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SCANCOR ANNUAL REPORT 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SCANCOR ANNUAL REPORT 2010…………………………. 3 SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS 2010……………………… 6 SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS INDIVIDUAL REPORTS…. 10 PUBLICATIONS……………………………………………………. 70 SCANCOR Seminars 2009-2010…………………………………. 78 Summary tabulations of SCANCOR national contributions…… 79 Summary tabulations of SCANCOR USA utilization by country.. 80 POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR REPORT…………… 81 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS REPORTS…………………….. 83 POSTDOC FACULTY MENTORS REPORTS…….…… 91 CONTACT INFORMATION………………………………….… 93

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SCANCOR  ANNUAL  REPORT  2010    The  Scandinavian  Consortium  for  Organizational  Research  was  founded  on  September  15,  1988  with  the  purpose  of  advancing  research  and  development  in  the  field  of  organization  studies  among  its  member  institutions  and  at  Stanford  University.  On  March  10,  1989,  SCANCOR  established  a  permanent  research  base  at  Stanford  University  in  California,  thus  providing  Scandinavian  researchers  with  the  facilities  to  work  in  and  develop  an  international  research  environment.  It  is  a  venue  for  conducting  research,  academic  meetings,  seminars  and  conferences  with  broad  attendance  of  scholars  from  many  universities  and  countries.    SCANCOR  is  governed  by  an  executive  board,  consisting  of  representatives  from  the  Scandinavian  countries:  Professor  Susse  Georg,  Copenhagen  Business  School,  Professor  Liisa  Välikangas,  Helsinki  School  of  Economics,  Associate  Professor  Haldor  Byrkeflot,  Bergen  University,  and  Professor  Maureen  McKelvey,  School  of  Economics  and  Commercial  Law,  Göteborg  University.  Professor  Runolfur  Smari  Steinthorsson,  University  of  Iceland,  is  an  affiliate  member  of  the  board.      SCANCOR’s  director  at  Stanford  Professor  Walter  W.  Powell  stepped  down  in  July  2010  after  more  than  a  decade  as  director  and  Assistant  professor  Mitchell  L.  Stevens  of  the  School  of  Education  was  appointed  as  the  new  director.  The  administrative  managers  of  SCANCOR  are  Annette  Eldredge,  located  at  Stanford,  and  Lene  Lillebro  Nielsen,  CBS.  Lene  Lillebro  Nielsen  has  managed  the  Scandinavian  secretariat  in  Copenhagen  since  July  2010.      The  Annual  Report  2010  includes  a  brief  description  of  the  activities  at  SCANCOR  and  contains  the  visiting  scholars’  individual  reports  regarding  their  research  and  networking  activities.  The  report  also  includes  a  list  of  the  publications  that  the  SCANCOR  scholars  consider  as  a  direct  product  of  their  stay.  Additional  and  more  detailed  information  can  be  found  on  the  SCANCOR  website  (www.scancor.org),  where  you  will  also  find  information  regarding  our  scholar  policies,  planned  conferences  and  workshops,  and  alumni  groups,  etc.    A  year  of  many  changes    SCANCOR  entered  a  new  phase  of  its  long  history  at  Stanford  in  2010  when  Professor  Woody  Powell  stepped  down  after  twelve  years.  SCANCOR  is  greatly  indebted  to  Woody  Powell  for  his  work  in  developing  SCANCOR  and  enhancing  it  as  an  important  international  research  institution  at  Stanford.    Mitchell  Stevens  officially  assumed  the  directorship  of  SCANCOR  on  July  1,  2010,  at  which  time  SCANCOR  has  to  vacate  its  long  time  home  on  the  fifth  floor  of  the  School  of  Education’s  CERAS  builiding.  Interim  facilities  were  established  within  the  School  of  Education  –  in  the  lower  level  of  the  Cubberley  building.    This  space  provided  the  

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visiting  and  affiliate  scholars  with  the  necessary  office  facilities  for  the  duration  of  the  build-­‐out  of  SCANCOR’s  new  facilities  CERAS  buildings  lobby  level.          SCANCOR  commissioned  the  San  Francisco-­‐based  architectural  firm  MKThink  to  design  its  new  facilities  in  the  CERAS  building’s  lobby  level.  MKThink  has  designed  the  Hasso  Plattner  Institute  of  Design  at  Stanford,  which  opened  in  the  spring  of  2010,  and  they  have  been  commissioned  for  a  complete  redesign  of  the  auditorium  next  to  SCANCOR’s  new  faciities.  SCANCOR’s  facilities  will  open  in  March  2011  and  will  feature  a  distinctive  modern  design.        The  build-­‐out  of  SCANCOR’s  new  facilities  has  –  as  any  larger  build  out  –  involved  the  seeking  of  permits,  negotiation  of  contracts,  and  actual  construction  activities.  Although  the  build-­‐out  process  was  initiated  in  the  spring,  it  extended  into  the  fall  and  into  2011.  The  process  has  been  impeccably  managed  by  Mitchell  Stevens  and  Annette  Eldredge,  and  strongly  supported  by  the  School  of  Education.    On  a  more  somber  note,  2010  was  marked  with  the  passing  away  of  Marianne  Risberg,  who  had  worked  as  the  administrative  manager  of  SCANCOR’s  Scandinavian  secretariat  since  the  very  beginning  in  1989.      Activities  in  2010    With  the  temporary  relocation  of  SCANCOR  and  the  spatial  limitations  and  logistical  considerations  that  this  has  implicated,  SCANCOR  has  had  slightly  fewer  visiting  and  affiliate  scholars  than  in  the  previous  years.  During  2010  SCANCOR  there  were  34  visiting  and  affiliate  scholars.  Compared  to  the  size  of  the  cohort  of  scholars  visiting  SCANCOR  last  year,  this  more  modest  number  of  visitors  not  only  makes  activities  at  SCANCOR  more  manageable,  it  also  increases  the  competition  for  desk  space  and  affiliation,  which  allows  for  greater  selectivity  in  the  choice  of  applicants.    SCANCOR  continued  to  attract  many  other  visiting  scholars  to  its  seminars  and  network  activities  from  other  departments  and  centers  around  campus,  among  them  the  School  of  Education  and  the  Sociology  Department,  the  Center  for  Design  Research  and  HSTAR  (Human  Sciences  and  Technologies  Advanced  Research  institute.  SCANCOR  convened  six  sessions  for  winter  quarter;  six  for  spring  and  ten  for  fall  in  the  SCANCOR  Monday  seminar  series.  Several  seminars  were  jointly  organized  with  the  Work,  Technology  and  Organization  (WTO)  and  Science,  Technology  and  Society  (STS)  groups.  Faculty  from  Northwestern  University,  University  of  Chicago,  UCLA,  University  of  Michigan,  New  York  University  as  well  as  Stanford  drew  large  audiences.    As  the  visiting  scholars  report  (see  page  12),  there  are  enormous  academic  opportunities  to  explore  at  Stanford  and  in  Silicon  Valley  –  there  is  a  ‘vibe’  and  a  sense  of  speed  and  development  in  the  area  that  is  unique.  In  a  questionnaire  that  

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the  visiting  scholars  answer  upon  departure  they  consistently  answer  that  the  outcome  and  impacts  of  their  visit  include  timer  for  reflection  and  making  significant  research  progress;  access  to  seminars,  courses,  and  an  interdisciplinary  environment;  greater  academic  exposure;  engagement  with  other  SCANCOR  visitors  and  Stanford  faculty  allowing  them  to  develop  new  ideas  and  perspectives;  building  bridges  between  Scandinavia  and  Stanford;  and  developing  lasting  professional  and  personal  relationships.  They  also  stress  what  SCANCOR  strives  for  in  the  application  process,  i.e.,  the  need  for  visiting/affiliate  scholars  to  come  prepared  –  to  have  established  contacts  with  Stanford  faculty  prior  to  their  application,  to  bring  work  along  that  enables  the  scholars  to  interact  and  discuss  with  Stanford  faculty.    All  of  the  visiting  scholars  have  commented  that  their  most  valuable  experience  was  the  exposure  to  new  ideas  and  perspectives,  as  well  as  having  first-­‐hand  contact  with  a  US  research  university.      SCANCOR’s  eighth  workshop  for  Nordic  and  European  doctoral  students  was  held  in  Helsinki.  The  audience  for  this  workshop  was  PhD  students  with  an  interest  in  recent  research  in  institutional  theory  and  organizational  studies  more  generally.  The  goal  of  the  workshop  was  to  enable  PhD  students  to  pursue  their  research  more  effectively,  using  novel  research  methods  to  examine  theoretically  important  questions.  The  applicant  pools  of  43  PhD  students,  of  whom  23  were  accepted  to  participate  reflected  interest  in  this  topic.      As  in  previous  years,  SCANCOR  hosted  a  number  of  ad-­‐hoc  visits,  including  groups  from  BI  Norwegian  School  of  Management,  The  Norwegian  Research  Council,  Aalto  University,  the  Danish  government,  and  The  Swedish  Computer  Society.    For  some  of  these  meetings,  the  SCANCOR  Director  and  scholars  were  engaged  as  speakers.    The  postdoctoral  program  furthers  SCANCOR’s  goals  by  improving  the  career  prospects  of  young  Nordic  scholars,  and  by  establishing  a  critical  mass  of  researchers  and  support  for  focal  research  areas  in  the  Nordic  countries  through  collaboration  with  faculty  at  Stanford.  It  has  moved  into  its  second  phase  with  a  new  cohort  of  postdocs  who  arrived  in  September  2010  and  will  be  staying  for  two  years.    They  were  chosen  from  a  group  of  21  applicants.      The  new  cohort  consists  of:    

- Maja  Lotz,  Copenhagen  Business  School,  Denmark  who  is  working  with  Prof.  Woody  Powell  in  the  School  of  Education  on  the  micro-­‐dynamics  of  facilitating  new  forms  of  work-­‐organization  across  various  collaborative  organizational  settings.    

- Arno  Kourula,  Aalto  University,  Finland  working  with  Prof.  Ray  Levitt  in  the  Department  of  Civil  and  Environmental  Engineering  on  two  research  projects:  1)  Market  barriers  to  the  implementation  of  energy  efficient  technologies:  identifying  and  overcoming  structural  barriers  in  the  

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construction  industry;  and  2)  Normative  and  cognitive  institutional  supports  for  relational  contracting  in  infrastructure  projects  

 - Arild  Wæraas,  University  of  Tromsø.  Norway,  who  is  working  with  Prof.  

Chiqui  Ramirez  in  the  School  of  Education  on  the  relationship  between  public  sector  organizations  and  their  environments  in  general,  and  more  specifically,  on  the  roles  of  organizational  identity,  strategic  communication,  reputation,  and  brand  management  in  this  relationship.    

- Sara  Värlander,  Stockholm  University  School  of  Business,  Sweden,  who  is  working  with  Prof.  Pam  Hinds  in  the  Department  of  Management  Science  and  Engineering  on  research  that  focuses  on  social  media.  She  is  studying  it  cross-­‐culturally  on  a  project  on  its  uses  and  consequences  for  intra-­‐  and  inter-­‐organizational  behavior.  

 The  former  fellows  have  either  returned  to  their  home  institutions  (Kim  Klyver,  SDU,  Denmark  and  Juha  Mattsson,  Aalto  University,  Finland)  or  are  working  elsewhere.  Linus  Dahlander  has  joined  the  faculty  at  the  European  School  of  Management  and  Technology  in  Berlin  and  former  fellow  Dijana  Tiplic  is  working  on  projects  on  simulation  and  modeling  with  Prof.  James  G.  March.  The  postdoctoral  fellows,  as  well  as  their  faculty  supervisors,  descriptions  of  their  experience  can  be  found  on  page  83.      Going  forward    As  a  first  step  in  taking  on  the  directorship  of  SCANCOR,  Mitchell  Stevens  travel  to  Scandinavia  in  May  to  visit  and  liaise  with  many  of  SCANCOR’s  member  institutions.  Mitchell  gave  two  talks,  “A  Sociology  of  Quantification”  and  “Preserving  Knowledge,”  at  the  following  institutions:       Aalto  School  of  Economics     Aalto  University  School  of  Science  and  Technology     University  of  Oslo     University  of  Bergen     University  of  Gothenburg     Copenhagen  Business  School     Uppsala  University     Stockholm  School  of  Economics    He  also  met  with  a  number  of  representatives  from  government  officials  in  Denmark  and  Sweden.    Building  on  the  strong  foundation  that  Prof.  Woody  Powell  has  established,  Mitchell  plans  to  celebrate  the  cosmopolitan  legacy  of  SCANCOR  both  intellectually  and  demographically.  He  is  working  to  showcase  the  value  of  SCANCOR  to  the  School  of  

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Education  by  strengthening  connections  between  Scandinavian  scholars  and  SUSE  faculty  -­‐-­‐  as  well  as  with  faculty  throughout  Stanford.    SCANCOR  will  of  course  continue  to  foster  innovation  in  organizational  social  science,  and  to  bridge  other  communities  at  Stanford  with  such  as  the  Departments  of  Communications  and  Sociology,  the  Clayman  Institute  for  Gender  Research,  the  Graduate  School  of  Business,  the  School  of  Engineering,  the  Hasso  Plattner  Design  Institute,  and  HSTAR.    Further,  Mitchell  Stevens  sees  additional  synergies  in  strengthening  relationships  between  SCANCOR  and  the  health  sciences  at  Stanford,  and  plans  to  nurture  SCANCOR’s  relationships  with  the  Scandinavian  business  community  in  Silicon  Valley.    SCANCOR’s  financial  situation  continues  to  be  strong,  and  SCANCOR  is  well  positioned  to  absorb  the  build-­‐out  costs  expected  in  2010.      In  closing,  the  board  extends  its  sincere  thanks  to  Prof.  Woody  Powell  for  his  substantial  and  sustained  efforts  in  helping  to  make  SCANCOR  what  it  is  today.    Susse  Georg    Chair  of  Scancor      

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APPENDIX 1. SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS, 2010

Name

Position Institution Time of stay (month/day/year)

Field

Tor W. Andreassen

Professor BI Norwegian School of Management

06/01/10-08/18/10

Service marketing and service innovation

Yosef Bhatti

PhD Student University of Copenhagen

01/01/10-05/28/10

Integration, organizational amalgamations, public administration

Bernadette Bullinger

PhD Student University of Mannheim

03/29/10-05/28/10

Transfer and translation of management knowledge

Haldor Byrkjeflot

Senior Researcher

University of Bergen

01/20/10-06/15/10

Public adminsitration, public reforms

Tom Christiansen

Professor University of Oslo 09/15/10-12/15/10

Comparative civil service and comprative public reform

Gregoire Croidieu

PhD Student Hanken/EM Lyon 01/01/10-08/01/10

Institutional change and persistence

Michael Dahl

Professor Aalborg University

01/05/10-07/09/10

Relationships between economics, organizations and health

Rikke Juul Dalsted

PhD Student University of Copenhagen

09/01/10-07/31/11

Inter-professional process of cooperation within public health-care, and development of patient trajectories within Danish cancer treatment.

Ole Dammann

PhD Student University of Mannheim

01/04/10-03/05/10

Organizational Learning

Pradeep Divakaran

PhD Student Aarhus Business School

06/04/10-09/03/10

User and Open Innovation, study the role of different types of communities as a form of collective intelligence in problem solving and decision

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making collaboratively.

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist

Associate Professor

Gothenburg University

01/05/10-05/14/10

Research on gender and new institutional theory

Aino Halinen-Kaila

Professor Turku School of Econonomics

06/01/10-08/31/10

Relationship marketing and management

Anette Hallin

Ph.D., Researcher

Royal Institute for Technology

01/01/10-06/10/10

Entrepreneurship and networking

Kiisa Hulkko-Nyman

PhD Student Helsinki University of Technology

03/04/10-08/31/10

Reward systems in organizations

Christine Isakson

PhD Student Copenhagen Business School

04/01/10-10/31/10

Economic Sociology

Peter Karnoe Professor Copenhagen Business School

05/07/10-07/30/10

Material disruptions of electricity systems by increased penetration of intermittent energy sources like wind power that spills over in cost and pricing arrangements.

Annemette Leonhardt Kjaergaard

Associate Professor

Copenhagen Business School

09/01/10-06/30/11

Responsible Business in the Blogosphere

Mikko Laine PhD Student Helsinki University of Technology

01/04/10-08/31/10

Open innovation and its effects on firms

Jon Erland B. Lervik

Associate Professor

BI Norwegian School of Management

01/11/10-06/20/10

Offshoring of the Norwegian maritime industry

Angelika Lindstrand

Assistant Professor

Stockholm School of Economics

08/19/10-01/31/11

Networks and the internationalization of firms

Mette Morsing Professor Copenhagen Business School

09/01/10-12/31/10

Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

Achim Oberg Research Fellow

University of Mannheim

09/01/09-02/28/10

Self-representation of organizations on the World Wide Web.

Lene Lervik Associate BI Norwegian 06/06/10- Customer satisfaction,

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Olsen

Professor School of Management

08/20/10 customer orientation, the impact of self-service-technology on customers’ behavioral intentions and service productivity

Katarina Østergren

Associate Professor

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin

08/01/09-06/30/10

Interpretations and implementations of new ideas of management control in large organizations.

Charles Parker

Associate Professor

Uppsala University

10/26/09-04/25/10

Institutional dimensions of effective international climate policy.

Juhana Peltonen

PhD Student Aalto University School of Technology

09/01/10-01/31/11

Strategic responses to the financial crisis of small knowledge-intense firms

Mikko Pohjola PhD Student Turku School of Economics

03/01/10-08/31/10

Innovation behavior and strategies of firms

Christian Plesner Rossing

PhD Student Copenhagen Business School

01/01/10-07/31/10

Design management control systems for transfer pricing tax compliance in multinational enterprises

Simone Schiller-Merkens

Assistant Professor

University of Mannheim

09/07/10-12/31/10

The formation of new fields and markets

Thor Sigfusson PhD Student University of Iceland

April 2010 International entrepreneurs and their international ventures

Outi Somervuori

Assistant Professor

Aalto University School of Economics

08/01/10-07/31/11

Behavioral pricing

Siri Sorensen PhD Student NTNU Trondheim 09/12/10-03/30/11

The process of policy making in the case of a legislative reform introducing gender quotas on corporate boards of directors in Norway

Silviya Associate ESADE Business 01/01/10- The intersection of

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Svejenova Professor School 05/31/10 organizing and careers. It examines the work and careers of creatives and executives, the creation and transformation of business models as well as the emergence of novelty and the role of institutional entrepreneurship in it

Uchenna Uzo PhD Student IESE Business School

09/27/10-12/11/10

The multi-level dynamics associated with the constitution of fields and organizational templates in the Nigerian Movie Industry

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SCANCOR Annual Report 2010

SCANCOR VISITING SCHOLARS INDIVIDUAL REPORTS: Activities, networking & collaboration, publications generated

Tor W. Andreassen Professor, Chair Department of Marketing, Associate Dean MSc program in Marketing, BI Norwegian School of Management tor.w.andreassen@bi.no, http://www.bi.no/en/Research/Academic-homepage/?ansattid=FGL91029. June 1 – August 18, 2010 Research areal and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My field of research has been service marketing in general and service innovation specifically. I decided to concentrate on these topics for three reasons: first, service innovation is new to the field of service marketing. Second, we have been given a research grant from the Norwegian Research Council. Third, given the topic and the research project, I cannot think of a better place to be inspired than being at Stanford and Silicon Valley. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding I came to SCANCOR with the goal to work on my ongoing projects/papers so much neglected due to everyday trivialities. My plan was to work full days all week throughout the period and participate at relevant seminars offered by SCANCOR or Stanford. The time at SCANCOR allowed me to concentrate to read, write, and re-think. My visit was funded partly by my department's research fund and partly by my own savings. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford While on campus I have given two SCANCOR seminars:

• “Do birds of a feather flock together: the case of frontline employee and customer personality traits”, 19th July

• “Service productivity: the long-term effects of high-tech high-touch trade-offs”, 16th August.

I have during my stay not had any influential interactions and collaborations with Stanford scholars or students. It has not been possible to participate at Stanford seminars during my stay. Publications generated during stay During my time I have worked on a number of papers together with other authors:

• Signaling credence quality (new paper started up: targeted for the Journal of Service Research)

• Service productivity (moving forward towards completion: targeted for the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science)

• Technology-based customer complaining (rewritten after rejection: targeted for the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science)

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• Do birds of a feather flock together (completed and submitted to the the Journal of Economic Psychology)

• Coproduction (being re-written after rejection: targeted for the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science)

• Reciprocity (moving forward towards completion: targeted for the Journal of Marketing)

• Customer convenience (new paper started up: targeted for the Journal of Service Research)

In addition I have written 12 x 1 1/2 blog pages in Norwegian on my blog, resulting in four accepted and published chronicles in two leading national Norwegian newspapers and 36 Twitter postings. Outcome and impact of visit My time at SCANCOR allowed me to focus and dedicate myself and thus move forward all the above-mentioned papers. My research project “Value-driven service innovation” has benefited from my stay as I have been given the opportunity to read and reflect and write on the issue. I return to Norway as a more educated student on the topic - something that would not have been possible if I had stayed with my home institution. During lunches I have made a point of making myself available for the PhD students. Over the months this has resulted in two research ideas that has a potential and will be explored. Yosef Bhatti PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen yb@ifs.ku.dk, http://polsci.ku.dk/ansatte/detaljer/?id=220434  January 1 - May 28, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My primary focus was a project with my advisor, Kasper M. Hansen, for the Danish Ministry of Integration which will also be a part of my PhD dissertation. My hope was to complete a major report to the ministry as well as writing a couple of papers on the subject. Furthermore, my aim was to present and develop my work on organizational amalgamations, which would be of particular relevance for the SCANCOR community. In addition to the main projects, I was to work on a range of smaller projects within public administration and public opinion. Finally, I was hoping to get to know other Scandinavian scholars outside my own field (political science) that might be relevant to my research due to our common interest for organizations and quantitative methods. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding During my five months at SCANCOR, I mainly focused on the above mentioned project for the Danish Ministry of Integration. With my co-author, I worked on three main publications – one research report and two publications for scholarly journals. Furthermore, I was hoping to get inspiration to the methodological side of my project from other SCANCOR Scholars/Affiliates and Stanford faculty. I also met up with colleagues on a side project who was also conducting research in the Bay Area at the time. This chance to meet in person moved the project significantly forward.

