SASE will host its fourth Early Career Workshop at its 2019 Conference in New York City. The Workshop provides additional career development and networking opportunities at SASE for PhD students and researchers having obtained their PhD after March 2016. Previous Workshop participants are not eligible to participate a second time.
The SASE Early Career Workshop (ECW) provides career development guidance and networking opportunities for early career researchers presenting their work at the annual SASE meeting. It is a one-day workshop that runs the day before the main conference and is hosted by senior SASE professors, including a pre-Workshop evening meal with networking event, sessions on getting published, career development, and an introduction to socio-economics. It also provides an opportunity for longer and deeper discussion of applicants’ conference papers.
Applicants must be PhD students and researchers having obtained their PhD within 3 years of the annual SASE meeting. If you would like to apply for the Workshop, your paper abstract should be submitted and accepted to the main conference through the normal process. Applicants must also submit their full paper (under 10,000 words), a short two-page CV, and complete the specific form via the conference submission system by 14 January 2019 28 January 2019. Any application without any of these elements will not be considered for inclusion in the Workshop.
While two papers may be submitted to the SASE conference, applicants may submit only one paper to be considered for the ECW. Only those papers accepted to the main conference will be considered for inclusion in the Workshop.
Each ECW participant will have their full main conference fee waived. Full conference accommodation will also be paid, including the additional night of accommodation for the Workshop. Participants will receive a certificate of participation. In the case of co-authored papers, please note that only one author may participate in the Workshop for a given paper. Participants not requiring support for travel or accommodations should state this in their one-page letter. Likewise, participants who receive another award for their paper (i.e., the EHESS Fondation France-Japon award) will not receive further support for the Workshop.
There will be approximately 15-20 competitively allocated places at the Workshop. Notification of acceptance will be made on 11 March 2019 01 April 2019 08 April 2019. These places will be awarded on the basis of the quality of the paper submitted to the SASE main conference, as assessed by the ECW Committee and Faculty. Additional criteria for ranking papers receiving the same quality assessment include PhD status, academic status and co-authorship. In particular, priority will be given to:
Throughout the selection process, the SASE ECW Committee and Faculty are committed to ensure gender and geographical balance at equal paper quality levels.
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He is the Director of the center for Culture, organizations, and Politics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. He is the author of numerous books including “The Architecture of Markets (Princeton, 2001), “Euroclash” (Oxford, 2008), and “A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford, 2012). He has written extensively on the topics of economic sociology, organizations, social stratification, political sociology, and European economic and political integration. He is currently working on a book about the financial crisis.
Professor Jackson’s research examines how corporate governance is influenced by diverse organizational and institutional contexts. His research utilizes cross-national comparison to better understand the regulatory and other societal influences on the corporation, particularly using the cases of Germany, Japan, the UK and USA. His research aims to link disparate fields of scholarship, including institutional theory, organizational analysis, economic sociology, and comparative political economy. Particular empirical interests have been the relationship of corporate governance and human resource management, and issues around corporate social responsibility and labor standards. His current projects seek to apply methods of fuzzy set and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to understanding.
Gregory Jackson’s research has been published widely in leading business journals. A number of his projects on public policy have been sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry (UK), the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and the Hans-Boeckler Foundation. His research also is cited by The Economist, Financial Times, and BBC radio. He is an editor of British Journal of Industrial Relations and serves as Chief Editor of Socio-Economic Review since 2012.
Angela Knox is an Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research interests focus on job quality, precarious work and employment regulation and she has a particular interest in the tourism/hospitality industry. She has published widely including within the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Work, Employment and Society, Gender, Work and Organisation and Journal of Industrial Relations. With Professor Warhurst, she co-founded the Job Quality Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations on job quality. Angela seeks to improve the quality of jobs in Australia through policy and research.
Virág Molnár received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and is Associate Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Her research explores the intersections of culture, politics, markets, and social change in Eastern Europe, with special focus on urban and material culture. She has written about the politics of architecture in socialist and postsocialist Eastern Europe, the post-1989 reconstruction of Berlin, and the new housing landscape of postsocialist cities. Current projects include a comparative study of emerging markets for street art in New York, Berlin, and Budapest; the political economy of urban rodent control; and the cultural economy of nationalist populism in Hungary. Her book Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe(Routledge, 2013) received the Mary Douglas Prize from the American Sociological Association. Her work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Consumer Culture. She has been a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and the American Academy in Berlin. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others. In 2019-2020 she will be a fellow in the Economy and Society program at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Jacqueline O’Reilly is full Professor of Comparative HRM at the University of Sussex Business School and Co-Director for the ESRC £8 million investment in the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit-research.org) (2020-24).
She is the UK lead on the Horizon 2020 EUROSHIP project on social protection in Europe (euroship-research.eu) (2020-23). Previously, she coordinated EU STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (www.style-research.eu) (2014-17) and was UK lead on the EU NEGOTIATE project (www.negotiate-research.eu) (2015-18).
Her most recent research focuses on the digital transformation of work, labour market policy and international comparisons of gender, ethnicity and labour market transitions across the life course.
