Workshop Faculty
Koray Caliskan
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Koray Caliskan
Koray Caliskan is an associate professor at Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research focuses on political economy, political party organization and Middle East politics. His dissertation was awarded the Best Social Science Thesis by the North American Association of Middle East Studies. After receiving his Ph.D. from New York University, he wrote and published a book on global commodity markets published by Princeton University Publications. He has worked as a columnist for Radikal and BirGün newspapers, and as a program host for Habertürk and + 1TV. His romantic comedy about the Kurdish problem has been shown in 200 cinemas in Europe and the Middle East,
Neil Fligstein
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Neil Fligstein
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.
Gregory Jackson
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Gregory Jackson
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
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Angela Knox
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
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Virág Molnár
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
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Jacqueline O’Reilly
I am Professor of Comparative Human Resource Management and the School’s Equalities and Diversity Officer at the University of Sussex.
I am currently research coordinator of a large-scale EU-funded project on Youth Employment in Europe: STYLE. We have just published ‘Youth Employment: STYLE Handbook‘ from this project.
I completed my doctorate in Economic Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1992 and my first degree in Politics at the University of Hull in 1986. During my doctoral research I also taught courses in British Politics at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, in Paris (1989-90), and for Stanford University (1988).
On completing my D.Phil I worked for a year as a researcher at the University of Manchester School of Management, (UMIST) (1991-2) on a project looking at the use of IT by financial advisors in the UK.
I was appointed a lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Royal Holloway School of Management, London University (1992-4). During this time I collaborated on the London University external BSc. (Econ.) degree in Management run from the London School of Economics. As part of this collaboration, I also taught at the Singapore School of Management (1993).
During a summer research visit to Berlin funded by a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) grant, I was invited to apply for the post of a senior research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) (Social Science Research Centre) where I remained for ten years (1994-2004). During this time I ran a number of large-scale European and international research projects examining the impact of labour market policy and employment transitions. In 2000 I was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.
I returned to the UK in 2004 to become a Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex, and moved to take a chair at Brighton Business School in October 2008, where we established the Centre for Research on Management and Employment (CROME) in 2010. I returned to BMEc in April 2017.
Copies of some of my research papers are available on academia.edu, research gate and on my personal website
My biography is available on LinkedIn
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
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I am Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where I am also founding faculty of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute. For many years, I was a senior research associate at INRA, Paris, and currently, I am scholar in residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.
I wrote 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.
I have 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. I am currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management.
I have been a member of SASE since 2005. I am the co-founder and co-organizer of the Finance and Society Network, served on the Executive Council between 2012 and 2015, and as Treasurer between 2015 and 2018.
Marc Schneiberg
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Marc Schneiberg
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.