Walter W. Powell Professor of Education Affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science Director of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research Stanford University, California (USA) Personal page: http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/woody_index.html Publications (pdf) Faculty 2008 - Short profile

Education: Ph.D. at State University of new York at Stony Brook.

Research interests: Economic sociology; Organization theory; Institutional analysis; Nonprofit organizations; Network topology and dynamics; Networks, coordination, and form of governance; Comparison of institutional forms; University-industry interfaces and science-based industries; Institutional and network structure of the life sciences field; Biotechnology industry; Public research and proprietary science; Education policy and practice.

Present positions: Board of Directors, Executive Committee Chair, Social Science Research Council (http://www.ssrc.org/inside/about/board_of_directors.page) ● Faculty Director, Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits, Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/research/spen_leadership.html) ● Faculty Steering Committee, The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University (http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/people/facultysteering.html) ● Governing board, France-Stanford program ● Associate editor: Research Policy; Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Awards and acknowledgments: American Sociological Association's Max Weber Prize for the paper Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization, 1990.

SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

(*all available at Professor Powell's web page: http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/woody_index.html )

(2007) W. W. Powell, The new institutionalism. In: The International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage Publishers (preprint: http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/NewInstitutionalism.pdf)

(2006) Jeannette Colyvas, W.W. Powell, Roads to institutionalization. In: Research in Organizational Behavior. 21:305-53 (final draft: http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/colyvas_powell.pdf)

(2005) W.W. Powell, Stine Grodal, Networks of innovators. In: The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, pp. 56-85 (http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/powellgrodal.pdf)

(2005) W.W. Powell, Douglas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput, Jason Owen-Smith, Network dynamics and field evolution: the growth of inter-organizational collaboration in the life sciences. American Journal of Sociology, 110(4):1132-1205 (preprint: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/network_dynamics.pdf)

(2005) Kelley Porter, Kjersten Bunker, W.W. Powell, The institutional embeddedness of high-tech regions, in Clusters, Networks, and Innovation. Oxford University Press (final draft: http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/Porter_etal.pdf)

(2005) Hokyu Hwang, W.W. Powell, Institutions and entrepreneurship. Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research. Kluwer Publishers, pp. 179-210 (http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/HwangPowell.pdf)

(2004) Jason Owen-Smith, W.W. Powell, Knowledge networks as channels and conduits: the effects of spillovers in the Boston biotechnology community. Organization Science, 15(1):5-21 (preprint: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/knowledge_nets.pdf)

(2003) Jason Owen-Smith, W.W. Powell, The expanding role of university patenting in the life sciences: Assessing the importance of experience and connectivity. Research Policy,32(9): 1695-1711 (preprint: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/owensmith_powell_rp.pdf)

(2002) W.W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, Laurel Smith-Doerr, James I. Bowie, The spatial clustering of science and capital. Regional Studies, 36(3):299-313 (preprint, 2001: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/The-Spatial-Clustering-of-Science-and-Capital.pdf)

(2002) Jason Owen-Smith, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, W.W. Powell, A comparison of U.S. and European university-industry relations in the life sciences. Management Science, 48(1):24-43 (final draft: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/ms_penult.pdf)

(2001) Jason Owen-Smith, W.W. Powell, Careers and contradictions: Faculty responses to the transformation of knowledge and its uses in the life sciences. Research in the Sociology of Work, 10:109-40 (preprint: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/RSW_web_version.pdf)

(1998) W.W. Powell, Learning from collaboration. Knowledge and networks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. California Management Review, 40(3):228-40 (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/lc/lc_frame.htm)

(1998) W.W. Powell, Jason Owen-Smith, Universities and the market for intellectual property in the life sciences. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17(2):253-77 (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/ipls/ipls_frame.htm)

(1996) W.W. Powell, Inter-organizational collaboration in the biotechnology industry. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 120(1):197-215 (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/jite/jite_frame.htm)

(1991) Paul J. DiMaggio, W.W. Powell, Introduction to the new institutionalism, in W.W. Powell and P.J. DiMaggio (eds.), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press ( http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/dimaggioandpowell_intro.pdf)

(1990) W. W. Powell, Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 12:295-336 (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/powell_neither.pdf)

Working papers and drafts:

(2003) Laurel Smith-Doerr, W.W. Powell, Networks and economic life ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/song/papers/NetworksandEconomicLife.pdf)

(2000) W.W. Powell, The capitalist firm in the 21^st century: Emerging patterns (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/capitalist_firm.pdf)

(----) Jason Owen-Smith, W.W. Powell, To patent or not: Faculty decisions and institutional success at technology transfer (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/Owensmith_Powell_text.pdf; tables: http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/Owensmith_powell_table1.pdf; http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/Owensmith_Powell_table2.pdf)

(----) Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Jason Owen-Smith, Network position and firm performance: Organizational returns to collaboration in the biotechnology industry (http://www.stanford.edu/~woodyp/papers/Rso1.pdf)

Updated: January 22, 2007