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My stay was financed by the University of Copenhagen with an Eliteforsk grant from the Danish government. Presentations/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I participated in the Monday and Friday seminars at SCANCOR, and presented once. The paper was subsequently accepted to the European Journal of Political Research. I got some very good comments that could help me developing a possible second paper within the subject. Additionally, I had frequent visits to the Department of Political Science at Stanford and in particular attended talks from external speakers. One talk that has especially influenced my own work was on ethnic politics by Ryan D. Enos of Harvard University. The papers used state of the art methodology to estimate the effect of racial threat – a subject that I currently investigate in my main project. The talks gave me an opportunity to be familiar with the state of the art within my field before it is even published in our scholarly journals. This will be a big advantage for my future research. I also occasionally attended talks on Political Psychology. Off-campus activities and other interactions The location of Stanford also made it possible to meet with collaborators in the Bay Area. I had the chance to attend a seminar at Berkeley and meet up with some of my co-authors on a project there. This was an excellent opportunity for maintaining my network in the US, which can sometimes be difficult for a European student/scholar. Publications generated during stay The following papers and reports were mainly produced during my stay at SCANCOR: Bhatti, Yosef and Hansen, Kasper M: Valgdeltagelsen ved kommunalvalget 17. november 2009: http://www.nyidanmark.dk/NR/rdonlyres/4E15849D-A7CD-4D42-95B4-6B5DEAD19510/0/valgdeltagelse_rapport_2009.pdf

• Bhatti, Yosef and Hansen, Kasper M: Leaving the nest and the social act of voting (presented by my co-author at the ECPR Joint Sesssions, 2010).

• Bhatti, Yosef and Hansen, Kasper M: How elderly voters are demobilized

(presented by my co-author at EUI, Florence, June 2010).

• Bhatti, Yosef (forthcoming): What would happen if we were better informed? - simulating increased knowledge in EP elections, Representation

• Bhatti, Yosef and Erikson, Robert S.: How Poorly are the Poor Represented in

the US Senate? (forthcoming in Who Gets Represented?, Peter Enns and Christopher Wlezien, eds)

• Bhatti, Y.; K. Lindskow og Lene Holm Pedersen (2010): Burden sharing and

global climate negotiations The case of the Kyoto Protocol. Climate Policy, 10(15):131-147.

Finally, I worked on the following projects (papers will probably be completed during the autumn of 2010):

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• With Ben Highton and Robert S. Erikson: Differential representation and turnout in the US Senate.

• With Asmus Leth Olsen and Kasper M. Hansen: Economic voting at Danish local

Elections. Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided a stimulating environment for working on projects for my PhD dissertation and to obtain invaluable inspiration at the Scanor Seminars as well as at the Department of Political Science. My stay was more productive than my plan, and I believe this was due to the research environment at SCANCOR and Stanford in general. A surprising outcome was that several of the other scholars at SCANCOR were using the same types of (rather special) data sources as I was. I got some excellent advice from these more experienced scholars which have opened new possibilities for my research. Finally, on a personal level it was a great experience for me and my partner to be invited into the SCANCOR community and experience life at an American elite university.

Bernadette Bullinger Research & Teaching Assistant and PhD student, University of Mannheim bullinger@orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de, http://orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/117.html  March 29 - May 28, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Transfer and translation of management knowledge. My PhD thesis consists of three papers, which investigate the transfer and translation of management knowledge in different areas. The translation of the idea of productivity for Austrian and German audiences in the context of Marshall aid is the topic of one of my papers. In the two other papers my co-authors and I analyze the transfer of academic knowledge to organizations and its practical application. During my time at Stanford University I focused on my paper on the ideas of productivity and on my paper on knowledge transfer between management science and practice in the context of Corporate Social Responsibility. I was especially interested in feedback from Scandinavian and Stanford scholars as I draw on institutional theory and some specific Scandinavian branches of institutionalism like the “travels of ideas” concept. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding During my stay, I analyzed the data for my single-authored paper on the transfer of knowledge about Corporate Social Responsibility. I presented my results at the SCANCOR seminar. I also worked on a revision of my paper “The Idea of Productivity on its Journey to Europe: US Technical Assistance and Productivity Programs as Part of Marshall Aid in Austria and Germany” for submission to a journal. The discussions during my visit at Stanford were very inspiring for both papers, which are at quite different stages. For my paper on CSR it was helpful to get feedback on the theoretical frame for my empirical data. Commends and discussions enabled me to clarify the focus of my paper. I also discussed my paper on productivity with other SCANCOR scholars and came up with how it could be improved and developed further in new research

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projects. These opportunities for informal discussions of my research and for developing new research interests were only possible at SCANCOR. My visit was funded through grants from the Julius-Paul-Stiegler-Memorial-Foundation and the Department of Business Administration and Organizational Behavior, University of Mannheim. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I heard lectures and talks from different seminar series of the School of Education, the Stanford Social Science History Workshop, the Stanford Social Science and Technology Seminar, the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and the Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE). I attended Woody Powell’s, and Dan McFarland’s workshop “Networks and Organizations” and the “Social Psychology and Social Structure” workshop at the Department of Sociology, where Stanford PhD students and scholars presented their work. This was especially interesting for me as I gained an insight into current research methods and topics at Stanford University. I attended John Meyer’s and Francisco Ramirez’ Comparative Studies of Educational and Political Systems on Mondays, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I also presented my research. Beyond that, I had the chance to organize an informal meeting with SCANCOR colleagues and to give my job talk presentation. Both presentations provided very helpful feedback for improving my PhD papers and my job talk. As some of the SCANCOR scholars work on related topics or use similar theoretical frameworks, I gained a lot from their comments and their experience. But it was also very inspiring to talk to scholars with different scientific backgrounds. Off-campus activities and other interactions Because of the short period of time regarding my stay at SCANCOR I was not able to participate in additional off-campus activities and other interactions. Publications generated during stay Final revision of a paper before submission and substantial advancement of another PhD paper:

• Bullinger, B. & Dammann, O. The idea of productivity on its journey to Europe: US Technical Assistance and Productivity programs within the context of Marshall Aid in Austria and Germany. In final revision process.

• Bullinger, B. 2010. CSR – Challenging Scientific Research: Do practitioners benefit from management science? Draft under revision.

Outcome and impact of visit I very much appreciate my time as a SCANCOR visiting scholar. SCANCOR provided me with the opportunity to meet Scandinavian and Stanford scholars and to engage in a lively academic exchange with them, which enriched my research. Attending various seminars, workshops and lectures I got to know interesting new perspectives and methods and gained invaluable insights into the US research culture. Discussions with

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SCANCOR colleagues contributed to substantial revisions and improvement of my current papers and inspired me to develop new ideas for further research projects.

Haldor Byrkjeflot Senior researcher at Uni Rokkan and Department of Administration and Organization Theory University of Bergen haldor.byrkjeflot@uni.no January 20 – June 15, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research interests are in the fields of public administration and public reforms with a particular focus on healthcare and branding of public sector. While at SCANCOR I worked on papers related to the future of bureaucracy, New Public Management reforms in healthcare, hybrid management and a book on reputation management in the public sector. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My work centered on completing manuscripts for publication; initiating projects, developing and presenting my work. I benefitted from conversations with Stanford scholars, students and visitors, as well as SCANCOR fellows and postdocs. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I presented a paper on bureaucracy and received useful feedback at the SCANCOR Monday Seminar Series (March 8, 2010) I took active part in SCANCOR activities, from Mondays’ research seminar and munch, to Fridays’ informal seminar, lunch with Jim March, and afternoon “wine & cheese”. I had useful and stimulating conversations with Stanford professors, visiting faculty, SCANCOR fellows and postdocs, and presenters at Stanford seminars. It was nice to celebrate the publication of the book The Stanford School of Organization Theory. I am presently a member of the SCANCOR board and it was in this capacity that I took part in a board meeting and various meetings related to the recruitment of a new director of SCANCOR, the development of a new office space for SCANCOR, and also meetings introducing the new director to Nordic partners in the Bay area or introducing Norwegian partners, such as representatives of the Norwegian Research Council, to SCANCOR. I also took part in some seminars at University of Berkeley. Publications generated during stay

• Hybridledelse i sykehus - – en gjennomang av litteraturen, i Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier nr. 3 2010 med Berg, L.N. og Gro Kvåle

• Omdømmebygging – drivkrefter, kritikk og paradokser, Scandinavian Journal of

Public Administration 12 (1/2): 3-24

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• “Healthcare states and Medical Professions: the challenges from New Public Management”, in Christensen, T. and P. Lægreid (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management pp.147-161 Aldershot: Ashgate

• ”Omforming av ledelse og styring i offentlig og privat virksomhet”, i Ladegård,

Gro og Vabo, Signy Irene (red.) Ledelse og Styring Bergen: Fagbokforlaget

• ”Bureaucracy – and idea whose time has come, Forthcoming in Research on the Socoiology of Organizations (with Paul Dugay)

Outcome and impact of visit With SCANCOR fellow Silviya Svejenova, Jesper Strandgaard (CBS, former SCANCOR fellow) we are developing a paper From Label to Practice: Creating New Nordic Cuisine, accepted for presentation at New Institutionalism Workshop, Lyon, France.. Overall, my SCANCOR visiting period was productive and pleasant, full of exploration and insight. It expanded my horizons, and opened my mind to new ideas, collaborations, and friendships.

Tom Christiansen Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo Adjunct Professor Rokkan Centre, University of Bergen Adjunct Professor City University of Hong Kong tom.christensen@stv.uio.no http://folk.uio.no/stvtc1/ September 15 - December 15, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research field is public administration research, more specifically comparative civil service research and comparative public reform research, based on organizational theories. During my stay at SCANCOR I consentrated on two empirical areas:a) starting a new project on comparative university governance reforms with Chiqui Ramirez at the School of Education, and b) working on a project of welfare reform. Stanford and SCANCOR is a place where combining organizational theory and studies of reforms is natural. Particularly valuable is of course the nearness to the strong research milieu on higher education at the School of Education. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding Always when I go to SCANCOR I hope to get some peace and quiet from the busy days back home, which is furthering concentration on my research. I worked on a new project with Chiqui Ramirez on comparative university governance and formalization, and an ongoing project on welfare administrative reform. I used research money from my department to fund my visit. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I gave the following presentations while at Stanford:

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• Nov.1, 2010. SCANCOR Monday Seminar. University Governance Reforms – Potential Problems of More Autonomy?

• Nov.11, 2010. Higher Education Seminar. Discussant on Carnoy, Dossani and Tongliemnak paper ‘Understanding the Expansion of Engineering Education in India.

• Nov.29, 2010. Comparative systems workshop. On studying the formalization of universities – analytical frames and empirical suggestions.

• Dec.3.,2010.SCANCOR Friday Workshop. How to Assess Administrative Reform? Investigating the Adoptation and Preliminary Impacts of the Norwegian Welfare Administrative Reform.

Influential interactions and collaborations with Stanford scholars and students: Chiqui Ramirez, John Meyer, Dick Scott, Giili Drori, Jim March, Mitchell Stevens, David Labaree, Mike Atkin, Michael Kirst, and the colleagues and students at the seminars I attended. I attended the following seminars: SCANCOR Monday Seminar Higher Education Seminar Comparative Systems Workshop SCANCOR Friday Workshop I primarily got wider perspectives from different fields on my research, but also learned more about research on higher education, something that is valuable in my new university governance project. Off-campus activities and other interactions Oct.8, 2010. Presentation at NORTANA (Norwegian teachers at American Universities) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Modernization of universities in Norway – perspectives, experiences and challenges. Oct.11,2010.Presentation at School of Policy and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington. Transcending New Public Management – perspectives, trends and challenges. November 4.-5. CIDE, Mexico City. Seminars on organization theory and comparative public reform. Worked with professor Joel Aberbach, UCLA on an article about why public reforms so often fail. Publications generated during stay

• On university reform: a preliminary draft of an article with Chiqui Ramirez. • On welfare reform: A report – ‘Etableringen av forvaltningsenheten og

pensjonsenhetene i NAV – en gjennomtenkt reorganisering med positive effekter? (The establisment of administrative units and pension units in the central Norwegian welfare administration – a rational reorganization with positive effects?

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I also revised and resubmitted several articles while at SCANCOR. Outcome and impact of visit Since I’ve stayed at SCANCOR about 4 ½ year alltogether, it indicates that I truly enjoy my stays here. I came originally because of the very advanced organizational theory research at Stanford, which has very much influenced my research. I also came because of good working conditions in an international and vibrant research milieu, which has also influenced me quite a lot. I’ve also learned a great deal during the years about research in social sciences and in business schools in Scandinavia, but also at Stanford, which is very valuable. On a personal note, it’s always rewarding to be confronted wit a cultural and political environment that is so different from back home. Historically, my stays at SCANCOR have been very important for my academic development. To experience a very different academic culture at Stanford is also interesting. A new project on comparative university governance and formalization resulted from my stay at SCANCOR Gregoire Croidieu Ph.D. Candidate, EM Lyon and Hanken gregoire.croidieu@grenoble-em.com January – August, 2010 My research deals with institutional change and persistence, which I study mostly in the context of the wine industry. I am currently leading a research project on the emergence, structuration and transformation of the Bordeaux wine region in France over the 1700-2000 period. My SCANCOR experience occurred between the defense of my dissertation (in December 2009) and the beginning of an Assistant Professor in Management position at Grenoble Ecole de Management (starting Sept 1, 2010). Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My experience at SCANCOR has been very much like a short postdoc. A first set of goals was to make the most of the resources there to advance what I started in my PhD, to present and discuss my research and to convert my dissertation in a set of publishable manuscripts (with a tenure-like process ahead in mind). A second set of goals was to get exposed to as many as possible new ideas, theories and methodologies in order to broaden my perspective on organizational research. A third set of goals was to meet as many as possible junior and senior researchers, interact and increase my understanding of a North-American tradition of research. The breadth of theoretical and methodological expertise available at Stanford through SCANCOR is simply unique and I felt that getting this exposure was the best use of my time over there.I have been working on the papers I presented (see the list below) and on the various courses I took (see the list below). My time at SCANCOR has been extremely valuable as I have been able to advance almost all these goals. This experience went also beyond my expectations as I met fascinating junior and senior scholars who generously contributed to my research in

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countless, invaluable and novel ways. Beyond my own research, I am simply overwhelmed and extremely impressed by what I have seen and heard. The variety of collective and collaborative cultures and structures of research was also an important discovery for me. I have also been extremely impressed by the great combination of broad intellectual concerns with a very focused ‘normal science’ approach. To finance this experience, I received two grants by two different European business schools and financed personally what was not covered. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I gave six presentations of three different papers during my stay. The list is provided below. From the bateaux to châteaux: Field reconfiguration in the Port of Bordeaux, France (1780-1850)

- SCANCOR informal seminar – 09/07/2010 - Business School Macro Seminar – 13/07/2010

Ought to be otherwise! Resistance in the Saint-Emilion Wine Field (1982-2007)

- Network and Organization seminar – 02/04/2010 - Business School Macro Seminar – 12/04/2010

The Empire Strike back: Why the invention of the wine nobility identity led to the maintenance of the 1855 Médoc wine classification

- Economic Sociology and Organization Seminar – 05/04/2010 - SCANCOR Informal seminar – 22/01/2010. It was also a job talk rehearsal

I repeatedly participated to these seminars (in addition to the Monday Munch and the formal SCANCOR Seminar). I also briefly took part to Prof. John Meyer’s seminar. Thanks to the courses and seminars, I interacted on several occasions with a cohort of Stanford sociology and business PhD students. These interactions and exchanges were extremely helpful to understand the organization of research, the career system in the US and plenty other subjects. I also met several times Prof. Woody Powell and Prof. John Meyer who kindly reviewed three of my papers. These exchanges have always been very intense and inspiring moments for me with probably lasting effects on my thinking and research. I feel especially privileged about it. I also met Professors Doug McAdam, Dick Scott, Mike Hannan, Mitchell Stevens, Huggy Rao and Sarah Soule, who all generously gave me some of their time, contributed to my development and provided comments and suggestions well beyond their duty. I took part in four courses: SOC 378 (Prof. John Meyer’s course on institutional theory and global studies), SOC 376 (Prof. Huggy Rao’s course on social movement), SOC 383 (Prof. Nancy Tuma’s course on categorical and limited dependent variables) and SOC 384 (Prof. David Grusky’s course on new methods in social sciences). Practically, based on the social movement course, I have been able to write a new paper on social movement, a paper that I am about to submit in a peer-reviewed journal. All these courses will be helpful throughout my career. Particularly, the course by John

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Meyer was also an opportunity to get a broader and finer view on institutional theory, which impacted the whole understanding I have from my main literature. Seminars were much more like going to the gym: it has been a great training for learning how to design a paper on a variety of subjects and how to comment constructively a paper (and to meet people). The repeated interactions I had with senior faculty were simply amazing. It will take me some time to realize how much it affected my research. Off-campus activities and other interactions I participated in three conferences: one in Bordeaux (France) on social movements and two at University of California at Davis (one on qualitative research, the other on Wine Economics). I did some archival work and interviews at UC Davis, a university fairly specialized on the wine industry. I have met Prof. Heather Haveman, Neil Fligstein and Paul Duguid at UC Berkeley. I gave a talk at the INSITE seminar led by Anne Miner at the Wisconsin Maddison business school. I had a job talk at the business school of McGill University. Publications generated during stay I sent out two chapters for edited volumes:

• An Inconvenient Truce: Cultural Domination and Contention after the 1855 Medoc Wine Classification Event – forthcoming in Fairs and Festivals edited by Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen (Professors at the Copenhagen Business School), Cambridge University Press.

• Why effective entrepreneurial innovations sometimes fail to diffuse: identity-based interpretations of appropriateness in the Saint-Émilion, Languedoc, Piedmont and Golan Heights wine regions, forthcoming in Institutions and Entrepreneurship, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David (Professors at Cornell and McGill University), in Research on the Sociology of Work.

I submitted one paper to the Journal of Management. In addition, I developed two new manuscripts out of the courses I took here. Outcome and impact of visit All the activities and interactions I took part in had a tremendous effect on how I see my research, how I define the scope and ambition of my research and how I want to conduct it. The SCANCOR experience is radically different from what I have experienced in European business schools, simply starting by the fact that the organizational research is tied to a multi-disciplinary university and that professors and students travel across these multiple sites. If I had to select one dimension among so many, I would point to that the collective approach to research was a wonderful discovery. It does help the whole community to grow, gain experience and develop and share some tacit insights. I am fortunate to be involved in an emerging paper with Woody Powell and another one with Eero Vaara.

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Overall, I feel extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to live such an experience. I am deeply grateful to SCANCOR for it. Michael Dahl Professor, Dept. of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark md@business.aau.dk, http://msdahl.com January 5 – July 9, 2010 I have a broad research area and have traditionally focused on migration, geography, entrepreneurship and clusters. But in recent years, and during my visit at SCANCOR, I have focused on the relationship between economics, organizations and health. I focus on quantitative and quasi-experimental approaches to provide better empirical understanding of theoretical relationships from the existing literature. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding I wanted my visit to give me a break from administrative tasks. These can be obstacles for large, long research efforts. I wanted to strengthen my relationship to faculty at Stanford, specifically in organizational behavior. I am largely satisfied with the visit. I certainly enjoyed my time here and got the time to focus on advancing current projects and developing new ones. I met with most of the people that I aimed at meeting. I would have liked more interactions with them, but I also did not want to bother them too much. But I am sure that I will keep in contact with most of them and will benefit from knowing them in the future. My visit was funded by two large research grants. One from a private, Danish foundation and the other from the Danish Social Science Research Council (Forskningsrådet for Samfund og Erhverv). Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I gave two presentations:

1. I presented my solo paper on organizational change and stress of employees as part of the SCANCOR invited seminar series in February.

2. I presented a paper with Olav Sorenson on performance of entrepreneurial firms and how it depends on their choice of geographical location at a SCANCOR informal seminar in May.

I enjoyed meetings with Woody Powell, Jesper Sorenson, John Paul Ferguson, Huggy Rao, Michael Hannan, Jeff Pfeffer, Glenn Carroll, Bill Barnett and Linus Dahlander. I attended the SCANCOR informal and invited seminar series. I attended most seminars in Organizational Behavior at GSB as well as the macro lunches of the sociology group in OB at GSB. I used the seminars to get a sense of the topics and methods applied to the excellent work presented. I tried to broaden my horizon and think about new perspectives from social psychology and sociology by relating it to my own research. This is part of my continuous development as a researcher. I used my conversations and meetings with

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above-mentioned people to bounce off my research ideas and get a clear impression about what they think about it and what they think are the most promising ideas. I plan to use them to give me feedback in the future, so it was essential to get to know them face-to-face. Publications generated during stay

• Michael S. Dahl & Olav Sorenson, “The Social Attachment to Place”, Final version prepared and accepted for Social Forces during my visit.

• Michael S. Dahl & Olav Sorenson, “Home Sweet Home: Location Choice of

Entrepreneurs and Performance of their Ventures”, Manuscript finalized and submitted to Management Science during visit.

• Michael S. Dahl, “Organizational Change and Employee Stress”, Manuscript

vastly improved and prepared for first submission (January-February), conditionally accepted by Management Science in April, revised version submitted in July.

• Michael S. Dahl & Lamar Pierce, “The Psychological and Sexual Health Costs of

Income Inequality in Marriage”, Project initiated and submitted during visit. Currently under review at a top-tier medical journal.

• Michael S. Dahl, Jimmi Nielsen and Ramin Mojtabai, “The Effects of Becoming

an Entrepreneur on the Use of Psychotropics among Entrepreneurs and their Spouses", Final version prepared and accepted for Scandinavian Journal of Public Health during my visit.

Outcome and impact of visit I got the time and feedback needed to advance a lot of projects that I was working on before I came. Some of these were even accepted before I left. I used conversations with faculty to advance some new ideas that I will be working on the years to come. My relationship with specific faculty members was enhanced and this will benefit me in the future. I would have had a hard time getting the time, energy and feedback (from Stanford faculty) at my home university. I felt that I got less out of the SCANCOR environment than I might have expected. Most of the visitors were very nice personally and I enjoyed their company. But I think that the SCANCOR visiting scholars were a very diverse group of scholars. This was not a problem in terms of the areas of research, more the style and skill-level at which research was carried out. With all due respect, I think that some scholars could have benefitted more from their visit by absorbing more of the stylistic and methodological excellence that is present at Stanford. One solution could be to strengthen the connections between scholars and their related groups by at least partly locating them physically at the respective departments at Stanford. This could be a partial implementation of the SCANCOR Post-Doc model for the ordinary visitors. This obviously has a lot of challenges too, but is something to think about. Rikke Juul Dalsted

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PhD fellow, MA Sociology, Reg. Nurse The Research Unit for General Practice, Department of Public Health Copenhagen University rikkedal@sund.ku.dk www.fe.ku.dk September 1, 2010 – July 31, 2011 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research area is investigation of inter-professional process of cooperation within public health-care, and development of patient trajectories within Danish cancer treatment. During my four month stay at SCANCOR in 2010 I have been focusing on my analysis and writing of scientific articles for my PhD-thesis. Mission, expectation, specific projects and funding My mission for my stay was to work on the analysis and connect to research within the field of organizational studies. My expectations have fully been met, and I have benefited greatly in connecting with Stanford scholars and people form the Bay Area. Funding Danish Cancer Society - Research Unit for General practice – Torben og Alice Frimodts Fond; Margot & John Fribergs Fond; OTICON FONDEN William Demants og Hustru Ida Emilies Fond; Frimodt-Heineke Fonden Krista og Viggo Petersens Fond; Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat for yngre videnskabsmænd og –kvinder Interaction/Presentations/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I had the opportunity to interact with Stanford scholars and others relevant to my current work and coming project. - Kathryn M. McDonald, MM, CHP/PCOR Executive Director and Senior Scholar. About coordination of health care. - Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford University School of Education. About using mobile phones for collecting data. - Peter Martelli, PhD fellow Health Service & Policy Analysis at Berkeley. - Piya Sorcar, founder and chief executive officer of TeachAIDS, founded at the Stanford University School of Education. - Mette Terp Hoybye, MSc, PhD, visiting scholar at Stanford School of Medicine, Center on Stress and Health. I attended the SCANCOR seminars series on Mondays as well as the informal SCANCOR seminars series on Fridays. I also attended James March´s Monday munch. Outside SCANCOR I attended various relevant seminars under Organizational Behavior Seminars at Stanford graduate school of business Wednesdays from 12:00- 1:15 pm. As well as under program of liberation technology seminars Thursdays 4.30-6pm. Off-campus activities and other interactions I attended meetings and receptions at Innovation Center Denmark various times. October 24-29 I participated in Innovation Center Denmark’s HealthCareVan. The purpose of the conference was to bridge Danish and US innovation in healthcare. Publications during stay

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At the beginning of my stay I was working on an article, which was accepted in the Danish Medical Bulletin, published 3 January 2011. At the last half of my stay I have been working on a paper about inter-professional cooperation, a conference paper, and an application for a special conference.