She completed her doctorate at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on an Anglo-French comparison of employment practices in the banking sector. She worked for ten years at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany, and at Sciences Politiques in Paris, London, Manchester and Brighton Universities in the UK.
In 2000 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a visiting research fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Wirthschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftes Institut (WSI), Dusseldorf.
She has served on the editorial board of the BJIR, Socio-Economic Review, and Work, Employment and Society where she was also Chair of the editorial board. She was elected twice to the Executive Council of SASE. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her distinguished contribution to the field of interdisciplinary research.
She has been consulted by HM Treasury, Full Employment Team and the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Unit on equal pay and youth employment. She is an Evaluation Rapporteur for the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme, was invited as an advisor to the ILO Work4Youth programme funded by The MasterCard Foundation, and was an evaluator on two occasions for the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (€151 million investment).
She lives in Hove, UK with her two teenage sons where she enjoys living by the sea, watching Nordic Noir and discovering whether youth music today is better than that of the 1980s.
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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 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.
Marc Schneiberg is John C. Pock Professor of Sociology at Reed College. He is an economic and organizational sociologist who researches the rise, contemporary fates, and economic consequences of organizational diversity and alternatives to giant, shareholder corporations in American capitalism. This work addresses both the evolution of cooperative and other alternative enterprise systems in the US, including electrical and agricultural cooperatives, insurance mutuals, community banks, and credit unions, and how the emergence of such enterprises can help upgrade markets, regulate corporations, and foster more decentralized and small stakeholder trajectories of capitalist development.
Schneiberg also studies association, regulation and self-regulation in American manufacturing and finance. He is Editor of Socio-Economic Review, and Consulting Editor of Sociological Science, has served on the executive councils of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, and has twice received National Science Foundation support for his research. He teaches courses in economic and organizational sociology (Economic Sociology, Institutional Analysis, American Capitalism, Sociology of Finance, Regulation) but also Race and Ethnicity and Race, Economic Sociology, and Organizations. His papers and course syllabi can be found on his webpage.
Laura Adler, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
What’s a Job Candidate Worth? Pay-Setting and Gender Inequality after the “Salary History Ban”
Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
Guillermina Altomonte, The New School for Social Research, New York NY
From Nursing Home to “Community:” New Institutional Ecologies of Elder Care in the United States
Network C: Gender, Work and Family
Melike Arslan, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Why Does the Doing Business Project Conflate the Performance and the Quality of Law?
Network L: Regulation and Governance
Alvin Camba, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City MD
Reexamining China and South-South Relations: Chinese State-Backed and Flexible Private Capitals in the Philippines
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms
Edward Crowley, New York University, New York City NY
Linking Austerity and Nationalism in Right-Wing Populism: A Cross-National Analysis of Western Democracies
Network E: Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States
Gina di Maio, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen Switzerland
Trajectories of Liberalization in Collective Governance: The Swiss Case of Polite Employer Domination and Embedded Flexibilization
Network E: Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States
Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE), London United Kingdom
Cooperation Against the Odds: Developing Trust in the Greek Agri-Food and Tourism Sectors
Network E: Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States
Lena Gronbach, University of Cape Town, Cape Town South Africa
Social Cash Transfers and (Digital) Financial Inclusion in South Africa
Network J: Digital Economy
Gozde Guran, Princeton University, Princeton NJ
The Price of Illegality: Legal Regimes and Multiple Monies in Syrian Hawala Networks
Network N: Finance and Society
Adam Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI
The Active Construction of Passive Investors: Roboadvisors and Algorithmic “Low-Finance”
Network J: Digital Economy
Carla Ilten, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
The Iron Cage Has a Mezzanine: Alternative Organizations and the Selection of Isomorphic Pressures Via Meta-Organization
Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism
Nils Kupzok, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Varieties of Neoliberalism in US Climate Politics
Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
Sean O’Brady, Université de Montréal, Montreal QC Canada
Partnering Against Insecurity? a Comparison of Markets, Institutions, and Worker Risk in Canadian and Swedish Retail
Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
Johannes Petry, University of Warwick, Coventry United Kingdom
Financialisation with Chinese Characteristics? State Capitalism, Exchanges & the Development of Capital Markets in China
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms
Steven Rolf, University of Bristol, Bristol United Kingdom
National Development through (regional) Global Production Networks: The Case of Dongguan, China
Network O: Global Value Chains
Tim Rosenkranz, The New School for Social Research, New York NY
Circuits of Commodification: Imagination and Evaluation in National Destination Marketing
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
Ellie Suh, London School of Economics and Political Science, London United Kingdom
Young British Adults’ Homeownership Circumstances and the Role of Intergenerational Transfers
Network C: Gender, Work and Family
Yixian Sun, Yale University, New Haven CT
Fertile Ground without Seeds
Network O: Global Value Chains
Arjen van der Heide, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh United Kingdom
Finitism, Rule Following and the Sociology of European Insurance Capital Regulation
Network L: Regulation and Governance
Hannah Wohl, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA
Performing Aesthetic Confidence: How Connoisseurs Maintain Status in Cultural Markets
Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
Roberto Pedersini (chair)
Dorothee Bohle
Virginia Doellgast
Sébastien Lechevalier
Marc Schneiberg