Organizations and Markets

Individuals and Organizations at DRUID Redux

16 November 2007 at 8:02 am Nicolai Foss 1 comment

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There are few things more time-consuming than hustling for slush funds in the university system (as George Stigler once quipped, academic infights are particularly violent because the stakes are so low!) — which explains my very low blogging frequency over the last 4-5 weeks. However, I should have more time on my hands now, so here goes:

As I related earlier, this year’s D(anish) R(esearch) U(nit) (for) I(ndustrial) D(ynamics) conference highlighted methodological individualism in a panel debate between Peter Abell, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Sid Winter, and yours truly (here is the stream). Although the DRUID crowd didn’t wholeheartedly embrace methodological individualism, the broader theme of micro-foundations — explicitly promoted in a management context for some time now by Teppo Felin and I (eg., here,  here, and here) — seems to have caught on.

Thus, Thorbjørn Knudsen organizes a one day event, a “DRUID Fundamental” back-to-back to next years DRUID conference on the subject of micro-foundations in strategy and organization. It takes place on June 17. Among the speakers are Rich Burton, Linda Argote, Ranjay Gulati, Sid Winter, and the present blogger. Check Thorbjørn’s call here.

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