Jeffrey Robinson

 Doctoral Candidate (ABD)
 Columbia Business School 
 Management of Organizations Division 
 Uris Hall, Room 311, New York, New York 10027

An Economic Sociology of Entry Barriers:  Business Entry and the Inner City Market

Dissertation Committee

Paul Ingram studies the effect of the competitive environment on the structure and performance of organizations. The courses he teaches on management and strategy benefit from his research on organizations in the United States, Canada, Israel and Australia. His research has been published in a number of articles, book chapters and books. Ingram's current research projects examine organizational learning among Manhattan hotels and the effect of changes in the role of the state on the survival of Israeli organizations. He serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Management Science.
 
 

Eric Abrahamson studies the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for managing organizations and their employees. He uses time-series techniques to explore how macroeconomic and macropolitical forces have caused the popularity of various types of management techniques to rise and fall between 1870 and the present. This work guides his research explaining recent, transitory waves in the popularity of many modern management techniques, such as t-groups, quality circles, corporate culture, total quality management and business process reengineering.
 
 

Ray Reagans studies the interplay between network structure and performance. Examples include how communication patterns inside a team affect the performance of corporate R&D teams. Currently, he is investigating how network structure influences the diffusion of knowledge and information. The courses he teaches benefit from his research on organization theory and network models of competitive advantage.
 
 

Sudhir Venkatesh's research is based in American cities, with a particular interest in the social organization of urban poverty neighborhoods. A recently completed project on public housing in Chicago appears in manuscript form (American Project). Current research projects includes a historical study of underground economies  in Chicago's African-American communities and Harlem after World War I; longitudinal ethnographic data collection on Chicago's street gangs; a study of the role of community-based organizations in the lives of at-risk youth; and (with economist Steven Levitt), a study of the earnings and labor market outcomes of underground entrepreneurs.
 
 

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