5:00-5:15. Welcome remarks

Paul Pierson and David James Harding

5:15-6:30. Reflecting on Neil’s Work I

Doug McAdam, Elizabeth Armstrong, Bruce Carruthers

Dinner (by invitation)

9:00-9:15 Introduction

9:15-10:30. The Architecture of Markets: Culture, Politics, Fields

Doug Guthrie, “Fligstein’s New Economic Sociology and the Transformation of China’s Economy.”

Seio Nakajima, “A Strategic Action Fields Approach to International Technological Competition: A Case Study of the Next-Generation Automobile Industry.”

Jodi Short, “Understanding Moral Decision Making in Bureaucratic Organizations through the Political-Cultural Lens.”

11:00-12:15. The Transformation of Corporate Control and the Rise of Finance

Charlie Eaton, Adam Goldstein, “What is Private Equity? Corporate Raiders, Mainstreet Invaders, and the Spread of Shareholder Value”  

Ryan Calder, “Frequent-Flyer Programs and the Financialization of the Skies: A Fligsteinian Account”

Taekjin Shin, “Strategic Action Revisited: Leadership, Organizational Actions, and Institutional Change in Corporate Upper Echelons” 

Lunch

1:15-2:30. Reflecting on Neil’s Work II

Jens Beckert, Elizabeth Popp Berman, Frank Dobbin

2:30-3:45. The European Experiment

Juan J. Fernández, “Fligstein’s sociology of Europeanization and the role of international travel”.

Frédéric Mérand, “The Struggle over European Sovereignty: A Political-Cultural Approach” 

Haldor Byrkjeflot, “A Political-Cultural explanation for the Nordic model”

4:00-5:15. The New Frontiers of Economic Sociology

Basak Kus, “Tradeoff: Value and Values in the Making of US Climate Policy” 

Simone Pulver, “Markets as Politics and the Transition to Low Carbon”

Jeff Sallaz, “Markets as Assemblages”

5:15-5:30. Closing Remarks

Neil Fligstein

Reception