Ole Dammann PhD Student, University of Mannheim dammann@orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de, http://orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/  January 4 - March 5, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Organizational Learning: I examine how the knowledge of specialists of different domains can be efficiently integrated in the process of developing a product within innovation projects in the chemical industry. I am particularly interested in identifying underlying mechanisms that govern the different knowledge integration mechanisms and therefore constitute a meta level of organizational learning. For my PhD thesis I conducted 33 interviews in a chemical company. During my stay at SCANCOR, I focused on the data analysis as part of my PhD-thesis, networking with Scandinavian and Stanford researchers as well as getting familiar with the American research culture. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My specific purpose for the visit was to analyze my data and discuss my ideas with other scholars of my field. The stay was quite crucial for the progress of my PhD thesis. The exchange with SCANCOR and Stanford scholars gave me rich and useful insights for my PhD-project. Beside my PhD-research I also had the chance to hear about recent developments and other ideas within the field of organizational research that will contribute to my future projects. In the course of my stay I got to know both SCANCOR researchers and Stanford scholars with whom I had inspiring conversations. All these aspects as well as the environment as it was offered by SCANCOR and Stanford University was a unique and important experience for me. My visit was partly funded by the Julius-Paul-Stiegler-Memorial-Foundation and the department of business administration and organizational behaviour at the University of Mannheim. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I took part in certain lectures and colloquia from different seminar series of the School of Education, the Graduate School of Business, e.g. the Organizational Behavior Seminars, the Comparative Sociology Workshop, the Social Science and Technology Seminar and the MAPSS colloquium. WTO colloquium.

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Moreover, I attended the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays and James G. March’s Monday munch, where I presented my ideas and findings of my PhD-thesis. In addition I got the great opportunity to speak to Stanford Scholars relevant to my work such as James G. March, who provided inspiring ideas for my research and feedback on my cases. I received invaluable comments on my research from people directly related to my field of research but also from scholars with other research backgrounds. Both were incredibly helpful. Publications generated during stay Substantial advancement of my PhD thesis (monograph):

• Dammann, Ole (2010): Collaboration between Specialists in the Chemical Industry: Mechanisms of Knowledge Integration. Work in progress: PhD-Thesis to be submitted in 2010 (Monograph).

Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR allowed me to discuss my ideas and findings of my PhD-thesis with scholars related to my field of research and also with scholars from other research backgrounds. Discussions with Stanford Professor James G. March were especially fruitful. I also enjoyed meeting Stanford and SCANCOR PhD students as well as Post Docs interested in similar issues which is an opportunity for future academic collaboration. Through the participation in seminars and colloquia I could also experience the research culture and research styles at a top university in the USA. Pradeep Divakaran PhD Candidate Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark prad@asb.dk http://www.asb.dk/staff.aspx?pid=17164 June 4 - September 3, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research interests lies in the field of User and Open Innovation and I specifically study the role of different types of communities as a form of collective intelligence in problem solving and decision making collaboratively. The objective of my research was to explore whether online community makes collective judgments, which are as good as company and industry experts and to examine if the community is reliable all the time or under what conditions? Can a firm, by collecting the data available from the online community transfer them into useful information for product development and specially predicting market performance of new products? The objective of this research is to explore the role of online community to solve the core problems in new product development (NPD) and there is no prior strong scientific evidence in this regard.

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Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My main goal while at Stanford was to analyze the data that I have been collecting and also to complete my 2nd paper and start writing my 3rd paper. I was also looking forward to collaborate with international researchers at Stanford and Scandinavian researchers at SCANCOR and participate in seminars and courses. I also was looking forward to experience Stanford culture and meet their inspiring minds and to enjoy the American lifestyle. I am very glad that I managed to make my stay at SCANCOR productive and successful. I was funded through my PhD budget by the department of Marketing and Statistics, where I am employed. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford SCANCOR Seminar, Stanford University, June 28, 2010. Presented the paper “'I don't care what the film critics say, my audience will decide the fate of my movies-Film Director. An empirical investigation of who make a better judgment-Film critics or a movie-based Online User Community?”

I had the opportunity to interact with several research scholars from SCANCOR as well as from the Stanford School of Design. I benefitted a lot specifically from my interactions with Prof. Tor Andreassen, Line Olsen, Christine Isakson, Mikko Laine, Bettina Maish, Kiisa Hulkko-Nyman, Gote Nyman, Linus Dahlander and many other researchers. I am constantly in touch with many of these researchers. We already discussed potential collaborations and we are discussing on the same. My discussion with the researchers while at SCANCOR helped to make corrections in the papers that I was working on. I gained new knowledge during those discussions and new methods of analyzing data. Off-campus activities and other interactions While I was SCANCOR, I participated and presented in the following two major conferences outside of Stanford:

• 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (August 6-

10, 2010). Presented the paper “Using Online User Community for Pre-release Market Evaluation of Motion Pictures”.(Peer-reviewed)

• 8th Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA (August 2-4, 2010). Presented the paper “Understanding Pre-release User Activities in Online Communities and it’s Antecedents: A Netnographic Approach”. (Non-Peer reviewed)

Publications generated during stay • (Working paper) Divakaran, P., Vujovic, S. (2010). Online User Communities as better predictors and influencers of product market performance than experts-The Case of Motion Picture Industry.

• (Working paper) Divakaran, P., Søndergaard, H. (2010). Understanding Pre-release User Activities in Online Communities and its Antecedents: A Netnographic Approach.

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Outcome and impact of visit At SCANCOR, I gained international collaboration experience and also working in a multi cultural environment - both of which are essential for a successful career. The weekly SCANCOR seminar is highly insightful and always provided multi-disciplinary feedback and new perspectives from the other researchers. We started a similar seminar here at my department, which is open to researchers from all departments. I am currently discussion a project with one of the SCANCOR colleague who has invited me to visit his University later this year and I am working on that prospect. Apart from work, I enjoyed life at Stanford and Palo Alto. We had the weekly Friday wine and cheese party, which I miss very much. We also had frequent get-togethers and also visited restaurants of our own nationalities. We learnt many things of each other’s culture and had frequent discussions on philosophy. Overall it was a satisfying visit to SCANCOR. My report is not complete without mentioning my special gratitude to Ms. Annette Eldredge, who took care of everything almost several months before my stay such as handling travelling documents till the time we left SCANCOR, to ensure that our stay at SCANCOR was as much memorable as possible without any hassles. I should also say thanks to Prof. Woody Powell who gave me the opportunity to visit SCANCOR and also to Associate Professor Mitchell L. Stevens, who took time to lunch with us and share his thoughts.

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist Associate Professor, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg uez@gri.gu.se, http://www.hgu.gu.se/item.aspx?id=3332 January 5 – May 14, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR The visit at SCANCOR gave me the opportunity to work with two ongoing projects. The first concerned research on gender from the new institutional theory perspective. I set out to learn more about the current strands of new institutional theory in America, and to apply these in my research project on institutionalization of gender changes in organizations. In addition, for my second project I worked with other parts of my research focusing technology aspects in organizing. For both these projects, I had the opportunity to meet Stanford researchers for discussions and deeper insights. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My specific purpose for the visit was to analyze and theorize field material from a research project called "Is it possible to make gender equality in organizations sustainable?" using a combination of previous research based on neo institutional theory and gender studies. The visit was funded through grants from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, from the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, and my own research funding. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford

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During my stay at Stanford University I took part in certain lectures and colloquia from different seminar series of the Clayman Institute of Gender Research, the Center of Work, Technology and Organization, the Graduate School of Business, e.g. the Organizational Behavior Seminars, the Comparative Sociology Workshop, the IREPP Colloquium. I attended James G. March’s Monday munch (gave a presentation as well), the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I also introduced my research in form of a revised version of a paper which was under revision for re-submission to the journal Organization. The Op-Ed Seminar at the Clayman Institute of Gender Research, was very inspiring and a very welcomed opportunity to meet Stanford faculty, and to get to know more about research conducted. This course also provided deeper insights into American society and culture in general. In addition, I had the great opportunity to speak to Stanford scholars relevant to my work, such as James G. March, John Meyer, Stephen Barley, Walter Powell, Gili S. Drori, Richard Scott, Mitchell L. Stevens, and Deborah Meyerson. These scholars not only provided inspiring ideas for my ongoing work, but did also provide material for continuing exploration of the research relations among American and Scandinavian scholars. Attending a tennis class twice a week gave me the opportunity to interact with Stanford students, an interaction which provided further understanding of the Stanford University and the culture among the students. Off-campus activities and other interactions Attending AACSBI international Conference and Annual Meeting, April 18-20, 2010, Anaheim, Los Angeles as representative of School of Business, Economics and Law. The voluntary work which I did an hour a week at Kindergarten, Escondido Elementary School, has to be mentioned as it was helpful both in regard of pedagogical insights, English as language and American culture. Publications generated during stay Book manuscript: Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla & Renemark, David (forthcoming 2011) Vad hände sedan? En studie av hur förändring av jämställdhet görs uthållig (working title: "Is it possible to make gender equality in organizations sustainable?"). Malmö: Liber. Book chapter: Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla (forthcoming, 2011) Seduced by post-structuralist readings. In Jensen, Tommy and Wilson, Tim. (eds.) On the Shoulder of Giants. Lund: Studentlitteratur. Manuscripts for journals: Diedrich, Andreas Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla & Styhre, Alexander. Sorting People Out. Article re-submitted to Culture and Organization, May 2010. Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla. Organizing technologies or technologies doing organizing. Preparation of paper to be submitted to Information and Organization.

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Outcome and impact of visit I had expected to use most of the time writing and reading but ended up being busy attending seminars and talking to interesting colleagues. This was very valuable, as I still had opportunities to fulfill my writing and reading assignments. Furthermore, I gained invaluable experience on the research culture and research styles in the United States. It was very interesting being confronted with the quantitative approach in its immensity. The technological driven context was also very inspiring. I will continue working on the project exploring the relations among American and Scandinavian scholars. In addition, I hope I will find possibilities to continue my work on the impact of technologies in organizing, hopefully with Stanford scholars. Aino Halinen-Kaila Professor (Marketing), Turku School of Economics aihaka@utu.fi (or aino.halinen-kaila@tse.fi)  June 1 – August 18, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My fields of interest are business-to-business marketing, relationship marketing, professional services marketing, business networks and networking and qualitative process research in networks. During my visit to Stanford I concentrated on my current research project on “The methodology for the study of business network dynamics”. Dynamics of interorganizational networks and methodologies for studying it form common interests for industrial marketing and organization researchers, which made me, consider SCANCOR as a suitable site to visit. I worked for two article manuscripts during my visit; one for event-methodology and the other for structural change in networks. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My mission to visit SCANCOR was to get feedback for my article ideas and manuscripts, to get time to read on network methodologies and inter-organizational research on network change, to get contacts to organization researchers working in the field and also to get to know better the American educational system, at postgraduate level in particular. My expectations related to feedback and the research seminars were more than fulfilled. SCANCOR seminars offered a multidisciplinary, high quality forum for presenting research and getting open and critical comments on it. The combination of Scandinavian discussion/workshop style and a more ambitious and aggressive US argumentation proved a good mixture and helped to broaden perspectives on one’s own and also others’ research topics. SCANCOR also offered an excellent surrounding for reading and writing (e.g. good access to electronic databases and libraries, a friendly social context and working environment). Related to networking, the three months’ summer term is clearly not enough, but worked well within the SCANCOR group. As to the American educational system, the Campus and its events worked well for experiential learning, but contacts to university faculty remained scant. My visit was financed partly by the Academy of Finland’s senior scientist funding and partly by grants from the Foundation for Economic Education and the Dr (hc) Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford

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During my stay at Stanford University I gave two paper presentations at SCANCOR informal seminars. First was June 14 on “Process research in business networks – An event-based method for qualitative analysis” and the second, July 26 on “Strategic action and network change: How acquisitions restructure interfirm networks”. I received valuable feedback and had influential research discussions with professors Mitchell Stevens and Woody Powell from SCANCOR and other visiting scholars, particularly Prof. Tor Andreassen, Dr. Line Olsen and researchers Christine Isaksson and Kiisa Hulkko-Nyman. I attended one Stanford Breakfast Meeting presentation targeted for managers and participated to the Workshop on Publishing the Journal Article organized by Jonathan Hunt and the Hume Writing Center. Experience of the workshop and discussions with Jonathan Hunt resulted in concrete ideas of how to design a writing and article-course for doctoral and post doctoral researchers at my home institution, Turku School of Economics. Off-campus activities and other interactions In August I attended the Academy of Management Conference in Montreal and presented a paper in the Symposium of Entrepreneurship on Professional Service Firm’s: Framing a Research Agenda. The paper was co-authored with Elina Jaakkola and dealt with “Marketing in professional service firms: Turning expertise into customer-perceived value”. The Conference turned out to a success in terms of learning about process methodologies and systematic literature reviews, as well as of building new contacts. I have cooperated concretely with Prof. Ann Langley (HEC Montreal) since then. Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided me an inspiring surrounding to concentrate on my own research after years of being primarily a supervisor for other people’s work. This was possible because of the sabbatical year financed by the Academy of Finland and the visit to Stanford that made the year something special. The visit was scientifically empowering. Being away from home institution gave new perspectives to research but also to university life and the American university system more generally. Four issues stick out as major learning experiences that gave food for future development: - The rivalry for talent in current university competition: how to recruit foreign researchers - The rivalry for publishing: how to educate doctoral students and post doc researchers in writing scientific articles - Learning from interdisciplinary discussions: how to prepare for discussions with researchers who have different and potentially conflicting views on scientific methods and “good science” - Building international research contacts: how to get in contacts and how to turn contacts into collaborative relationships. Overall the visit was an important learning experience of how to live in US and make university visits part of professional career and learning. Personal hunger for foreign university visits grew stronger and so did my credibility as a mentor and superior for tens of university teachers and researchers who I try to encourage for a more international career. A concrete outcome for my home institution is that I am currently designing a new course with my colleagues on scientific article publishing. The course is targeted for both doctoral students and post doc researchers.

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Anette Hallin PhD, Dept of Industrial Economics and Management The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Anette.hallin@indek.kth.se  http://www.kth.se/itm/inst/indek/medarbetare/hemsidor/anette-hallin-1.10602  January 1 - June 10, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR During my time at SCANCOR I did a two-fold empirical study, focusing on Silicon Valley as an entrepreneurial area. Known worldwide for its innovativity, its network-forms of organizing, and its entrepreneurial atmosphere, Silicon Valley was the obvious choice for this kind of study. In addition to this, I also did work on an on-going research project that I am involved with together with my colleagues at the Royal Institute of Technology regarding “Competitive service industry”. Not only did I carry out analysis-work of empirical material collected by my colleagues in Sweden, but I also met with and interviewed researchers and people from the American professional service industry. (e.g. Achieveglobal and IBM) Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding One part of the empirical study I carried out while in the area consists of a series of semi-structure interviews with 12 Swedish entrepreneurs that have started businesses in the area. All are well-educated (white) men and all work within the ICT-industry. In order to get a different image of entrepreneurship in “the Valley”, the second study focuses on entrepreneurship among women and immigrants who do not run businesses related to ICT:s, but still in the area. The study consists of a participant observation of a “Business class I” and “Business class II”-course that were given with 1 evening session a week to a group of entrepreneurs by the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center in East Palo Alto, and of semi-structured interviews with the 5 women who were in the two classes. When returning back to Sweden my intention is to write three papers based on my empirical material. The first paper will be about Swedish entrepreneurship in America, relating to Saxenian’s work (“The New Argonauts”), cultural differences and the possibilities of taking advantage of new ways of organizing. The second will be about gender and immigration aspects of entrepreneurship, and the third will be written about some common theme emerging out of the two different sets of empirical material. Apart from collecting the empirical material presented above I met with a number of other Scandinavians as well as Americans in the area working either in or with the ICT-industry, or with incubators and aid for entrepreneurs. My purpose for visiting SCANCOR, Stanford and Silicon Valley was to see as much as possible, to get acquainted with the university as well as the industry in the area, and to carry out an empirical study. All of this I achieved (as far as this is possible during a 6-month stay). My visit was funded by Söderbergsstiftelsen (70%), and by Vinnova through The Royal Institute of Technology (30%). Towards the end of my stay I was also notified that I had been rewarded the prestigious Wallander-scholarship from 2010-2013.

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Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I participated in lectures, colloquia and seminar-series held at the School of Education, the Graduate School of Business, the Clayman-institute and at the School of Engineering. I also participated in the Stanford methods-seminar series for graduate students and met personally with several professors, such as Prof. Stephen Barley, Prof. James March, Prof. Henry Etzkowitz and Prof. Marina Ranga to discuss my work. I attended James G. March’s Monday munch, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays where I discussed a research idea (March 15th); as well as SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays where I also introduced my research in form of a paper (Feb 5th) that I later submitted to a journal. Off-campus activities and other interactions My empirical work mostly took place off-campus. In addition to this work I attended the Conference on “Reimagining Method” at the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (April 6-8th) where I presented a paper together with a Canadian colleague (Viviane Sergi – see under 5 below). I also visited UC Berkeley several times and met with Prof. A-L Saxenian to discuss my work. Further, I was invited to participate in a Vinnova-held study trip in the so called “Key-actors’ program” which I did for two days; one at the Plug-and-Play-center in Sunnyvale; one at UC Berkeley. Here I presented my own research, met with the “key-actors” and learned more about how the so called “innovation-system” works in California. I also received Swedish colleagues from my home university as well as from a different university and arranged meetings etc for them. Through a seminar I met a Swedish newly graduated engineer who had done some courses at Stanford and who for work reasons live in Palo Alto. He became interested in my work and will apply to become a PhD-student at my department at the Royal Institute of Technology from the fall of 2010. Publications generated during stay During my stay I revised and /re/submitted the following articles:

• Hallin, A & Shultz-Nybacka, P (submitted to Organization) “Santa Boss is coming to town or The giving of novels as Christmas gifts in a large organization”

• Sergi, V & Hallin, A (submitted to Qualitative Research on Organizations and Management) “Thick performances, not just thick descriptions: The processual nature of qualitative research”

• Hallin, A & Dobers, P (submitted to The Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism) “Representing Place. Uncovering the Political Dimension of Guided Tours in Stockholm”

In addition, I initiated one article together with Ulla Eriksson-Zetterkvist and wrote on a book chapter on Swedish service industry that will appear in a book to be published by Studentlitteratur (ed. Henrik Blomgren & Pär Blomkvist).

As described above, the empirical material that has been collected will be used in at least three forthcoming papers.

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Outcome and impact of visit After having defended my PhD-thesis in December 2009 it was wonderful to come to SCANCOR, Stanford and California. Not only did I find new inspiration when interacting with people here, but I also had the opportunity of setting my own direction for the spring. The spring has thus been a time of being energized through new, interesting work, as has been described above. Through the empirical study I have learned a lot about entrepreneurship in California, as well as about American culture. At Stanford and by visiting other universities as described above, I have gained insight in American research- and seminar culture, which is also valuable for the future. And, lastly, I have made new friends, professionally as well as personally, which will have a great impact, for my career as well as for me as an individual. Kiisa Hulkko-Nyman Researcher, PhD student, Aalto University kiisa.hulkko@tkk.fi, www.rewarding.tkk.fi  March 4 - August 31, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research concentrates on the motivational effects of different types of reward systems in organizations. I studied performance based pay systems in the context of Finnish private and public sector. I focused on broadening my theoretical background with institutional theory as well as sharpening my analyses. I was especially interested in being able to do part of my research at SCANCOR in order to get a deeper understanding on the differences and similarities of performance based pay and the ideas behind it between United States and Scandinavia. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My expectation of my visit to SCANCOR was to develop my PhD thesis with the help of comments from SCANCOR scholars and Stanford faculty. I was also hoping to find inspiration for future research topics as well as to find interesting collaboration possibilities. The time at SCANCOR more than fulfilled my expectations. Besides getting invaluable comments and ideas for my current research I found new avenues for it. During my stay at Stanford I worked with my thesis and three articles. Further, I executed the final phase of the data collection in Aalto University project on pay reform at the Finnish financial sector and worked on another project on pay systems at the municipal sector. My visit was funded through grants from Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistyrahasto), Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Finnish Workplace Development Program TYKES, and Aalto University. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I attended the SCANCOR seminar series and the SCANCOR informal seminar series and also coordinated the informal seminar series part of the stay. I presented findings from my PhD thesis twice in the informal seminar series. I also attended James G. March’s Monday munch and his Friday lunches. I had the great opportunity to participate in a course on Corporate Governance by Professor David Larcker at the Graduate School of Business (ACCT317). This gave a new perspective for my research on reward systems. Further, I took part in a

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presentation course (CTL 219 at the Center for Teaching and Learning) by Doree Allen. During the course I presented findings from a paper I was revising at the moment and findings from my PhD thesis. During my stay I also took part in lectures from different seminar series e.g. the Organizational Behavior Seminars at the Graduate School of Business and attended several other talks on current topics on the campus. I took part in the EPIC –project at Stanford Peace Innovation Laboratory and Persuasive Technology laboratory during my stay. EPIC = earth wide peace innovation collaboration. During the whole stay I was grateful to receive invaluable feedback from SCANCOR scholars and other scholars on my field on my research as well as suggestions on how to use my data for further papers and additional research. Off-campus activities and other interactions I attended a roundtable meeting “Transforming Capitalism towards a Regenerative Economy” at MIT, Boston (May 21st , facilitated by Otto Scharmer). Publications generated during stay

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa: Explaining results-oriented pay effects on pay satisfaction, perceived organizational performance and co-operation. Work in progress: PhD-Thesis to be submitted in 2011 (Monograph).

