The aim of Global vs Local - Challenges for Contemporary Governance
research colloquium is to bring together researchers in the Barcelona area to discuss different topics on globalization and transnational governance from a sociological perspective. 

Marc Schneiberg is Professor of Sociology at Reed College. His research examines variety and change in economic organization, with a particular emphasis on collective and public alternatives to for-profit corporations in the American economy. He is currently completing an NSF funded study of private, public and cooperative enterprise, focusing mainly on mutuals, cooperatives and local state owned firms in the US insurance, dairy, grain and electrical utility industries. He has published work in journals such as Politics and Society, American Journal of Sociology, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Socio-Economic Review, and recently published an article in Sociological Theory with Elisabeth Clemens on research strategies for institutional analysis.

Marie-Laure Djelic is Professor at ESSEC Business School, Paris, France where she teaches Organization Theory, Business History and Comparative Capitalism. In 2002-2003, she was holding the Kerstin Hesselgren Professorship at Uppsala University, in Sweden. Her research interests range from the role of professions and social networks in the transnational diffusion of rules and practices to the historical transformation of national institutions. She is the author of Exporting the American Model (Oxford University Press 1998), which obtained the 2000 Max Weber Award for the Best Book in Organizational Sociology from the American Sociological Association. She has edited, together with Sigrid Quack, "Globalization and Institutions" (Edward Elgar 2003) and together with Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson, "Transnational Governance" (Cambridge University Press 2006).

Kerstin Sahlin is Professor of Management at Uppsala University. Her research interests include: transnational governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and changes in public-private relations, changed forms of governance in health care and universities, organizing in the mediatized society and the travels of management ideas. She recently edited "Transnational Governance: Institutional Dynamics of Regulation" (Cambridge University Press 2006, with Marie-Laure Djelic), "The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows and Sources" (Stanford University Press 2002, with Lars Engwall) and "Beyond Project Management: New Perspectives on the temporary-permanent dilemma" (Liber 2002, with Anders Söderholm). Currently she is the deputy vice-chancellor of Uppsala university.

10:00 - 10:15	Introduction Johanna Mair, IESE Business School
10:15 - 11:30	Local Innovation in Response to Multiple, Competing Logics: Neoliberalism and Change in Form in the US Savings and Loan Fields (PDF, 492 Kb)
	Marc Schneiberg, Reed College (research presentation) Fabrizio Ferraro, IESE Business School (discussant)
11:30-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-13:00	Transnational Governance in the Making: Regulatory Fields and their Dynamics (PDF, 121 Kb)
	Marie-Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School (research presentation) Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University (research presentation) Marc Scheneiberg, Reed College (discussant)
13:00-14:30	Lunch

 


 


 

 
 

Johanna Mair, Associate Professor of General Management, IESE Business School