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Frank Dobbin Professor
of Sociology Personal page: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/dobbin/ |
Education: B.A. in Sociology at Oberlin College; Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford University.
Research interests: Economic sociology; Organizational sociology; Comparative historical sociology; Complex organizations; Stratification; Public policy; Corporate strategies, shareholder value model of corporate governance; Corporate human resource policies and corporate diversity strategies; Equal opportunity, civil rights, affirmative action law, work-family programs.
Present positions: Editorial Board: Strategic Organization; Sociological Forum ● Faculty, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/dobbin.html) ● Memberships: American Sociological Association; Academy of Management; American Political Science Association; Social Science History Association; Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Sociological Research Association; Macro-Organizational Behavior Society.
Awards and acknowledgments: John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007 ● Radcliffe Institute Fellows, 2006-2007 ( http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/current/bio.php?id=200&year=2006-2007) ● Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, 2002-2003 ● Mary Parker Follett Award 2000 (best article in politics and history from the American Political Science Association) and Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award 2000 for Excellence in Work-Family Research for the paper: Civil rights law at work ● Max Weber Award 1996 for the book: Forging industrial policy.
Some web resources on Professor Dobbin: Dobbin in the Work-Family Leaders Directory, Sloan Work and Family Research Network, Boston College (http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/leaders_entry.php?id=136&area=All)
SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB
(*all available at Professor Dobbin's web page: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/cv_online.html)
(2006) B. Simmons, F. Dobbin, and G. Garrett. The diffusion of liberalism. International Organization. 60(Fall): 781-810 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2006_IntOrg_Simmons.pdf)
(2006) A. Kalev, F. Dobbin, and E. Kelly. Best practices or best guesses? Diversity management and the remediation of inequality. American Sociological Review, 71, 4: 589-617 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/working_papers/aapracticesFinalProof.pdf)
(2006) J.S. Pedersen and F. Dobbin. In search of identity and legitimation: Organizational culture and neoinstitutionalism. In .S. Pedersen, A. Westenholz, and F. Dobbin (eds.). Institutions in the making: Identity, power and the emergence of new organizational forms, Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, 49: 897-907 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/edited_collections/2006_ABS_OrgCult.pdf)
(2005) F. Dobbin and D. Zorn. Corporate malfeasance and the myth of shareholder value. Political Power and Social Theory 17:179-198 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_CorpMal_Zorn.pdf) - Responses by: R. Swedberg ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_Swedberg.pdf); E.S. Clemens ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_Clemens.pdf); M. Mizruchi and H. Kimeldorf ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_Mizruchi.pdf); N. Fligstein ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_Fligstein.pdf); F. Dobbin and D. Zorn ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2005_PPST_reply.pdf)
(2005) F. Dobbin. Comparative and historical perspectives in economic sociology. Pp. 26-48 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition. Edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2005_CompHistPerspEcSoc.pdf)
(2004) F. Dobbin, Introduction: The sociology of the economy. In Dobbin (ed.). The sociology of the economy. Russell Sage Foundation ( http://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/0-87154-284-6/chapter1_pdf)
(2004) F. Dobbin, The sociological view of the economy. In F. Dobbin (ed.). The new economic sociology: A reader., Ch. 1. Princeton University Press (http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7771.pdf)
(2004) F. Dobbin. How institutions create ideas: Notions of public and private efficiency from early French and American railroading. L'Année de la Régulation 8:15-50 (preprint: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2004_AR.pdf)
(2002) F. Dobbin. Do the social sciences shape corporate anti-discrimination practice? The United States and France. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. 23(3):829-863 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2002_CLLPJ.pdf)
(2002) F. Dobbin. Is America becoming more exceptional?: How public policy corporatized social citizenship. Pp. 51-77 in Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change. Edited by Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2002_AmericaExceptional.pdf)
(2001) F. Dobbin. Why the economy reflects the polity: Early rail policy in Britain, France, and the United States. In The Sociology of Economic Life, Second Edition. Edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg, Westview ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2001_SocEcLife_Granovetter.pdf)
(2001) T. Dowd and F. Dobbin. Origins of the myth of neoliberalism: Regulation in the first century of U.S. railroading. Pp. 61-88. In: The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective. Edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson. Edward Elgar Publishing ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2001_MythNeolib.pdf)
(2001) F. Dobbin. The business of social movements. Pp. 74-80 in Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. Edited by James Jasper, Jeffrey Goodwin, and Francesca Polletta. University of Chicago Press ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2001_BusSocMov.pdf)
(2001) F. Dobbin. Rail and transport policy: National paradigms and supranational structures. Pp. 63-85 in Making Policy in Europe. Second Edition. Edited by Kjell Eliassen and Svein Andersen. London: Sage ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/2001_RailTransPolicy.pdf)
(2000) F. Dobbin and T. Dowd. The market that antitrust built: Public policy, private coercion, and railroad acquisitions, 1825-1922. American Sociological Review 65: 631-657 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2000_ASR_dowd.pdf)
(1999) E. Kelly and F. Dobbin. Civil rights law at work: Sex discrimination and the rise of maternity leave policies. American Journal of Sociology 105:455-492 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1999_AJS_kelly.pdf)