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa ; Hakonen; Anu, Maaniemi, Johanna; Moisio, Elina; Nylander, Minna & Sweins, Christina (2011, in press) Research-assisted development of reward systems and well-being of employees. In Strange Creatures: Learning Networks at the Service of Workplace Development/Innovation (working title).

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa & Maaniemi, Johanna (in press) Pay discussions – research evidence and experiences. In Pay discussions in Finland – guide book, Confederation of Finnish Industries EK & The Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK. (In Finnish.)

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa; Sarti, Daria; Hakonen, Anu & Sweins, Christina. Total rewards perceptions and work engagement in elderly care organizations. Findings from Finland and Italy. (Submitted for publication in the Journal of International Studies of Management & Organisation)

• Maaniemi, Johanna & Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa (under revision) Pay System Reform in Finnish Financial Sector. Theoretically Well Planned – How About Experiences?

• Sarti, Daria; Cavaliere, Vincenzo & HulkkoNyman, Kiisa (2010) Work Engagement and Total Reward: the case of social cooperatives in Italy. 15th World Congress of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), Paris II University, 8 – 10 July 2010.

Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR had a meaningful impact on me as a scholar and a person. The lively and open intellectual atmosphere and meetings with bright scholars were both refreshing and creativity stimulating. I found myself thinking about my research subjects and interests in a much broader and bold way during and after the visit. I’m still very much involved with

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the fascinating project on peace innovation collaboration and trying to bring my expertise on reward systems to the benefit of the project. Christine Isakson PhD Fellow Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Copenhagen Business School christineisakson@gmail.com  www.christineisakson.com  April 1 – October 31, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Economic Sociology. My thesis investigates the coworker and peer effects of labor mobility as it relates to location choice, entrepreneurship and workplace composition. My dissertation is composed of three research papers. During my stay, I focused on the econometric analysis and the revising of the papers in my thesis. The aspects of my research to which I sought enrichment were within the economic sociology, economic geography and entrepreneurship literature, broadly. I was interested in taking part in the current conversations in these fields and to develop skills and hone my understanding of what it means to be a scholar. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My primary mission at SCANCOR was to gain valuable feedback and to advance my three papers as I was in the final write-up stage of my PhD. It was also my mission to actively participate in a vibrant academic community and to engage in discussions relevant to my research. I was looking forward to participating in the Stanford academic community in general. My time at SCANCOR allowed me to make significant progress on my papers. In addition to the SCANCOR seminars, I had the great pleasure of participating in other seminars and research groups on campus. I had several conversations with professors and visiting academics regarding my papers as well as theirs. I continue to maintain a great number of the personal and professional relationships I developed while I was at SCANCOR. As I shall explain in further detail, these opportunities were uniquely possible at Stanford. My visit was self-funded. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I regularly attended the Graduate School of Business Macro Lunch, and the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays. I also attended the EPIC Challenge Project, d.school, James G. March’s Monday munch, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research seminars when possible. I presented my paper “Peer effects and entrepreneurship: Coworkers up-close and intense” at a SCANCOR informal seminar as well as at the Graduate School of Business Macro Lunch. The feedback I received at these seminars improved and advanced my paper substantially. The interactions I had with Stanford scholars were perhaps what I found most inspiring during this visit. The openness, candor and accessibility of these scholars were striking. I left Stanford with a more precise understanding of how to ask, and hopefully answer,

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more interesting questions. The senior scholars with whom I had the most interaction were Jesper Sørensen, Woody Powell, Mitchell Stevens, and James March. Extensive conversations with SCANCOR post-doc Linus Dahlander were both helpful and insightful, as were the numerous discussions that I had with fellow SCANCOR scholars, h-star visiting scholars and various Stanford PhD students that I had met through the courses and seminars I had attended during my stay. Courses I attended: Quasi-experimental Research Methods in Education (Sean Reardon) Oral Communication for Graduate Students (Doree Allen) Off-campus activities and other interactions Attended the Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, August, 2010, an EPIC Challenge (“peace innovation”) seminar held at the NASA Ames Research Center as well as several networking events hosted by Innovation Center Denmark Silicon Valley. Publications generated during stay Although I did not produce any publications during my stay, I made considerable progress on PhD thesis papers: “Footloose and unfettered: Location choice of a nomadic labor force” (Working Paper), Christine D Isakson and Michael S. Dahl (2010) “Peer effects and entrepreneurship: Coworkers up close and intense” (Working Paper), Christine D. Isakson (2010) Third paper in development in collaboration with Jesper Sørensen Outome and impact of visit It is difficult to measure the impact that my stay at SCANCOR has had on my development as a scholar, as it has been substantial. It has helped me to better understand the academic process as a whole and what it means to be an active part of a productive, vibrant academic community. SCANCOR provided me with the platform from which I could interact with scholars who were conducting state of the art research. I had several thought-provoking discussions with Jesper Sørensen regarding my current papers. These discussions led to our current collaboration. The knowledge and experience I continue to gain as a result of my collaboration with Professor Sørensen is invaluable. During my stay, I also collaborated with Professor Michael Dahl, who was also a visiting scholar at SCANCOR. Although he is one of my advisors, we do are not at the same institutions in Denmark. The daily interaction and exchange of ideas that were a result of our overlapping SCANCOR visits, allowed us to make great progress on our joint paper.

Peter Karnøe Professor, Copenhagen Business School Pka.ioa@cbs.dk May 7 – July 30, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Material disruptions of electricity systems by increased penetration of intermittent energy sources like wind power that spills over in cost and pricing arrangements.

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I had data from Denmark and had to craft together a first draft of the argument. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My challenge and expectation was to develop the core analytical approach. I found out that I had two papers. One on the disruptions of price-making arrangements in the case of Nordpool in Scandinavia. Here I could show the role of material properties of energy technologies were inscribed in concrete sociotechnical arrangement for price making, and which changes facilitated the penetration of wind power. The other paper is about pragmatics of valuation analyzes the existing cost structures in the centralized power system as a locked-in standard that emerged from socio-technically shaped process that set up the centralized electricity systems with increasing return economics. The standard was reinforced by inscription in various institutionalized rules, calculative conventions, metrics of quality, science, and regulations, and entrenched actors as producers and consumers. Wind power is thus not competing against a free market, but a self-reinforcing techno-institutional market complex with cost-advantages based on increasing returns (and leaving externalities out of the equation). How to unlock this is what this paper is about. My visit was funded through grants from the Danish Social Science Foundation and the Strategic Research Council.. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I attended James G. March’s Monday munch, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I also introduced my research in form of a very early version of the paper. I also went to the seminar series on economic sociology – do not remember name, but Steve Barley was the host. In addition, I had the great opportunity to speak to Stanford scholars relevant to my work, such as James G. March, Mitchell L. Stevens, Mark Granovetter, Steve Barley, Dick Scott, Paolo Parigi, Marc Ventresca, who provided inspiring ideas for my interpretations and feedback on my cases and methodology respectively. I missed Huggy Rao, because we did not have time to meet, but I do recommend that he becomes more closely related to SCANCOR. I received invaluable comments on my research as well as suggestions on how to use my data for further papers and additional research etc. Thereby, the comments from people directly related to my field of research but also from scholars with other scientific backgrounds, were an incredible help. Moreover, I received important feedback on my methodology. Off-campus activities and other interactions I attended and presented my paper at SASE in Philadelphia, June 25-27, 2010 Publications generated during stay

• Peter Karnøe (2010), "Material disruptions in electricity systems: can wind power fit in the existing electricity system?", in M. Akrich, Y. Barthe, f. Muniesa, P. Mustar (eds.)(2010), Melanges offerts a Michel Callon, Paris: Presse des Mines.

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The publication below was not generated, but finished, I worked 50% of my time in May-June on this paper.

• Garud, R., Gehman, J., & Karnøe, P. 2010. Categorization by association: Nuclear technology and emission-free electricity. In W. D. Sine, & R. David (Eds.), Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 21: 51-93. Bingley: Emerald.

Working paper: Material grounding of valuation in electricity systems: How disruptions from wind power is translated in valuation processes

Outome and impact of visit It was just great for me to re-assemble and re-focus my research life after several years as associate dean of an MBA TMO program at CBS. I’ll be back – hopefully in summer 2012.

Annemette L. Kjaergaard Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School amk@cbs.dk  September 1 - June 30, 2011 Research area and aspects focused on while at SCANCOR During my stay at Stanford I have so far focused on a research project funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council, Responsible Business in the Blogosphere (RBB). My research interest in the RBB project is to explore how corporations strategically manage their presence in new social media in order to appear legitimate in both online and offline contexts, and how new opportunities and risks influence organizational identity construction. As part of the research design we have visited and interviewed Silicon Valley based companies to conduct in-depth qualitative interviews about their experiences with social media and its influence on corporate identity and reputation. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding The purpose of my stay has been threefold. First it has been a unique opportunity to discuss key theoretical ideas for exploring my research interests and I have had the opportunity to discuss my research with several scholars who have provided valuable feedback and inspiration (listed below). Second, the stay has enabled another purpose i.e. data collection for my research. During my stay, I have interviewed 11 individuals from companies involved with social media in strategic CSR communication in the Silicon Valley area. The companies we are interviewing are among others eBay, Yahoo, Method, Microsoft and Chevron. Third, my stay has provided valuable experiences of US research culture as well as teaching culture. My visit was funded through grants from Otto Mønsted Fonden and the Danish Research Council. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I have had meetings with several individuals and research groups: Meeting with Director Lars Beer, Danish Center for Innovation, and Mette Terp Høybye, H-STAR researcher, September 1 to discuss research collaboration between Danish Universities and the universities in the Silicon Valley region.

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Discussion of research collaboration between Stanford University and Copenhagen Business School with Director of Center for Design Research, Martin Steinert, and d.school founder Larry Leifer, September 24. Participation in Stanford Social Innovation Review and Institute for Philanthropy, Stanford. Conference on “Leading during times of change”, October 5. Participation in the Danish/Californian healthcare conference from October 25 to October 29. This was a very interesting conference where scholars from academia as well as practice showed and discussed technology for enhancing quality in healthcare provision. Participation in the seminar series from the Comparative Studies group and from different seminar series of e.g. the Graduate School of Business, the Organizational Behavior Seminars, and the center of Liberation Management. Participation in James March’s Monday munch, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I also introduced my research on November 12. In addition, I had the great opportunity to speak to Stanford scholars relevant to my work, such as Mitchell L. Stevens, Fred Turner and Gili Drori, who have provided inspiring ideas for my research questions and the theoretical foundation for my study. On October 20 I presented my work to a delegation of the Swedish IT council who were visiting Stanford and were interested in new social media. All these meetings and seminars have provided me with important comments on my research as well as suggestions for my further developing my research. Hosting activities, off-campus activities and other interactions Together with my colleague, Mette Morsing, I hosted a visit from the president of the Copenhagen Business School, Johan Roos and project manager Birthe Thomsen from November 3 to November 4. I have attended meetings with Professor Kellie McElhaney and Center director Jo Mackness, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, Berkeley University on September 29 and November 4 to discuss collaboration between CBScsr and the Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, Berkeley. At two occasions I have visited the Danish Center for Innovation; on September 7 I attended a reception for the new manager where a delegation for the Danish Ministry of Research was also present and on December 1 I attended a presentation from a delegation of public sector managers. Publications generated during stay During my stay I have started to write two articles based on the research project that I am working on at Stanford. The working titles of the two papers are:

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Controlling the uncontrollable – a conceptual paper of corporate communication of social responsibility through social media. Who cares about social responsibility– a case study about organizational identity construction I have also worked on revisions of papers already submitted to Scandinavian Journal of Management and Journal of the AIS.

Outome and impact of visit My visit at SCANCOR has provided me with a unique opportunity to interact with scholars in a highly competent and interesting research environment where the relation between technology and organization is clearly in focus and have been of inspiration to my research. I have also benefitted from the relation with Stanford in contacting Silicon Valley companies who have in general been very open and welcoming and have provided interesting insights from organizational practice. Although teaching has not been the major focus of my stay, I have learned a lot from attending seminars and classes and have been inspired by the engagement and enthusiasm of the Stanford students. I will bring some of these experiences back to CBS where I am responsible for the BSc in Information Systems and Management.

Mikko Laine Researcher and project manager at Software Business Lab, Aalto University School of Science and Technology mikko.laine@tkk.fi January 4 - August 31, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research area is open innovation and its effects on firms. In my PhD work I specifically investigate its utilization in and via social media and online communities in the context of software companies. This position was very suitable for the environment at Stanford as the focus is contemporary and there are a lot of experts around in that field. Also the general innovative spirit is present in the research atmosphere at Stanford and in the companies around the Bay Area. Mission/expectations and outcomes, funding My greatest mission was to be able to fully concentrate on my own research and PhD thesis while at Stanford. The visit fortunately allowed me to do exactly that. In addition, I wanted to gather interview data from local innovative firms around Silicon Valley. I interviewed several important firms and other experts including the father of the term “virtual community” Howard Rheingold. Furthermore, I wanted to attend many activities on (and off) campus including seminars and courses, which I did. Lastly, I wanted to network with all the numerous people at Stanford. I also did this to a great extent. My visit was funded partly by a Tekes-funded project at our research lab and partly by the Finnish Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford

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-I had two SCANCOR informal seminar presentations: “Virtual communities in management literature” on January 29, and “Researching open and user innovation in the Finnish software industry” on August 23. -I had a presentation at Jim March’s “Monday munch” seminar: “What about humans in organizations?” on May 10. -I had an invited talk at DesignX, Center for Design Research, Stanford University: “Doing bibliometric analysis and systematic review” on July 21. -I attended the course MS&E 371 “Innovation and strategic change” held by Prof. Riitta Katila. -I had several fruitful and influential interactions with local professors such as Jim March, Riitta Katila and Mitchell Stevens as well as other scholars at SCANCOR and at Stanford. -I collaborated closely with Bettina Maisch, who was also a visiting scholar at Stanford, at Center for Design Research, and we wrote a conference paper together. -I attended a plethora of discussions, presentations, seminars and workshops around the campus. Especially noteworthy are, of course in addition to all the SCANCOR events, Stanford Technology Ventures Program research day, DesignX events at Center for Design Research and EPIC Global Challenge at Persuasive Technology Lab. All these attendances sparked invaluable interactions, which helped develop my research and thinking in general. In particular, the course I attended had tremendous impact on nailing down the theoretical approaches for my PhD topic, and also showing what PhD seminars can really be. Off-campus activities and other interactions I presented a paper (details below) at the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Lima, Peru on August 12-15, 2010. I gave a presentation “Open and user innovation in the Finnish software industry” at the 8th Annual International Open and User Innovation Workshop, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA on August 2-4, 2010. I also attended several presentations at PARC, and a Tekes-arranged event at Berkeley for Finnish researchers in the Bay Area. Publications generated during stay

• Laine, M.O.J. and Frühwirth, C. (2010) “Monitoring social media: Tools, characteristics and implications”. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 21-23, 2010. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-13632-0

• Laine, M.O.J. and Maisch, B. (2010) “Is open innovation open? Evidence from the most innovative firms and the most valuable brands”. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE), Athens, Greece, September 16-17, 2010, pp. 345-351.

• Valtakoski, A., Peltonen, J. and Laine, M.O.J. (2010) “Peer-to-peer service quality and its consequences in virtual communities”. Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/552/

• Laine, M.O.J. (2010) “Open and user innovation in micro-sized companies”. Working paper.

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A lot happened during the eight months of my visit, as one can infer from the details above. But not to exaggerate, the visit had a profound impact. I was fortunate to be able to stay for this long to really soak up the Stanford atmosphere, and to crystallize, it is exactly the atmosphere that is so uniquely energetic and engaging. Being literally amongst the top scholars of the world has also not-so-surprisingly a vastly positive impact. Strangely, it generally also felt for the first time that one does not need to be apologetic for actually doing research. Finally, all the personal relationships formed during the visit are invaluable, and continue to affect on many levels of collaboration in the future.

Jon Erland B. Lervik Associate professor, Norwegian School of Management BI Jon.e.lervik@bi.no, http://www.bi.no/no/Forskning/Faglige-hjemmesider/?ansattid=FGL99059  January 11 - June 20, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My expectations with my stay at SCANCOR was to 1) have time away from my home institution to get time to write up papers based on empirical research I have done in the last years, and 2) get inspiration from the range of milieus and seminars within organization and management theory at Stanford. The main project I worked on at SCANCOR was on offshoring of the Norwegian maritime industry. Firms in developed economies increasingly engage in offshoring of productive activities to emerging economies to reduce labour costs, to ensure access to talent, or to hedge against demand fluctuations. Based on data collection from the previous year of my PhD, I wrote up paper drafts focusing on the institutional embeddedness of knowledge and implications for “knowledge transfer” when relocating work activities overseas. I also worked on writing up additional papers from my dissertation, on transfer of organizational practices within multinational corporations. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My stay at SCANCOR greatly exceeded expectations regarding 2), the inspiration part. Stanford offered great opportunities to get new ideas, and listen to presentations of new research avenues in my field. Regarding 1) getting time to write, the results were a bit mixed, which has little to do with SCANCOR, but more with my personal situation. I travelled with my wife and our baby girl of 3 months when we arrived, and we did have more than our share of health issues, which took some time away from work. I applied for two grants, and received both. It is difficult to assess what the odds were. I received 50.000 NOK from the Fulbright program. I also applied with the Norwegian research council (who funded my postdoc in Norway). They granted additional funds up to the set monthly allowances according to the Norwegian research council for sabbaticals abroad. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford Presentations at SCANCOR Friday seminars

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Feb 26, 2010, Jon Erland Lervik: Adoption and institutionalization of organizational practices within a multinational corporation. June 4, 2010, Jon Erland Lervik: In the same boat? Offshoring and the clash of flexible vs mass production. I attended James G. March’s Monday munches, which was a very valuable seminar series. I also attended SCANCOR seminars and internal Friday seminars. Other milieus at Stanford that I benefitted particularly from was Ray Levitt’s Global Collaboratory Centre and seminars arranged by Work, Technology and Organization, which I attended frequently. In addition I attended seminars held by department of Anthropology, School of Education and Stanford GSB. Publications generated during stay During my stay I wrote up final revision of a book chapter to be published in 2011

• Lervik, J. E. (Forthcoming) 'The single multinational as a research site'.In Piekkari, R. & C. Welch (eds.) Rethinking the Case Study Approach in International Business Research, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

I also finalized an article, which was submitted to a journal

• Lervik, JE, Adoption and institutionalization of organizational practices within a multinational corporation. Submitted to Academy of Management Journal

In addition I completed draft version of a comparative study on shipbuilding in Norway, Spain and Dubai.

• Lervik, JE 2010. A production model going abroad - A comparative case study of ship building projects. Working paper (confidential, awaiting verification by case companies).

Outome and impact of visit My research career has been at the intersection of organization theory and international business. My stay at SCANCOR and exposure to different milieus at Stanford has affirmed my enthusiasm for organization theory, that this is where I belong subject wise. So the stay at SCANCOR has contributed to the decision to accept a faculty position in a organization theory department rather than a strategy / international business department. I think Jim March’s munch is a format for discussion that we lack at home. I hope to do something like this at BI, a forum where you can test new ideas in a safe discussion environment. I plan to write an article together with a PhD student from the Global Collaboratory Centre led by Ray Levitt. Angelika Lindstrand Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics Angelika.Lindstrand@hhs.se, www.hhs.se/CMDID/Research/Pages/Internationalmarkeringgroup.aspx August 19, 2010- January 31, 2011

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Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR I study different kinds of networks and the knowledge they provide during the internationalization of firms. While at SCANCOR and Stanford one part of my research focused on developing the concept of business network routines. The other part focused on personal and business networks of internationalizing Biotech firms. The reason for concentrating on these topics during my stay was that some of the best research in these areas is made by Stanford faculty. To interact with them presented a great opportunity for me. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding The purpose with my visit to SCANCOR was to improve my research, my skills as a researcher, network with others and collect data on US biotech firms. During my stay I have written one new paper on the effect of business network on international performance and finished another paper on the use of business network routines. For my research on biotech firms I started collecting quantitative data concerning internationalizing US firms and finished, for publication, a paper on Swedish Biotech firms. The research that I do and the grant for my SCANCOR visit is funded by Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser and award money from my first price in the European Savings Banks Academic Award, Edition 2010. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I gave three presentations during my stay:

a. SCANCOR Workshop 10/15/2010: “Turning Social Capital into Business: A Study of Biotech SMEs’ internationalization”.

b. Monday Munch 11/15/2010: “Network Routines; is this something or not?” c. Network and Organizations Workshop 12/03/2010: “Business network

routines and performance in internationalization”.

I also had the possibility to meet individually with Mitchell Stevens, Woody Powell and Jim March. The thought-provoking discussions with them and their excellent feedback on my work is useful in my present work but will continue to affect my research for a long time. Early in the fall I met SCANCOR postdoc Maja Lotz, who is working with Woody Powell. Our research interests are very similar and consequently we have decided to work on a project concerning routines and work organizing practices, together. My favored seminar series was the “Network and Organizations Workshop”, organized by Woody Powell and Steve Barley. I also attended the SCANCOR seminars and workshops, Jim March’s Monday Munch, as well as some of the GSB Organization Behavioral seminars. All these activities together have improved my research skills, made me think in alternative ways and broadened my perspectives. Off-campus activities and other interactions The network of parents around my son’s school, Escondido, generated a lot of interaction with the Palo Alto community. I also came across useful network connections through Silicon Vikings and the Stanford Swedish reception. Publications generated during stay

• Turning Social Capital into Business: A Study of Biotech SMEs’ internationalization, International Business review, forthcoming 2011

• Business network routines and performance in internationalization, to be presented at Academy of Management Meeting, 2011

• Business network routines as efficient patterns of behavior on international markets, to be submitted to Journal of International Management, 2011

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Outcome and impact of visit My time at SCANCOR affected my research in many positive ways. I got comments that I incorporated into my papers and thus made them better. I got ideas for new projects and for my data collection. Also the interest in my research that I have met has made me more confident in my ideas and work. I found many opportunities for professional as well as personal growth. The seminars, researchers and ideas at Stanford are excellent in the areas of networks and, learning in and between organizations. Stockholm School of Economics produce great research, but our strong point is not in networks and knowledge in and from them. So to be at SCANCOR and Stanford for a while was a unique experience for me, and I am hoping to continue my association with the network and organizational researchers at Stanford.

