| | Why did the Chicken … - orgtheory.net | | Feb 08, 2010 7:21 pm | | | Thanks to the orgtheory team for inviting me to post some food for thought in the coming days–I really enjoy the sense of community this site fosters. Rather than starting with something heavy, let me celebrate that community by opening with a request: please join me in using the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke to reflect ... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | Who and what are the bailouts subsidizing? - Everything Finance | | Feb 08, 2010 11:12 am | | | TARP and the Federal Reserve’s actions during the finance crisis and recession have been extensive.Keeping track of all the policies that have been implemented has been mind boggling.But now there is a Pew Foundation project and webpage devoted to keeping track of what businesses or investors have gotten subsidies and how big they were/are, often in terms of... | | | Read more from Everything Finance | |
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| | Why Always Has-Beens at SuperBowl Halftime? - Cheap Talk | | Feb 08, 2010 9:53 am | | | Honestly I have no good theory. Here are some rejected ones:They are the only ones sufficiently lacking in self-respect.Since ads drive everything what matters is the audience still watching at halftime. By that time the geezers have already drunk enough to be glued to their sofas, but not enough yet to be asleep.Only Pete Townsend’s generation... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | welcome mark kennedy! - orgtheory.net | | Feb 08, 2010 12:38 am | | | We’re pleased to have Mark Kennedy join us as a guest blogger. Mark is an Assistant Professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.Mark’s research relates to categories, meaning and structure in markets and society. (Here’s an engaging ASR piece for anyone not familiar with Mark’s work.) You can learn... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | Dynamic Efficiency and Sweat-Mopping - Cheap Talk | | Feb 07, 2010 11:08 pm | | | Eddie Dekel points out the following puzzling fact. At the gym most people wipe down the exercise machines and benches after they use them and not before. There are a few obvious social benefits of this policy. For one, you know better than your successor where the towel is most advantageously deployed. Also, the sooner that stuff is removed, the ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | samuelson vs. parsons - orgtheory.net | | Feb 07, 2010 7:25 pm | | | By the 1940s, economics and sociology mirrored each other. Emerging from political economy in Europe and progressive politics in America, these two disciplines reached a point where a single prominent scholar tried to lay the groundwork for their field. Paul Samuelson recast economics as an application of decision theory. Talcott Parsons recast sociology... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | Review: Palazzo della Torre, Allegrini, 2006 - Cheap Talk | | Feb 06, 2010 7:52 pm | | | This is a really affordable, reliable and widely available red from Allegrini. It’s a blend of Corvina and Rondinella grapes – don’t ask me for any French analogs, I have no idea. And there’s a bit of Sangiovese chucked in. This makes for a complex, multidimensional wine. Blackberry and cherry notes but it’s still dry and... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | Rest in Peace Pete - orgtheory.net | | Feb 05, 2010 8:45 pm | | | Richard “Pete” Peterson, one of the original founders of the ASA section on Culture died yesterday. It is a strange feeling, since I actually never knew him very well, yet it seems like somebody I actually was close to is now gone. Two great culture scholars who actually did know him closely have more personal reflections here and here. My ... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | theory development as goal displacement - orgtheory.net | | Feb 05, 2010 11:09 am | | | William McKinley has an interesting essay about the state of organization theory in the most recent Organization Studies. I’m not sure that I agree with McKinley’s sentiments, but his argument is provocative and worth considering seriously. Here’s a portion of the abstract:In this essay I argue that organization theory has witnessed a significant... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | DRM And E-Book Sales - Cheap Talk | | Feb 04, 2010 10:11 pm | | | One case in which dropping copy protection improved sales.It’s been 18 months since O’Reilly, the world’s largest publisher of tech books, stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the intervening time, O’Reilly’s ebook sales have increased by 104 percent. Now, when you talk about ebooks and DRM, there’s always someone who’ll... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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