s at both national and international level. He has collaborated with the International Labour Office and collaborated as an expert with the European Commission and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in several occasions. His recent publications include Economic crisis and the politics of public service employment relations in Italy and France (with Lorenzo Bordogna, in European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 19, no. 4, 2013), Coping with the crisis in Italy: Employment relations and social dialogue amidst the recession (with Marino Regini, ILO, 2013) and contributions to Sociology of Work. An Encyclopedia (V. Smith, ed., Sage Publications, 2013).
Akos Rona-Tas
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Akos Rona-Tas
N: Finance and Society
Akos Rona-Tas is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where he is also founding faculty of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute. For many years, he was a senior research associate at INRA, Paris, and he was the President of SASE in 2018-2019.
He has written two books on market creation. Great Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and Rise of the Private Sector in Hungary, was published by Michigan University Press, the second one, co-authored with Alya Guseva, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries, by Stanford University Press.
He has published articles on the post-communist transition, on small entrepreneurs, consumer credit, and payment card markets in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Social Science Research, Research on Sociology of Organizations, Journal of Comparative Economics, Research in the Sociology of Work, as well as various chapters in edited volumes. He is currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management.
Akos Rona-Tas has been a member of SASE since 2005. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the Finance and Society Network, served on the Executive Council between 2012 and 2015, as Treasurer between 2015 and 2018, and as SASE President in 2018/19.
Achim Spiller
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Achim Spiller
Achim Spiller, having a management and marketing background with a PhD from Duisburg University, is Professor for food marketing at the University of Göttingen (D). His empirical research on the behaviour and demands of food consumers has increasingly focused on the gap between societal needs and the status quo of the animal industry. This has brought him to the chair position of a Board of a popular German animal welfare label.