Mette Morsing Professor of Communication Studies, Director CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR), Copenhagen Business School mm.ikl@cbs.dk, www.cbs.dk<http://www.cbs.dk/cbscsr> September-December, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Mette Morsing researches, teaches and provides advice on communication and CSR. In particular she is interested in areas of internal-external communication, identity, corporate branding, integrated communication, transparency, stakeholder relations, ethics and responsible leadership. Morsing has published extensively on these issues in international journals and books, and she has received prizes for her research. She is often invited to speak at international conferences. Mette Morsing participates in a number of international and national research projects. Currently, she leads the 3 year research project on CSR and web 2.0. communication “Responsible Business in the Blogosphere” supported by the Strategic Research Council under the Danish Ministry of Science. Since 2002 Mette Morsing has served as the Founding Director of cbsCSR, CBS Centre for Corporate Social. Today the center has a long line of research projects with a large group of PhD students. Morsing is a member of several international and national committees and boards with relation to CSR. Recently, she has joined the Board of the LEGO Foundation, the Advisory Board of Academy of Responsible Management based in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi and the National Council for Corporate Responsibility providing advice to the Danish government.

Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My purpose of visiting Stanford was threefold: first, to explore the current research debate at Stanford, on communication studies, with an emphasis on social purposes; second, to explore communication with a social purpose in corporate practice, i.e. data collection in Silicon Valley corporations: third, to connect to researchers on issues of social and environmental responsibility. Specific projects I worked on: “Responsible Business in the Blogoshpere” (research project) “Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities” (edited book) “Business Schools. Which Contribution to Society? (edited book) “CSR as polyphony” (research paper)

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My research was partly funded by CBS (sabbatical semester) and partly by The Danish Ministry of Science and Technology. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford Presentations at Stanford University: “Corporate social media strategies for social purposes”, co-authored by Annemette Kjaergaard, CBS and Itziar Castello, CBS/Haas, Berkeley University, SCANCOR Friday workshop, November 12, Stanford University “The polyphony of CSR”, SCANCOR Monday Seminars, November 29, Stanford University Meetings at Stanford University: Professor Jonathan Berkey, Monterey University, September 6 Professor Gili Drori, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, September 20 Director of Center for Design Research Martin Steinert and d.school founder Larry Leifer, September 24 Professor Fred Turner, Dept. Of Communication, Stanford University, October 21 Professor Kristian Kreiner, CBS – visiting Stanford, October 14 Professor Arne Astrup, Copenhagen University and adjunct professor Claus Meyer, Copenhagen University (Health Conference at Stanford/ Berkeley), October 26 d.SCHOOL, Executive Director Martin Steinert and Founder Larry Leifer, d.school building, Stanford University and CBS President Johan Roos, November 3, Stanford Professor Ray Levitt, School of Engineering and CBS President Johan Roos, November 3, Stanford Professor Jim March and CBS President Johan Roos, November 3, Stanford Meeting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Don Cox, Stanford and CBS President Johan Roos, Nov. 3 Networking dinner with Professor Woody Powell, Director of SCANCOR Mitchell Stevens, Annemette Kjaergaard (CBS), Birthe Thomsen, CBS, and CBS President Johan Roos, November 3 Professor Jeremy Bailenson, Director of Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Department of Communication, Stanford, November 4 and December 15 Director Taina Tukianen, Department of Industrial Management, Helsinki Metropolia, University of Applied Sciences, November Associate professor Hans Ramö, School of Business, Stockholm University, meeting at Stanford, Nov. 1 Post doc Arild Wæraas, SCANCOR post doc, Stanford, November 8 Associate director Charlotte Toksvig, Faculty of Affairs and Recruiting, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, December 7 Professor Jesper Sørensen, Stanford Graduate School of Business, December 7 Executive Director Kris Deiglmeier, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business, December 7 Associate professor Markus Hoeller, St. Gallen, meeting at Stanford, December 8 Professor Robert Burgelmann, Stanford Graduate School of Business, December 16 Professor Stephen Barley, School of Engineering, Stanford, December 17 Participation in seminars at Stanford University: Presentation of H-Star and Media X research (organized by Danish Center for Innovation), August 28

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Professor Susan Olzak and professor Doug MacAdam, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford. Workshop on “Social Movement Theory”, Monday September 27 Center for Liberation Technologies, Professors Joshua Cohen, Dept. of Political Science and Terry Winograd, Department of Computer Science, Stanford. “Mobile Development meets Design Thinking”, September 23 Professor Marc Granovetter, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford, “Economic Sociology”, Monday September 27 Professor John Meier, Department of Sociology, “Legitimating the Transnational Corporate in a World Society” in the Comparative Systems Workshop, Stanford, September 27 Munch with James March, November 1, “What roles do professional associations play in nascent fields?” Stanford Social Innovation Review and Institute for Philantropy, Stanford. Conference at the Alumni Center on “Leading During Times of Change”, October 5 Professor Paolo Parigi, Department of Sociology, Stanford, “The Rationalization of Magic: How the Catholic Church Created Modern Sainthood”. Lecture in Organizational Behavior Seminars, October 6

“The Changing Nature of Media, Technology and Investing”, 16th Stanford Accel Symposium hosted by Media X Symposium, October 27, Arrillage Alumni Center, Stanford

Off-campus activities and other interactions Presentation other places: “Corporate communication. Taking an internal gaze at the externally oriented communication of sustainability“, co-authored by Carina Skovmoeller. Presented at National Communication Association Conference, November 15-17, San Francisco Meetings other places: Reception at Danish Center for Innovation, Palo Alto, September 7 Professor Kellie McElhaney and Jo Mackness, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, Berkeley University, September 29 Dean Richard Lyons, Haas School of Business, Berkeley University, and Executive Director Jo Mackness, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Management, Berkeley University, and CBS President Johan Roos, November 4 Networking dinner with Professor David Vogel, Berkeley University; CBS President Johan Roos, Assistant professor Itziar Castello, CBS/Haas, Berkeley University, and Annemette Kjaergaard, CBS, November 4 Health care reception at Danish Center for Innovation, December 1 Data collection for research purposes. Interviews with: eBay: (1) Senior manager Annie Lescroart (responsible for eBay Green Twitter) and Green Facebook manager Lorin May, Sustainability Communications, October 4, (2) Senior manager Annie Lescroart, Sustainability Communications, November 17, (3) Director Amy Skoczlas, Green Team, October 17, (4) Head of Global Social Media Strategy Julie Haddon, (5) Head of Global Citizenship Robert Chatwani, Internet Marketing, (6) Corporate blogger Richard Brewer-Hay http://ebayinkblog.com/ Yahoo:

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(1) Manager of Yahoo! Green Connie Chan, October 5 and October 15 (2) Social Media Director Lucas Mask, October 25 (3) Manager of Yahoo! Twitter Lorin May, October 29 (4) Communication manager Duncan Watts, November 16 Facebook: Communication manager Jesse Dwyer, December 14 Tesla: (1)Stanford professor Don Cox on Tesla, October 28 (2)Sales advisor Ernie Schmidt, Tesla, December 15

Arranged and hosted a two day program for CBS President Johan Roos visit to Stanford / Berkeley November 3 and 4 (meetings included in activity list above) Publications generated during stay

• Christensen, L.T., Morsing, M. and Thyssen, O. The polyphony of corporate social responsibility. Deconstructing accountability and transparency in the context of identity and hypocrisy. Has been accepted to appear in Cheney, G., May, S. and Munshi, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Communication Ethics. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2010

• Buhmann, K., Roseberry, L. and Morsing, M. (Eds.) (2010). Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 329 pages

• Business Schools and Their Contributions to Society. Morsing, M. and Sauquet, A. London: Sage Publications. Manus completed. Book to appear in September 2011

• Castello, I., Kjaergaard, A. and Morsing, M. “Corporate social media strategies for social purposes”. Paper to be submitted to the EGOS Conference 2011

• Guthey, E. and Morsing, M. “CSR as an act of strategic ambiguity: a longitudinal analysis of CSR in the media”. Paper to be submitted to AoM 2011

• “A Silicon Valley Dream: The Tesla Experience”. Article for newspaper Børsen (i.e. Danish equivalent to Financial Times)

Outcome and impact of visit

• Collaboration and data collection in eBay, Yahoo and Facebook will appear in future journal articles with scholars from Berkeley University

• Ambitions to grow collaboration with Professor Jeremy Bailenson on communication and learning at the cross-section of tangible/intangible realities

• Ambition to develop collaboration with d.school at Stanford across LEGO Company, Denmark’s Technical University and Copenhagen Business School

• And many other great intangible and immeasurable influences …

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Achim Oberg Research Fellow University of Mannheim a.oberg@ifm.uni-mannheim.de,  http://ifm.uni-mannheim.de  September 1 - February 28, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR I am interested in the self-representation of organizations on the World Wide Web. During my stay at SCANCOR I worked on the following questions: (1) Is it possible to reconstruct organizational fields on the World Wide Web by capturing the references between organizational websites? (2) For which type of fields does an algorithm, which draws field borders, work sufficiently on WWW data? (3) How are organizational positions on the WWW related to other aspects of organizational self-representation? (4) How are these positions related to the success of an organization? Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding To prepare my stay at Stanford, I collected data on different organizational fields on the World Wide Web (for instance, the field of higher education organizations; the field of German NGOs engaged in development aid; the international field of wind energy). During my stay, I discussed my observations and the possibilities the WWW field analyses offer with various scholars at SCANCOR and at Stanford. I received valuable comments on my research that have incited the following research steps:

(1) As a response to comments on the algorithm used to draw field borders, I conducted a simulation study. In this study, I simulate various field configurations to understand under which conditions the algorithm provides good results.

(2) Following discussions on the field of higher education, I started to collect favicons (small versions of logos used on websites) and applied organizational characteristics and organizational positions to explain the patterns of self-representation behavior observed in favicons.

My visit at SCANCOR was financially supported by the Chair of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises at the University of Mannheim: Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I took part in different seminar series of the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business, e.g. the Organizational Behavior Seminars, the Comparative Sociology Workshop, the Organizations and Networks Workshop, and the Social Science and Technology Seminar. In the Organization and Networks Workshop I presented an early draft of a paper on the organizational field of German NGOs on the WWW. In the Comparative Sociology Workshop I presented an idea to analyze patterns of self-presentation in higher education on a global scale via collection of favicons on websites. Additionally, I attended the regularly held SCANCOR’s informal seminar series, at which I had the opportunity to present my research. This was presented as a draft version of a paper I am currently preparing for submission.

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Off-campus activities and other interactions Off-campus, I met firms specialized in web technologies in the Bay Area and attended workshops on new developments on the Internet. These meetings were really helpful in getting a better understanding of the self-representation production processes. Publications generated during stay Revision and (further) development of the following working papers:

• Oberg, Achim & Schöllhorn, Tino (2010): Algorithm to Capture Organizational Fields on the WWW – A Simulation Study, working paper.

• Oberg, Achim & Schöllhorn, Tino (2009): Public Endorsements in an Organizational Field on the World Wide Web – Valuation of Organizational Characteristics, working paper.

• Drori, Gili & Oberg, Achim (2010): Patterns of Self-Representation in Higher Education – The Case of WWW Favicons, working paper.

Outome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided me with a great opportunity to talk to other researchers who share my interests in understanding organizational fields, explaining patterns of organizational self-representation and advancing social network analysis. Especially, discussions with Walter Powell and Gili Drori were fruitful in re-framing ideas and interpreting data. Lene Lervik Olsen Associate professor, BI Norwegian School of Management line.l.olsen@bi.no June 6th – August 20th, 2010. Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Various topics within service marketing. I worked on four different research papers that were in different stages of the publication process. The topics covered in these papers are customer satisfaction, customer orientation, the impact of self-service-technology on customers’ behavioral intentions and service productivity. I also focused on improving my English communication skills. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My ambition with the visit at SCANCOR was to do research, write papers, present for and get feedback from SCANCOR and Stanford staff, to extend my network and my horizon. Another important priority was to improve my writing and presentation skills in English. My visit was funded through grants from BI Norwegian School of Management. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at SCANCOR and Stanford University, two of my research papers were presented in SCANCOR’s informal seminar. The presentations generated a lot of valuable feedback that will help me make progress in my future work with these projects. In particular I think the cross-disciplinarity of the group, the honest questions, the

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constructive critique and suggestions for improvements were contributions that will improve my works significantly and increase the likelihood of publication. I also attended a workshop on “Publishing the Journal Article”, organized by Hume Writing Center and instructor Jonathan Hunt. This was an excellent opportunity for me to focus on other sides of my research papers to meet the requirements of scientific journals and increase the likelihood of publication. Attending this workshop was a very good experience and time well spent. Lastly, in my determination to improve my English communication skills I enrolled in an English course focusing on oral communication given by Dr. Christina Gabali in the Education, Health, Training and Career Advancement Program. Another very good experience, helpful and hands-on. In particular, I will benefit from this course when I teach my subject in English and advise international students in their thesis work. Off-campus activities and other interactions Because my stay at SCANCOR and Stanford was of short-term, I decided not to go to any conferences or engage in any off-campus activities during the period I was visiting. I could only cancel these conferences and off-campus activities, because I otherwise take part in these activities on a regular basis, i.e. annually. Publications generated during stay

• “An extended perspective on customer satisfaction”, by Line L. Olsen, work in progress. Presented in SCANCOR’s informal seminar.

• “Customer orientation”, by Anders Gustafsson, Lars Witell and Line L. Olsen, work in progress

• “To automate or not to automate”, Line L. Olsen and Sangeeta Singh, submitted to Journal of Business Research while at SCANCOR.

• Service productivity: the long-term effects of high tech – high touch trade-offs, by Jan H. Fosse, Tor W. Andreassen and Line L. Olsen, work in progress. Presented in SCANCOR’s informal seminar.

Outome and impact of visit At a point in my career where I focus on writing articles and enhance my teaching skills the stay at SCANCOR and Stanford University has been a great opportunity for me. It has provided me with a great opportunity to extend my network and my horizons, write articles and improve my English communication skills. I got invaluable feedback on my different research projects. Feedback that will help me make progress and move to the next stage in the publication process of each project. I also think that my experiences from SCANCOR and Stanford University will be beneficial for me in my teaching of both Norwegian and international students, both concerning subject and language. Having these ambitions and at the same time small children I could not leave at home, staying at SCANCOR and Stanford University in the summer semester was perfect, although I would love to come back sometime during the academic year, for other experiences.

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Katarina Östergren Associate Professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration http://www.nhh.no/en/research---faculty/department-of-accounting,-auditing-and-law/rrr/cv/östergren,-katarina.aspx  August 1 2009 - June 30, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research interested has focused on how large organizations have interpreted new ideas of management control and how they have implemented these ideas. The concern has not only been on the normative design of the ideas but also on the practical use of the ideas. The empirical focus of the research has been on both public and private organizations. The theoretical lenses used to understand the change processes involved are often sociological oriented theories, such as interpreted research (e.g. sense making theory or institutional theory).

At the moment I am research director for a large research program called Beyond Budgeting. The aims of my visit at SCANCOR are two. First, to get time to analyze and write papers related to the Beyond Budgeting research program. Second, to get new impulses and ideas from other researchers at Stanford.

Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My expectation was to be able to get time to analyze my data and write research papers. In addition I hoped I would be able to participate at different research seminars and talk to other researchers. My visit was funded through grants from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I took part in certain lectures and colloquia from different seminar series. In addition to the formal SCANCOR Monday seminar and the informal SCANCOR Friday seminar I attended at a number of breakfast briefing seminars. I prepared a workshop that I was responsible for. It was held in Norway in February. In Mars one of my co-authors Hanne Nørreklit visited me. We finished a conference paper together. Off-campus activities and other interactions I went to a workshop in Norway. Publications generated during the spring 2010 Accepted for publication

• Johansson D and K Østergren (forthcoming) The Perceived Need for More Independent Boards: - A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Translation of Corporate Governance Codes in Scandinavia. Corporate Governance: An International Review.

New working papers

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• Bourmistrov A and K Østergren (2009) Changes in Information Provision and Use for Management Control Purpuses After the Introduction of Beyond Budgeting. Prepared for EAA conference in Istanbul Mai 2010.

• Østergren K, I Stensaker and T Malmi (2009) Different Responses to Beyond

Budgeting - a sensemaking perspective on Beyond Budgeting practices. Presented at a conference in Gent in June 2010.

• Nørreklit H and K Ostergren (2010) Beyond 'Beyond Budgeting' - from the

controller as a bellboy to an actor. To be presented at New directions of management accounting in Brussels in December 2010.

Outome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided me an opportunity to sit in peace and quiet to complete several working papers and rewrite papers with resubmit. Furthermore, I could arrange a workshop that was held in Norway in February. Finally, I have had the opportunity to get new ideas and knowledge from the different seminars I attended. Charles Parker Associate Professor  Department of Government, Uppsala University  Charles.Parker@statsvet.uu.se  Oct. 26, 2009 – April 25, 2010 Research area and aspects that I focused on while at SCANCOR My research project, the institutional dimensions of effective international climate policy, is focused on the impact of international institutions and transnational governance efforts aimed at managing the problem of climate change. One of the overarching goals of this research is to better understand what impact international institutions have on the management of transnational problems and state compliance with international obligations. Among other things, my time at SCANCOR was spent working on articles examining the outcome at the UN Climate Change Conferences in Poznan and Copenhagen. One article has been accepted for publication in the journal Global Environmental Politics and the other has now been submitted for possible publication to the journal Environmental Politics. I also completed work on an article examining the EU’s institutional role on global efforts to address climate change, which has now been published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, and worked on a number of other publications. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My main objective while I was at SCANCOR was to devote time working on publications for my project while taking advantage of the unique research community provided by SCANCOR, which brings together institutional and organizational scholars from across the various social science disciplines, and Stanford’s wide ranging environmental study resources The funding for my stay at SCANCOR was provided by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research’s (MISTRA’s) Climate Policy Research Program (CLIPORE).

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Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I actively participated in both SCANCOR’s Monday and Friday seminars. Both the Monday seminar and the Friday seminars have been extremely stimulating. I also took advantage of the opportunity to interact with James G. March by participating in his weekly lunches as well as his “munch” seminars. I held one of the Friday seminars in January 2010 where I presented my research project and one of the articles, “Looking for Leaders: Perceptions of Climate Change Leadership among Climate Change Negotiation Participants,” that I wrote while at SCANCOR. I was very happy with the feedback that I received at the seminar and I was able utilize many of the helpful suggestions I received when I revised the piece. This article has now been accepted for publication in the journal Global Environmental Politics. During my stay I also attended numerous seminars organized by the Woods Institute for the Environment (such as the Energy seminar), the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe. I pleased that during my stay that I made a number of connections with scholars at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development that share my research interests.   Publications generated during stay

• “Looking for Leaders: Perceptions of Climate Change Leadership among Climate Change Negotiation Participants”, Global Environmental Politics, 2011, vol. 11 (1) (together with C. Karlsson, B. Linnér and M. Hjerpe). An earlier version of this article was presented at the SCANCOR Friday seminar.

• “Fragmented Climate Change Leadership and the Ambiguous COP-15 Outcome:

From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen,” (forthcoming) submitted to Environmental Politics (together with C. Karlsson, B. Linnér and M. Hjerpe).

• Parker, Charles and Karlsson, Christer (2010) “Climate Change and the

European Union’s Leadership Moment: An Inconvenient Truth?” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 48(4), pp. 923-943. An earlier version of this article was presented at SCANCOR’s 20th anniversary conference, Kindred Spirits in 2008.

• Parker, Charles F. (forthcoming/2011) “Compliance,” in B. Badie, D. Berg-

Schlosser, and L. Morlino (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Political Science. London: Sage Publications.

• Galaz, V.; Moberg, F., Olssson, E.; Paglia, E. and Parker, Charles.

(forthcoming/2011) “Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises”, accepted for publication, Public Administration.

• Parker, Charles F. and Paglia (forthcoming/2011) “Hurricane Katrina: The

Complex Origins of a Mega-Disaster” in U. Rosenthal et al. (eds) Mega Crises. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas.

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• Parker, Charles, Stern, Eric, Paglia, Eric, and Brown, Christer (2009)

“Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol.17, No.4, pp.206–220. I did the final work on correcting the proofs when first arriving at SCANCOR. This article, which has now been published, draws on work I did during my stay at SCANCOR five years ago.

Outcome and impact of visit My time at SCANCOR was extremely productive and rewarding. While at Stanford I completed work on a number of articles, made progress on a number of other articles/book chapters, and wrote a number of research applications for future projects and funding. I would very much like to thank Annette Eldredge, former director Walter Powell, current director Associate Professor Mitchell L. Stevens, and all of the other SCANCOR scholars for a wonderful stay. All of them helped make the environment at SCANCOR and Stanford everything that I hoped for and my time at SCANCOR has been extremely beneficial for my work. I am very grateful for the invaluable insights I have gained through my exposure to the work and ideas of the research community that Professor Walter Powell created and Associate Professor Mitchell L. Stevens now leads. Juhana Peltonen Researcher and PhD Student, School of Science and Technology, Aalto University Email: juhana.peltonen@tkk.fi  September 1, 2010 to January 31, 2011 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My dissertation research concerns the strategic responses to the financial crisis of small knowledge-intense firms, which I study using longitudinal survey and archival data of Finnish software companies. The key hypotheses I am examine relate to how pure (“blind”) growth motivation and an entrepreneurial strategic posture relate differently to short and long term responses to the changing economic climate, and how these differences ultimately play out on firm performance, including employment and revenue growth. During the first two months of my time with SCANCOR, I have placed my efforts on learning new statistical techniques to analyze my data and to broaden my literature review under different research streams, mainly in entrepreneurship and organizational change. As a result, the structure of my dissertation has shaped up considerably and I have found support for my key hypotheses. More importantly and apart from this more “fixed” area of my research, I have been exploring how to include network data into my analyses and to use larger samples of archival data to explore mimicking behavior under the recent high economic uncertainty. As an initial phase, I have support for my hypothesis that decisions to reduce personnel depend highly similar decisions make in companies that share directors on their boards. These promising results have encouraged me to examine entire business cycles as an arena where strategic mimicking manifests with possibly long time delays.

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Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My funding throughout the 5-month period comes from a project of Aalto University. The “SwGrowthMan” project examines growth strategies of small and medium software companies, and it is funded by Tekes and several Finnish software firms. Initially, I had planned to use my grants to cover a share of my expenses. My main goals for my time with SCANCOR can be summarized as:

1) Develop my core PhD work to an article and obtain feedback on it from various scholars affiliated with Stanford.

2) Learn the “state-of-the-art” in social network analysis literature and hands-on statistical analysis methods in order to utilize many largely untapped secondary network data sources on unlisted companies in Europe.

3) Develop research collaboration and understand the US top-tier way of doing research.

4) Conduct a few CEO interviews to complement the findings of the Finnish data collection of my funding project.

