Groups and Organizations Colloquia
Groups and Organizations (GO) is a research network of social scientists in Pittsburgh who are interested in studying how people behave in groups. The network is sponsored by several units at both the University of Pittsburgh (Psychology Department, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business) and at Carnegie Mellon (Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Social and Decision Sciences, Heinz School of Public Administration).
The main activity of GO is to sponsor a series of colloquia, about a dozen each year, some by local speakers and others by people from other schools around the country. All colloquia are held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in room 223D of Porter Hall on the CMU campus. Everyone is welcome to attend.
- Nyla Branscombe, PhD
- Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
- "The role of stigma in intergroup relations"
- John Carroll, PhD
- Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Problem-solving teams in high hazard industries
- Chip Heath, PhD
- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- "Coordination neglect: How lay theories of organizing complicate coordination in organizations"
- John King, PhD
- School of Information, University of Michigan
- "Death and transfiguration in the automobile industry: Information technology and institutional forces in sectoral conversion from products to service"
- Ronald Rice, PhD
- School of Communication, Information, & Library Studies, Rutgers University
- "The development and adaptation of inter-organizational virtual team norms using collaborative software"
- Herbert Simon, PhD, Nobel Laureate
- Carnegie Mellon University
- "Organizations and markets: their mutual sustainability
- Roberto Weber, PhD
- Carnegie Mellon University
- "Coordination in organizations: a game-theoretic approach"