(1999) F. Dobbin. A market is a market is a market?: Institutional conditions for the construction of market mechanisms. BISS Public (Berlin). 27:53-72 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1999_BISS.pdf)
(1999) F. Dobbin and T. Boychuk. National employment systems and job autonomy: Why autonomy is high in the nordic countries and low in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Organization Studies, 20: 257-291 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1999_OS_boychuk.pdf)
(1998) F. Dobbin and J. Sutton. The strength of a weak State: The employment rights revolution and the rise of human resources management divisions. American Journal of Sociology 104: 441-476 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1998_AJS_sutton.pdf)
(1998) E. Kelly and F. Dobbin. How affirmative action became diversity management: Employer response to anti-discrimination law, 1961-1996. American Behavioral Scientist 41: 960-984 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1998_ABS_kelly.pdf) - Revised version in: John Skrentny (ed.), Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration and Civil Rights Options for America. Pp. 87-117. University of Chicago Press, 2001 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2001_ColorLines_Kelly.pdf)
(1997) F. Dobbin and T. Dowd. How policy shapes competition: Early railroad foundings in Massachusetts. Administrative Science Quarterly 42: 501-529 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1997_ASQ_dowd.pdf)
(1997) T. Dowd and F. Dobbin. The embedded actor and the invention of natural economic law: Policy change and railroader response in early America. In S. Christensen, P. Karnoe, J.S. Pedersen, and F. Dobbin (eds.). Actors and Institutions, Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, 40: 478-489 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/edited_collections/1997_ABS_dowd.pdf)
(1997) J. Pedersen and F. Dobbin. The social invention of collective actors: On the rise of the corporation. In S. Christensen, P. Karnoe, J.S. Pedersen, and F. Dobbin (eds.). Actors and Institutions, Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist 40: 431-443 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/edited_collections/1997_ABS_pedersen.pdf)
(1996) J. Sutton and F. Dobbin. The two faces of governance: Responses to legal uncertainty in American firms, 1955-1985. American Sociological Review 61:794-811 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1996_ASR_sutton.pdf)
(1996) F. Dobbin and T. Boychuk. Public policy and the rise of private pensions: The U.S. experience since 1930. Pp. 104-135 in The Privatization of Social Policy? Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America, Scandinavia and Japan. Edited by Michael Shalev. New York: Macmillan ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1996_PrivatePensions_Boychuk.pdf)
(1995) F. Dobbin. The origins of economic principles: Railway entrepreneurs and public policy in nineteenth-century America. Pp. 277-301 in The Institutional Construction of Organization: International and Longitudinal Studies. Edited by W. Richard Scott and Søren Christensen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1995_OrigEcLaws_Scott&Christensen.pdf)
(1995) F. Dobbin. Railroads. Pp. 59-86 in Organizations in Industry: Strategy, Structure, and Selection. Edited by Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan. New York: Oxford University Press ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1995_Railroads_Carroll&Hannan.pdf)
(1994) J. Sutton, F. Dobbin, J. Meyer, and W.R. Scott. The legalization of the workplace. American Journal of Sociology 99:944-971 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1994_AJS_sutton.pdf)
(1994) F. Dobbin. Cultural models of organization: The social construction of rational organizing principles. Pp. 117-141 in The Sociology of Culture: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives. Edited by Diana Crane. Oxford: Basil Blackwell ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1994_CultModOrg_Crane.pdf)
(1993) F. Dobbin, J. Sutton, J. Meyer, and W.R. Scott. Equal opportunity law and the construction of internal labor markets. American Journal of Sociology, 99:396-427 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1993_AJS_sutton.pdf)
(1993) F. Dobbin, What do markets have in common? Toward a fast train policy in the European Community. Pp. 71-91 in Making Policy in Europe: The Europeification of National Policy-making. Edited by Kjell Eliassen and Svein Andersen. London: Sage ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1993_FastTrainPolicy.pdf)
(1993) F. Dobbin. Public policy and the development of high speed trains in France and the United States. Pp. 124-144 in High Speed Trains. Edited by John Whitelegg, Staffan Hultén, and Torbjörn Flink. London: Leading Edge ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1993_HighSpeedTrains.pdf)
(1993) F. Dobbin. The social construction of the great depression: Industrial policy during the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France. Theory and Society 22:1-56 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1993_TS.pdf)
(1992) F. Dobbin. Metaphors for industrial rationality: The social construction of electronics policy in the United States and France. Pp. 185-206 in Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure. Edited by Robert Wuthnow. London: Routledge ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1992_ElectronicsPolicy.pdf)
(1992) F. Dobbin. The origins of private social insurance: Public policy and fringe benefits in America, 1920-1950. American Journal of Sociology 97:1416-1450 (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/1992_AJS.pdf)
(1988) F. Dobbin, L. Edelman, J. Meyer, W. R. Scott, and A. Swidler. The expansion of due process in organizations. Pp. 71-98 in Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment. Edited by Lynne G. Zucker. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1988_ExpDueProc_Zucker.pdf)
(1986) J. Baron, F. Dobbin, and P.D. Jennings. War and peace: The evolution of modern personnel administration in U.S. industry. Excerpted in: Doing Exemplary Research. Edited by Peter Frost and Ralph Stablein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1992 ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/book_chapters/1992_War&Peace_Jennings&Baron.pdf)
Working papers and drafts:
(2005) A. Kalev and F. Dobbin. Enforcement of civil rights law in private workplaces: The effects of compliance reviews and lawsuits over time ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/working_papers/eeopractice2.pdf)
(----) F. Dobbin and E. Kelly. How to stop harassment: The professional construction of legal compliance in organizations ( http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dobbin/cv/articles/2006_AJS_kelly.pdf)
Updated: January 22, 2007