Currently much progress has been done in 1) and 2) with initial versions of this work presented and further work ongoing. My goal is to wrap up my new findings in 1) and 2) and submit them to the AoM conference in early January. After having the research bundled as draft articles, I plan to increase emphasis on seeking research collaboration around their topical areas and to form longer-term research collaboration with Stanford faculty members as well as PhD students and SCANCOR scholars. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I took part in certain lectures and colloquia from different seminar series of the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business. I participated in the OB622 network analysis course held by professor Hasan Sharique, which was a very demanding but rewarding and examines a broad range of literature and contains many hands-on statistical exercises. I also presented my research at the Friday SCANCOR seminar hosted by Mitchell Stevens and received valuable feedback on my PhD-related study, which extended a previous paper I presented at the BCERC conference with new data and analyses. I have made extensive use of the Green, Meyer, and Jackson libraries where virtually all works of my interests have been available without delay. With the reminder of my stay, I plan to make even more use of their broad range of research databases. I have also taken advantage of Stanford’s large offering of extra-curricular activities such as talks at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Off-campus activities and other interactions I presented the following papers at the SMS and MIE conferences in September:

• Juhana Peltonen and Mikko Rönkkö, “Effects of Board Size and Board Interlocks on International Expansion of High-Technology Ventures,” in (presented at the The 30th SMS Annual International Conference, Rome, Italy, 2010).

• Juhana Peltonen and Christian Frühwirth, “The Value-added of Boards of Directors in Internationalizing High-technology SMEs,” in (presented at the

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Abstract submitted to the Thirteenth McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2010).

• Aku Valtakoski and Juhana Peltonen, “Mind the Service: The Impact of Service Capability on International New Venture Performance,” in (presented at the The 13th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2010).

During the past autumn, I have had the opportunity to network with members of the College of Business faculty of San Francisco State University, who have previously collaborated with my Finnish colleagues. I have also been able to get back in touch with Professor Emeritus David G. Messerschmitt from UC Berkeley, with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate with at Aalto University. Publications generated during stay Submitted journal papers:

• Juhana Peltonen and Mikko Rönkkö, “Effects of Board Size and Board Interlocks on International Expansion of High-Technology Ventures,” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Submitted for review (n.d.): 2010.

Conference papers:

• Juhana Peltonen, P. Arenius, and Mikko Rönkkö, “Linking The Five Dimensions Of EO To Entrepreneurial Bricolage: A Study Of Small Knowledge-intensive Firms.,” abstract accepted for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2011.

• Pia Arenius, Juhana Peltonen, and Mikko Rönkkö, “Entrepreneurial Bricolage,

Customer Dependency, and Growth of Technology-Based Firms,” abstract submitted for the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2010.

Working papers (target AoM):

• Juhana Peltonen, “Spreading the Cure or the Disease? A Study of Mimicking Personnel Reductions Through Board Interlocks in Small Knowledge-Intense Firms,” Working Paper (OB622 final project), 2010.

• Juhana Peltonen, “Entrepreneurial firms in recession: preparedness, reactions,

and performance implications,” Working paper based on my SCANCOR Friday Seminar presentation, 2010.

The chapter on recession responses in the (Finnish) Software Industry Survey in:

• Mikko Rönkkö et al., Software Industry Survey 2010 (Espoo, Finland: Aalto University, 2010), http://www.softwareindustrysurvey.org/Finland2010.pdf.

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on my current research from many directions, including distinguished Stanford faculty, PhD students and other SCANCOR scholars. I have had the opportunity to network with people interested in similar issues has created a platform for further academic collaboration, that I am yet to strengthen during the reminder of my stay. Finally, I gained invaluable experience on the research culture and research styles in the United States. I am very grateful for this opportunity and wish I had the opportunity to stay longer. Mikko Pohjola Project Researcher, PhD student, Turku School of Economics mikko.pohjola@tse.fi  March 1 – August 31 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR The research on which I focused while visiting SCANCOR was the topic of my dissertation, i.e. innovation behavior and strategies of firms. More specifically I focused on two papers from my dissertation. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding The goal for my SCANCOR visit was to make contact with interesting scholars, learn new insights on organizational studies and innovation, experience the culture and atmosphere of an elite university, and test my own ideas at the SCANCOR seminars. The main project during my stay was my PhD dissertation and specifically two papers in it. The specific projects were two papers on innovation strategies of firms and their performance effects. I also worked on a separate project where I study with the vehicle inspection market in Finland. My visit was funded by the Foundation for Economic Education (LSR) and the Academy of Finland. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at SCANCOR I took part in numerous lectures and seminars at Stanford but also outside the campus, for example organized by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation and Technology. An important part of my stay was, of course, the formal and informal SCANCOR seminars as well as Jim March’s Monday Munch sessions. I presented two different papers in two occasions at the informal seminar. I also took part in two PhD courses at the department of economics; Econ 225 Economics of Innovation and New Technology lectured by Petra Moser and Econ 260 Industrial Organization III lectured by Jon Levin and Tim Bresnahan. These courses were simply excellent since they were second year courses with only a handful of PhD students taking part. The lecturers took me in as one of their students. I gave two presentations in these courses. In addition to talking with the lecturers, I had the chance to talk to other Stanford scholars, such as Woody Powell and Dietmar Harhoff (a visiting professor at the economics department). Another great experience was the opportunity to meet local PhD students. Off-campus activities and other interactions

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I attended the AOM conference in August where I presented the following paper: Clausen & Pohjola (2010): “Open Innovation and internal capabilities as a source of exporting performance”. Presented in the Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, USA, 5-11 August, 2010. I also had the chance to attend the Conference in Memory of Prof. John Freeman at the Haas School of Business, Berkeley in March 2010. Publications generated during stay I worked mainly on two working papers during my stay. Both will be a part of my PhD dissertation.

• Clausen & Pohjola (2010) Open Innovation and internal capabilities as a source of exporting performance.

• Pohjola (2010) Complementarities in R&D collaboration.

Outcome and impact of visit All in all, my visit was a tremendous success, which surpassed my expectations. I managed to improve the papers I worked on through the comments and inspiring discussions with SCANCOR colleagues and other Stanford scholars. I manage to make strong ties with other SCANCOR colleagues, which will surely be beneficial in the future, for example in the form of joint projects and seminars. Christian Plesner Rossing PhD Candidate Copenhagen Business School Department of Accounting & Auditing cro.acc@cbs.dk January 2010 - July 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR Research area is how to design management control systems for transfer pricing tax compliance in multinational enterprises (MNEs). I investigate how the tax regulatory environment impact on MNEs’ accounting and tax practices. Findings are structured in a sound theoretical frame of reference in order to make them valuable to a wider (practical) audience. In particular, the project aims at assisting MNEs who want to comply with international transfer pricing regulation. The dissertation consists in three empirical articles and a literature review of contemporary empirical transfer pricing research. One of the primary motives for visiting SCANCOR was to engage in discussions with Walter Powell about my fourth article that includes the application of network theory. Also, I wanted to get input from other skilled faculty members at Stanford and had valuable meetings with a number of them. I also hoped to establish contacts for future research work with some of the people at SCANCOR. SCANCOR was a unique platform for these purposes. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I presented one of my papers at SCANCOR: “A review of contemporary transfer pricing literature and suggestions for future research”. Before I arrived at SCANCOR, I was a bit

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in doubt as to whether the organizational and social scientists at SCANCOR would be interested in interacting with me on my work. However, I found that the majority of scholars at SCANCOR were both interested and helpful beyond what I had imagined in advance. I received input during the presentation and at other occasions that I would never have from “traditional” management/accounting scholars and this gave some entirely new views on the problems that I investigate in my work. The great variety of research topics at SCANCOR is what I consider its primary strength. In addition, I joined the Jim March munch as well as the SCANCOR seminars on Mondays and Fridays. SCANCOR seminars as well as ‘Munch’ events contributed to a deeper understanding of problems within the organizational and social sciences. Finally, I participated in ‘Stanford Breakfast Events’ where distinguished Stanford Professors provided illuminating insights to research topics in relevant areas. These events where not only helpful in a scientific sense but also – similar to SCANCOR – enhanced the ability to network with key persons at Stanford. Off-campus activities and other interactions I held several meetings with a MNE manager who not only contributed to the specifics of the research projects but also offered company data for upcoming studies. These meetings were not only valuable for the PhD project but also on a future scale as it is much easier to publish research based on US data vs. Danish data. Also, I attended a transfer pricing conference in Florida. This conference provided not only some crucial input for the PhD work but also gave me 5-6 new research ideas for future studies. It is clear that US scholars and practitioners are among the best in my research filed (international transfer pricing). I would probably not have been able to attend this conference if I hadn’t been provided the SCANCOR platform and the ability to interact on a frequent basis with off-campus US experts. Publications generated during stay Finished three articles for the PhD dissertation.

• ‘Transfer Pricing Risk Management in the Multinational enterprise’. • ‘Inter-organizational networks to support tax strategy implementation and

formation: the case of international transfer pricing’. • ‘A review of the contemporary transfer pricing literature and suggestions for

future research’.

Published one paper in an accounting A-journal

• Plesner Rossing, C., Rohde, C., (2010). ‘Overhead cost allocation in the transfer pricing tax compliant multinational enterprise’. Management Accounting Research, September 2010, p199-216.

Wrote a chapter with a colleague for an international accounting textbook. Chapter title: ‘Performance measurement and transfer pricing’. Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided an excellent platform for research at the highest level in my field. Notably, I wish to point out that this was also a consequence of the unique staff at SCANCOR. In particular, Annette Eldredge provided outstanding service and assistance

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on all necessary matters. The primary reason for why I could start my work basically the first day upon arrival was due to the valuable assistance provided by Annette. During the stay, she also helped a lot on travel arrangements, documents for re-entering to the U.S. etc. Specifically, SCANCOR provided the optimal surroundings for finishing the PhD project. In my view, I arrived at SCANCOR at the optimal time because I was at the end of the PhD project. If I had arrived in the beginning, I don’t think I would have had such benefit from discussing my work with in particular Walter Powell and Mitchell Stevens as well as SCANCOR scholars in general. Both Walter Powell and Mitchell Stevens could take my work to a higher level, while I believe discussions would have been more general in case I had come to SCANCOR in the beginning of the PhD program. Also, I gained unique insight to the way accounting and management research is conducted in the U.S. during my stay at Stanford. This is relevant in order for Europeans to better understand the benefits from the often quantitative/analytical research that is carried out in the U.S. This had already lead to interesting and fruitful discussions with fellow researchers back at Copenhagen Business School about the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative research in accounting and management. Finally, I want to point out the valuable network relations I established during my stay. Actually, these were primarily with SCANCOR people or other researchers visiting STANFORD for a limited time period and hence not permanent Stanford Faculty. However, a place like SCANCOR is necessary in order for such relations to emerge – they do not happen at a two-day conference. Instead, they emerge over time and become valuable to ensure dynamics and inspiration in current as well as future research. I am very pleased that I was given the opportunity to come to this inspiring academic institution. Hopefully SCANCOR will continue to play a role in the link between Scandinavian and U.S. Simone Schiller-Merkens Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim, Germany schiller@orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de http://orga.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/38+M54a708de802.html September 7 - December 30, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My main research project relates to the formation of new fields and markets. While being at SCANCOR, I mainly worked on one study that focuses on the role of social movements in the constitution of a field for ethical garment fashion. Applying a comparative outline - with the United Kingdom and Germany as comparative cases - allows insights into the constituting factors of a new field - material and cultural-cognitive structure - as well as into the contextual conditions favoring field emergence. The study contributes to our understanding of the role of social movement organizations as providers of cultural, organizational, and symbolic resources. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding I chose to visit SCANCOR to meet with scholars both from the Stanford community and abroad who work in comparable research areas. Among others, I talked with Sarah

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Soule, Mark Granovetter, Mitchell Stevens, or Paolo Parigi, all of whom provided valuable information on how to bring this research forward. Apart from this main project, I finished the revision of two joint papers, one dedicated to understanding the co-existence of logics in the field of management science (together with Alfred Kieser and Bernadette Bullinger), and another one examining the changing role of theoretical concepts in organization studies over the last decades (together with Suleika Bort). My visit was funded through grants from the Julius-Paul-Stiegler-Gedächtnis-Stiftung, University of Mannheim. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University I took part in various workshops and seminars to learn more about research subjects and methods that are related to my main project. This included the economic sociology seminar by Mark Granovetter, the workshop on economic sociology and organizations (organized by Granovetter, Parigi, and Zhou), and the workshop on social networks (organized by McFarland and Parigi). I further attended the SCANCOR’s seminar series on Fridays where I also presented a revised version of a paper that I had presented at the Organization Studies Workshop on Social Movements in May 2010 and which I wanted to prepare for submission. In addition, I had the great opportunity to meet with Stanford scholars relevant to my work, such as Sarah Soule, Mark Granovetter, Paolo Parigi, and Mitchell Stevens, all of whom provided inspiring ideas on how to bring this research forward. I mainly gained from the questions being asked - to understand the critical points in my work - but also from the recommendations regarding further literature that is worth to consider. Furthermore, talking informally with SCANCOR scholars provided invaluable moments in which new aspects and ideas were created in an atmosphere of friendship. Publications generated during stay

• Green is the New Black: Social Movements and the Constitution of an Ethical Fashion Field in the UK and in Germany. Organization Studies (under review for a Special Issue on Social Movements, Civil Societies and Corporations).

• Between Basic Research and Research for the Profession: Coexisting

Institutional Logics in the Field of Management Science. Organization Studies (revise and resubmit). (with B. Bullinger & A. Kieser)

• Reducing Uncertainty in Scholarly Publishing: Concepts in the Field of

Organization Studies, 1960-2008. Forthcoming in Schmalenbach Business Review. (with S. Bort)

Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR provided me an opportunity to intensively work on my current research project - to collect further comparative data, to deepen my understanding on how to contribute to economic sociology and the sociology of markets, and to develop new ideas for further research avenues. In general, networking with Stanford researchers

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was especially fruitful to broaden one’s own research perspective. In addition to that, interactions with SCANCOR colleagues - in particular from the Copenhagen Business School - helped me to get into contact with other researchers who also work in my field of study (ethical garment fashion). Finally, I gained invaluable experience on the research culture and research styles in the United States. Thor Sigfusson PhD Student, University of Iceland Sigfusson.thor@gmail.com April 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR In my study, international entrepreneurs and their international ventures are examined through multiple theoretical lenses. By integrating insights from social network perspectives and international networks into internationalization theory, my work responds to calls for more detailed studies that examine relationships of international entrepreneurs in networks. The theoretical goal of my research is to make a general contribution to former studies on the internationalization of SME’s and social networks of entrepreneurs and to strengthen the field of International entrepreneurship (IE). The empirical goal is to map the networks of international entrepreneurs in SME’s and study how they utilize networks in their expansion abroad. The planned analytical framework of this study should assist practitioners in addressing questions like, how can we better use these relations to improve our business and in what relations to invest? Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My mission to visit SCANCOR was first and foremost to establish contacts for my research and to network with Scandinavian and Stanford researchers. I was not funded so my trip became shorter than I had hoped. There are not many funds in Iceland sponsoring visits like these. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I attended James G. March’s Monday munch, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I also introduced my research. The lunches and munch with professor March were very fruitful and memorable for me. To be able to get to know Professor March and his views was an honor. I also attended Powell’s group meeting on networks where dr. McFarland presented his ideas. I was very impressed with the presentation, which gave me lots of ideas. In addition, I had the great opportunity to speak to Stanford scholars like Charles O’Reilly, established contact with PhD student at the Department of Sociology and Department of Political Science. I was also in email relations with Dr. Mark Granovetter. Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR was extremely helpful experience for me. I came to know better the

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research culture in Stanford, came to know a huge number of Scandinavian scholars, established good relations etc. Annette Eldredge was of great help to me and she somehow seems to glue the team together with her good-spirited approach. Outi Somervuori Researcher, Aalto University School of Economics outi.somervuori@aalto.fi  August 1 – December 15, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR My research topic is behavioral pricing and I have studied both organizational and consumer markets. In my research I have used, in addition to traditional statistical methods, psychophysiological and neurological research methods: electroencephalography (EEG), facial electromyography (EMG), electrodermal activity (EDA), and electrocardiography (ECG). SCANCOR and the Stanford University are of great interest to me, because of their research in behavioral sciences and psychophysiological and neurological methods. My objective is to attend courses, lectures and seminars that are related to these areas. In addition, I seek to discuss and network with corresponding researchers. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding During my stay, may aim have been to learn more of my research area, network with researchers in the same research area and work on my PhD thesis. My visit was funded through grants from the Center of doctoral studies of the Aalto University School of Economics, Wihuri foundation and Wallenberg foundation. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During the fall I took part in SCANCOR seminars, courses offered by the Graduate School of Business and other lectures offered by Stanford University. At SCANCOR I attended James G. March’s Monday munch, the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s workshop on Fridays. In the Friday workshop I also presented my research “Behavioral and psychophysiological reactions to price increases and decreases”. During the fall quarter I participated in two courses at the Graduate School of Business. The name of the first course is “The frinky science of human mind” taught by Marketing Professor Baba Shiv. The course concentrated on insights being unraveled on the working of human brain in the marketing point of view. The second course “Behavioral Decision Making” was taught by Marketing Professor Itamar Simonson. During the fall I also attended Professor Baba Shiv’s seminar for his doctoral students. The objective of this seminar is to generate (and learn to generate) new research ideas. In addition, I had the great opportunity to discuss my research with Baba Shiv.

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I also took advantage of Stanford’s large offering of extra-curricular activities, such as talks on current political topics. I attended a one and half day conference: The Dalai Lama’s Conference on the Scientific Exploration of Compassion and Altruism which focused on exciting new findings in psychology and the neurosciences, including the emerging field of neuroeconomics. In addition, I attended the lecture by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein titled “Will the state survive the 3rd millennium?”. Off-campus activities and other interactions Off-campus I have participated in some events organized by Finnish and Scandinavian societies in the area. These events have been great opportunities to network with other Scandinavians from different fields living in the area. Publications generated during stay During the fall I have worked on three papers of which two first ones will be included in my PhD thesis.

• Somervuori, O. & Ravaja, N., Behavioral and psychophysiological reactions to price increases and decreases.

• Ravaja, N., Somervuori, O. & Salminen, M., An EEG study of purchasing private

label and brand products.

• Leone, R., Robinson, L., Bragge, J. and Somervuori, O. , A Citation and Research Profiling Analysis of Pricing Research in 19 Marketing Journals from 1980-2010, a second review for Journal of Business Research.

Outcome and impact of visit SCANCOR and Stanford University have provided me a unique opportunity to learn more of my research area and discuss my work with other researchers in the same area. The learning from lectures and seminars as well as the discussions with other researchers has had a great impact on the quality of my PhD thesis. Discussions with Stanford professors and other students in the same research areas have especially been fruitful and have created a platform for further collaboration. Siri Øyslebo Sørensen PhD Student at Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). siri.oyslebo.sorensen@hf.ntnu.no http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/siri.sorensen Sept 12 2010 – March 30 2011 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR I study the process of policy making in the case of a legislative reform introducing gender quotas on corporate boards of directors in Norway. During my stay at SCANCOR I have been working on analyzes of the learning processes of politicians and bureaucrats involved in the case. I chose to focus on these aspects of my research while at SCANCOR in order to take advantage from the high level of competence in these fields represented at SCANCOR.

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Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding My mission of my visit to SCANCOR was first and foremost to seek to strengthen theoretical aspects in the work with my doctoral dissertation. I have been working on my dissertation during my stay here, and SCANCOR has provided the best possible environment for me to develop and strengthen my analytical approach in the ways that I hoped for. The visit at SCANCOR is funded by my PhD stipend (NTNU), and through a supplementary grant from the Department of interdisciplinary studies of culture, NTNU. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at SCANCOR I presented my work in progress, titled “State Feminism and Corporate Feminism Intertwined - The Key to the Breakthrough for Gender Quotas in Corporate Boards in Norway,” at the SCANCOR Friday Seminar, December 12th 2010. The comments and responses I received after this presentation will be of crucial importance for the direction my further work will take. I also had the opportunity to meet with Professor Sarah Soule, Stanford Graduate School of Business, to discuss the social movement perspective in my project. I have been participating in the SCANCOR Monday seminars series, the SCANCOR Friday seminars and Monday Munches with Jim March. I followed a series of seminars hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender research, and occasionally attended STS seminars at Stanford. I have also enjoyed a variety of open lectures offered on campus, and taken a language course offered at Bechtel International Center.   Publications generated during stay The following publications are generated during my stay here:

• “Fra statsfeminisme til næringslivsfeminisme? Om den overraskende innføringen av kjønnskvotering i norske bedriftsstyrer” (paper submitted for Norsk Tidsskrift for Kjønnsforskning 2/2011)

• “Gender quotas in boards – how are they argued and implemented? A comparison between Norwegian plc companies and agricultural cooperative organizations”, article in collaboration with Hilde Bjørkhaug, Centre for Rural Research, Trondheim, to be submitted February 2011

In addition I have been working on my dissertation, to be submitted December 2011. Outcome and impact of visit My time at SCANCOR has provided me with new analytical perspectives, strengthening the aspects that are not in the core competence of my home institution. I have become acquainted with colleagues who have been invaluable influence on my work through discussions and comments on work in progress. Silviya Svejenova Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain silviya.svejenova@esade.edu Jan 1 – May 31, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on while at SCANCOR

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My research is at the intersection of organizing and careers. It examines the work and careers of creatives and executives, the creation and transformation of business models as well as the emergence of novelty and the role of institutional entrepreneurship in it. At SCANCOR, I focused on projects related to both novelty and executive action. Mission/expectation, specific projects, funding I pursued learning about the highest standards of scholarship in the organization studies field, advancement of my research papers and projects, expansion of professional network and horizons towards the Bay Area and Scandinavia, and experience with Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurship buzz. My work centered on completing manuscripts for publication; initiating projects, developing and presenting work on and off campus; preparing conference events – co-organizing track at LAEMOS (Latin American and European Meeting on Organizational Studies) Colloquium in Buenos Aires, and a track and PhD workshop at EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Colloquium in Lisbon; and exploring collaboration with Stanford faculty and SCANCOR fellows. I benefitted from conversations with Stanford scholars, students and visitors, as well as SCANCOR fellows and postdocs. I enjoyed the extraordinary library resources and impressive line-up of seminars. My visit was funded by ESADE (guest fee to SCANCOR, travel) and myself (accommodation, living expenses). Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford I presented my work at SCANCOR seminars and received useful feedback: - An Individual Business Model in the Making: A chef's quest for creative freedom. SCANCOR Monday Seminar Series led by Professor Woody Powell (March 1, 2010). - In Search for Novelty. Monday Munch Series led by Professor Jim March (May 18,

2010). I took active part in SCANCOR activities, from Mondays’ research seminar and munch, to Fridays’ informal seminar, lunch with Jim March, and afternoon “wine & cheese”. I had stimulating and thought-provoking conversations with Stanford professors Jim March, Woody Powell, Steve Barley, Huggy Rao, Mitchell Stevens, visiting faculty Chick Perrow (Yale University) and Beth Bechky (UC Davis), SCANCOR fellows and postdocs, and presenters at Stanford seminars Kate Kellogg (MIT), Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School), David Starck (Columbia University). I took part in Huggy Rao’s PhD seminar on Social Movements, which provided invaluable theoretical and methodological insights; attended seminars across disciplines, from humanities to economics, and enjoyed Stanford d.school’s MBA “course prototyping” on improvisation, MBA Entrepreneurship sessions at the Graduate School of Business, and talks by entrepreneurs at Stanford Engineering School. It was memorable to celebrate the publication of the book The Stanford School of Organization Theory. All that deepened my understanding of the organization studies’ field evolution and provided exposure to new developments and emerging streams. It also enhanced my understanding of the workings of Stanford University and the particularities of the Bay Area, as well as of life and work in USA.

4. Off-campus activities and other interactions I made two off-campus presentations: - From Grunts to Grammar: The emergence of a new language for haute cuisine. 3rd

Latin American and European Meeting on Organizational Studies (LAEMOS) Colloquium. Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2010.

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- Executive action as a locus of novelty in organizations (with J.L. Alvarez). Organization Science Winter Conference. Steamboat Springs, CO, USA, February 2010.

I co-chaired a track on the Failures and Triumphs of Imagination at LAEMOS, Buenos Aires in April, 2010 and visited professors at the University of Minnesota to work on a paper. Further, I attended Research Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation honoring John Freeman at UC Berkeley. Publications generated during stay

• Svejenova, S.; Vives, L.; Alvarez, J.L. 2010. At the crossroads of agency and communion: Defining the shared career. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(5): 707-725.

• Svejenova, S.; Planellas, M.; Vives, L. 2010. An Individual Business Model in the Making: A Chef’s Quest for Creative Freedom. Long Range Planning, 43: 408-430.

• Vives, L.; Asakawa, K.; Svejenova, S. 2010. Innovation and the Multinational Enterprise. In Timothy Devinney; Torben Pedersen & Laszlo Tihanyi (Ed.). The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management (pp. 497-523). Bingley: Emerald.

Outcome and impact of visit With SCANCOR fellow Haldor Byrkjeflot and Jesper Strandgaard (CBS, former SCANCOR fellow) we are developing a paper From Label to Practice: Creating New Nordic Cuisine, accepted for presentation at New Institutionalism Workshop, Lyon, France. With SCANCOR fellow Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist we are co-convening the 2011 EGOS pre-colloquium PhD workshop. Overall, my SCANCOR visiting period was most productive and enjoyable, full of learning and inspiration. It expanded my network and horizons, paving the way to new ideas, collaborations, and friendships. It also started me on major rethinking of my scholarly career and identity, motivating me further in the pursuit of research excellence and impact. Uchenna Uzo Doctoral Candidate, Strategic Management IESE Business School uuzo@iese.edu September 27 – December 11, 2010 Research area and aspects I focused on during my stay at SCANCOR My doctoral dissertation investigates the multi-level dynamics associated with the constitution of fields and organizational templates in the Nigerian Movie Industry. The study consists of three essays that investigate field dynamics, the nature of formal and informal organizations and entrepreneurial bricolage. During my stay at Stanford, I analyzed the data I had collected from my fieldwork and discussed the empirical findings with Stanford researchers and professors. These discussions enabled me to outline the themes for three essays and to come up with an outline for writing them.

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My mission at Stanford was to participate in doctoral seminars that were relevant to my dissertation. I had very stimulating research conversations with Stanford researchers and professors. I also achieved my objective of preparing the proposal for my doctoral dissertation. My visit was funded by the Lagos Business School, Pan African University. Presentations/Interactions/Seminars/Courses at Stanford During my stay at Stanford University, I audited the Organizational Theory and Economic Sociology courses of Woody Powell and Mark Granovetter respectively. I also participated in certain lectures and colloquia from different seminar series of the Graduate School of Business and the School of Education, e.g. the Organizational Behavior Seminars and the Comparative Sociology Workshop. I attended James G. March’s Monday munch and presented empirical insights on professional associations in Nollywood. I also attended the SCANCOR seminar series on Mondays as well as the SCANCOR’s informal seminar series on Fridays, where I presented empirical findings from my dissertation. In addition, I had the great opportunity to speak to scholars relevant to my work, such as James G. March, Woody Powell, Sarah Soule, Dick Scott, and Mark Granovetter who provided inspiring ideas for my interpretations and feedback on my cases and methodology respectively. I received invaluable comments on my research as well as suggestions on how to use my data for further papers and additional research etc. Thereby, the comments from people directly related to my field of research and also from scholars with other scientific backgrounds, were an incredible help. Off-campus activities and other interactions I served as a volunteer for 2 months in a weekend educational programme for kids at East Palo Alto. I took part in an activity organized by the Stanford African Students´ Association. Publications generated during stay Development of a working paper and my dissertation proposal (monograph):

• Uzo, Uchenna (2010): Entrepreneurial Bricolage in Institutionally Rich Contexts (1st version of a Working paper)

• Uzo, Uchenna (2010): Unpacking the multi-level dynamics associated with the constitution of fields and organizational templates in the Nigerian Movie Industry. Thesis proposal presented to the IESE Doctoral Committee on December 15, 2010 (Monograph).

Outcomes and Impact of Visit SCANCOR provided me with the opportunity to further analyze and present the data for my doctoral dissertation as well as to network with other researchers who provided valuable feedback. My meetings with Stanford PhD students interested in similar issues have created a platform for further academic collaboration. Furthermore, I gained invaluable experience on the research culture in the United States.

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PUBLICATIONS These are publications generated by scholars during their research periods at SCANCOR.

• Bhatti, Yosef and Hansen, Kasper M: Leaving the nest and the social act of voting (presented by my co-author at the ECPR Joint Sesssions, 2010).

• Bhatti, Yosef and Hansen, Kasper M: How elderly voters are demobilized

(presented by my co-author at EUI, Florence, June 2010).

• Bhatti, Yosef (forthcoming): What would happen if we were better informed? - simulating increased knowledge in EP elections, Representation

• Bhatti, Yosef and Erikson, Robert S.: How Poorly are the Poor Represented in

the US Senate? (forthcoming in Who Gets Represented?, Peter Enns and Christopher Wlezien, eds)

• Bhatti, Y.; K. Lindskow og Lene Holm Pedersen (2010): Burden sharing and

global climate negotiations The case of the Kyoto Protocol. Climate Policy, 10(15):131-147.

• Bullinger, B. & Dammann, O. The idea of productivity on its journey to Europe: US Technical Assistance and Productivity programs within the context of Marshall Aid in Austria and Germany. In final revision process.

• Bullinger, B. 2010. CSR – Challenging Scientific Research: Do practitioners benefit from management science? Draft under revision.

• Byrkjeflot, Haldor, Hybridledelse i sykehus - – en gjennomang av litteraturen, i

Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier nr. 3 2010 med Berg, L.N. og Gro Kvåle

• Byrkjeflot, Haldor , Omdømmebygging – drivkrefter, kritikk og paradokser, Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration 12 (1/2): 3-24

• Byrkjeflot, Haldor, “Healthcare states and Medical Professions: the challenges

from New Public Management”, in Christensen, T. and P. Lægreid (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management pp.147-161 Aldershot: Ashgate

• Byrkjeflot, Haldor, ”Omforming av ledelse og styring i offentlig og privat

virksomhet”, i Ladegård, Gro og Vabo, Signy Irene (red.) Ledelse og Styring Bergen: Fagbokforlaget

• Byrkjeflot, Haldor, ”Bureaucracy – and idea whose time has come, Forthcoming

in Research on the Socoiology of Organizations (with Paul Dugay)

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• Christensen, Tom, “On welfare reform: A report – ‘Etableringen av forvaltningsenheten og pensjonsenhetene i NAV – en gjennomtenkt reorganisering med positive effekter? (The establisment of administrative units and pension units in the central Norwegian welfare administration – a rational reorganization with positive effects?”

• Croidieu, Gregoire, “An Inconvenient Truce: Cultural Domination and Contention

after the 1855 Medoc Wine Classification Event “– forthcoming in Fairs and Festivals edited by Brian Moeran and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen (Professors at the Copenhagen Business School), Cambridge University Press.

• Croidieu, Gregoire, “Why effective entrepreneurial innovations sometimes fail to diffuse: identity-based interpretations of appropriateness in the Saint-Émilion, Languedoc, Piedmont and Golan Heights wine regions”, forthcoming in Institutions and Entrepreneurship, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David (Professors at Cornell and McGill University), in Research on the Sociology of Work.

• Michael S. Dahl & Olav Sorenson, “The Social Attachment to Place”, Final

version prepared and accepted for Social Forces during my visit.

• Michael S. Dahl & Olav Sorenson, “Home Sweet Home: Location Choice of Entrepreneurs and Performance of their Ventures”, Manuscript finalized and submitted to Management Science during visit.

• Michael S. Dahl, “Organizational Change and Employee Stress”, Manuscript

vastly improved and prepared for first submission (January-February), conditionally accepted by Management Science in April, revised version submitted in July.

• Michael S. Dahl & Lamar Pierce, “The Psychological and Sexual Health Costs of

Income Inequality in Marriage”, Project initiated and submitted during visit. Currently under review at a top-tier medical journal.

• Michael S. Dahl, Jimmi Nielsen and Ramin Mojtabai, “The Effects of Becoming

an Entrepreneur on the Use of Psychotropics among Entrepreneurs and their Spouses", Final version prepared and accepted for Scandinavian Journal of Public Health during my visit.

• Dammann, Ole (2010): Collaboration between Specialists in the Chemical

Industry: Mechanisms of Knowledge Integration. Work in progress: PhD-Thesis to be submitted in 2010 (Monograph).

• (Working paper) Divakaran, P., Vujovic, S. (2010). Online User Communities as better predictors and influencers of product market performance than experts-The Case of Motion Picture Industry.

• (Working paper) Divakaran, P., Søndergaard, H. (2010). Understanding Pre-release User Activities in Online Communities and it’s Antecedents: A Netnographic Approach.

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• Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla & Renemark, David (forthcoming 2011) Vad hände sedan? En studie av hur förändring av jämställdhet görs uthållig (working title: "Is it possible to make gender equality in organizations sustainable?"). Malmö: Liber.

• Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla (forthcoming, 2011) Seduced by post-structuralist readings. In Jensen, Tommy and Wilson, Tim. (eds) On the Shoulder of Giants. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

• Diedrich, Andreas Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla & Styhre, Alexander. Sorting People Out. Article re-submitted to Culture and Organization, May 2010.

• Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla. Organizing technologies or technologies doing

organizing. Preparation of paper to be submitted to Information and Organization.

• Hallin, A & Shultz-Nybacka, P (submitted to Organization) “Santa Boss is coming to town or The giving of novels as Christmas gifts in a large organization”

• Sergi, V & Hallin, A (submitted to Qualitative Research on Organizations and Management) “Thick performances, not just thick descriptions: The processual nature of qualitative research”

• Hallin, A & Dobers, P (submitted to The Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism) “Representing Place. Uncovering the Political Dimension of Guided Tours in Stockholm

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa: Explaining results-oriented pay effects on pay satisfaction,

perceived organizational performance and co-operation. Work in progress: PhD-Thesis to be submitted in 2011 (Monograph).

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa ; Hakonen; Anu, Maaniemi, Johanna; Moisio, Elina;

Nylander, Minna & Sweins, Christina (2011, in press) Research-assisted development of reward systems and well-being of employees. In Strange Creatures: Learning Networks at the Service of Workplace Development/Innovation (working title).

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa & Maaniemi, Johanna (in press) Pay discussions –

research evidence and experiences. In Pay discussions in Finland – guide book, Confederation of Finnish Industries EK & The Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK. (In Finnish.)

• Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa; Sarti, Daria; Hakonen, Anu & Sweins, Christina. Total

rewards perceptions and work engagement in elderly care organizations. Findings from Finland and Italy. (Submitted for publication in the Journal of International Studies of Management & Organisation)

• Maaniemi, Johanna & Hulkko-Nyman, Kiisa (under revision) Pay System Reform

in Finnish Financial Sector. Theoretically Well Planned – How About Experiences?

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• Sarti, Daria; Cavaliere, Vincenzo & HulkkoNyman, Kiisa (2010) Work Engagement and Total Reward: the case of social cooperatives in Italy. 15th World Congress of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), Paris II University, 8 – 10 July 2010.

• Peter Karnøe (2010), "Material disruptions in electricity systems: can wind power

fit in the existing electricity system?", in M. Akrich, Y. Barthe, f. Muniesa, P. Mustar (eds.)(2010), Melanges offerts a Michel Callon, Paris: Presse des Mines.

• Garud, R., Gehman, J., & Karnøe, P. 2010. Categorization by association:

Nuclear technology and emission-free electriticty. In W. D. Sine, & R. David (Eds.), Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 21: 51-93. Bingley: Emerald.

• Laine, M.O.J. and Frühwirth, C. (2010) “Monitoring social media: Tools,

characteristics and implications”. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 21-23, 2010. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-13632-0

• Laine, M.O.J. and Maisch, B. (2010) “Is open innovation open? Evidence from the most innovative firms and the most valuable brands”. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE), Athens, Greece, September 16-17, 2010, pp. 345-355.

• Valtakoski, A., Peltonen, J. and Laine, M.O.J. (2010) “Peer-to-peer service quality and its consequences in virtual communities”. Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/552/

• Laine, M.O.J. (2010) “Open and user innovation in micro-sized companies”. Working paper.

• Lervik, J. E. (Forthcoming) 'The single multinational as a research site'.In

Piekkari, R. & C. Welch (eds.) Rethinking the Case Study Approach in International Business Research, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

• Lervik, JE, Adoption and institutionalization of organizational practices within a

multinational corporation. Submitted to Academy of Management Journal

• Lindstrand, Angelika, Turning Social Capital into Business: A Study of Biotech SMEs’ internationalization, International Business review, forthcoming 2011

• Lindstrand, Angelika, Business network routines and performance in internationalization, to be presented at Academy of Management Meeting, 2011

• Lindstrand, Angelika, Business network routines as efficient patterns of behavior on international markets, to be submitted to Journal of International Management, 2011

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• Christensen, L.T., Morsing, M. and Thyssen, O. The polyphony of corporate

social responsibility. Deconstructing accountability and transparency in the context of identity and hypocrisy. Has been accepted to appear in Cheney, G., May, S. and Munshi, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Communication Ethics. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2010

• Buhmann, K., Roseberry, L. and Morsing, M. (Eds.) (2010). Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 329 pages

• Business Schools and Their Contributions to Society. Morsing, M. and Sauquet, A. London: Sage Publications. Manus completed. Book to appear in September 2011

• Castello, I., Kjaergaard, A. and Morsing, M. “Corporate social media strategies for social purposes”. Paper to be submitted to the EGOS Conference 2011

• Guthey, E. and Morsing, M. “CSR as an act of strategic ambiguity: a longitudinal analysis of CSR in the media”. Paper to be submitted to AoM 2011

• Morsing, M., “A Silicon Valley Dream: The Tesla Experience”. Article for newspaper Børsen (i.e. Danish equivalent to Financial Times)

• Oberg, Achim & Schöllhorn, Tino (2010): Algorithm to Capture Organizational

Fields on the WWW – A Simulation Study, working paper.

• Oberg, Achim & Schöllhorn, Tino (2009): Public Endorsements in an Organizational Field on the World Wide Web – Valuation of Organizational Characteristics, working paper.

• Drori, Gili & Oberg, Achim (2010): Patterns of Self-Representation in Higher Education – The Case of WWW Favicons, working paper.

• “An extended perspective on customer satisfaction”, by Line L. Olsen, work in

progress. Presented in SCANCOR’s informal seminar.

• “Customer orientation”, by Anders Gustafsson, Lars Witell and Line L. Olsen, work in progress

• “To automate or not to automate”, Line L. Olsen and Sangeeta Singh, submitted to Journal of Business Research while at SCANCOR.

• Service productivity: the long-term effects of high tech – high touch trade-offs, by Jan H. Fosse, Tor W. Andreassen and Line L. Olsen, work in progress. Presented in SCANCOR’s informal seminar.

• Johansson D and K Østergren (forthcoming) The Perceived Need for More

Independent Boards: - A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Translation of Corporate Governance Codes in Scandinavia. Corporate Governance: An International Review.

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• Bourmistrov A and K Østergren (2009) Changes in Information Provision and

Use for Management Control Purpuses After the Introduction of Beyond Budgeting. Prepared for EAA conference in Istanbul Mai 2010.

• Østergren K, I Stensaker and T Malmi (2009) Different Responses to Beyond

Budgeting - a sensemaking perspective on Beyond Budgeting practices. Presented at a conference in Gent in June 2010.

• Nørreklit H and K Ostergren (2010) Beyond 'Beyond Budgeting' - from the

controller as a bellboy to an actor. To be presented at New directions of management accounting in Brussels in December 2010.

• “Looking for Leaders: Perceptions of Climate Change Leadership among Climate Change Negotiation Participants”, Global Environmental Politics, 2011, vol. 11 (1) (together with C. Karlsson, B. Linnér and M. Hjerpe). An earlier version of this article was presented at the SCANCOR Friday seminar.

• “Fragmented Climate Change Leadership and the Ambiguous COP-15 Outcome:

From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen,” (forthcoming) submitted to Environmental Politics (together with C. Karlsson, B. Linnér and M. Hjerpe).

• Parker, Charles and Karlsson, Christer (2010) “Climate Change and the

European Union’s Leadership Moment: An Inconvenient Truth?” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 48(4), pp. 923-943. An earlier version of this article was presented at SCANCOR’s 20th anniversary conference, Kindred Spirits in 2008.

• Parker, Charles F. (forthcoming/2011) “Compliance,” in B. Badie, D. Berg-

Schlosser, and L. Morlino (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Political Science. London: Sage Publications.

• Galaz, V.; Moberg, F., Olssson, E.; Paglia, E. and Parker, Charles.

(forthcoming/2011) “Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises”, accepted for publication, Public Administration.

• Parker, Charles F. and Paglia (forthcoming/2011) “Hurricane Katrina: The

Complex Origins of a Mega-Disaster” in U. Rosenthal et al. (eds) Mega Crises. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas.

• Parker, Charles, Stern, Eric, Paglia, Eric, and Brown, Christer (2009)

“Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol.17, No.4, pp.206–220. I did the final work on correcting the proofs when first arriving at SCANCOR. This article, which has now been published, draws on work I did during my stay at SCANCOR five years ago.

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• Juhana Peltonen and Mikko Rönkkö, “Effects of Board Size and Board Interlocks on International Expansion of High-Technology Ventures,” in (presented at the The 30th SMS Annual International Conference, Rome, Italy, 2010).

• Juhana Peltonen and Christian Frühwirth, “The Value-added of Boards of Directors in Internationalizing High-technology SMEs,” in (presented at the Abstract submitted to the Thirteenth McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2010).

• Aku Valtakoski and Juhana Peltonen, “Mind the Service: The Impact of Service Capability on International New Venture Performance,” in (presented at the The 13th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2010).

• Clausen & Pohjola (2010) Open Innovation and internal capabilities as a source

of exporting performance.

• Pohjola (2010) Complementarities in R&D collaboration.

• Plesner Rossing, C., Rohde, C., (2010). ‘Overhead cost allocation in the transfer pricing tax compliant multinational enterprise’. Management Accounting Research, September 2010, p199-216.

• Schiller-Merkens, Simone, Green is the New Black: Social Movements and the

Constitution of an Ethical Fashion Field in the UK and in Germany. Organization Studies (under review for a Special Issue on Social Movements, Civil Societies and Corporations).

• Schiller-Merkens, Simone, Between Basic Research and Research for the

Profession: Coexisting Institutional Logics in the Field of Management Science. Organization Studies (revise and resubmit). (with B. Bullinger & A. Kieser)

• Schiller-Merkens, Simone. Reducing Uncertainty in Scholarly Publishing:

Concepts in the Field of Organization Studies, 1960-2008. Forthcoming in Schmalenbach Business Review. (with S. Bort)

• Somervuori, O. & Ravaja, N., Behavioral and psychophysiological reactions to price

increases and decreases.

• Ravaja, N., Somervuori, O. & Salminen, M., An EEG study of purchasing private label and brand products.

• Leone, R., Robinson, L., Bragge, J. and Somervuori, O. , A Citation and Research

Profiling Analysis of Pricing Research in 19 Marketing Journals from 1980-2010, a second review for Journal of Business Research.

• Siri Øyslebo Sørensen, “Fra statsfeminisme til næringslivsfeminisme? Om den overraskende innføringen av kjønnskvotering i norske bedriftsstyrer” (paper

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submitted for Norsk Tidsskrift for Kjønnsforskning 2/2011)

• Siri Øyslebo Sørensen, “Gender quotas in boards – how are they argued and implemented? A comparison between Norwegian plc companies and agricultural cooperative organizations”, article in collaboration with Hilde Bjørkhaug, Centre for Rural Research, Trondheim, to be submitted February 2011

• Svejenova, S.; Vives, L.; Alvarez, J.L. 2010. At the crossroads of agency and

communion: Defining the shared career. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(5): 707-725.

• Svejenova, S.; Planellas, M.; Vives, L. 2010. An Individual Business Model in the Making: A Chef’s Quest for Creative Freedom. Long Range Planning, 43: 408-430.

• Vives, L.; Asakawa, K.; Svejenova, S. 2010. Innovation and the Multinational Enterprise. In Timothy Devinney; Torben Pedersen & Laszlo Tihanyi (Ed.). The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management (pp. 497-523). Bingley: Emerald.

• Uzo, Uchenna (2010): Entrepreneurial Bricolage in Institutionally Rich Contexts (1st version of a Working paper)

• Uzo, Uchenna (2010): Unpacking the multi-level dynamics associated with the constitution of fields and organizational templates in the Nigerian Movie Industry. Thesis proposal presented to the IESE Doctoral Committee on December 15, 2010 (Monograph).

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SEMINARS AT SCANCOR 2010 This weekly two-hour formal seminar at Stanford is the occasion for presentations of research papers by SCANCOR scholars as well as Stanford faculty and visiting faculty from other US universities. For a full listing of seminars please refer to the SCANCOR webpage: Seminars academic year 2009-2010 add webpage Seminars academic year 2010-2011 add webpage

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Summary tabulations of SCANCOR national contributions

Country 1989 - 2010 2010

$ % $ % Denmark

1,124,170 25 73,145 18

Finland 812,175

18 73,150 18

Norway 1, 070,250

24 73,150 18

Sweden 988,550

22 73,150 18

Iceland 56,700

1.3 12,500 3.2

Mannheim 173,345

3.8 24,860 6.2

Maastricht 82,795

1.8 24,860 6.2

ESSEC 102,345

2.3 24,860 6.2

IESE 82,795

1.8 24,860 6.2

Total 4,493,125 100 404,535 100.00

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Summary tabulation of SCANCOR USA utilization by country  

1989 - December 2010 2010 2010

Country Total 1 Total 2 Total 1 Total 2 Denmark %

340 21

865 23.3

17 23

30 38.2

Finland %

252 16

588 16

8 11

31 40

Norway %

500 30

1113 30

25 34

4 5

Sweden %

460 28

1004 27

13 18

5 6.4

Iceland %

17 1

26 0.7

0 0

1 1.2

Mannheim %

33 2

84 2.3

6 8

4 5.2

Maastricht %

8 0.5

0 0

0 0

0 0

ESSEC %

10 0.5

14 0.4

0 0

0 0

IESE %

8 0.5

12 0.3

0 0

3 4

ESADE %

5 0.5

0 0

5 6

0 0

Totals %

1633 100

3714 100

74 100

78 100

Total 1 = The total number of months of regular SCANCOR scholars at desks Total 2 = The total number of months spent at SCANCOR by affiliated scholars without desks (percentages are rounded up or down to equal 100%)

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Postdoctoral Program Director’s Report

: The SCANCOR postdoctoral program moved into its second phase with a new cohort of postdocs who arrived in September 2010 and will be staying for two years. They were chosen from a group of 21 applicants. The new cohort consists of: Maja Lotz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Arno Kourula, Aalto University, Finland Arild Wæraas, University of Tromsø. Norway Sara Värlander, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden Maja is working with Prof. Woody Powell in the School of Education on the everyday interactions and micro-dynamics that facilitate new forms of work-organization, co-creation, learning and experimental governance within and across various collaborative organizational settings (such as teams, firms and university laboratories). She collaborates with the MIMIR project on interdisciplinarity, headed by Prof. Dan McFarland. Arno is working with Prof. Ray Levitt in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on two research projects: 1) Market barriers to the implementation of energy efficient technologies: identifying and overcoming structural barriers in the construction industry; and 2) Normative and cognitive institutional supports for relational contracting in infrastructure projects. Arild is working with Prof. Chiqui Ramirez in the School of Education on the relationship between public sector organizations and their environments in general, and more specifically, on the roles of organizational identity, strategic communication, reputation, and brand management in this relationship. Sara is working with Prof. Pam Hinds in the Department of Management Science and Engineering on research that focuses on social media. She is studying it cross-culturally on a project on its uses and consequences for intra- and inter-organizational behavior. The postdoctoral program furthers SCANCOR’s goals by improving the career prospects of young Nordic scholars, and by establishing a critical mass of researchers and support for focal research areas in the Nordic countries through collaboration with faculty at Stanford University. Former fellow Linus Dahlander has joined the faculty at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. Former fellow Dijana Tiplic is working on projects on simulation and modeling with Prof. James G. March. PhD Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Helsinki, August 30-September 3, 2010 The eighth SCANCOR workshop for Nordic and European doctoral students was held in Helsinki. The audience for this workshop was PhD students with an interest in recent research in institutional theory and organizational studies more generally. The goal of the workshop was to enable PhD students to pursue their research more effectively, using novel research methods to examine theoretically important questions. In recent

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decades, institutional theory has expanded outside its base in the United States to many settings around the world. Interest in this topic was reflected by the applicant pool of 43 PhD students, of whom 23 were accepted to participate. The PhD workshop in 2011 will be held at the University of Mannheim. The faculty for the workshop included: Stephen R. Barley, Richard Weiland Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University Jeannette A. Colyvas, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, Northwestern University Gili Drori, Lecturer in International Relations, Stanford University, and in Sociology, University of California – Berkeley Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Sociology, University of Michigan Walter W. Powell, Professor of Education (and) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, Public Policy and Communication, Stanford University. From 1999-2010, Prof. Powell was director of SCANCOR at Stanford. The participating faculty and SCANCOR wish to thank Aalto University for its generous hospitality and excellent hosting of the workshop. Woody Powell February 3, 2011

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Postdoctoral fellows’ Reports 2010

Maja Lotz, Denmark Activities and explorations Sep2010-February2011 During my first half of year at Stanford I have aimed to 1) finish former work-in-progress papers, paper revisions etc., 2) build up new professional connections and collaborative relationships with people at Stanford, 3) expand my knowledge on network analysis and 4) continue my research on learning and practice-based forms of innovation in multinational corporations. 1) Publications - my latest steps towards publishing “From Community to Communing: towards an analytical frame for understanding the relational dynamics of collaborative work organizing practices”. Submitted to Theory and Society Oct. 2010 (now under review).

“‘Constitutional Orders’: a Managerial Tool for Managing Co-creation in the Collaborative Work Organization”. Revised and resubmitted to Journal of Management Studies Nov. 2011 (now under review). ”Organizing for Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) in and across Local and Global Teams - Exploring ’organizational moves’ towards EDI within the field of Danish multinationals”. Chapter contribution for an anthology on EDI. Submitted Jan 2011. “Co-creation as an Organizational Practice” – work-in-progress paper “Back to Roles: Returning Role Theory to the Study of Work and Organizing” – work-in-progress paper 2) Networks and collaborations Since September I have attended Woody and Barley’s workshop on Organization and Networks. I presented a paper at the workshop in October. Likewise have I - although on a more irregular basis - joined Granovetter’s workshop on Economic Sociology. Besides from the weekly SCANCOR seminars, I have also participated in various other talks and seminars – e.g. at the D-school. I am currently collaborating with Woody on a project on knowledge sharing and co-creation in highly interdisciplinary settings. The ethnographic work underlying this study will take place in a BioX lab at Stanford. During my stay so far I have moreover taken initial steps to collaborate on joint papers and exchange research findings with Maryanna Rodgers (Stanford), Angelika Lindstrand (Stockholm School of Economics) and Tea Lampiälä (Aalto). 3) Courses During the Fall quarter I sat in on Dan McFarland’s class on Network Analysis. I hope to continue becoming more fluent in the basic logics and models of network analysis by following other network courses in the near future. 4) Research

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My current empirical project “Making Innovation Global” studies how Danish MNCs make ‘everyday’ learning and innovation practices flow and function across international borders and different organizational and institutional environments. The study will be based on in-depth case studies in Danish and foreign affiliates of Danish multinationals located in Denmark, US, Asia and Latin America. I’ll start to conduct the case studies in March. Arno Kourula, Finland Short version: I started officially as a SCANCOR postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) on September 20th, 2010, and have been involved or initiated three research projects. Firstly, Professors Ray Levitt (faculty sponsor), Witold Henisz, Dick Scott, Gary Griggs, Antonio Vives, and I are planning to apply for National Science Foundation funding in 2011 for a project on relational contracting and sustainability outcomes in global infrastructure projects. Secondly, CEE doctoral candidate Dana Gavrieli and I are planning a comparative study on building energy efficiency comparing the U.S. and Finnish institutional contexts. Thirdly, CEE doctoral candidate Andrew Peterman and I are collaborating on a project related to voluntary programs in building energy efficiency. In addition, I have submitted four articles to journals, participated in two project management related conferences, presented my research at four different seminars, and regularly attended SCANCOR, Collaboratory for Research of Global Projects, and Philanthropy and Civil Society workshops, as well as participated irregularly in various other seminars. During the fall quarter, I audited Prof. Ray Levitt’s course on “Organization Design for Projects and Companies”, and participated in a one-day Executive Education module on infrastructure project finance. Longer version: I started officially as a SCANCOR postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) on September 20th, 2010. We got to a great start with my faculty sponsor Prof. Ray Levitt, he has been very supportive and I have been involved or initiated three research projects. Firstly, in September 2011, Prof. Ray Levitt (Principal Investigator), Prof. Witold Henisz (Wharton, PI), Prof. Dick Scott (Investigator), Prof. Gary Griggs (Inv.), Prof. Antonio Vives (Inv.) and I (Inv.) are planning to apply for National Science Foundation funding for a project on relational contracting and sustainability outcomes in global infrastructure projects. We have a good draft of the application completed and have met weekly in October, November and early December 2010. Secondly, CEE doctoral candidate Dana Gavrieli and I are planning a comparative study on building energy efficiency comparing the U.S. and Finnish institutional contexts. This will probably involve data gathering in 2011. Thirdly, doctoral candidate Andrew Peterman and I wrote a paper on voluntary programs in building energy efficiency. The paper was rejected from a California Management Review special issue (8 accepted from 70+ abstract submissions), but we got very encouraging feedback. We are developing it further and plan to send it to a journal called Energy Policy. In terms of articles, I have also submitted three co-authored articles based on previous research projects with Finnish and French co-authors (Organization Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Business & Society), and finalized two book chapters. Furthermore, three articles (Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly) and one invited book review (Business & Society) are close to being

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submitted. I am also quite relieved to have just completed ten conference paper reviews and one journal review – This has become a January-February custom. In addition, I have participated in two conferences (Project Management conference at Stanford in October, and Engineering Project Organizations Conference in November, Lake Tahoe, CA) and submitted five conference papers (European Group for Organizational Studies; Strategy and the Business Environment; Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability; Academy of International Business; Strategic Management Society special conference on Prahalad). So far I have presented papers at the SCANCOR Monday seminar, the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) seminar, and a pre-EPOC conference seminar, and initiated a discussion about publishing at Prof. Jim March’s Monday Munch. Since my faculty sponsor, Prof. Ray Levitt, is away, I am coordinating our CRGP seminar with Dana Gavrieli. I attend various seminars, either regularly or irregularly depending on the topic of the day. These include the SCANCOR Monday and Friday seminars, Monday Munch, CRGP seminar, Philanthropy and Civil Society seminar, Comparative Systems Workshop, Work Technology and Organization seminar, Science, Technology and Society seminar, Social Science and Technology seminar, and various events (such as the China Sustainability seminar and Career Development Center training). Last quarter, I audited Prof. Ray Levitt’s course on “Organization Design for Projects and Companies”, participated in a one-day Executive Education module on infrastructure project finance, and am currently attending lectures of CEE courses relevant to our research projects. I have also had the opportunity to host visitors from Aalto University (vice-president Hannu Seristö, former vice-dean Timo Saarinen, Corporate Relations Manager Mari-Anne Suurmunne, and project manager Esko Penttinen). Outside Stanford, I have also visited Google and NASA’s sustainability base and meet Finnish and Nordic company representatives regularly. Besides work, highlights have included running the New York marathon and having Thanksgiving dinner at Ray Levitt’s house. Thank you Ray, Woody, Mitchell, and Annette for making my stay here very enjoyable and productive. Arild Waeraas, Norway During the 2010 fall semester I was working on completing first drafts of papers previously started; three book chapters and one conference paper. I also wrote an application for funding of a potential future research project. The book chapters are intended for an edited volume on reputation management in the public sector edited by myself, Svein Ivar Angell, and Haldor Byrkjeflot (who is a SCANCOR board member). The conference paper is intended for the 2011 AOM meeting and EGOS, and will hopefully be published in 2012. My co-editors came for a week in November, during which we made significant progress on the book project. During the fall I took part in the regular SCANCOR Monday seminars as well as the Friday seminars. I also attended various other seminars, such as the Comparative Sociology Workshop and the Social Science and Technology Seminar.

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Sara Värlander, Sweden My first five months of my postdoc (September 2010-January 2011) have been spent doing four main tasks: 1. Finalizing previously started papers. One paper has been accepted in Journal of Applied behavioral Science, one in International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion and one in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. Furthermore, I have submitted an abstract for a book chapter in the forthcoming book Critical Perspectives on Global Careers. 2. Drafting the initial research project plan for my post doc at Stanford together with Associate Professor Pamela Hinds. Broadly, the project will revolve around the challenges of structuring global teams for agile development. 3. Generating initial empirical data for the purpose of this project. This implies that I have been carrying out numerous interviews at a software company site in Palo Alto, as well as in Germany during November-January. 4. Attending seminars and research meetings at SCANCOR (every Monday and Friday), and at the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at the Management Science and Engineering Department (every second week). I have presented on of my papers in progress at the SCANCOR Monday seminar (7th of February). I have also held a presentation of my research at SCANCOR (15th of September) and at a research meeting at WTO (4th of October).

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February 2011

2010 SCANCOR Report: Dijana Tiplic, Postodoctoral Fellow 2008-2010

1. Purpose: The goals of the program are to assist your pursuit of an academic

career, enable you to develop cutting-edge skills and enable you to make ties at Stanford University. The fellowship is also intended to facilitate your learning new research methodologies and enhance your chances of publishing in both North American and European scientific journals. Describe how you are meeting these goals.

I have been able to establish stronger ties to the research community at Stanford through my attendance at workshops, seminars, and classes. As a result, I was able to discuss and present my work regularly, but also to further develop my research skills. The feedback received at various occasions helped me to better prepare my papers for publication.

2. Activities: How has your research progressed over the past year? What accomplishments are you most proud of? What do you wish you would have done in addition? What types of activities and new knowledge has your postdoc permitted?

At Stanford, I have got a chance to combine knowledge from different areas to inform organization theory. In particular, I use my skills in computer science to model organizational learning processes. In addition, I am a part of a comparative education project, which is important for me as I seek to further develop my research inquiry and skills. I wish I had time to attend more North American conferences, since I believe that kind of experience will be valuable in my future career.

3. Dissemination: Describe any outreach activities, including public talks, seminar presentations, and other efforts to disseminate your research findings. Describe how these activities have influenced your thinking about your project.

Seminars and presentations are very helpful, since I get feedback on how to strengthen my argument and structure my papers. I find this feedback especially relevant for learning how to present to the North American audience, as well as how to ‘write’ for the North American journals. In 2010, two of my papers are accepted for publication, and I have two more still under review. I have also presented my work at several conferences and seminars in 2010. Papers accepted for publication in 2011:

1. Tiplic, D. Learning and Aspiration Levels, forthcoming in Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management

2. Tiplic, D. Managing Post-Socialist Organizational Transitions, forthcoming in European Education

Papers under review in journals:

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1. Tiplic, D. The Limits of Connectedness in Noisy Worlds: Imitation and the Density Effect, submitted in October 2010

2. Russell, G. and Tiplic, D. Global Rights in Textbooks (1966-2008): The

Impact of Conflict and Democracy, submitted in August 2010 Presentations at International Conferences:

1. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, 1-5 March, 2010: Human, Citizenship and Group Rights: A Cross-National Analysis

2. Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, 9-10 August 2010: Imitation Learning in a Social Context: The Limits of Connectedness in Noisy Worlds

Seminar presentations: 1. Organizations and Networks Workshop, School of Education, Stanford

University, 22 January 2010

2. Comparative Workshop, School of Education, Stanford University, 22 February 2010

3. Comparative Workshop, School of Education, Stanford University, October 2010

4. Munch Monday Seminar, Stanford University, December 2010

Working Papers:

1. Learning, Success and Aspiration Levels (Paper to be presented at the Organizational Learning Conference in April 2011)

2. In the pursuit of Excellence?: Discursive Patterns in European Higher Education Research (Paper submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association)

4. Knowledge flow between Scandinavia and Silicon Valley One aspiration of this Nordic research program is to support knowledge flows between Silicon Valley, the Bay Area and Scandinavia. Please describe any involvement you might have had in building these bridges.

I made efforts to get familiar with research projects taking place in and out of campus. I was establishing relations with other visiting scholars. Besides attending innovation seminars at campus, I have also attended a meeting with Innovation Norway.

5. Contacts: How much contact have you had with Stanford faculty and students other than your postdoc advisor?

I am attending comparative education research group meetings. Some of my co-authors are Stanford students. Also, I am getting comments on my papers from Stanford faculty members other than my postdoc advisor.

6. Recommendations: What suggestions or recommendations do you have to improve the operation or administration of the SCANCOR Postdoc program?

Prior to the arrival of the second group of postdocs in 2010, the efforts were made to make transition to their posts as effective as possible, both academically and administratively. I think these efforts were important and helpful, and my only suggestion would be to have the same approach in the future. Other than this, I do not have any

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specific suggestions or recommendations, especially since my own experience with the operation/administration of the postdoc program has always been remarkably positive.

2010 SCANCOR Report: Linus Dahlander, Postodoctoral Fellow 2008-2010 linus.dahlander@esmt.org First of all, allow me to express my wholehearted thank you to the Scancor Board, Woody, Annette, Mitchell and all others that have made my post doc at Stanford possible. I left Stanford two months ago, and it has given me time to reflect on my experiences there. In what follows, I will try to elaborate on the topics you wanted me to cover. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I came to Stanford in the fall of 2008 with some projects that I thought were relatively promising. I kept working on those papers, and began new papers in the Mimir project led by Woody Powell, Dan McFarland, Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky. The Mimir project also involves other post docs and doctoral students from several different departments at Stanford. Apart from the opportunity to interact with scholars from different disciplines on a regularly basis, this project has given insights as how to run big research projects that are quite unusual in a Scandinavian context. The first year at Stanford I worked with Dan McFarland on papers on when ties form and dissolve between academics. For instance, I worked on new methodological techniques for dealing with large networks where the same individual can be both a sender a receiver. To acquire this expertise, I took courses in multi-level methods, causal inference and interacted with people at the Statistics department. I also gained many insights from interactions with my faculty mentors, as well as a post doc colleague and a PhD student in the Sociology department. The second year at Stanford, I initiated a project with Woody Powell on how collaboration patterns are tied to disciplinary conventions. We also worked on a project together with another PhD student from sociology, on the opportunities and challenges that scientists from different disciplines face when they apply for research grants. Although none of the papers are published yet, we have received an R&R from ASQ, the leading organization journal, and several others are under review or in the late stage development. I have learned new methods, but I honestly think this fare less important compared to other skills I have acquired. To ask interesting questions, frame papers theoretically and write well are things that are difficult to learn by working alone. In the long term, I think these skills that I have acquired from my mentors will prove extremely valuable. These skills have already had spillovers on my projects I had prior to coming to Stanford. Two of my “old” papers are now forthcoming in Organization Science, one of the leading organization journals. I think most of my research projects have progressed well. I am happy that some of the labor begins to bear fruit; a sign that the post doc has been rewarding. I am most proud

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that I am more confident about my research than I was previously. I know my strengths as a researcher, but I also have a better sense of my weaknesses and how I can overcome those. I think my single most important insight is that I fully appreciate the very hard work it takes to do really interesting research that one can publish in the most prestigious journals. It reminds me of the famous quote from Edison – “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” I have presented at several occasions during the post doc, such as SIEPR, Stanford University, Gothenburg School of Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, the Science of Team Science Conference, the Sunbelt conference, the Academy of Management conference, UC Berkeley as well as several more informal workshops at Stanford. An interesting aspect that I have noted is how workshops at Stanford provide an opportunity to develop oneʼs research. I have always felt well prepared and confident when presenting outside of Stanford for various audiences. Although I havenʼt organized any formal event, I have tried to introduce people at Scancor to people at Stanford, and vice versa. The network I have built at Stanford is an invaluable resource. I met with Dan and Woody regularly to discuss the research projects. Not long after I came to Stanford, I went for lunch and coffee breaks with Stanford faculty, students and post docs. I tried to do this strategically, as I have observed many Scancor scholars that fail to forge collaborations with Stanford people. Many of the current students, post docs and faculty at MS&E, Sociology, School of Education and GSB have become close friends that I will continue to interact with long after leaving Stanford. Many of the students have been or are on the job market, and it is amazing to have a network not only at Stanford, but also at other universities. It is difficult to provide recommendations to something that I think is a great initiative. I do not have many data points, but I think the match between the post doc and mentor is the key success factor. This year, Scancor organized an introduction dinner. I think that is a great initiative. I would also recommend another meeting on expectations and the post docs career objectives. For someone relatively fresh out of their PhDs, I think it is useful to think about how they will spend their next decades as researchers. I fully appreciate that these things cannot be completely planned, but it is useful to have a dialogue about these things. I will be always grateful for the opportunity to do the post doc. I already look back at it with fond memories. Thank you. All the best, Linus Dahlander

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REPORTS FROM POSTDOC FACULTY MENTORS SEPT-DEC 2010

Maja Lotz, Denmark Maja has been at Stanford for half a year, and it has been a pleasure to have her here. Like many of the postdocs, she has spent a good bit of time finishing prior work and the news on that is generally good as she has had several papers accepted. She has also cast a rather broad net around the University and begun attending workshops in different parts of the campus, including sociology, the D School, and a campus wide organizations and networks workshop. She audited Dan McFarland’s class on network analysis in order to enhance her skills in quantitative network research. She has also been exploring expanding her research on co-creation done on Danish companies to Danish multinationals with subsidiaries in California and China. After some discussion with me, it looks like some of those companies will be small biotech firms. We are now working on a project that she would pursue here, jointly in the context of our Stanford project on interdisciplinarity. The plan will be for Maja to spend time in a research lab at the Clark Center where students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers from many different disciplines are joined together in a common research enterprise. Although setting this up and gaining access has been relatively slow, I am confident that in the near future, this research will begin. I think it is important because it builds on Maja’s prior ideas and research skills and gives her an empirical setting here at Stanford. I think one of the most interesting challenges for the postdocs when they come to Stanford is to not be overwhelmed or intimidated by the place, and not to retreat and just get their own work done. On those counts, Maja has done very well. Woody Powell Professor of Education and by courtesy, of Mgmt Science & Engineering, Communication and of Organizational Behavior in the GSB Arno Kourula, Finland Dr. Arno Kourula is one of the two most productive and talented postdocs I have had the pleasure to work with among thirty or more postdocs I have mentored in my career to date. His progress in his first months at Stanford has been phenomenal. He has completed four or five papers, some submitted, others already reviewed and in revision. He has provided excellent support for development of a proposal that we plan to submit to NSF next fall. He has self-initiated some very interesting and effective joint research and paper writing activities with two of my current PhD students. And he is co-organizing the CRGP seminar series this quarter while I am teaching at the BOSP Cape Town program. I am truly delighted to be hosting him. I am working with Arno to help him focus on identifying an intellectual community in which he can develop a coherent brand and stature for himself to advance his longer-term career prospects. We are beginning to target his research and writing efforts - which have been too diffuse to date - more tightly toward this end. In short, I am delighted with Arno's sound academic preparation, his very strong research ability, his marvelous attitude as a member of our research group, and his outstanding progress to date.

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Ray Levitt Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment Arild Waeraas, Norway Arild Waeraas is my postdoc advisee. He comes to my weekly workshop on a regular basis and is scheduled to make a presentation in two weeks. I have read and commented on his paper on Norwegian hospitals and their preference to adhere to the category "hospital" instead of seeking to differentiate themselves into more specialized niches. it is an interesting and potentially publishable paper. Arild is broadly interested in reputation management and he has brought up the possibility of our collaborating on reputation management processes as these apply to different universities in different national contexts. This would be one way of linking my interest in the rationalization of universities to his interest in reputation management. We will explore this possibility in the future. On the whole it is my sense that Arild has made substantial progress toward becoming a productive scholar. Chiqui Ramirez Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology Sara Värlander, Sweden Sara is working out great. She's been very involved in WTO activities and activities with my research group. We've also begun a project together that is proving to be quite interesting. She's conducted 6-8 interviews for this project and we've got more planned for the next few weeks. In addition, she's revised and resubmitted some of her previous work, so has been pushing that off of her plate to clear room for new endeavors. I'm very happy with Sara and with the arrangement provided by SCANCOR. Pamela Hinds Associate Professor Department of Management Science & Engineering

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CONTACT INFORMATION SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen Business School Department of Organization Kilevej 14A DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark USA CERAS 123 520 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford California 94305-3084, USA Phone: +1 650 723 7267 Fax: +1 650 725 7395 E-mail: eldredge@stanford.edu